MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

SHE ENEMY BEATEN. p • fifty LINE THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN. GENERAL MONASH'S VIEW. Oct. 25, 7.20 p.m. .London, Oct. 24at the luncheon at the AusgaUini Slid New Zealand Club, General Mtmuh. recalled the late Lord Kitchener's words: "This is a war of attrition." Progress had, he said, been slow, but they were coming near the time when the enemy must crumble. We hatt stashed the crest of the hill and the goal ]M| coining steadily nearer. "xou may talk of the enemy taking up a line on the ileuse," h e continued. "Wt will.break it. Or you may talk .of a the Raine. We will* break that, too. The enemv's morale has gux."

TJ» reason of our success lay less ia tit calculation of numbers than in the realisation that we had got the enemy beaten.

He claimed that the capture of VillersBrttonnenx was the crisis of the war. It Was a staggering blow, from which the enemy did not recover, and paved lb* way >ior his military collapse. ' Mr. Balfour, in the course of a speech. said that four years of war had supplied folly and abundant confirmation of the unity of the Empire. He did not believe that a single German «tatesman ever thought' that if Britain were invoWed in war she would find Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India fighting by her side- To him it meant more than so many hundred thousand gallant soldiers added to our force. Tt meant that the Emnire stood fto liberty, justice, and peace. "That is thc greatest joy from the affonies of a trial, almost too beaw to It* borne. It leave* behind it the memory of An«tral>a and New Zea'and rVhtmg side br «id«> with their brethren of tne Motherland m the comwon cense, leaving ns all with the certitude thit the'r effort* will V crown-d *»v n Avrable neaee.'—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Issoc. and Slater. GERMAN COLONIES. JOT TO BE USED AS SUBMARINE BASES. Received Oct. 25, 7.20 p.m. London, Oct. 24. The Daily Chronicle welcomes .Mr. .Balfour's outspoken pronouncement with reference to the German colonies- It says that the F.npirc is feeling quite solid on this polr.i and it was high time onr attitude was laid down. Wft did not go into the war rolonv-snatthuig. but we cannot return m:1 marine bases to pirates.—Aue.-N.Z Cable Assoc, and fenicr.

WOMEN AS M.'sP. tHE BREAD .SUBSIDY. IBOCD DISTINCTION- FOR"'BRITISH : ARMY. London, Ckl, 24. Received Oct. 25, US p.m. iji.thp Sprise of Commons, Mr Hinar lA*~f»v& tiie Government was introdnciiij immediate legislation qualifying tromefl to sit in Parliament.

fticjClynes (Food Controller) estimated tne br?ad subsidy for the current financial year at fifty millions. Mr. .7. f. Macpherson (Under-Secre-WUJr for aaid the proud distinction of being the first to break the Hindmbarg line belonged to the British Jtag^—Aus.-X.Z. Cable Assoc.