WIN THE WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4875, 22 May 1918, Page 5

WIN THE WAR.

AMERICA’S DETERMINATION. PRESIDENT’S GREAT SPEECH. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter's. NEW YORK, May 20. President Wilson, speaking at the Red Cross demonstration, said: “We are not to be diverted from our given purpose of winning the war by any insincere approaches upon the subject of peace. I can say with a .clear conscience that I have tested these intimations and recognise them for w’hat they are—an opportunity to have a free hand, particularly in the East, to carry out the purpose of a conquest and exploitation. “Every proposal with regard to accommodation in the West involves a reservation in regard to the East; therefore we intend to stand by Russia as well as France. ■ If Germany thinks we are going to sacrifice anybody for our own sake. I tell them now’ they are mistaken, for the glory of the war, so far as we are concerned, is that perhaps for the first time in history it is an unselfish war. “If they wash for peace let them come forward through accredited representatives and lay their terms on the table. We have laid ours, ihey know’ what they are.” President Wilson eulogised the work of the great Red Cross organisation, which was recognised by international agreement and treaty. One of the deepest stains on the reputation of the German army was that it had not respected the Reel Cross. , “That goes to the root of the matter,” said the President-. “They have not respected the instrumentality of mercy and succour which they participated in setting up as an expression of humanity.”