SPORTING.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 March 1919, Page 5

SPORTING.

NELSON RACES,

FIRST DAY’S EVENTS

• NELSON, This Day,

For the first day of the kelson races there is beautiful weather and a record attendance. The course is hard.

Trial Stakes. Silk Ribbon 1 } Intermezzo 2, Guinea Gold 3. Won by half a length. Time, Imin 16 2-ssee. Malta! Trot. —Robert Dillon 1. Scottish Child 2, Black B'eldon 3. Also started: Skylark, Baun Child and Wairoa Belle. Won by a length. Time, smin 9 2-osec.

EARLY PEACE URGED

Received 11.50 LONDON, March 3

It is noteworthy that during the passage of Churchill’s speech he pleaded for speedy peace. He said Germany was starving and dangerously near collapse of her social and national life, under pressure of hunger and malnutrition. To delay peace indefinitely would be to run risk of having no body to settle with, and another great part of the world would sink into Bolshevist anarchy, pnc.e Germany signs the peace terms food and raw materials can be imported immediately. It is repugnant to us to use the weapons of starvation a moment longer than was necessary to secure just terms.

The Morning Post deplores that the Australians and New Zealanders are going home without official farewells. The Government should arrange a ceremonial leave taking, which would express what England feels regarding her kinsfolk. Instead, onr friends are drifting away in silence. If a preoccupied Government cannot attend to this, let them instantly create a Ministry of Courtesy.

The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent warns the Allies that no German Government will sign a treaty embodying some of (the conditions now freely advocated by the Allies. If Germans reject the treaty offhand, the Allied difficulties will increase tenfold. When Foch presented the recent armistice terms Rantzau asked his colleagues to insist on rejection. They agreed regarding the employment of this weapon, but decided to reserve it for the definite peace terms, when rejection would represent Germany’s last trump.