GERMANY AS PEACEMAKER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 133, 8 June 1916, Page 2

GERMANY AS PEACEMAKER.

A remarkable article by Herr Maximilian Harden, appealing for immediate peace, appears in the “Zukunft.’ It is specially interesting, as it has been passed for publication by the Berlin military censors. The famous editor writes; “In spite of almost unaccountable victories, in spite of the fact that our land is free from enemies, that our armies occupy an area about as large as the United Kingdom—in spite of all that, we think that the war is a cruel misfortune, the recurrence of which must be prevented by all possible means. In spite of a sentence, pronounced by chance, but sufficiently regretted (Dr. von Bethmann-Holl-weg’s statement to Sir Edward Gos-* chen about the ‘scrap of paper’), we want treaties to be respected and the rights of the powerful and the weak never to be interfered with again

“Let us come to the conclusion that the war was a mistake, made not by one, but by all (though not equally by all), and you will find Germany ready to organise the peace of Europe. The hour has come for the Kaiser and Chancellor to state their war aims. “Our enemies are afraid that after the war Germany will continue to arm herself and prepare other wars. This would mean an attempt to world-rule and would bring all these who would sign peace with us in deadly danger. This will never be. Nobody will remember this war with pleasure. Let us end it, and organise peace. To hush up this desire for peace because it would prove our weakness is folly. Germany has learned the mysterious --ays of providence.”