AFTER THE VICTORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 88, 12 April 1916, Page 7

AFTER THE VICTORY.

WARS SHADO W LASTS FOR MANY f EARS. Then -a new world.” “The war will terminate this year either in the spring or summer,” Mme. de Thebes, the well-known French prophetess, said the other day, as she sat in her study ensconced in a huge armchair before a brightly burning fire and wearing a grey fur wrap on her shoulders.

“I'have been ill and I have lost my son, and for many months I hesitated whether I ought to write my yearly calendar of predictions or not. I decided to do so, as 1 think the message it carries to the people of Europe is too important to be lost. “Mars, the war star, still overshadows the world and will continue to do so for many years after the end of the war. I see the future as a huge red sun slowly rising on the horizon, but between us and the glowing future it foretells there is a black screen.

SUDDEN END OF THE WAR. “But still in the full light I see processions and songs and happiness. It is the homecomings of the victorious soldiers in the golden splendour of summer. There in the mist before me I have seen the battle going on, and suddenly the clamour has ceased and victory has come.”

Mme. de Thebes predicts after the victory a period of crisis and of change in France and in England. Much depends on the wisdom and the foresight of the. people’s rulers at the moment when peace is being discussed.

A new world has been born again, she says, just as in ages past after the flood and in this world women will play a large part. There will be a revival of religious thought and a purification of public morals which can only be the work of women. The family will again become the most important factor in life, and a strong movement against divorce will be set on foot by the women of Paris. FUTURE OF GERMANY. Ruin and desolation, revolution and massacxes, fcrm the sombre picture that Mme. de Thebes drew of the future of Germany. “The disappearance of one of the principal authors of the war will bring about a groat change. Which of the two? I cannot tell, the future is too dim. Many shapeless shadows pass before my eyes. The sinister old man and the modern Nero. Both of them are marked men. Death follows them and will suddenly betray them both. The Hohenzollern will die a madman or else by violent means; suicide or assassination, I cannot say which. The Empress and Prince Henry of Prussia, and perhaps one of his sons, will alone survive the Kaiser.”

Above all, Mine, de Thebes warns English and French against the comedy of humanitarfanism and international fraternity, with which the German leaders will seek to protect themselves in time of defeat. “More than one generation must pass away,” s he says, “before Germans can be counted as men again. Those of them who will seek to enter cur countries will have but one thought: to betray us, rob us, and to kill us. In Germany all is dark. It is the black night traversed by a red flame cf fire and blood.

“And in crowds the shadows gather together and disappear. A huge emigration to other lands.” v