NO UNCERTAIN PEACE

Taihape Daily Times, 23 July 1918, Page 3

NO UNCERTAIN PEACE

LONDON, July 19. Comrades of Empire entertained the Overseas representatives at dinner at the Naval and Military Club, with a view to co-ordinating methods of dealing with discharged and demobilised sailors and soldiers throughout the Empire. Sir Joseph Ward said the war must end in no uncertain peace. There was only one course for the British to follow; we must not listen to the pacifist or the negotiator, but beat the enemy first, and then see that terms of peace were so based as to teach the enemy the only result of such a war is that they must suffer all the consequences. The best way to prepare for the end of the war was to look after the men who fought for us. He detailed what New Zealand is doing. No pension in the world was more generous than that New Zealand was giving. He hoped a discharged soldier, wherever he goes, will be able to enlist assistance as a citizen of the British Empire. In • our peace terms we must see that the enemy gets no r.aval or aerial bases in the Pacific.