ERROR OF HUN THOUGHT.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 September 1918, Page 4

ERROR OF HUN THOUGHT.

Foch’s offensive in France ss near, ing evidence of lurid reflection on the German people, on German politics, as well as on hitherto German swashbucklers. Chancellor Herding is receiving his walking ticket and Solf, of South Pacific fame, is to take the Chancellorship. German newspapers state that pan-Germans no longer rage about annexations, and indemnifies; they silently discuss ; the situation; they are hopeful that Dr. Solf, as Chancellor, will be '■ able to form a peace party. In other words, Germany is being badly whipped and the erstwhile Hun braggarts are searching for ways to skunk out of it. They want peace by conciliation, but President Wilson has anticipated the trick and has given an answer in advance; peace must come through Allied military victory. Germany under-esti-mated the Allies’ determination and now her military lords are pessimistic and fearful; even Captain Persius realises that Germany’s colonial empire has been blown through German cannons never to return to Germany. Many thousands of German young men and of enslaved Belgians, Poles and Russians, are employed in fencing our the Allies along the Rhine, which is an admission of weakness, and inability to stem the tide that is sweeping the Hun out of France and Belgium, German soldiers are refusing, in thousands, to go to the West front, and thirty thousand men in Krupps’ works revolted, and they were sent to the front. German newspapers puerily remark, “we never though that England after eighteen months of submarine war, wodld be so little disposed for peace.” No, Hun thought has been along channels of fallacy from the time the Austrian Archduke was sacrificed to the assassin; from the time the “scrap of paper” was flung in the face of Sir Edward Grey, and now the day of retribution is at hand Germans are bewailing the errors by which they sought to become masters of the world. They realise that defeat, complete military defeat, the defeat that will crush out Prussian militarism and bring emancipation to the German people, now stares them full in the face, and they are afraid. They want conciliation and they are stupidly thinking that Dr. Solf. if given the Chancellorship, will evolve a peace that may save something. While Solf is preparing his scraps of peace paper, a new American army of half a million men are preparing to plunge into the fleeing, tired, worn-out, sick unit? death Hun ranks and destroy them, capture them, or drive them back over the Rhine and force peace in Berlin. Correspondents inform us that there is a growing resistance from the retreating Germans, but there are undeniable, convincing evidences that the end of Foch’s offensive is yet far in the future. Any day now the great blow may he struck that will make final victory a much-desired consummation.