The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915. THE DURATION OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 2, 4 January 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915. THE DURATION OF THE WAR.

The view is expressed by the Lyttolton Times that only in the possible intervention of Italy on the side of the Entente can we find a prospect of the shortening of the war. The qualities that are needed most now by the British race, therefore, are unfaltering courage and determination. With high prices ruling for the products of this Dominion the people may be disposed to regard the economic situation without anxiety, but there is need to husband our resources, in view of the certainty that the financial demands of the nation will he heavily increased. Grave problems, calling for a very earnest consideration, have to he solved by the Government, and they cannot be solved unless the people unselfishly realise that the times in which we live are abnormal and that the expression of a grasping spirit is an offence against the nation. We need wise guidance from those in office and the task of the administrators must be lightened by a cheerful submission to discipline among the people. Never before, the Times concludes, has there come to New Zealand such an opportunity for the display of the highest qualities of the race, and we look to this little nation to Show its greatness alike in its courage, its wisdom and its readiness to make supreme sacrifices. ■———i^———■■