FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918. UNITY 0F THE ALLIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 4 January 1918, Page 4

FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918. UNITY 0F THE ALLIES.

Never before-in _is.toi-y.haye go mpny nations been linked togethei:_ifl one common | task, and had a pr.ojphecy_he.en made in tho first few months of_the war that there would be such .an array,ef enemies facing the Central Alliance.. ae. there is to-day, it would have .foun„d few to give it credence. Britain. France, Russia, and Japan were b.oujid,jnore or less by treaty, and then*, entry .was not altogether a surprise ' t.o . the .enemy. The first shock which jGermany -received was when Italy decided.,to*.tafee sides with the Allies. Then came.the,great surprise from the New .World, .where, ,the United States leading , nearly, every #tate has severed reLaUions with^ergnany. The enemy by ;m_§ans... l o£. < e\:ery imaginabie device sought to encemjsage ijejdousy and strife among .the. jfowir-rs .ajjd to fan whatever embers, of discpi}.-,-tejjt existed, but the poisonous draughts im^-infcained by emissaries £ frpm : Berfe ifs-vUgd to raise the destr*_«tive _flain.es.. Jtost^d, tbey brought un% in a Mp^t. reniq^kable manner. Berasjtprff, Lux-fcs^g^-d numerous other Prussjajsisni were revealed w> .the"world in ihf_k true light, and were shown .to be. mojsf dangerous workers .against civft^tio-a. It appears that rf.be Ger-manjSf^-sa no new one, and probably a very large proportion of tlie M-fthappy incidents :;^ the past decade .optwo might be traceable to an evil mir'ii emanating.^jom "kultured" Germany. Be that as ;*> t may, it i s noticeably -£hat the frequent ,reports of strained relations^ between .such nations as Japan sgyi the United.S&ies, Britain and Rusg^ and Britain and^he United States hayj m a wonderful fanner entirely disap, pparqd.. and.witji^tlie exception of Russia, for whom ther** still seems to be a .^h-a.nce, of recovery .ihey are all straining every effort to -reach one common gpal. The unity Japan and the Waited States is /r jaily becoming #^«gei% and as ViscjDHijt Chinda, in a spWh in England in Oc£ob.er, said, the Japanese mission to Ainej-ica has been a bnpnt success. Japan,, the speaker told .m .audience, sent thai mission fo r the twofeld purpose of "conveying to the President of the America^ Republic the apportion and congratulations of the Empero* and of the Japanese nation on the *stry of the Uhited States into the war, asd to determine hw best the two natio^ could /co-operate together for carry&g the war to a- .triumphant conclusion/ The cable migs*&b told us in whai manner the 'mfa. mon iva s received, and jiow greatly "tlie noble statements of Viscount Ish'ii impressed the people and Government of the United States. The report published yesterday that Viscount Ishji is mentioned as the likely successor to Vis_count Kato as Ambassador to the United States, indicates that there has been no diminution of the favorable feeling aroused by the mission two months ago. The knowledge that Japan and the United States are now on such friendly terms i s a severe blow bo Germany whose great expenditure upon intrigue has been wasted. More disquieting still to the enemy i s the deter mmation expressed hy both nations to do their utmost to rid the world of Prussianism. One could take other examples equally satisfactory, but perhaps the best indication of the completeness of the Allies' unity was the splendid report by Mr Lloyd George of the meeting the War Council held recently ,at Versailles, where important and far. reaching decisions were made. Ger- | many's co-operation with her allies is | truly representative of the Prussian. Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey are chafing under the yoke, but the tyrant I holds sway and all will "fall into the ditch" together. Allied unity has for its foundation the great principles of civilisation, and there is every reason to believe that the unity for which Germany primarily is responsible will continue long after the.war, much to the discomfiture of the broken spirit of Prussia. Germany has tried hard to cause dissension, but apart from her power over the Russian people she has failed badly. Pacifists are ready, it is true, to listen to the voice which desires to bring a false peace, but the great masses of the people of the Allied nations are determined that the violated countries shall be restored and their future guaranteed from German aggression. A continuance of such unity of purpose must achieve decisive victory, and no nation is more alive to the fact than the German.