THE KAISER’S PEACE PROCLAMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 October 1918, Page 4

THE KAISER’S PEACE PROCLAMATION.

The Kaiser has personally taken charge of the peace racket and has published a proclamation to his army and navy stating that he is going to try a new road to winning the war, that is by offering the Allies liberal terms of surrender. We do not use his exact words but ours state the case much more correctly, frknkly and honestly than his do. We need not,'however, waste time in discussing any formula of peace that is made in Germany; the Prussian gang entered the

war to fight to a finish, but somehow; or other the finish is not panning out just as they willed it and they want to postpone the finishing business till another day. Every minute of the twenty-four hours of the day Foch is replying on every scene of battle to peace terms as well as to the Kaiser’s proclamation to his army and navy, and he is driving home his view of the subject with an unremitting, unrelenting, ever-increasing force that should have convinced Wilhelm of Prussia that his peace dopes are not acceptable. With the eloquence of an endless roar of cannon and rifle, and the glitter of millions of swords and bayonets Foch is letting Wilhelm know that he cannot have the double honour of arranging the end of the war as well as the fixing up of the commencement of it. The Central Powers, controlled by Prussian militarism, engineered a casus belli and started their guns going and fires burning on Allied territory while the Allies were yet in bed and scarcely awake. Wilhelm had it all his own way at the beginning and the Allies are going to have the ending of it, even if they have to follow the cultured gentlemen into their German backyards, root them out of tlieir cellars and other holes of concealment. Germany need not trouble about making any peace mixtures other than those that can be fired from her guns. If cultur can make more guns, rifles and bayonets than the Allies the Kaiser can then venture to compound peace dopes, and not till .then. What the Prussian military machine’s real intention is in issuing a proclamation to its units the Allies are not concerned about, because' they are aware that Germany is fully and conclusively informed that peace can only come by the signing of an agreement bearing only two words —unconditional surrender.