LATEST WAR NEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 264, 24 October 1916, Page 6

LATEST WAR NEWS

I the only peace. VISCOUNT GREY’S MESSAGE TO NEUTRALS. Treuteh’s telegrams. 7 (Received 24, 2.5 p.m.) London, Oct. 23. Viscount Grey, replying to the toast at the neutral press luncheon and referring to President Wilson s advocacy that neutrals should participate in the securing, of peace in the future, said that in order to 1 make that proposition effective, neutral nations must be prepared to use force to compel the observance of I treaties to keep peace. Me must also ■ come to an agreement after the war • I regarding the methods by which war should be conducted. Germany has been guilty of more terrible anarchy than the world has ever known, and : has broken down all .the barriers 1 which anment civilisation created in order to keep the horrors of war within range. Neutral nations must see that something is done to ensure that the rules of warfare —if there must be warfare —are kept in the future, and that science shall not be ' misused for the destruction of mankind. There must be no end to this 1 war and no peace excepting a peace which will ensure to nations of Europe freedom from Prussian mili--1 tarism. M e are determined to con- ’ tinue to make sacrifices until we 1 have secured future peace to the whole continent of Europe—to make certain that our sacrifices should not ■ have been made in vain. We should not think of what Ger- : many is saying to-day, but what her • Government and people expected i when the war started. Eminent ; Germans then avowed that Ger- • many’s object was to dictate terms of peace to Europe and that indi- . vidual nations must surrender their sovereignty. Germany’s efforts to • separate the Allies only confirmed [ their (the Allies’) resolve to go i through to the end. Neutrals cotud do good work in the direction of prer venting the recurrence of such a war, t but the belligerents are engaged in a life and death struggle, fighting for victory whereof the prospects are daily improving, and could not be expected to spend time for developing ideas for after-war niea- • surer. . , x . i If the neutral nations desire to do something more effective than they ' did before the war in order to maintain peace bv common action, they ' should undertake only what they are prepared to uphold by force. . We are all in favour of peace safeguards, but we say to neutrals we shall ask thefti- when the time comes for them to make demands on us, “Mill you also play ud?” M T hen that time comes something more than the sig natures of sovereigns and presi dents will be needed to make a thing like that worth while, it mus' have behind it a parliament and national sympathies.