"THE DAY"
NOT YET ARRIVED. i FREEDOM V. DESPOTISM. (Received 9.30 a.m.) >TT ; MELBOURNE., this day. The Governor of Victoria, Sir A. L. Stanley, in the course of a speech at a puttlic gathering, said the oft-quoted toast of German naval and military men. "The. Day," meant the day when Germany felt strong enough to attack the other nations. They thought that that day had arrived. "We trust," eaid the Governor, "that the day has not come when military despotism can crush the free nations of Europe. Whatever may be the failings of the British Empire and of France, both races base their existence on liberty. We are not under the heel of a military oligarchy as the German Empire is. We 'believe in freedom, and backed by the right will triumph over an attempt on the part of Germany to seize an opportunity that has not yet come. The sword .has been forced into our hands by the rash act of the Germans. We shall use it with humble devotion -to duty, and we certainly have right on our sid<e."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 187, 7 August 1914, Page 6
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