SMASHING AN IDEA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

SMASHING AN IDEA.

AMERICAN COMMENT ON THE ALLIES GOAL.

The outcome of two years' war is th-"-theme of a striking leading article which apeared in the New York ''Tribune. "

"It is the German idea, not the German people, .which must be' conquered, ' says the writer, " hut so long as the German people hold to that idea there can be no pence. "There is no longer a present danger of G mil an supremacy in Europe, or in the world. Germany on the defensive is straining every nerve to hold, not to advance, her lines. We are centuries away from those days before tho Mnrne, when all Europe seethed to shake with the tread of the marching millions of grey-clad soldiers of tlk> Kaiser.

''As Gettyburg abolished the danger of a Confederacy on the offensive, Verdun ended the threat of an aggressive Germany : the high-water mark has been passed, and tho ebb of the Geeman tide is unmistakable.

" What 110 man could expect and only few hope for two years ago has come to pass. The German flood and pestilence have b.'en turned back : there remains only the necessity to wait for the coming of tho end, which is no longer to be tmist iken. "It has not paid, tins German violence, brutality, l>ad faith. It has written its message in blood over halt Europe, but it has cost more than a million German lives, and it has failed. "Corsica has conquered Galilee," was the German boast two years ago. But Corsica has failed, and some portion ii G.ildee is to endure."