The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th, 1916. GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 8 September 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER Bth, 1916. GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS.

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

Indemnity and annexation are no longer held up to the people of Germauy to urge them on in much the same way that the proverbial carrot was dangled in front of the donkey's nose. It was cabled yesterday that the Socialist, Herr Lachnisch, counselled that Germany should not abandon the idea of annexation, even if indemnities could not be exacted. He wanted annexation somewhere, and he suggested it should be on the eastern side. He may have hinted at Poland, but Herr Lachnisch was promptly taken to> task by the leading German newspapers, and the Socialist journal "Voerwaertz" was foremost in telling the people that more sober views must obtain, and there must be a concentration on ending the war. As part of the same cable came a cry from the inspir ed "Cologne Gazette," expressing the most gloomy views on the food question. It says all hope for larger and cheaper supplies of meat must be abandoned. A new meat; ticket has been issued, which does not indicate that it is convertible at its face meat value, but merely that if it is converted it only states the limit allowed on the moet favourable circumstances. Then to turn to Herr Harden, the editor of "Zukunft," who, although a consistent hater of Germany's enemies, realises there is little to gain by lying

and abuse while prosecuting a campaign of peace. Herr Harden boldly condemns Chancellor Hollweg's talk about peace "according to the war map," and he observes that the enemy certainly will not follow such advice unless he considers his cause is lost. It is regarded as a favourable symptom of renascent sanity in Germany that its leading publication is now beginning to expose the absurdity of the German Chancellor's insincere attempts to throw the blame for the war on England. Herr Harden reviews the years before the war to show the absurdity of describing Sir Edward Greyas a "firebrand," or of disputing his desire for peace. He asks, "Can one still really • praise the practical qualities of a treaty which would make its fulfilment depend upon tlie plirase 'A Avar forced upon us?' The opinion that war was forced upon us," says Herr Harden in his article, has found belief almost nowhere in the whole world. Germany knows that the peace that will come to her will have with it neither territory nor money; on the the other hand she is fighting on in desperation in the hope that some accident may happen that will lessen the indemnities she will have to pay, and the territory she will be compelled to surrender.