GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, 6 March 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

THE DANGER OF PACIFICISM. A WORD OF WARNING. Received 8.45. LONDON, March 5. Sir Auckland Gcddes, in a speech at Aldershot, discussing war aims, said the most dangerous time would be when Germany for her own purposes desired peace negotiations on the understanding that it was a drawn fight. Then the pacifists, who were not numerous, but very vocal, would redouble their efforts for peace under such conditions as would mean that the world would sleep with the bayonet and riflp by its side, with security impossible, until the Gormans were convinced that their doctrine of superiority was false. AFTER THE WAR TRADE. COLLECTION OF ENEMY SAMPLES. Received 8.45. LONDON, March 5. The Foreign Samples Department of overseas trade has opened an exhibition, in London. Over 15,000 samples of enemy goods have been collected since the war, with the object of showing British manufacturers the exact nature of enemy trade with various parts of the Empire and other countries. The Department has secured a vast quantity of valuable information relative to enemy trade markets. The samples include practically every part of the Empire, North America, China, Siam and elsewhere Others will be added, and manufacturers will he allowed every facility to study them.

INCREASING SCARCITY OF PAPER

CUTTING DOWN NEWSPAPERS,

Received 5.45.

*•’ LONDON, March 5.-

In the House of Commons Mr. Ward said the.; Paper ' Commission, was considering more drastic restrictions in view of the increasing scarcity, causing the cutting down of newspapers.

GERMANY’S GLOOMY OUTLOOK

AMSTERDAM, March 4.

The ‘ ‘ Yorwaerts, ” commenting on the new Russian peace terms, says Russia ends the war unreconciled and the policy of patriotic revanche, once it gets a lead, will find an easy game to play. The “Vorwaerts” bitterly comments: “When the war is over Germany will stand utterly alone, unfriended, and her people will find themselves faced in peace by a world of enemies.

GERMAN PROPAGANDA.

A REMARKABLE INSTANCE

BERNE, March 4,

Newspapers arc drawing attention to a remarkable instance of German propaganda, whereby many officers of the Swiss army were the recipients of serious pamphlets upholding German military discipline and the virtues of German militarism for the emulation of other countries, inasmuch as they embody all the manly qualities most admirable in soldiers and civilians. They were all printed in the “North German Gazette’’ office.

“ME AND GOTT.”

ANOTHER EXHIBITION OF CANT

AMSTERDAM, March 4

Official —The Kaiser in a message to Count Hurtling says. “The German s\vord, borne by our great army and commanders, has achieved peace with Russia. My feeling of thanks to God, who has been with us, is associated with rejoicing for the army’s deeds.”

N.Z. MAILS LOST

LONDON, March 4,

The Press Bureau reports that mails from Australia and New Zealand, containing a few letters and many newsapers and parels, were aboard a ship torpedoed. The posting dates of New Zealand letters were from 14th to 18th December, and the parcels 12th to 17th December. PAPAL FAVOUR, POPE’S GIFT TO KING OF BAVARIA. BERNE, March 4. The Pope has sent the King of Bavaria a medalion representing the Madonna and studded with diamonds and other gems. The nuncio presenting it described the gift as a token of the Pope’s special friendship.

GENERAL MAUDE’S DEATH. |

WIDOW GRANTED £25,000

LONDON, March 4,

Tbti : House-of Commons unanimously . adopted a grant of. £25,000 to L.ad> | Maude after Mr.-Lloyd George’s glow- j ing tribute to General Maude's scr- j vices to the Empire, He mentioned, that the general died a victim of the , inbred courtesy* of a fine character. | He visited a plague-stricken area at | the invitation of the inhabitants, t\ho j were anxious to welcome him for his many kindnesses, and though he * forbade his escort to cat or drink, he himself ran the risk rather than oftend his hosts. There was cholera inj the cup and no died in a few days. He would always, said the Premier, be remembered as one of the grear figures of the war, not only for his achievements, but his character. AUSTRIANS SHOOT PRISONERS ROME, March 5. According to the Volta agency, the Austrians court-martialled and shot hundreds of prisoners. Groups are now daily in Lavine Valley. SPIES ON TRIAL. AMSTERDAM, March 5. A great espionage trial has been held at Antwerp. Sixty-three prisoners were tried, eight being sentenced to death. FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES. ALL-IMPORTANT QUESTION. LONDON, February 22. Speaking at Plymouth on the subject of the allies’ war aims, Lord Milner, a member of the War Cabinet, deprecated side-talk about details of peace negotiations at a time when the German military party was again firmly in the saddle, and when we were fighting for our very lives and the very existence of free nation#. The militarists, of Western Europe proceeded Lord Milner, had but a single object. They openly proclaimed that 'lithe lr intentions were to deal t Italy,’ France, and Britain a knock-ojit j blow, thereby---securing domination [ throughout-' Europe rand the greater part of Asiay 'Uhd enabling the establishment" of military despotism throughout the-world, It was not now '. a question of destroying Prussian militarism, but whether Prussianism would destroy us, sweeping away everything for which freedom-loving nations, had striven for centuries to attain.

Lord Milner foreshadowed greater efforts, and much greater hardships in the Immediate future. Therefore, he appealed for more perfect co-ordina-tion of effort by all the allies, the suppression of domestic discord, and the concentration of the • efforts of men and women of all classes and parties upon the supreme object—national salvation. •

Owing to the policy of the Versailles Council, said Lord Milner wo had now reasonable machinery for attaining co-ordination of effort The essence of the new system was that we had a permanent body of experts, who would be always sitting, engaged in the study of war problems from the viewpoint of the Alliance as a whole.

Concluding Lord Milner said he had no fear that there would descend on Britain anything like the follies and excesses of Russia. Such revolutions destroyed not despotism, but democracy which was perhaps on its greatest and final trial.