TO WIN THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1740, 26 July 1917, Page 3

TO WIN THE WAR.

THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY. STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER. The following circular letter has been addressed by the Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. E. Massey) to Mayors of cities and boroughs: — “On behalf of the Government of this Dominion, I have the honour to request: that on Saturday, 4th August next, the third anniversary of the declaration of war with Germany, you will call a meeting of the citizens of your city and submit to that meeting the attached resolution of determination to continue the war to a victorious end. The same resolution will he submitted to public meetings throughout the rest of the Empire. “When, last year, the people of the Dominion gathered to celebrate the second anniversary, our feelings were divided between our belief that the war was then approaching its crisis, our sober realisation of what-that meant, our hopes that the struggle' would terminate long before the end of (his third year, and our profound satisfaction that our sous had proved their rigid lo ami had been given I heir opportunity of taking their place with the Allies on Die Western front, “This year we shall meet (our hopes of peace not yet realised) willi Ihe knowledge that sacrifices have yet to ho faced, ami our hearts tilled Avith honourable pride at the thought of how nobly our sons, by their endurance and valour, on the Somme, at Mossincs, in Egypt, and in Palestine, have sustained the glory of Anzae. “With, (ho memory ot-Avlml they have done and our deepened knowledge of what avo are fighting for ami Avhat: German victory Avould mean, the carrying of the resolution is lids year more than ever our sacred duty. Largely by the manner in AA'hich avc celebrate this third anniversary will he judged our determination to maintain those ideals of liberty and justice which, as the resolution truly slates, arc the common and sacred cause of the Allies. “I shall be glad if, on the Clh Angus!, yon Avill telegraph to me the fact of the meeting having been hold and of the resolution having been carried.” The proposed resolution is as under : That, on tins, the third anniversary of the declaration of a righteous Avar, this meeting of the citizens of records its inflexible determination to continue to a victorious end the struggle in maintenance of (hose ideals of liberty and ,justice Avldeb arc the common ami sacred cause of the Allies.