The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1915. GERMANY WANTS PEACE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 6 December 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1915. GERMANY WANTS PEACE.

(With which is incorporated The Taihape Post and Waimarino News.)

If there were any doubts about Germany’s anxiety to get out of the war that she was still more anxious to • precipitate, there can be none now. Setting aside the frenzied idiocy ofl the Henry Ford campaign, which in all probability had its birth in German influences, there is ample evidence of an undeniable nature to indicate how sorry Germany is, not for going into the war, but that she did not make even better preparations and provisions than were made. There is overwhelming evidence that war had been decided upon, to commence about the time it did, and if the Serajevo incident had not arisen we know, from Germany’s methods, that a causus belli would easily have been invented; the conspiracy at the German and Austrian embassies in the United States has given the last clinch to this fact. The best and most ample evidence was forthcoming at the trials that proved conclusively that a year before war broke out the German Government through its embassy was conspiring to flout the laws of a friendly country, to utterly disregard them and to set at defiance international laws, as well as to abuse to an extreme the friendship and hospitality of the United States Government. It is now established fact that all this occurred a year before the war commenced and has continued right up to the time the treachery of the German Embassy was revealed in the act. Now the machinations of Germans, Ger-man-Americans, and pro-Germans are engaged in quite a different mission.. Over two years ago they were making, what they thought the most ample provision for their'needs to a successful conduct of a war that was to come, now they are subtly endeavouring to engineer a peace that is essential to the saving of their nation, and perhaps, their Kaiser’s head, in a war that came at their own bidding and instigation. Germany has outclassed every nation mentioned in ancient or modern history in brutality, and even the loathesome Avork of the Turks in }Armenia has not surpassed in horror the bestial ferocious brutish cruelty of the Germans in Belgium and in other territories they have overrun. Those are the people, now that punishment and vengeance are overtaking them, are crying out. for peace. They are suffering from their own acts; their position among nations is trembling to a fall; they are shut oft from ccxn-

munication with food producing countries and the pinch of hunger and the possibility of starvation makes these miserable people call out for peace. There is no mistake about the urgency with which they regard the necessity. It is not only the Social-de-mocratic journal in Germany that is demanding peace efforts by their government, but newspapers representing nearly all shades of opinion are urging that Germany wants peace, and at the same time, with effrontery and impudence, saying that she never wanted war. German fulgency has changed by German methods to fulsomeness, and, like the big coward craven, she has proved herself, she cries for peace. Neither the Ford errand of lunacy or the interference of neutrals, which is improbable, will deter the Allies from carrying Germany’s war to its legitimate end. We know that both Germany and Austria have made overtures for separate peace with more than one of the nations that is arrayed against them, and it is in these people’s replies that we see and realise how determined and solid the Allies are not to conclude a peace that may in a few years lead to another wgrld-weltering in, blood worse than that it is now passing through. The subtle cunning and outrageous audacity for which German methods are conspicuous will avail them nothing in this mission of urgency for peace, but it has one signification that carries with it some satisfaction, it raises the hope that this terrible infliction is rapidly nearing dts end. But Germany can end the war in only one way and that is by paying the price that the Allies may decide upon and demand of her.