FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1918, Page 8

FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES.

ALL-IMPORTANT QUESTION, London, Feb. 22. Speaking at Plymouth 011 the subject, of the allies' war aims, Lord Milner, a member of the War Cabinet, deprecated side-talk about details of peace negotiations at a time when the German military party was again firmly in the saddle, and when we were fighting for our very lives and the every existence of free nations. The militarists of Western Europe, proceeded Lord Milner, had but a single object. They openly proclaimed that their intentions were to deal Italy, France and Britain a knock-out blow, thereby securing domination throughout Europe and the greater part of Asia, and ennbling the establishment of military despotism throughout the world. It was not now n question of destroying Prussian militarism, but whether Prussianism would destroy us, sweeping aWiay everything for which friecdomJoving nations had striven for centuries to attain. Lord Milner foreshadowed greater efforts, and much greater hardships in the immediate future. Therefore lie appealed for more perfect co-ordination of effort iby all the allies, the suppression of domestic discord, ami the- concentration of the efforts of men and women of all classes and parties upon the supreme object—national salvation. Owing to the policy of the Versailles Council, said Lord Milner, we had now reasonable mac'uinpry for attaining coordination of effort. The essence of the new system was that v;o had r permanent hodv of experts, who would bo always sitting, engaged in the study 1 of war problems from the viewpoint of | the Alliance afi a whole. | Concluding, Lord Milner said he had