MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1916, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

STATEMENT by foreign " MINISTER.

1 London, October 23. 'fscou'nt Grey, replying to the toast of hit health at the Foreign Press luncheon, said 51. Uriarfd'.. recent speech in the j French Chamber, Mr. Lloyd Qeofge'S American interview, and Mr. , Asquitb'j speech in the House of Commons, gave, the world the note and tone of tfe feeling of the Allies. He endorsed all that been said. *„ Viscotot Grey declared that the terms of peace must be formulated only by the Allies acting together, and that the war tyust not end until there is a guarantee that future generations will not be taibjecta -to another such troublous ordeal: The Allies must secure this war, and {thejr must not forget how the war originated. Germany's statesmen talked of pcaee, and said that Germany must have guarantees- against future ! attacks. If Britain had forced the war on Cfermany tHat #puld be a logical statement, but precisely because the war was not forced upon Germany, but upon Europe by Gernjjny, the Allies must have guarantee* for future peace. Viscount urey reviewed the negotiations iftior to the War, showing that Gifouray alone refused a pacific conference, and thit all the efforts to avoid war failed because the will for war existed 111 Berlin. ' It was because they had *thi# experience that they had Jetermin.that the war should not end until '-*ftey vr'ere sure that future generations .jbopd not be subject to such a terrible trial again.

THE only peace possible. , f Referring to President Wilson's advocacy that neutrals should participate in securing peace jn the future, Viscount .Gray said that in order to make that proposition',, effective neutral nations »0»t Jre prepared to use force to com.►pel the observance of treaties and keep the peace. We must also come to an agreement after the war as to how war ihoufl fce conducted. Germany had" been guilty of more/terrible anarchy than the world had ever known. She had broken down all the barriers which ancient civilisation hid created in order to keep the horrors of war within range. Neutral tatitms must see that something were dons to ensure that the rules of warfare—if. there must be warfare—must be kept in future, and science not misused for the destruction of mankind. There mustwbe no end to this war and no peace excepting a. peace which will ensure tlie nations of Europe freedom from Prussian militarism. We are determined to continue to make every sacrifice until wo have secured the future peace of the whole continent of Europe, so that our sacrifices should not 'Je in rain.

JORCE ALONE CAN MAINTAIN PEACE. "We should not," added Viscount Grey, "think what Germany is saying to-day, but what her Government and people expected when the war started. Eminent Germans then avowed that Germany's object was to dictate peace to Europe, and that the individual na-

tions must surrender their sovereignty. The Germans' efforts to separate the Allies only confirmed their resolve to through to the end. Neutrals could i<!o good work in the' direction of presenting a recurrence of such a war, but the belligerents were engaged in a life and death struggle, fighting for victory (whereof the prospects were daily,improving) , and could not be expected to spend their time in developing ideas on after-war measures. If the nations desire to do something more effective than ■btfore the war in order to maintain peace by common action, they should undertake only what they were prepared to uphold by force. We are ill in favor of peace safeguards, but we say to neutrals that we shall ask them, "when the time comes for them to make demands on us: "Will you also pay up when the time comes?" Something more than signatures of sovereigns and presidents is needed to make a thing like that worth while. It must have behind it jprliament and national sympathies.

RAID ON MARGATE. London, October 23. Official.—An aeroplane over Margate to-day dropped three bombs on Cliftonville, wounded a man and woman, and **tnggvd :i hotel. British aeroplanes fur sued it. NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. London, October 23. Alany leading English women, including Lady Birdwood and Lady Robert* son and the Countess Hardwieko, representing the New Zealand War Contingent Association, and the directresses oi the clubs for oversea soldiers have ipstied an appeal inviting all mothers and wives in the JSmpire to join in demand - • ibg What the notification of venereal flbMMf should be treated as is done 7/ith 'rtber danßaratuiy infectious disease. • : T : " "