SAYS GERMANS WANT PEACE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 221, 27 October 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

SAYS GERMANS WANT PEACE

WRITER DETAILS HOPE THAT PEOPLE WAR WILL HAVE A SPEEDY END.

That the va>t majority of the Gorman people i> anxious to have the German Government enter into peace negotiation-) at oik-,' is the assertion made l»y a correspondent of the ' ArboitzvZeitung" of Vienna, in a war anniversary articL 1 that was passeJ by both the German and Austrian to tlse <rre:ii astonishment of tin- London newspapers that <iuit' it to show the. war weariness t-xistrng in Germany. The war liegan, says tin correspondent, as a "war of the peoples." A -<' it <t fury seized noon "all heads whiclt were imt strong in int. rnational understanding. It wa» a i'renzy! Nay, a mailms-;" Mutual fear and suspicion had ho.'-oiu ■ excited ii fever pitch. "Through jKipular pissinns the war had ihe diameter of a war oi tho peoples."' It in> lousier has that charai ler. he dei lan -. and < ontmues : •The longer the war has lasted the •ii'Te t !ui- liccouk' a w:ir oi States. One loulil have- prevented the war .f only on, had had the peoples on oric'< ide. On; can only bring the war to a !n-e before it- natural end—i.e., universal exhaustion —if in tiiK n utter one has the Slates en one's side. That is th.' pj-oblem: the pacific 'rwirtio.i of t!ie peoples have to mposo their will upon the States at a tiiir.' when tlie peoples as such do not exist for th <?. State. " Ai the I' 'ail of the States stand the statesmen. tl)i> Government. Tlie-e HIUSI keen the war amn for they fear for their own futures unless they brim: home vict-orv ait.-r such nameless sacrthie-.. What is lo be (huie:- Revolution? The machinery of the Stat-' 1 would crush it in the perm. "What then remains? Nothing but steady work, wh.'i-h sMs it-elf to convert the general will for peace into such a will on the pirt of the States.

•'So far as obstacles t p p-acc exist in O.vntany, we must unhe ill our strength to -weep them awav. The annexation enthusiasts arc inisjudgw c tli" nal'tv of things, and are dointr harm vlie'-o thev wish to do useful serrro. They do nut po-se>s the derisive influence I'.ir which they arc striving. '"'l " ' s uiLvnt that they should he suppressed -till further."