"THERE IS NO THIRD EVENT."

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1917, Page 5

"THERE IS NO THIRD EVENT."

/MR. OELAIRB BELLOCS UE&MBJS& 'ABLE SUEVEYi OF THB iWABfJi CTB MEANJNG Offi". EPS (MEW ttW TER3TATIVES, ; V3CTORYi OR DEM^ ; "" " " London, June> 3.«\ "This war cannot be dosed fry am* 'promise. . ! "The enemy thing unbroken is income •patible with us. "Either it lives and we did 05, we Kfg .and it dies.' "There is no third event." ' * So aays Mr. Hilaire Belloc 1 li£ S..MA' paarkablo survey of the war, its be* ginning and its end, in Land and W«teij —a moat attractive and readable Ameri* can number. TEE] TURNING POINT,, '

"The war ripens," he saya 'TOflfr W the consciousness of all Europe that it* turning-point is at hand. The leqg£h 96 time already past, the doubts of inter-' •national finance upon the fortunes Off further loans, the pouring out of 'and the stoleness of the strain are bri£g- k , ihg us to the point where the exftaostciij tttemy can, for the first time in the itjbgj process of his enemy, play a strongjpoli«; tical card. He is playing it with all the/; energy remaining to him—he is playing' it not only in Russia and at Btookwfbi.-j but in public statement through the Bt|M gestion and the repetition whxdt -naj ■hopes may shake resolution evert, iajj France and England.. '1 "It is the moment, if ever there wasH one in this great business, when optrfodj must make itself secure once aid fatjj ever, both by memory end by. aatidpM tion, of what the core of this great mJ ilict has been and must cobtiaoe to lueji "We have before us now, as the enmfcl mer of 1917 opens, very plainly Wick trasted, Victory or Deieat. If we-raluafij the tot in any degree, w& accept; ths? .Second. * f "The will is the same as ever, btr&'thel 'intellectual confusion is greater. Wej must reduce that confusion? if w&:i«e gg proceed. . /

RETRIBUTION TO RESTOREsboujkfesv '•'One thing only will restore seenrftyi and that is a. victory over tie annaJ forces oi the enemy, his disanmtthefefy and then the exaction of just retribuJ tion," adds Mr. § Belloc. "If that is not done from lack of will and tenacity* " then we have voluntarily lost in tha great debate, and we shall no linger i>a ourselves again for ever. If it caimot ho done from lack of power, then we compulsorily lost the future of Englaadj It if 13 done-—and' only if it is done— ■ can the security of Britain, with; all thfiJ it nieana, be restored. ' "Retribution is a part of fostice an 3 still more in the present connection ( necessary part of policy. Those wh* have deliberately destroyed must restore Those who were guilty* of fafeaJdng. th» public law of Europe must suffer a pen.' laity. Tor there is nothing final that if not rooted in the spirit,' asdif dr not break the evil will you <So rot <S>n) quer eviL ■' 1 "The English papers have Soft prinieiJ the greater part of the evidence against the enemy The reason they' have no< dono so is, I think, in the main, tba{ sort of reticence with regard to tfcingi pTiysically repulsive which ia & very marked character &i the modem 'Engttri temperament. ®ut if anyone .-will as} tiiose of his ifriends who can hear eVidi ence as to what has happened' in the tt vaded countries, if anyone will aak and" a man for his own particular experience and many such men for their own iparti cular experiences, I thfflfc Jie will he ap palled. It is not only a record of cTMI ty, it is a record of amazing and inhuj man dirt. It is not only a record a) amazing and inhuman dirtj it to a of diabolical things in the wxj/vt oalf ciliated insult and oppression. WHAT GERMANY HAS DONE. ' "When that spirit gets intS ■fe-" dividual or into a community, you mvsti

extirpate it. You must kill it or it will Ml .its neighbors, ahd SSaqogrt its neighbors is yourself. '£ou Ota only tirpate it by breaking its 'wi3l, Jtnd| "you can only break its will by jmHlslh ment. There will bo no true vieAory) ■unless by its own labor the German torn* munity which has done these tlilagtofl. its own free will, and even witb d«itehi* is compelled to restore the materialjwttit of that which it has destroyed. Tnexrj twill be no victory unless a very large number of men personally and ddßoni strably guilty of the evil deeds are per-v sonally punish for them; aadtheW will,, be no victory unless the instfumartr-1 mean the German army— by which tiieset things were done with the full «H»ant v remember, the full approval and port of the German people as a wnote,« .broken up and fotfbidden to arise., <

THE IMPOSSIBLE TS3SH3. "If you are convinced that a complete victory is unattainable (ftnij I al ° c ° n "" vinced of the exact opposite—beliavina 'that- the issue actually may be lu*r at»j hand, and any case only dpyends tipon, tenacity), then, whether you lito It on "not, you are admitting d«feat. England simpiy cannot live so long as re-, mains, autonomous, capable of action, ■full of the memories of a successful *«-> Sistance, an organised and Aiioed com-j "muiiity which hp wain, those conventions of pubhe. law, upon which the life of this .countfjr de, Pe "Say that victory in tho Sense is impossible, if you will—-buo.then liot© the intoUeotual ( eandour to fdmie m WBioh fc W* ■abyss of Tailure. For if victory, |'nofc complete in this supremo crisis <| tnsj world, there is no victoryat al| Imrtj -3heer defeat. "The things that Germany lisa fflonej that the whole German nationJtafe en< thusiastieally done, in this wa|wiM Sitter be made impossible m the.ftitura through the memory of terrible punish., meut, or else they will not. Either the •will and the very soul of thisi evil will be broken up or they will remain.. It; they remain, all tbat we have known m the (pa=t as England cannot remata sido JysMe with them. The artery of W lish life, which is the sea, «ill "Security, which is the root of English! Sact'er, will be lost , most profound of all in its effect—th« years to come will be lived out under a» increasing sense of failure and humdia-

tlon ' A THING WHICH S^il'D—"There arose in Europe a novel thing which said: «I propose to toe my « life in spite vf Europe. I will toreate, treaties, I will muck and despoil—l wiV inKroAse is tho death of others. At lfcp dullest development it challenged iflfoftt it had long threatened, It was a leasrue representing older and fcottor thSf ih this l<aguo tue wete the .aneienV western bt