PEACH BABBLERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1655, 28 December 1916, Page 2

PEACH BABBLERS.

IX ilu 1 course of a speech at the opening of a club in Kdinbnrgh for overseas soldiers, (he Karl of Rosebery spoke of the new bonds between Britain and the Dominions that had been forced by the war. “As thing's are now, 1 can only see one possibility of anything relaxing lhe ties which unite the different pa ids of the Empire," he continued. “In some irresponsible quarters 1 have heard some babble of an immediate peace 1 . Is il really supposed that we have undertaken the sacrilices we have, that we have l shed onr dearest blood by hundreds and by thousands, that we have, beam paying ovin 1 live millions a day, and shall continue to do .so as lony as il. is necessary —is il really supposed we have done all this in order to leave Prussia the devilish Rower she has been in I In l past I cannol. of course, speak on behalf of the Dominions. but if there was a Minister —which, thank (Sod. there is not so cowardly, so short-sighted, and so imbecile as to conclude a peace of that kind. I am afraid then our .Dominions, our Britons beyond the seas, would say. ‘A country so governed is not a country to adhere to. We had belter lind some better slalesmen of onr own.” We stand firm, all sipmrc lo onr enemies, determined to vanquish, and rather to die than lo be vanquished; and we have no doubt of the cominy victory any more than we question, humanly speakiny. the lemenily of the fnt-i are of the British Empire."