PESSIMISTS BEING CONVERTED.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 November 1918, Page 4

PESSIMISTS BEING CONVERTED.

Taihape has really come to realise that Germany is being beaten in the war, and that peace is looming up as something that is not altogether impossible. The great army of pessimists, pro-Germans and Germans in this community are now powerless to invent potent contemptible stories about German invincibility, in both fighting and spying campaigns, that are capable of swaying minds against the evidence of facts that are coming fast and frequent over cables from Europe and elsewhere. There seemis to be a preponderance of opinion, or there is some idea pervading the collective mind, that Germany may yet be defeated and that peace may come sometime not very far distant. . But there is little sign that the very costly cable news-this journal pays for, is regarded as anything like so reliable by the peculiar, pessimistic, ,pro-German people in forming 1 their opinions of the war situation as the mQanderings of their own puny intelligences. However, there is hope for believing that the communiy will arrive at a uniform stage in thought in time to celebrate the unconditional surrender of the arch-criminal. Two of his confederates have been bagged, the third is on the point of being arrested, and now it has struck the fearing pessimists that Germany may yet be beaten. What is meant is, of course, that no shad ow of doubt how remains about the end of the war being in sight, that Germany' is decisively defeated, that unconditional surrender 'must come, and must come soon.