The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1916. NOW MORE THAN EVER.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1916, Page 4

The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1916. NOW MORE THAN EVER.

The two prominent phases of the war at tho present time are German attempts to misrepresent the action of the Allies to neutral countries, and the dejection which is increasing among the German troops. Arising out of these is the great lesson that is so strongl), emphasised in to-day's cables that now more than ever is it imperative for the Allies to take little need of what they have already accomplished, but to put fu-th the maximum of their resources with unrclaxed effort and increased determination. Amid much that is uncertain—the length of the war, the exact nature and quality of its outcome, th what may or may not happen" before the closing scenes are written—one thing at least is certain: viz,, Germany j cannot win, with the further certainty that Germany is realising that she cannot. On no other ground can we so , well explain the why and the wherefore of Germany's renewed attempts to sow dissension among the Allies and neutrals. She has never ceased to do so from the hour that she found her wanton aggression upon the rights and ' iberties of the smaller nationalities of

Europe had raised a ■wnsJd in arms against her. That she 'lias so far failed does not and will not prevent her using every means, however base and dishonorable of achieving her .purpose once she is convinced that there is a. possibility of doing so. Germany is prepared to attempt, alike in the spheres of statecraft, of morals, and of war, acts that every other civilised nation Ijas ever regarded as primes. It is her unique shame that Germany owes the most obvious of her military victories to the employment of means that no nation or people thought it possible, in this second decade of the twentieth century of Christianity, that flny natios could or would employ. The tearing up of treaties, the devastation of whole countrysides, the outrage of women, the murder of helploss civilians, the sack of towns, the use of poison gas and liquid fire, the sinking of passenger and other ships without warning, the murder in cold blood under legal forsis of brave men and women who had incurred her wrath—these and more aTe among the atrocities that have raised Germany to/ a pedestal of infamy, and stamped her for our day and generation as outcast and accursed among the nations. The task of the Allies is to so eJJ'ectually exorcise Germany's power for evil that the world may be at peace when the menace is removed. To accomplish this object thoroughly there must not he any hyper-confidence, butfj the task must be treated as taxing the fullest energies of the Allies. That is why Britain is now utilising to The full her man-power, and it is a cogent reason why the Dominions should do likewise. We knfl\*Chot how long the war will last, but we do know that it must go on until the end in view is attained. It is this knowledge that emphasises ,the statement that now more than ever must we make every sacrifice in our power in the hope of ending the terrible struggle at the earliest possible Eomcnt. ■*,.&! !.;■ «■ \ .lit;