GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 22 September 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

I * ROAD TO BARIURISU:' FOLLOWED SUCCESSFULLY BY THH KAISER. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S WORD PICTURE. 1 "THE DEITY'S VICE REGENT." i London, St pUniber 20. Much interest was taken in .\lr. Lloyd George's first war speech. Addressing the London Welshmen, he said that war ■was repugnant to no man more than himself, but no one wa» more convinced that Britain could not have avoided it without national dishonor. Prussia, with cynical contempt, declared that no nation need carry out a treaty unless it euited it. Treaties were the currency of international statesmanship, and the German doctrine that they were scraps of paper, binding only when it suited her interests, was the straight road to barbarism. If Germany won, the whole machinery of civilisation would break down. France offered Belgium five army corps against the German attack, but Belgium refused, declaring that die would rely on Germany's promise. Belgium's one crime was that she trusted the word of the Prussian Kings, but the Kaiser had made it certain that no King would repeat nis crime. If Britain had disregarded the cry of the two little nations, Belgium and Serbia, her shame would have rung down through the everlasting ages. The Kaiser had declared that he was the Deity's rice-regent, wielding His sword. When such lunacy was manifested by the bead of a State and became the policy of a great empire it was time to put that person away. The Prussian junkers were the roadhogs of Europe, ordering the little States out of their way, but Britain would .tear the bully out of his •eat. If a burglar broke into Potsdam, •hot the Kaiser's sen-ants and ruined bis art treasures, would the Kaiser wait to don his uniform before shooting the burglar) The Czar told Austria: "You lay hands on the little fellow Serria, and I'll tear your ramshackle empire limb from limb." And he's doing it. God created man in his own image, but Germany has recreated him in the image of the Diesel engine, accurate, powerful and soulless. There had been nothing like the Kaiser's patronage of Cod since tho days of Mahomet. Treaties tangled Germany's feet, and he said, "Cut them with the sword." Little nations hampered his advance and he aaid, "Trample them in the mire." SKELETON PRUSSIAN REGIMENT. AN OFFICER'S STATEMENT. I.LKMAN PRISONERS AT ALDER- ✓ SHOI. KAISER lAN METHODS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 20. A Prussian Guards officer who was taken prisoner says: "My regiment is • skeleton. The French shrapnel was terrific. We couldn't locate the guns. I was fighting for long stretches foodUss, and tu so tirod that I couldn't »lt on my horse. I have come to the coaclusion that modern warfare is the greatest madness of nations." The German prisoners are gathered ii a camp which occupies a forty-eight-aere plateau at Aldershot, and a:> housed ia tents. They are given broad and meat, and they draw water and chop wood for themselves, beyond which they are not made to do anything. Pronce Adalbert, the Kaiser's son, after having collected £240,0. ■ at Rheim?, bombarded the town for three Jays, I'RINCE OF WALES VOLUNTEERS FOR SERVICE. Times and Sydney Sup Services. Received 21, 5.3.i p.m. London, Scf tomtier 20. The Prii|o M Wales h.n applied to go to the front, but Lord Kifr-henvr lias ndvised the King that the Prince, not having completed his military training, it is ur desirable for him to go at present.

CULTURED, BUT CRUEL. MR. ASQUITU'S CONDEMNATION 0? GERMANY. London, September 20. Mr. Asijuith, in his speech, added that German culluru had been branded cn the brow by Louvain, Malines and Termonde. Tho Power which claimed to impose her culture on Europe was the Power whose generals had revived the methods of warfare condemned by the civilised world." A nation fed on lies could >ot suc-ed. lie had long known that the lirituh Empire must be preserved by war, and now the war had coma there would be a fine renewal of her lease of Empire.

A MILLION MEN WANTED.

London, September 20.

Mr. Churchill sent a message to an Actoa Park recruiting meeting that nothing lees than a million British soldiers ia liao together' would finish the war as it must be fini/ihe j.

GERMANY MUST BE CRUSHED.

Time* and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 20.

Fifty leading British authors in a letter to Che press uphold Britain's action in tJie war.

Mr. <3. E. H. Hobhouse, in the House of Commons, stated that he hoped akortlf to announce that the cost of tabling to countries outside the Europea* system would be substantially rcdaeefl.

It is anticipated in Petrograd that German diplomacy will await isolated successes, with the view of making a bargain, bearable under peace conditions. These calculations are built upon saad, as the seven allied nations are anited by the London declaration and will conduct the war conjointly till the complete downfall of the military might of Germany.

SERYTA COM liS INTO LINE. Nish, September 20. It is officially stated that Servia will not conclude peace separately from the Bn teste.

DEMAND FOR CHEAPER CABLES.

Sydney, September 21

Hie Chamber of Commerce is asking the Eastern and Pacific Cable Boards to reduce the cable rate, owing to the extra cost of transmitting in plain language. Both boards are considering the matter. The Eastern cable is already overloaded, and it is unlikely to obtain a further increase in traffic by reducing the rate, The manager states that Australia at present is better served than any country. The delr.y in the China route is much greater.