ENEMY COUNTRIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 3 August 1917, Page 5

ENEMY COUNTRIES.

FOURTH YEAIi OF WAR.

FUTURE ANXIOUSLY DISCUSSED

THE KAISER'S PROCLAMATION

LONDON, Aug. 2. German newspapers, on the commencement of the fourth year of war, anxiously discuss the future.

The Koelnische Zeitung raves against America's entry. The Vorwaerts deprecates boasting over Germany's military successes or evincing a spirit of arrogance. There is not, it says, a word to describe the feeling with which the Germans enter the fourth year of war. Peace must not be delayed by Germany's or her enemies' aims of conquest. Peace will come when the annexationists of all countries are vanquishedj as the German annexationists had already^ been defeated. (Reuter Service.) COPENHAGEN, Aug. 1. The Kaiser, in a proclamation to the German people, said: After three years jof hard fighting we are absolutely determined to prosecute our righteous war of defence to a successful termination. The enemy shall never have German territory, to which they are stretching out their hands. We are not frightened by new nations continuing to enter the Avar against us. Our enemies wish_to see us weak and powerless at their feet, but they 6hall not prevail. They disdained our peace words, for they did not know how Germany could" fight. They had slandered the Germans throughout the world, but they cannot extinguish German glory. Germany will stand immovable, victorious, and intrepid, and will meet her possible further hard trials with a grave mien, full of faith. If the enemy wishes to prolong the war his suffering will be heavier than ours.

"We must tirelessly toil and fight, but Germans may be assured that German blood and zeal are not "being gambled with for the empty shadow of ambition or schemes of conquest, but in defence of a strong and nee country, wherein our children may live securely.' 3

In a second proclamation to the army, navy and colonial troops, the Kaiser says: "The third year of war has ended. Our adversaries have increased, but their prospects of victory are no better. You crushed Roumania la6t year, and the Russian Empire again trembles under your strokes: Both these States have sacrificed themselves for others, and now bleed to death. You have braved the enemy's assaults in Macedonia, while m mighty battles in the West you remain masters of your lines, and are firm in protecting your dear ones at home against the terrors and devastation of war.

"The navy has achieved, good results. It has threatened the enemy's sea command and its very existence. Far from home, a little band is defending a German colony against many times superior forces. We and our allies will also be victorious in 1917. Ours is to win a final victory. The war is being forced upon us. We win fight for our existence and for our future with 4 firm resolution and courage. With the growing problem our strength will grow, for it is invincible and will be victorious. 'The Lord will be with us in the field."