HOW NEAR WAS IT?

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1920, Page 5

HOW NEAR WAS IT?

The Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher, writes to the London Times:—l h*ye boiled down Tirpitz, Ludcndorff, and t)£ other Germans into bovril. The two that hurt us most were Tirpitas aad LudendorfT. Tirpitz destroyed over seven million tons of our shipping, LudendorfT on the deplorable March 21 captured about twice as many British* J soldiers as the whole British arm,v that first landed in France (80,000 wag the exact number of British soldiers thjit were first landed). We asked our sol* ilicrs to put tlieir backs to the wall. They did. We Rsked all our countrymen for self-denial aud confidence, Tlioy pave it. But it was a near thingl Do we yet realise what we escaped? For some peculiar reason I cannot fathom, the German atrocities on women have been camouflaged. Lectureß are Ming given about the next war. One recently at the United States Institution by the Director of Trench Warfare add Gag Production. The question I ask it, has the peace as constituted welded together 80 million Germans instead of tJwjr be* ing divers German Republiast If ao, what chance have the 40 million French* Apparently there is a treaty thut wo are to fight for the French. If Ivm «i Frenchman I would take no risks! flfc# Rhine from start to finish—and no Q«riffian fleet to land a