“PEACE BEFORE 1917.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1628, 24 October 1916, Page 4

“PEACE BEFORE 1917.”

Mme. A. de Thebes, the famous French “secress,” who predicted (in 1913) that 1914 would be tlie year of blood, tears, and heroism which would place France in the front rank of the nations, states emphatically that (he war will end before rim New Year, “Peace will come unexpectedly,” she says. “Tin* roar of the guns will cease overnight, and the soldiers on both fronts will be <‘alled borne to peaceful pursuits. Fate has so decreed it." As against this it is hardly worth while quoting the following from the war correspondent of a London paper who is on lire French front; “A captured Prussian Guardsman to whom 1 stroke this afternoon told me a rather striking and significant thing. ‘Our Emperor,’ he said, ‘has issued to u> a proclamation to say that there will lie no winter campaign. It has gone before all the troops.’ L expressed some incredulity, but this Prussian, who seemed quite an honest, truthful sort of fellow, insisted that it was so. ‘Then yon think the war will finish before the winter?’ ‘Yes, the Kaiser has said so, was the reply.” Though Thebes may not be the one and only Bitch of Endue, Kaiser Wilhelm is certainly the only one who can say “Cease hiring" to this war.