ANNIVERSARY DAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 83, 6 August 1915, Page 7

ANNIVERSARY DAY.

MR MASSEY'S MESSAGE.

Vm Prkss Association. Wellington, August S. Mr Massey despatched the l'oll««ing message to the London Tim**, i" 'response to a request from the editor of the journal:— I "On the anniversary of the deelar'atiou of war it is fitting that the 1 citizens of the youngor nations should ! remember the land of their fathers, and convoy to our kinsmen at Home a [renewal of the assurance that we have 'counted the cost, and that we stand together in the knowledge that the ties uniting us are stronger than steel. They are the ties of follow!citizenship, and language, and tradition ; they represent everything that lis dear and sacred to the people of our race. Never was loyalty to ourselves 'and to each other more necessary than lat the present juncture. We are laced with a cruel, powerful and unscrupullons, foe, who hates Britain and everything British, both at home and abroad, with an intense and bitter hatred, and who can be held in check, and finally driven back to his lair, only by the determination and dogged endurance which has saved the Empire in times of trouble in the past. The Overseas Dominions have taken np tho burden of Hrripire, which will never again be laid down. Wo,have learned to think Imperially. We realise that as citizens of the Empire we are all ono great Imperial family. We are giving of our best and bravest, and will continue to give, not only for Britain's sake, but because this is our fight, just as much an it is the struggle of England, or,Scotland, or Ireland. Though the sky may become overcast, and black clouds appear, we know that behind the clouds the sun is shining, that the darkness will disappear, anil light and warmth once more reach the earth. So 'with this crisis; the sun of peace and righteousness will shine again. The Kaiser and his war lords and all the wickedness they stand for will pass away, and their deeds will be remembered only as the memory of an evil dream."—(Signed), W. F. .Massey.