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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 290, 17 May 1915, Page 4

WHAT On! BOYS ARE FIOIITIW, FOR. Cur men who are fighting and bleedingand dying at the Dardanelles—raw troops with the temper of veterans, lad* from shop, ollice and farm, who are doing deeds unmatched ill history—are lighting and bleeding and dying for New Zealand and for the Empire that guards Xew Zealand as actually as if they fought an invader amid the hills of Auckland (writes the Auckland Herald). They are showing us, by their Splendid courage, their contempt for siill'ering, their scorn of death, what Xew Zealand can do towards throttling the nionomaniacal nation and restoring peace and safety to the world. It is men like these who will deal with pirates and poisoners in their dens,-who will drag tin: Kaiser from ids foul eminence, who will teach (he Cermans to think twice before they imagine that Satan can give tliem dominion over all the kingdoms of tile world. Men such as we have sent to (he Dardanelles are the only teachers tliat the Hermans understand, are the ":ily apostles of the only peace worth having; Xew Zealand should send to the Imperial battle-line, for service wherever required, oO,(IO() of them. Germany is not (o he beaten by resolutions and protestations any more than a monomaniac is to he convinced by argument and admonition. She has made herself the incarnation of brutal, vicious and unscrupulous Force; she believes, to the very depths of her sullen and obstinate temper, that she can dominate what she! regards as a stupidly humanitarian world l).v being utterly inhuman, that she can terrify us and crush us by sheer '•frightfulness'' and unscrupulousncss. A humane people would be appalled if its government did as the Ooriuan floverniiient dors, but the Cermans are overjoyed at every new villainy; their military men explain, their professors expound, their minisle-s of religion justify, their satanic preconceptions prevent any twinges of conscience. And we repeat—what cannot be too often repeated if a true sense of the tremendous issue is to bo realised —that if the Allies fail to crush this modern heathenism, everything (lint is worth having in civilisation is lost, and Xeiv Zealand with the rest. It is'rankfolly for us to have any latent feeling that we are so far from the actual zone of> war that we are only incidentally interested and concerned; it is fatal ignorance for us to imagine that because the giants are wrestling in Europe, brigandage confined to Belgium and piracy to the northern seas, that we are not as deeply affected as others. There will l>e piracy in the Tasman Sea and on our coastal routes, brigandage in Auckland ami Olago, every foul crime and everv unspeakable villainy perpetrated under the. Southern Cross unless the infernal "Will to Power" is exorcised from (!ermaiiy by unconquerable armies inspired I')' a nobler ideal. In ( ] f ,i; l£ , our duty

to ilio Empire throughout this unprecedented war. in ,-ireiiglhciiing til.' c:,'l-c (if the .Allies, mill in doing mir share for the emancipation "I Belgium ami the killing (if Kai-eiism, wo save ourselves from destruction. Is it not ten thoii--iiml times better for armed New Zeabindcrs to die heroically in Imperial battle on the other .side of the world than for Herman "frightfnlnoss" to he vKifed upon the helpless and the dofoiicelo: s i n these dear islands of ours? Is it not hotter to make now, at whatever eo-t and loss and suffering, a great national effort for righteousness than (o weigh the cost and shrink from the loss and seek to avoid the suffering without which we cannot hope, to win peace with honor and security? Uis men. lighting men, who are wanted. New Zealand mii-t send its full share of men <n help make the seas safe and the free countries secure.