NEW ZEALAND'S PART.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15279, 15 May 1915, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND'S PART.

.6 THK EDITOR OV "iHI M-KSS."

"Sir,—ln spite of many earnest appeals, a very dangerous percentage ot oar eligible men still shirk their clear duty to defend po the death,.if need Ityfchat thriving spirit of liberty which has made the British race and the British Erapiro what they are. If our young men do not know, they should be made forthwith to understand that Germany —who gives- no option to her young men--is out for absolute, victory by fair or foul moans. Those men., especially single men, must be entirely ignorant of the unnatural price the British race would -ultimately pay for defeat if Germany now. or in long ycai-s to come, should rise Gorgon-heatled and grimly triumphant over the ruins oF ariUsation. If Germany is defeated the knows that her past fiendish crimes, which are certain to be eclipsed before Barlm is stormed by the Allies, will, at t_». h3r of outraged humanity, condemn her to complete and irreparable {fea&ter. If Germany is -victorious she snows, much better than, we know, that »U.-* mutterings about "Louvain,'* *"joisbilous gases," or the "Lusitania" "fill bo instantly rooted out by the word, and the "British Kwines," espeP»l?y in the British colonies, left to tftaa. in the unquenchable fires of midnight revolution. Would not every Zealander much sooner perish on wte battlefields of Turkey or Belgium. j*ther than submit to the payment of wmany's war debt and indemnity 6ul? Surely every single man would -JWTjr on to the long-drawn firing lines rather than live to flee, hag- ? a ro and starving, and defenceless, bo"ordtße red swords of a German army °' occupation. . Ignorance of the tremendou s issues ■Btolrad in this great war. and not "■°*a_v___ce, is New Zealand's worst -enemy during this hour of peril. We are coward race. There is a world of in the fact that Now Zoa"Otts first colonists gave to our early ««es and towns such imperishable »•% Haveloek. Picton. Napier, *»lboro.igh. Nelson, and "Wellington. "«.the highest traditions of our race **y prove unavailin..; unless every person fully recognises that self"w"*'^' 23 most at once give way to W \!_7__ tc< * orifices in money and v # v iT y P au6e to compare what "w i sea - tan <l has already done with import s of Australia, or Canada, or J""""*. The last man and tho last shil- •«« oust go from this fair land before »aiJt m^ ants of the P roud British race md vl ■ c """"himph of Kaiscrism, J"- tho resulting decline and fall of the gnu&ft. Empire. Must, the fellah of g»m and the ryot of India, both from "*2L'"n-yemorial, cursed by plundering S^Sn^ taunost as ruthles4 as German i * again bury their gold in caves or the sterile desert £«• waence tho eternal spirit of jusreflected in our matchless our Uxordons. and our -b^ 8 slowly but snrcK- drawn the swaggenii"; German offiWJj?!"}?. 1^ tb - unparalleled victory, to breed hellish revoluevery blow struck in the face proud. Brahmin or a democratic «_n£ i", nder? M,l<i t tb <" Motherland her Hasting and he r Clives ,«a th» frontiers of her world-ombrac-

ing Empire in order that countless millions shall nurture a brutal army which will spring up from the ashes of their lost liberty?