THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1916 PEACE AND GOODWILL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1916 PEACE AND GOODWILL.

"We nothing extenuate, nor let down auaht in malice."

Another Christmas is at hand and in place of Peace and Goodwill that by custom should appertain to the season the guns still boom on the continent of Europe, and humanity is thereby the poorer. Vacant places in the majority of family circles in New Zealand will again be observable at the Christmas dinner, and many of the absent ones have gone never to return.

Peace is now suggested by the nation that caused the whole of Europe to be aflame, but before the Allies will agree to hostilities being suspended they will insist on such terms as will bring about Peace and Goodwill of a lasting nature such as Germany will be powerless to upset. To conclude peace with Germany until the enemy is not only beaten, but broken, would be more than an an insult to the noble men who have shed their blood in defence of the liberties of our childrens' children. It would soon bring upon Europe a more atrocious war, and upon humanity a greater curse. We may talk of Germany's successes and of Allied failures, but nations that have to contend against an armed foe until they become equally well equipped were not entitled to look for victories in the first stages of the war. Having created the means for making munitions, the Allies can now claim to be as well supplied with artillery and other weapons of war as is the enemy. It is to be hoped that after the war the Allies will remain partners in industry and commerce, each guarding against a repetition of Germany's commercial war, and giving special privileges in their several markets to the produce and material of the Allies. The war on the enemy's trade must be made by Russia and Italy as well as by England and France. By that means and by that means oiily will Peace and Goodwill be once more restored.