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In a Tittle paper published in Lausanne, Switzerland (La Voix d© T'Humanite), last month there appears an interesting paragraph. It is taken from the leading journal ot Switzerland (Journal de Geneve), ancl states that leading Germans declare that Germany is willing'to surrender to France Alsace-Lorraine if Germany is guaranteed "best favored nation treatment in trade. The Swiss paper suggests peace should be sought on the lines suggested. "Our spirits are rising on the prospects of the war,''writes Sir Thomas Mackenzie in a letter just received from London. Ho proceeds: "It took us a long time, no doubt, to organise the people of Britain, and it has been an enormous task, for we are not prepared, nor did the majority of our people ever anticipate such villainous conduct on the part of the Germans. The bright spot is the grit and determination of the people of the Empire 'from-whatever part they have come. Our workers are now turning out munitions in enormous quantities, and I think it may be. said that we shall secure enough men to bring the war to a successful dose. Our salvation has been the Navy. The New Zealanders have added an imperishable page to the history of the Empire, and a New Zealander is welcome wherever he may go in this country.