FIGHT TO DEATH

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 187, 7 August 1914, Page 6

FIGHT TO DEATH

IN INTERESTS OF PEACE. "THE LUST OF POWER." (Received 8 a.m.) ' SYDNEY, this day. ' The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. G. C. Wade, speaking at the Million Club's luncheon, said the whole of the Continent was a seething cauldron. The nations -were engaged in a fratricidal war. All questions were overshadowed by Great Britain's peril. She was engaged in the most titanic struggle known to the history of the world. Not only 1 was her own national welfare involved, hut there was a more far-reaching question—the question of whether Europe was to be dictated to by an irresponsible leader of men whose nation was consumed by the lust of power. Great Britain had taken the only course possible. While 'buoyed up with the strongest hope that victory would be ours, we must not close our eyes to the fact that we were, brought face to face with the most perfect machine as regards organisation, and with a nation of patriots. If the war had been postponed four years longer Germany's strength would have been greater. Still, to-day, Germany had not a friend in Europe except Austria. "'We have the sympathy of every decent country on the face of the earth," said Mr. Wade. "Tlip tight must be to the death. In our own interests and in the interest of ■permanent peace, Germany's enormous territory must be curtailed."