WAR-WEARY WORLD.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 16 January 1917, Page 5

WAR-WEARY WORLD.

GERMANY ON EVE OF CRUSHING DEFEAT. MUST HAVE PEACE TO PREVENT A DEBACLE. Received 10.25. NEW YORK, Jan 15. A despatch from Mr. W. B. Hale, from Berlin, is printed in the New York American. Mr. Hale, in an intimate conversation with the leader of the highest political position states: “What is it the war-weary world wants —peace with recrimination now, or a possible peace many years later with Germany crushed? The league of ten is momentarily triumphant, and Europe’s whole political map will he a chess board for their complicated ambitions and sanguinary struggles -during a hundred years to come. The fact that the censor passed the report is an admission of the crushing of Germany, and is an open indication of the despair of the Kaiser’s statesmen. Germany, on the threshold of defeat, must have a quick peace to prevent a debacle.”