MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

STERNEST PHASE OF THE WAR. GREAT SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL GERMAN DEMOCRATISATION NECESSARY. Received Oct. fi, 12.43 a.m. London, Oct. 4.

Mi 1 . Winston Churchill, speaking at Aldwych Club, said it was not the time to talk of peace. We were entering the sternest phase of the war, and were still confronted by the system which trampled on Belgium and Serbia, made war on women arid children, and stored the bacilli of pestilence in the capitals of friendly Sta'toa. If Germany was saved from defeat, she would be able to persuade the people to uphold the Kaiser and the junkers class, while they approached the Entente with the claim: ''Let us be friends, and cultivate diplomatic and commercial relations." Four devastating campaigns had proved that we must not accept this solution. If the Germans were decisively beaten, they would lose faith in the present governing system, and would realise that they were squan'dering the Bismarckian inheritance. If the German people, by an effort, of selfredemption, seized the control of its own government, and '.ecame a grown-up nai tion like other emancipated democracies, then there would be a' real peace in the world, not a war, thinly veneered by diplomatic platitudes. A second great submarine campaign had been checked, and our reserves of food and capacity for producing neces,. saries had been greatly augmented during the 23 weeks 'of the present offensive. Our armies next year would be given 'stronger and better supplies. The ton. nage of shells last week hurled at the German trenches was fourfold that fired during the. Somine offensive, and it was Britain's duty to maintain the offensive until the American reinforcements were .thrown into the war.

EXPORTS TO NEUTRALS. London. Oct. 3. A Gazette notice prohibits the export of all articles to Scandinavia and the Netherlands except printed matter.