The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918. THE PRICE OF VICTORY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 416, 8 October 1918, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918. THE PRICE OF VICTORY.

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

Although it is devoutly to 1: wished that the war may t speedily terminated and the was' age of man power of the varioi countries thus avoided the peop] of the British nation will ver properly insist that at all cosl before peace is agreed to German} without perhaps being put into a absolutely abject position, mus be rendered incapable of eve again embroiling the world i turmoil. In the peace proposal New Zealand will, as previousl pointed out in these columns, b mainly concerned in regard to th future control of the Pacifi Islands, previously German pos sessions, and the people of th Dominion will sternly object t those islands being handed bac! to Germany since the same woul afford a base for shipping opera tionsby which Germany might a some future date conceivabl; attempt revenge on New Zealani for the support she has given th Motherland in the present war ludeed, but for the activities o the Japanese navy, who hav been patrolling the Pacific, it i possible that the Dominion migh have had to defend itself against it not an invasion, at least i bombardment from the sea. Tha this must be rendered impossibli in the future is imperative. Wi offer no apology for returning t< this subject because we conside: it all-important to New Zealand There must be no compromise o: concession until the spirit o Prussian militarism has beer crushed, and it has been definitely proved that ruthlessness anc supreme selfishuess do not pay that Right is not based solel) upon force. The Kaiser statec the issue quite correctly when he said this war would decide whethei the German or the Anglo-Saxon idea of civilisation was to prevail. It would be an act of criminal lunacy to permit an exhausted man-eating tiger, after once overcoming it, a respite in which to resume its depredations. Much more criminal would it be to permit the Prussian military system to recover itself to again drench the world in blood. It is now on its knees, and only requires the " knock out."