The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1916. NO COMPROMISE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 66, 14 October 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1916. NO COMPROMISE.

The lists of the fallen who have gone from New Zealand's shores have heen painfully heavy of late, but every man has done his duty nobly and no higher praise of men could have been given than that accorded the New Zealand division by Genera) Sii Douglas Haig. More than ever, after what this .remote portion of the Empire has paid in tribute by the lives of her most splendid sons, in common with every other quarter of the King's dominions, there is the stern determination that compromise can never be, and that we must go on until Germany as a military power is utterly broken. That is 'what General I Joifre on behalf of France, Messrs' Lloyd George and Asquith on helialf of England, and equally responsible | deaders speaking for Bussia, have solemnly reiterated when occasion demanded. "As the casualties riso and so many perish who were the flower of a whole generation, all reckonings about time and cost are set aside. When we remember how, this war was planned, how it was made, and everything that has happened since," writes a correspondent, "all speculations and compromise, vague as they may, lie, are silently extinguished. There is a' determination to make the enemy pay in various ways until the German race revokes for ever its war creed and the diabolical philosophy of slaughter embodied in the Hohenzol-j lorn dynasty. France, Russia Italy, l Serbia, and little Belgium, for reasons partly similar and partly different, share this harder, more definite temper. It is impossible to return to anything like the status quo. I Every life given now is a protest against waste and an incentive to resolution. The thought of half results or unstable equilibrium in Europe after the war becomes more than ever intolerable. 'There must be the sternest waging of the war clear out to a thorough issue. If another vear does not finish the task there will be a fourth year of fighting." That is the spirit which animates the people of every country which has taken up arms for righteousness and justice, and to save the world from the curse of German thraldom. "The German." says the New York Tribune, "Ims raped women, murdered children, destroyed churches, and befouled human habita-J tions, believing that by these acts he might terrify strong men and reduce soldiers to terror. But he has not terrified them, and he has not conquered the world." And now he grows afraid of the punishment which his foul crimes merit, and whines for peace. But, "never in human history has a more terrible judgment awaited a nation." says the Tribune, "than now awaits the German when at last the guns and men of the Allies have accomplished the task j which is but beginning."