“A Fraticidal Wap.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 7 August 1914, Page 5

“A Fraticidal Wap.”

MOST TITANIC STRUGGLE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Sydney, August 7.* Mr Wade, speaking at the Million Club luncheon, said that the whole of the Continent was a seething cauldron, engaged in a fratricidal war. All questions were overshadowed by Britain’s peril. She was engaged in the most titanic struggle in the history of the world. Xot only was her own national welfare involved, but the more farreaching question as to whether Europe was to be dictated to by the irresponsible leader of men, whose nation was consumed by the, lust for power. He was not prepared to honor sacred treaties, or to consider sacred blood, but only to aggrandise himself. “Wo have consolation that Great Britain is defending a just cause, and has taken the only course possible. While buoyed up with the strongest hope that victory will be ours, we must not close our eyes to the fact that we are brought face to face with the most perfect machine as regards organisation, and a nation of patriots. If postponed for four years longer, the German strength would be greater still. To-day Germany had not a friend in Europe, except Austria. We have the sympathy of every decent country on the face of the earth. The fight must be to the death. In our own interests, and in the interests of the permanent peace of the future, Germany’s enormous territory must he curtailed.”