"GERMANY CANNOT WIN"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 9

"GERMANY CANNOT WIN"

SIR ERIC GEDDES ON THE WAR ' OUTLOOK

PEACE IN 1918, OR WELL INTO

Sydney, December 14. Sir Eric Geddes (Fi>' st Lord of the Admiralty), in a letter to a Sydney resident, says: "Germany is not beaten, hut she knows she cannot win. My own view is that it will,lβ the end of 1918, or well into 1919, 'before we get anywhere near a peace that will not permit the Central Powers to begin planning for their next aggressive move."—Press Assn. , TWO RESULTS OF THE WAR AMERICAN STATESMEN'S "VIEWS. New York, December 13. Mr. Newton D. Baker, Secretary for War, in a speech said that America was showing the world-that unwillingness to fight does not mean inability to fi"ht. There will be two results ot the war: the first, the Allies' military victory; the second, tho vindication of tho inviolate righteousness of treaties and proof that among nations as among individuals tho wages of sin is death, . ~ Mr. J. Daniels (Secretary for the Navy) said that America did not desire'vengeance on the German people, who were the mere pawns of bestial warfare, but she favoured no quarter to the German leaders. America was determined to press the war to absolute victory, and to fight till Germany s war-lords were deposed. "Our slogan, he said, "is freedom for all forever 1 —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.