BRITISH VIEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1918, Page 5

BRITISH VIEWS.

NOPEACE WITH THE HOHENZOLLEKNS.

p.' PLAN- TO ESCAPE PUNISHMENT. ■ Received- Oct. 14, 7.30 p.m. London, Oct. 13. Reynolds's newspaper declares itself . uncompromisingly averse to any peace with the Hohenzollerns. Tlhe terms of the armistice must be tantamount to unconditional surrender. The News of the World describes the German reply as a plan to escape from the Allied pursuit. The Weekly Dispatch says the Ger- j mans did not need a mixed* commission to invade, and should not need one to get out. Other organs declare that Marshal FocSi's commission, and not a mixed commission, should dictate all necessary arrangements. The public at clubs and elsewhere viewed the reply calmly. Confidence was generally expressed in the capacity of t!ie Allied statesmen to take the fullest advantage of the opportunity to secure the ends for which the armies and fleet have so long battled. Lord Beresford, in an interview, said peace should be made at the point of tlie bayonet and machine-gun. An armistice was absolutely impossible. The Standard declares that if an armistce is granted the terms mu9t satisfy Marshal Foch. The soldiers alone are capable of assuring us against trickery. The Sunday Pictorial says it would be madness to allow von LnCendorfl! to regroup and re-munition his legions behind the Rhine. The Entente dare ?ot accept such an appalling risk. Any armistice imjst be dictated by Marshal Foch, and involve the surrender of German artillery and munitions in France. Mr. Garvin, editor of the Observer, says that concrete guarantees must accompany a naval armistice. The German fleet should lie dismantled concurrently with the disbandment of the army. Professor Frederic Harrison demands the occupation of Berlin and half a dozen other cities, and bringing the German leaders to justice.—Aus. K.Z. Cable Association.