THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1918, Page 4

THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

•''NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN." ME. MASSEY'S GRAVE WORDS. (By Wire.—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Saturday Night. "I can tell the House that we are not surt to go to London even now," said the Prime Minister to-day. "Nobody knows what is going, to happen the next ten days." Mr. Wilford: Nobody knows what tha next five days will bring: Mr. Massev: Yes; the, next five days. It may bo impossible for us to leave New Zealand, though Heaven forbid that anything of the kind should happen. Sir James Findlay said: "Rome is burning, and our first duty is to try to si em the fire. Nobody can tell how New Zealand finance will stand in a few n<cnths time, perhaps in a much shorter time. . . . If tilings go badly in the

present crisis New Zealand's plight will be ]»irlous." He advised members to exercise patience while the Empire was on the brink of a precipice.

These statements, of course, referred to tlio grave situation in France, where the fate of the Allies, and the British Empire, hangs in the balance.