BE KIND TO GERMANY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 229, 24 November 1916, Page 6 (Supplement)

BE KIND TO GERMANY.

PR. CLIFFORD'S PLEA FOR CONSIDERATE PEACE TERMS FOR IHE HUNS. In the course of his presidential address delivered to the members of the 3lati()nnl Brotherhood Council of England and Wales, at Whitfields Tab.inac'e yesterday, Dr. Clifford said that our .soldier.'i had entered the conflict, and with splendid unanimity had sacri--1 ficed their lives for brotherhood anl for the rescue of its most cherished possessions. We had crossed the edge of the conilict, and were naw marching to victory. The initiative had been wrested from the enemy, and would ncvei go back again. It might be that the war would not be over this side of Christmas, but the final triumph was now as certain as if it had been declared. They must act on this certainty, and treat the present as the golden hour of their brotherhood work. Xor could they l>e silent without guilt as to the final terms of peace. AVe were fighting now to make an end of war for ever, and we must stand for fcucli terms of settlement as would make another war improba.ble and impossible. They must not forget to be considerate and fair to the millions n Germany who had been k'd by their guilty and foolish docility to support it. Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., said that during the next five years tin nation would be put upon a trial su.-'i as it had never known before. Unless it demonstrated by getting nearer to the ideal outlined by the president, the supreme sacrifices that were being made at this moment would have been made Tn vain.