VICTORY BEFORE SOLVENCY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 98, 26 April 1916, Page 6

VICTORY BEFORE SOLVENCY.

Lord Sumner, speaking at a meeting called by the United orkers, at the residence of 'Viscountess St. Gyres, 34, Eaton Square, S.W., said he disliked the questions now commonly heard: “When do you think the war will be over?” and “What shall avc do aften the war?” The queston should be, “When shall we win the war?V He would rather the- war lasted a long time than that it should end without victory.

Referring to the war’s cost, he observed that they might take the of Commons every morning and the House of Lords every afternoon and throw them into a volcano every day, and that proceeding would not be costing as much as the war. We could only win the war by reducing oun expenditure and seeing that the margin saved went straight into the Exchequer for war purposes. Though we were bankrupt at the enc of the war it would not matter, so long as we were victors. The Germans were a dour and stubborn foe; the only thing he could compare them with was the stoat. They were not cowards. We must build on the assumption that the war would be a long one.

Mr. C. J. Stewart (the Public Trus-, tee) said that, great as had been outsacrifices, those made by the Germans had been far greater. Eleven years ago he had a German governess, who, in a moment of confidence, said: “What do you think we? ar e builiding our fleet for?” He replied: “I suppose to protect your mercantile marine.” “That i s not our object,” she replied, “we intend to wrest the sovereignty of the seas from your country.”