A MESSAGE TO THE EMPIRE.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 December 1917, Page 5

A MESSAGE TO THE EMPIRE.

SOME NOTABLE WORDS. Received 9.30. LONDON, Dec 2. The Christmas number of the Overseas Club organ contains the following message from Lord Derby:—“The fourth winter finds our army in unimpaired strength and morale, W'hile signs are evident that the reverse is the case with our enemies. I am confidnt this is the last winter before the peace,” Sir William Robertson, Chief of the General is convinced that the issue largely depends on staying power, therefore, we are confluent vie to: will be ours, Lord Milnr says the Mother Country and her children are one to-day the common hour of danger. Who will venture to say that the bonds forged in the fires of peril and sacrifice can ever be broken?

General Birdwood says: We have not yet reached the point where the greatest demand is to be made on our fortitude and resources. It is natural, after three years’ of devastating w 7 ar some, should say: “Let’s call it a draw.” There canont be a draw with a nation who banished chivalry its a nation who banished chivalry from its banner and honour from its creed.