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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1916, Page 5

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PROSECUTING THE WAR. KING GEORGE'S MESSAGE. t6 THE HEADS OF THET ALLIED NATIONS. Received August 5, 5.5 p.m. London, August 5. His Majesty King George sent a message to the .heads of the Allied nations *s follows: ' I desire, on t the second anniver- . ,sary of this great conflict my country and her gallant Allies are in- I gaged in, to convey to you my j steadfast resolution to prosecute • the war until our united efforts have attained the objects wherefore we in common have taken up arms. I feel sure you are in accord with m< in the determination that the sacrifices ■which our valiant troops have ;c nobly made will not be offered in vain and the liberties wherefore they are fighting shall be fully guaranteed and secured." . MESSAGE TO KING ALBERT. King GeOrge also sent a message to Eing Albert of Belgium, as follows , "Upon the second anniversary oi ! niy country taking up arms to rei »i|t the violation of Belgium, I de- ,' sure, to assure your Majesty of my confidence that "the united efforts of the Allies will liberate Belgium from the oppression of her aggressors and restore her to the full enjoyment of her national and ecaJiomie independence." TO ALLIED POWERS. i Received August 6, 5.5 p.m. -. London, August .". I Telegrams heve been sent by King George to the sovereigns and heads of the_ Alliedstates, also to south-east .Africa, conveying his steadfast resolution to prosecute the war until, the united efforts attain the objects for •which the common arms were taken up, .including the liberties of Eelgium and .(general liberties. AFRICA AND EGYPT. Received August 6, 5.5 p.m. Johannesburg, August 5. The anniversary of the war services in .the churches were crowded. Similar meetings and services were held at •Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum, Malta, and at otter centres in Africa. * WILD BEAST AT LARGE. ,; DETERMINATION TO 3HOOT IT. ÜBEAT IMPERIAL PATRIOTIC MEETING. British statesmen's burning . . ~ •" WORDS. ,\ ' Received August 5, 5.5 p.m. London, August !>. . Lord Derby presided at a great Impatriotic meeting at Queen's Hall. Mr. Asquitb and Mr. Eonar Law were Vlie principal speakers. . Sir Douglas Haig wind: "Two years of despTate trench warfare have still further increased 0"r comradeship with the Allies and made us inflexible in our determination to carry to victory «. "was not of our choosing. We look forward with confidence to success and a triumphal peace." Mr Asquitb moved h resolution expressing the nation's inflexible determination to continue the war to a successful end. and proceeded to say: "Sever in the German's tanslod and bungled Web. of diplomacy has there Veen an error bo crude, and so disastrously fatal to its authors as the idea that we have lost both our sense of 1-onor and our power to vindicate it. enemy eveiywhere is on the defensive. There are signs of his material weakening and exhaustion. "The recrudescence of the deliberate, and calculated barbarity on the part of Germanv has been dictated by desperation. The latest atrocities will blacken even the besmirched annate of the German army. Captain Fryatt's murder has outraged the conscience ot' the civilised world. We, with our Allies. ire considering the most effective method of dealing with the authors and the nation condoning ind applauding them. (Cheers). The final result-vic-lorv—will be a great nartncrslrm of the rations confederated in the joint pursuit of a freer and a fuller life for countless millions. Mr Bonar Law said the enemy had lost for ever the advantages wlwch <hc preparations of war gave them. The toils were cosing round them There was no good diking about the latest atrocity- They bad to do something v.th the wild.beast at largo. The oniy .one thug flufeouU !* done-they could