THE FORBIDDEN CRY.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 August 1918, Page 6

THE FORBIDDEN CRY.

THE MOTHER IN GERMANY. His mad ambition has brought death to three millions of the Kaiser's troops and infinite suffering to all who survive. Already the demand of the German mothers for peace—"because peace means food, and to-day there is no food" —has grown so loud, so bitter, and so insistent that the Government has entered on yet another campaign against it. It is led by D: Kathe Scnirmacher in the Berlin Lokalanzeiger in an article which reveals far more than it seeks to conceal: — "German mothers have no easy tasl: to make both ends meet. The mother must think and worry herself to distraction —ofter wearing herself out — to obtain the very necessaries of life, particularly where the earnings are so much smaller and the food so much dearer. What does mother want? Bread, much bread, and by bread she i means everything edible, all the good things we had in peace time—fat, sugar, butter, eggs, meat, milk, and bacon, That is why mother wants peace. But does every kind of peace bring bread? No, mother, not every kind. If we had peace to-day our land would not flow with milk and honey. Where is it to come from Europe is like a desolate, neglected garden which will not at once yield its former abundance. Mother must recognise this. It will take years to get these supplies again. Mother must not let her heart control her tongue and make her shout 'Peace at any price; rather today than to-morrow.' The enemy will hear the cry. He will rub his hands and cry, 'Peace? You can have it—a German death peace.' Perhaps he will leave us our small trinkets, for the present only, but he will pay us not a penny indemnity and will give us no yarn or wool, not a piece of leather, no rubber or copper. . Peace would be worse than war. And as we do not wish to live after the war in endless, hopeless misery, we must hold out till we obtain a German life-peace."