NO "PATCH-UP" PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1918, Page 6

NO "PATCH-UP" PEACE.

VIEWS OF BISHOP AVEKILL. DUTY TO DEAD AND LIVING. The war and the preseat outlook waa the first subject dealt with iu Bishop Averill's charge to the Auckland Anglican Synod on Friday. After touching upon the ravages of the war and expressing sympathy with the bereaved families, the bishop referred to the excellent record established by members of the Church of England in the fighting-line. "We have not assimilated the spirit of militarism as some of our pacifist friends seem to imagine," he said. "We hate war today as we never hated it before, in spite of the heroism and splendid qualities which it develops in so many quarters, and it is just because we hate it that we are determined, as far as lies ill our power, to destroy it. . . . It is with no aesire to prolong the world's agony that we are compelled to Tefuse all fictitious offers or suggestions of .neaefi, but with an earnest desire to secure such a real peace as will remove the nightmare from future generations." Upon the question of peace the bishop remarked: "A peace which only means the cessation of warfare until the present aggressors have made still greater preparation for teeuring victory and the domination of the world would he criminal, and would hand on the legacy of war to the generations to come, and darken the lives of millions, who would live in anticipation of a repetition of the horrors which this generation has experienced. ... To attempt a

|.iatcsied-up peace would be disloyaltv to the thousands of men who have died in the hope and belief '.hat. their sacrifice would lie a nail in the coffin of militarism. We have a duty to the dead and to the relatives of the dead, mil j-'n'ithina hut the accomplishment of the aims with which the Allies entered the ■war can ever enable us to say that the men did not die in vain."

The question, nf returning the Gorman colonies in Africa and the Pacific after the war also touched upon hy T)r. Avcrill. He said that it was not for the sake of expansion that Britain must retain the conquered German colonies in .Africa, and the Pacific, hut for the protection of the lives and of lier own people, the welfare of the native races, and the safety of the Empire's trade ront.es. To deprive Germanv of her colonies would he in no way a hardship. hecßuse she had not used them as a legitimate outlet and field fir her surplus population, hut largely as I centres for exploitation, while the native races had suffered untold miseries at their hands.