WHEN PEACE COMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1917, Page 5

WHEN PEACE COMES.

"GERMANY'S yoiCE OF THUNCEHiy^ A elaborate note is gt.ruck in liner Xcuesle Xaehriehten: * i| "Off with the nightcaps we hav* wonf.wj so long! On the day when the terms shall be spread out on the twtwf®! round table of diplomacy, we must our iron flst on it witii all oilr wMlfaJKr and keep the list there vithout ourselves to be fooled by of future international friendships. "The war has awakened the •people, it has unfettered tlumberingy&tx. tR® ei|, anil it has shown the world and selves that if we wish to be we may the masters. ' 4 . "\jai "Arc we, then,, again to shuffle alQfltt *£t timidly lost wo tread on the toai <s: ijj| otliors? Are we once more to take p*r4iA.j£ in the imbecile comedy of friendly relit tions between the Powers! Do we wanty any more princely visits from States Wh<fc; J.'A havetreacherously attacked us and wh®, , '<Vs 'tried to murder us? "Shall we decorate our townß and ahWHt 4 hurrah!' when foreigners step on German soil that they tried to d«V«**£*| tate? 'Ate we again to appoint the wlioliave led the most brutal and sham#^'' ful of all wars against us and our and children field-marshals and in the Prussian armyV « ,jj "God forbid. Rather; when the t!m«-j'i for peace talk comes, our representatitH,.T|f at tho green table must talk in thunderous and overpowering that all twl' U .rest of them may be'convinced that If* mean to stand on our dignity in vW and to be extremely cautioua-in weltom*} ing jn our midst any of the Mgh-plty)f4 foreign gold-laced royal and <pn!slW Jf paraßitee." . ..