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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1612, 19 September 1916, Page 4

inally, she would give up mueh that hud never belonged to her: in substance, she would retain the means of accomplishing, her main purpose at no remote date. She would then be confronted, not by an alliance, but by England alone. We. can well, believe that the German Emperor is very desirous lo make peace just now, with the aid of the Pope and the American President, and lo fool us with flic co-operation of his friends and subjects in the financial world of London into the trap of believing (hat we have no higher interest or more pressing need than an early cessation of the war. “In contradistinction with what would lie the moral discomfiture and disgrace of a premature peace negotiated at Germany's convenience and to her summons, let us now consider the details and conditions of what we may term a sound peace. “Germany has not merely to be driven back on all sides out of the countries she has ruthlessly invaded and harried, but her military pride and power have to be bumbled and destroyed on her-own soil. Only then will the Germans admit their defeat. The Rhine Valley must witness some of those scenes of war that have desolated the valleys of the Meuse and the Moselle. Then —and only then —will Germans realise the ’ magnitude of their (.rimes and iniquities, “The season for peace talk will only arrive when the Allied armies have wrested from Germany by force of arms all that she has seized, and have forced their way through her (‘astern and western boundaries. Then only may it be permissible to listen to what the German Government has to say on the subject of its future conduct, the compensation it will olfer for (he wrongs inflicted on unoffending neighbours, ami the guarantees it will be able to provide for the fulfilment of its promises.

“A premature and early peace would mean then a second war; a war in which England would stand alone."