THE NEW ZEALANDERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 3 September 1917, Page 5

THE NEW ZEALANDERS.

BEFORE WE MAKE PEACE The following remarks of a New Zealand soldier, published by the London Standard, may suggest to the people whi desire premature peace discussions with Germany that the men who "are getting along with it" on the Western front are going to have first say in the matter. "I've been right through the Somme battle," he said, and everything since, and lost half my paJs, and when Ave who are left, want a little tonic to brace us up to finish the business—thoroughlv, mind vou—we 3ust call to mind that one transport —and not a big one at that—would carry the remains of our first draft home again. I can assure we have no tender feelings for the Germans. We see things as they are, and, rightly or wrongly, we intend to dose 'em with the same medicine they have been using in France, only a bit stronger. It's no use anybody talking about peace until we have made a trip into Germany. There is a bit of revenge firing our determination, but I think we realise, too, more than many Englishmen, that in order to teach Germany the lesson that she cannot turn Europe into a cockpit, it is absolutely essential to give her civilians an illustration of what their own solders have done in France and Belgium. AVe 're going to get our own back in our own way, and no power on earth will stop us.