The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7th, 1916. PEACE PROSPECTS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 205, 7 October 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7th, 1916. PEACE PROSPECTS

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

The war has taken on a definitely new aspect, there is now no vestige of any enemy offensive anyhere; the Allies have no longer to hold on to their trenches and positions with an all pervadingdesperation, they have passed that stage on to Germany as a legacy til! pee:ee is declared. Truly, the Germans are behaving like whipped curs; in the early days of the war they boasted, from Kaiser to private, of the mighty works they would perform; they emulated the savagery of the wildest beast and beggared the imaginations of the most practised in debauchery and frightfulness, forfeiting all claim to mercy and to be the associate of any other civilised people. Their abandonment to blood-lust and indulgence in the most, inhuman methods of torture, bloodthirstiness, and butchery, appalled the world, mankind generally was horrorstricken with the hideousness of their eom-uptions in cruelty. Wherever they have been able to invade, their course has boon marked and scarred with the most awful and revolting orgies; they have held up to the world an exhibition of horror invoicing acts of which it scarcely k af ] , UIV , ( 'j ca ; there was not one good and holy humane law that Germany did not entirely ignore in the destruction of life and looting of property. After seeing or experiencing all this it was natural to assume that German soldiers and German people would be hardened to some degree of

punishment and privation themselves. \ These apostles of '' right is might'' practised their doctrine on the Allies to an almost unbelievable extreme, Jmt their armies are no longer the mightiest, the preponderance of strength has passed to the Allies, and to-day there is no more contemptible spectacle than to see these purveyors of frightfulness repudiating their hitherto sacred belief, cringing like cravens for mercy, talking of the wickedness in spilling human blood; moving in every possible and likely avenue for someone to commence a peace campaign that will stay the hand of retribution they know is held powerfully above them, and that will descend with unerring aim and severity, but with the memory of Louvain, the Lusitania, and the Cavell and Fryatt hideous murders, there is no room to remember considerations of mercy or forgiveness. Germany wants peace, a peace that will leave her free to immediately commence preparations to achieve what she has now failed in. It is neither best for Germany nor for the world that this war should not be carried to complete victory, to an absolute breakage and destruction of the possibility for; Germany to ever again commit the peoples of the earth to such a war. How can we regard Germans as a brave people when we see thorn squirming and hear them screaming now that they find their antagonists have waxed stronger than themselves; the exhibi- | tion is both pitiable and disgusting. PROGRESS OF THE WAR. Fighting is proceeding most satisfactorily; since last week end Russia j has resumed a. mighty offensive on hundreds of miles of front, determined, it seems, to break the enemy resistance at Kovel and to rapidly gain possession of Lemberg. The Roumanians are prosecuting a successful offensive on the Hungarian side of the Carpathians, and are now quite ready, and waiting for the Russians to come over from Bukowina and Galicia. They have furnished Mackensen and his Bulgar-Turk-Ger-raans with a Dobrudja danger that is not unlikely to develop into disaster, and they are clearing away all obstacles on the Orsova front, to leave a fairly good road when the time arrives to dash on Belgrade. The forces at Salonika are moving with force and determination, working \in co-ordination with the Russians and Roumanians in the Dobrudja, with whom constant aerial communication is kept up. The British are working along the Struma going towards the Bulgar capital, Sofia, while the Servians are vigorously fighting on the western flank, driving the Bulgars before them out of Servian villages, which they arc taking repossession of.' Mouastir may have fallen into their hands ere this, when the advance on Uskub will not be difficult, and the total recapture of their country will be in sight. The central force,, mostly French, will, with the fall of Monastir, move along the Vardar River, linking up with the Servians into one great sweeping wave, that Bulgaria's broken armies will be helpless to stem. Germany sees her communications with Turkey, Bulgaria and the East about to be cut, and that her erstwhile comrades must capitulate, and she is eager for peace. In the Caucasus and Mesopotamia, Allied interests are secure; in the former, Russia is working on a sweeping offensive, capturing territory, prisoners and muni tlons. In naval warfare the Hun pirates have again attempted the impossible in sending every submarine they, could get together to the English Channel -to stop the passage of all shipping, but Americans ridicule the idea and tell them they are as likely to be successful as their airships arc in destroying London. The British authorities have satisfied the world in more than one way that there is no cause for alarm, the Navy is attending to their visitors. We are all conversant with the great xVllied victories in France, that have filled German hearts with fear and trembling, and some ered encc may be given to the reports that the German line is already on the move back. Colonel Repington and other great authorities tell us that what has been done on the Sommc is nothing in comparison with what is shortly to eventuate. That Germany expects something disastrous is disclosed in the feverish enxiety she is exhibiting. Strained, continuous watch on the Belgian coast is kept up in expectation of a British army landing there; concreted . trenches and fortifications are being j rushed forward opposite Danish Schlcs--1 wig, which fear of attack from that I quarter only could warrant. Winter I Is drawing near, when trench warfare cannot he conducted on a large scale, therefore, whatever the predicted some thing the Allies are going to essay is it must come quickly. Wo cannot now have long to wait. The price we are paying is a high one, but our cause is progressing as satisfactorily as could reasonably be- erpected.