BEWARE OF GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1918, Page 5

BEWARE OF GERMANY.

ADVICE OF LEADING DUTCIIMEX. DUTCH MASSES .JUBILANT. Received Oct. 15, 7.45 p.m. Tile Hague, Oct. 14. Leading Dutchmen gi\e ijlie advice: "Beware now. more than ever, or Germany will fool you." The publication of the G eraian note lias opened the floodgates of suppressed feeling. The Dutch masses are frankly joyous. They interpret the note as complete defeat, and toasted the Kntente at various dinners, where the Allies' national airs were sung.—Ana. X.Z. Cable Assoc. and Renter.

KING . DISCUSSES SITUATION. PACIFISTS MAY BE ACTIVE. Received Oct. 15, 7.45 p.m. London, Oct. 14. The King came from Sandringlliam this morning and had a lengthy discussion on the situation with Mr. Lloyd George and General Wilson, Chief of the General Staff. When the House of Commons resumes to-morrow the pacifist section will attempt to involve the Government in an immediate debate, but it is unlikely the Government leaders will say anything while communications are proceeding witlb President Wilson.—Times Service.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S "ESSENTIALS" FOR PEACE. In liia address to Congress on February 11 President Wilson laid down tlie following as the essential principles of peace:— 1. That each part of the final settlement must be based upon the essential justice of that particular case, and upon such adjustments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent. 2. That peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a game, even the great game, now for ever discredited, of the balance of power, but that 3. Erery territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not as part of My mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival States. 4. That all -well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmostsatisfftetkm that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe, and consequently of t'he world.