IN THE WAR TO THE END

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 138, 11 June 1918, Page 8

IN THE WAR TO THE END

NEW ZEALAND'S PROMISE

INTERVIEWS WITH MINISTER

DELEGATES.

{RBDTER'S TBUGKAU.) (Received June 11, 2.30 p.m.)

LONDON, 10th June,

Mr. W. F. Massey, in an interview, said he had brought from New Zealand a promise of inflexible resolve to do all in the country's power to carry the war to a successful end. He was convinced that tlie only satisfactory end would bo one which would render Germany in. capable of resuming tho war or of continuing to be a menace to the peaceful progress of free nations. The colonies in the Pacific ought not to be returned to Germany. She would use them for strategical purposes as naval bases, wireless stations, and aerodromes —a peril which must be averted.

Sir Joseph Ward, in an interview, said he was impressed by the appearance of the country from the productive viewpoint since his last visit. The heaviness of the prospective crops and tho increase in the cultivated area proved, he believed, that Germany's effort to starve Britain would be an absolute failure. The war could only end in a pronounced and certain victory for the British Empire and its powerful Allies. New Zealand was resolved to do its part till victory was won. Tho sacrifice was great, but the goal was greater.