HINDENRURG'S PEACE TERMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 September 1917, Page 8

HINDENRURG'S PEACE TERMS.

DOOR-TO DOOR CANVASS. Dindenhi.rg Peace advocates—the ’a.ii-Hermans mid Prussian militarists vim are clamouring for annexations and iidemnities—have now staited a. door-to-ioor canvass to popuhiri.se their will ic'vs, 11 icy are distributing circular! n the sti'eets depositing them at tin loors of houses and flats, and even hav "h them folded into the newspapers hie of these documents reached the Lon lon Daily .Mail, in July, from a neutra ■ouree. Headed “Appeal to Herman .Men am iVoinen I" if starts with a frenzied “ad nonit ion" to remember what Hernia nv’.nemies have in pickle for a, defeated 'atheriand. “Resides groat tracts of ierman tenitorv, the foe wants a wai ndemnil v of £800.000.000 a vear, in or ler to make ns trihntar v to him for a enlnry. In addition, he wants Ocrmai nines and Herman factories to snpph urn with their products free of cha.rgt nd to ‘enslave the, Herman working lasses for his own enrichment. Think f it ! Before the war (he Herman Imoi ial Debt amounted to only £3 15s per ead. If Herrnany accepts a peace witilut annexations and indemnities the debt dll amount to £125 per head, while the ix burden of every citizen will be quiunpled After setting forth that it is the duty f every true Orman, whether Socialist r Junker, to insist upon a “strong Her lan peace, for the sake of a healthy ntrre internal development, plentv ol ■ork, good wages and universal national airfare, ’’ the appeal concludes:— “Our victorv is nearer than ever. The ar clock stands at 5 minutes before 12. Ingland’s fateful hour will soon strike. .1 ready the Englishman mir greediest ml basest enemy, is beginning to feel to pangs of hunger. Only a little while longer and the Englishman, when he realises that he is himself about to suffer the death by starvation which he bad planned for us, will cry for an ‘understanding.’ “Then, Herman soul, lie mercilessly Jui.rd- Let there be no peace at any price, —a peace which, with the bad crops all over the world, will not bring us a, single extra grain of substenanco and could only result in life-long remorse ! Let each one think only of the future of bis. own existence which comes before any international brotherhood ! Let the voice, of every man and woman ring out as loudly as possible in demanding a peace which will compel an enemy who has rejected with scorn all our repeated offers of peace, to reimburse us richly for all our sacrifices! Herman men and women! You me warned! Act accordingly!”