The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1916. THE HUN’S SQUEAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 58, 5 October 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1916. THE HUN’S SQUEAL.

Tho groat speech delivered by Mr Lloyd George in which British sentiment with regard to Germany was set out so that all the world might know that the foolish interference of wrong-headed pacifists would not be tolerated, was evidently a well-con-sidorcd statement. That such a pronouncement from the right quarter "as necessary, is made evident by an . veil nidation of facts which are onlr now becoming generally known. Germany's cunning press campaign hi neutral countries had entirely misled ( the people in some instances, and | with unequalled hypocrisy the Teuton has reviled the Allies and laid all blame for the war upon them. Writing from Switzerland at the beginning of August, a special correspondent of tho Christchurch Press says: “During the last four or five months, Germany has been sending out, through the medium of the Swiss Press, one peace feeler after another. Like Agag, she walks delicately, or at least endeavours to do so, although it is difficult to reconcile walking delicately with the wearing of Prussian boots. Probably, by the time this reaches Christchurch she will have issued many more peace ( feelers, and I have reason to believe that during this month of August she may, for the first time, make an open, and not a veiled, offer of the conditions on which she would be disposed to conclude peace. It can escape no one’s attention that there is a vast difference between the first German peace terms which leaked

into the neutral Press—whether with Germany’s connivance or not cannot be said—and the last set of these conditions. The first were too monstrous for words; the last, although T do not for a moment assert that they would bo acceptable to us, are at any rate much less preposterous. Of course, the fact is not lost upon neutrals that it is from Germany alone that all these surreptitious peace offers proceed, and never from the Allies. For a time, all these German peace feelers were wholly ignored by the Entente, hut, as some of them were attributed to very important German personages, or to well-known and powerful German organisations, a semi-official rejoinder to them appears to-day in the leading GermanSwiss fortnightly review.” Squealing with rage and fear the Hun certainly wants peace because Prussian militarists know that the dream of I world dominion is shattered and that only defeat remains. It is to mnonuse as much possible the punish- ' man that in overdue but surely enm- » ing, that Germany now strives for a

cessation of hostilities. The world wants peace, but not a German peace.