MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

WAR LOAN PROPOSALS. B3OHUTJ4D NATIONAL WAR BONDS. fieeeived Sept. 28, 5~35 p.m. London, Sept. 27. The Government's new borrowing proponl for to purposes consists of the of an unlimited amount of nation* i war bond*, saleable daily over the eountsr,. bearing fire per cent, interest at par, with a currency of five, seven, or ten year*, and repayable at £lO2. £lO3. •ad £lO5 respectively; also the issue of fcor per cent, bonds, free of income t**» *t pier, repayable at par in 1927. MB. ASQUITH'S SPEECH. London, Sept. 27. Asqnith, in his Leeds speech, Ititerated that he did not aim at the tamiMlation or degradation of the Germen people. It was true that the manaqr a which the war was engineered ■till Bore the brutal i cruelty and reftMd inventive wickedness by which tt waa carried on must long affect the ««ift estimate of tfee German chariKtar* t Nothing owed more consternation in jfche would than the German opinions and •pphume in favor of the barbarous " transgressions of its government. It pfcm from what unmeasured perils, from what a setback to civilisation, manHad has been delivered bow that the iß* have for ever shattered the dreams , «t Qenaiajr and Prussian militant, * Was our objective We have no . «tter wish for German democracy than tkat.after shelling off this soul-destroy-fw incubus, it may learn its lesson and morfnßjr the blessings of freedom. *OUt tot aim is not the restoration W'tte states quo, bat the establishment bf an international system under which . the nations, gnat und imall, shall be fcnsured „by a stable foundation for in- ■ dependent developments. I assume, as t matter oI course, the enemy evacuation of 3te dttupied territories in France tod Russia; I save already referred to iIMM and Belgium." ■ Wierever we turn in Central and Eastern Jtarope we see artificial territorial arrangements offending the popu. latioos -concerned, and which have bee», and moat remain, as long as they continue, seed plots of unrest and potential w." In MHfasiaa he referred to the claims of Italy, Bonmania, Serbia, Poland, ' Greece and the Southern Slavs, and said, "There must be a complete and permanent liquidation of these dangerous - jueotmts on the lines of racial affinity, historic tftditkra, and the aspirations o» inhabitants. Our ideal is the creation If a world-wide policy uniting the ■ peoples in a confederation of which justice will he the, base and liberty the comer-stone. The limitation of arma-. ■enta and international arbitration will he milestones on the road leading to its ftteiaaant" '