NO "PATCHED-UP" PEACE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 23, 22 October 1918, Page 4

NO "PATCHED-UP" PEACE

VIEWS OF BISHOP AVERILL.

The war and the present outlook was dealt with in Bishop Arenll's charge to the Auckland Anglican Synod on Friday. After touching upon the ravages tf tlve war and expressing sympathy withJto bereaved families, the Bishop referred to the excellent record established by members of the Church of England m tho. fighting-line. "We have not assimilated the spirit of, militarism as some of our' pacifist friends seem to imagine," lis eaid. "We hate war today as we never hated it before, in spite of the heroism and splendid qualities which it develops in so many quarters, and it is just because wo hate it tnaH we are determined, as far as lies mom power, to destroy it. . . .It is with no desire to prolong the world s agony that we are compelled to refuse all fictitious offers or suggestions of peace, but witn. an earnest desire to secure such a real peace as will remove the nightmare of war from future generations.' Upon the question of peace the Bishop remarked: "A peace which only means •tho cessation of warfare until the present aggressors have made still greater preparation for securing victory and the domination of the world would be criminal, and would hand on tho legacy or war to the generations to come, and darken the lives of millions, who would live in .anticipation of a repetition of the horrors which .this generation has experienced. . . . To attempt a patched-up peace would be disloyalty to tho thousands of men who have died in the hope and belief/that their sacrifice would be a noil in the coffin of militarism. We have a duty to the dead and to the relatives of the dead, and nothing but tho accomplishment of tho aims with which the Allies entered the war oan ever really enablo us' to soy that the men did not die in vain." , „ The question of returning the ber. man colonies in Africa and tho Pacific after the war also was touched upon by Dr. Averill. Ho snid that it was not for tho sake of expansion that Britain must retain the. conquered German colonies in Africa and tho Pacific, but for the protection of the lives <md property i of her own people and welfare of the native races, and the safety of tho Empire's trade routes. To deprive, Germany of her colonies would be in no sense ft hardship, because she had not iwil them as a legitimate outlet and field for her surplus population, but largely as centres for exploitation, while the n'ativo races had suffered untold miseries at their hands.