The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1919 ANOTHER GERMAN MISTAKE.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 February 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1919 ANOTHER GERMAN MISTAKE.

(With which is tncorp'rated The f&l----hape Pont tnd Wateamo News).

General Foch is watching Germany, not because he has any doubts about the utter and absolute defeat of the German armies, but because the whole German nation is so tinctured through and through with corruption, deceit and cunning as a result of half a century’s education, encouragement and practice in those qualities, and because all honourable human traits are so effectually bred out of the German character that it is quite hopeless to expect I anything else from the German people. After closest observation of the whole nation, militarily and civilly, since the eleventh November of last year, a better and more correct estimate of* the true German character is obtainable. In defeat as well as in war the German nation proves to be entirely untrustworthy, unreliable and untrue; no dependence can be placed in its undertakings, promises or statements, for from the German standpoint It is dishonourable to practice veracity, fidelity, integrity, honesty, and anything that would mar and spoil the doctrine of utter untrustworthiness. There are other notable traits in the German character, particularly those in the eaj tegory of diabolism, but Foch is not I going to allow any further scope for i the practice of these in so far as they can affect the Allies. Foch realises that the great war, recently ended, was engineered by schemes and"'campaigns of the most contemptible and disgustingly lying and deceit; before and after war started the natipns of the world were infested with cunning, cute, impudent German vermin whose pleasant duty it was to corrupt by bribery and deception the peoples of those natipns to revolt against their respective governments, and during the war a comprehensive propaganda of corruption was vigorously pushed, wherever it was possible to deceive and create trouble. Now, Foch finds that GerI many is incapable of honourably keepi I ing any compact, and he is watching ! keenly the trend of events in that un- ! unfortunate country, whose people have been demoralised and dehumanised bf’ a cult that was invented, instilled and practised for the purpose of acquiring conquest and domination of the whole world and all there is in it. Foch realises that the German people have no intention of complying with the terms of the armistice contract they entered into; they respect no time limit; in fact- they have disregarded everything of the kind; they have failed to demobilise their armies; they have not handed material to the I Allies as agreed upon; in short, they I j have not even made any pretence at I keeping cither their word or compact, j The greater part of their warships I have been surrendered, but that is b'ecause* such ships could not bo of any j service to Germany. It is well underI stood that if any German warship were to be caught in open seas it would immediately be sunk with all there might be on board, but no German crew could be got that would venture to sea in German warships. Had the German army been demobilised in accordance with armistice terms and the war material handed over as warships were, then there might be some German claim to honesty of intentions, and Foch might have relaxed the vigil he is keeping over German actions and affairs. The Allies are rapidly demobilising and repatriating trerfbps, while Germany is maintaining huge armies in the field, and it is said that Germany can now place an army of three million effectives against the Allies, while the Allies have but one million eight hundred thousand effectives to oppose against them. It seemS" that Germans have had their ideas of military defeat so driven into their very natures that they cannot realise that

they are a defeated people until their own understanding of defeat in all its brutal details is put into practice by the Allied military authorities, Foch secs Hindenburg busy on the east, front with eighteen divisions under his control; he finds armies in all the chief centres of Germany which are said to be necessary to quell Sparticist uprisings and industrial troubles, and he realises that these armies might become troublesome in his enforcement of armistice terms. The extension of these terms has expired and the German plenipotentiaries want a further extension. There is a disquieting aggressive German spirit, and Foch says that, the new terms if granted must be much more severe. On the other hand, the Germans say they will not accept terms , which imply German defeat; they say that it was only the economic blockade and the collapse of their allies that compelled them to cease fighting, hut Foch knows better; he knows that had the Germans not been granted an armistice, the whole German rabble of an army would have been captured. Foch feels that the Germans are beginning to forget t

they are beaten, and the Supreme War Council are now evolving a new set of terms that will probably cause the Germans to regret they did not comply with the minimum the 'Allies could be induced to concede. There is only the very faintest possibility that German treachery may cause a recrudescence of war. for intoxicated as Germans are with the military spirit they certainly realise that their demoralised, dispirited and so effectually thrashed troops would maintain no semblance of moral against the perfectly equipped Allied armies, flushed, as they are, with victory after victory being finally crowned with complete defeat of the whole German military system. The Supreme War Council of the Allies will shortly present their terms for a prolongation of the armistice, and the Germans will either accept them or that defeat involving an invasion of Germany and the occupation of all large German cities will be inflicted. German militarism is the greatest curse that has yet fallen upon the world, it is a system inimical to the peace and progress of all peoples,-it seeks to rob every nation of the right to work out its own destiny, and to. enslave both mind and body to Germany’s military god. Almost the whole of the peoples of the earth not included in the Alliance of the Central Powers have assisted with their lives in crushing and wiping this curse out of existence, and if they have not already effected their purpose, there is everywhere In Allied countries and councils the spirit and determination to complete the task to Germany’s entire satisfaction., Germany is defeated and her people will be made to realise the fact to an extreme.