NO ARMISTICE FOR THE HUN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 18, 16 October 1918, Page 4

NO ARMISTICE FOR THE HUN

BUT REPARATION AND PUNISHMENT STRONG SPEECH BY MR; MASSEY "I am iglad to be able to say, and I speak oih'cially, that Germany will not.be granted an armistice," said Mr. klassey at the civic reception yesterday afternoon. "It would be a foolisli thing to grant an armistice. We know that we are up against an enemy who cannot bo trusted, and we have to go on until the enemy is utterly beaten. I know wliat sacrifices going on means. [ know what the continuance of the ■ war meaiiß to every State of the Empire. But it would be criminal folly to stop a.t the present stage. We must go on until Germany is smashed or' submits herself to the Allies in unconditional surrender. When that is done the enemy can have peace, but I do not think it possible after what has " happened for Germany to be , ' allowed to remain a strong European Power. German, military strength must be destroyed. The German Fleet must betaken away. The German Army niusti be demobilised. We mußt have reparation for the crimes the enemy has committed, as far as Germany can make reparation. We must have guarantees for future hehayiour. "When a man commits murder in a civilised community he ie punished in such a way that he cannot repeat the offence. Germany has teen guilty of wholesale murder. She is a criminal among nations, and she' should never have the opportunity of repeating the offences she has committed during the last four years. We have been on the other side of the world, tnd we have had ocular demonstration cf the character oflthe Hun. You remember the sinking of the Canadian,hospital shin — a ship engaged in the transport of sick and wounded men, arid, bearing the distinguishing marks that are respected by the civilised nations of the world. A German submarine torpedoed that ship at night, ond when the crew, the doctors and the nurses took to the boats, for lia'ppily the nounded had been disembarked, the submarine sank the boats in order- that the crime might be concealed. One boat got away in the darkness to tell J<he" tale of horror: to the civilised world. I have, seen, the Canadian hospital that .was bombed by the Germans. Tho German aeroplanes, flying low, where they could not fail £0 seo the Red Cross, dropped their bombs among the wounded ,men, the doctors and the nurses. Many were killed. Germany has committed these crimes, committed

them deliberately, and by doing so has descended to the depths cf infamy. Within the last few days we have read

of the sinking, of passenger ships and the drowning* of helpless men, women, and children, whose crime in the eyes of Germany was that they were British people; . "These-crimfs cannot go linpunisli-c-tl. I hope that Germany will not be allowed to sit among the* civilised nations for the next hundred years. The hands- of the Him are dripping with blood ; Here in New Zealand we hud the sinking of tho Wimmera, a passenger ship engaged in no war duty. I do not believe that the people of the Empire are going to forget these acts of barbarism. Germany must he punished as the criminal she has choser ,to be."