THE END OF THE WAR.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6591, 21 January 1916, Page 6

THE END OF THE WAR.

Mr J. L Garvin, the editor of The Observer, at His Majesty's T^atre (London) said:—•« I'kis war is Aimared don, not only because the armies of the nations nre gathered together, but because the question is whether after tbe war the evil shall continue or the good shall prevail. The wall of the great fabric of Germany's, power still looks grim and stout, but'the foundstions are giving way. Slowly, but surely. the German strength is bt'inj? grotr.d dawn. The Germans —arc! above all, t^e German Government — know well that in three or six months the tide must turn. They want to take advantage of their 'situation when they were at the ton of the tide and di not. want to wait for the inevitable ebb. That is why we must be prepared for proposals for a false settlement and a treacherous peace. A peace without victory or horour, a settlement without ' safety, a peace^that will throw away every advantage 1 just when we have our best, chance, would expose us to disaster in the future. Is a peace of that kind good enough for Britain? As a certain person quotes Scripture for hia own end?, so ever the Hun can talk humanity. It will not be curpisi g if, -after all the carnival of carnage, the Kaiser himself were to appear in his final character aa a trustee of civilisation and the best friend of mothers. If this courtry Ls betrayed or lured into any weak peace the period after the war will be but the 'prelude to our certain destruction- We shall be crushed by , onr burdens nnri darkened by a cloud j of anxiety. Now that we arc halfway through the struggle we must fight it clean through. What we have to achieve ia the total overthrow in Europe and the world of the German peril thro'igh its War Lord, ;ts war caste, its war creed, and its war machine. In is impossible to break un the German race, but the doctrine of war made to pay r must be killed or scotched. By bitter" experience a change of heart will'come even in Germany,'and the German ration will (jcho the cry of 'Never again!' When the Grand Alliance has restored peace it will have to guarantee pence. We must'earnestly seek to create a new foundation for the public law of Europe and the world.".