" A SERIOUS MISTAKE."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 October 1922, Page 6

" A SERIOUS MISTAKE."

ALLIES SHOULD HAVE ENTERED

GERMANY

THE NEW MENACE TO PEACE

The Prime Minister made a brief reference to the war cloud in the Near East when he was speaking at Levin School the other day. The flag that was to be hoisted that day, said Mr. Massey, would recall memories of he Great War, in which New Zealanders and Australians had taken a brave part. "The only mistake that was made, and it was a very serious mistake, was in granting an armistice before our troops had entered German territory," said Mr. Massey. "If we had dictated terms of peace ori German soil we should not have been in the dangerous position we are in to-day. Undoubtedly it is. a dangerous position, one of the most dangerous positions that Britain has ever occupied. I know we are going to win through, but I don't know when the crisis will «nd. We should know within a week or ten days what is going to happen. "I am afraid every morning, when 1 receive my telegrams, that I shall get news that fighting has commenced. But 1 am certain as I stand here that at some time we have got to fight the nations that are moving. We shall not attack them, but they will attack us. I am speaking of Russia, Germany, and Turkey. No League of Nations can help us. We have got to help ourselves. It was a magnificent thing, when it appeared that, our allies had deserted us—and I am not quite sure that they have' not —that New Zealand was the very first Dominion to offer assistance to the Empire. ... I honestly believe that the British nation is being preserved for some great purpose which the Creator has in view, and which is not yet evident."