The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1917 COUNTERING THE PEACE OFFENSIVE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 337, 11 December 1917, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1917 COUNTERING THE PEACE OFFENSIVE.

President Wilson's stirring message, addressed to Congress in particular and to the people ot the United States in general, should be equally welcome in every Allied country. The President of the Great Republic has struck the right note, and stiuck it with an emphasis which permits of no misunderstanding. There fmust be no peace, no thought of peace, until Prussianlsm has been beaten. The speech comes as a timely setoff to the weaker counsels of Lord Lansdowne, and as an evidence that the Americans are in no mood to be trapped by the German peace offensive. Writing in the "Nineteenth Century" for October, Mr George A. B. Dewar warned us to be on our guaid against "the German peace offensive." The plan, he says, is to seek a peace which does not sound very offensive, but would, in fact, be a distinct German victory. One of the means by which it is sought to bring it about is by causing ill-blood between different members of the Allied group, and ultimately by splitting up the Entente. It is especially aimed at separating Great Britain and France. Thf new peace offensive of Germany, the writer goes on to say, will prove a great peril unless we can counter it by exceedingly vigorous action in the field ; by raising, as a defiance of it, new armies ; and also by really thorough and able propaganda. President Wilson has now subscribed the affirmation of the United Stater, that 1 'peace can only come when the German people make it, through rulers the world can trust; when they make reparation for the destruction their present rulers have wrought, and when Germany recedes from all territory acquired by armed conquest."

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