The North Otago Times WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1916. "STICK IT OUT."

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13665, 6 September 1916, Page 2

The North Otago Times WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1916. "STICK IT OUT."

Tlerr Rallin, the Nelson of flei'many's once worhl-widp mercantile marine, has lieen reminding the fJormnn ppoplp that "the question of who can 'stick mil' tlie longest will decide Hip war.'' The great 'German shipmaster need have i;n misgivings nn lliat score. The Allies are in this war to the hitter end, ami tlio statesmen of the Entente Powers realise that Britain ami her Allies have io smash utterly three mighty unscrupulous empires before the legions of the Allies dare lay down their arms. The Central Powers, especially Germany, will have to lip defeated, or they all defeat the Allies. .It must not be forgotten that Germany cannot he permanently defeated in the field. 'Herr Hallin hints that Germany expecjs to wage an economic war after (he guns have died own. Xof until she has been politically and commercially outlawed will she be really beaten and rendered harmless. The following lines quoted from The Morning Post will help to emphasise the point: "When a country hates another enimlry as Hie Germans hale England, there may be a truce of' exhaustion, Iml there can be no permanent peace linfil one naliou or the other goes under. Wp could not placate the animosity even if we would: magnanimity would be taken for weakness; concessions would lie used as weapons for our dcslruction, There is nothing for if but Io light this light out to the bitter end." 11 is an ugly truth, to P«t it plainly, II is as though every man. every women and every child were warned; "This man means to Irave your 'il'i'. If von |urn your back or go unarmed, he will kill yon." The Hermans envy the British people and hale us. They will injure us at every chance. They arc not in this Wf ,r merely to try to win brilliant military victories, their plan is to crush the British Empire, and humiliate us •.•md destroy ns if they can, They are ns a race, savage, selfish, treacherous and- unscrupulous. The heinonsness of their crimes against decency and humanity has estranged the sympathies of every nntiou that has the pulse of human.kindness in its heart, Tii very truth fiermany is without a friend in the world, She has misread Die aspirations of the world, "(Tad in virtue," says Die Wett, "and-in peerless nobilily of character, unassailable by insidious enemies either within or without, girded about by the benign in-

fiueiices of Kultur, the German, whether soldier or civilian, pursues his destined way, fearless and serene." That is Germany through German eyes."* But the Teutons have built their great empire on a foundation of sund—the blond ami iron policy of Bismarck. After more than two years of colossal losses, hardship and suffering, Germany has no friends left in the world and her defeat is sure, Herr Ballin notwithstanding. Even Austria-Hungary, Turkey ami Bulgaria must be cursing Germany for the ruin she has brought upon Hiem. Austria-Hungary Mauds to lose her nationhood—her Polish, Italian. Eumaniaii ami Bosnian, provinces will be wrested from her. Turkey has forfeited her suzerainty of Egypt, and tier shadowy rights over Cyprus; she will lose Mesopotamia, and Armenia and must relinquish her illustrious capital and go out of Europe friendless and helpless, The House of Islam regards in l )' as a betrayer. Bulgaria faces sure defeat ami humiliation, and. what is more galling to the Allies of Germany, lliey have forfeited the goodwill and •support of their best friends and customers. And what prospect does the future hold for 'Germany? Onee the Berlin to Baghdad railway is in the hands of the Entente Powers, Turkey and Bulgaria will be forced to make peace, and access will be. open to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, bringing munitions in, and taking stores of wheat and oil and thousands of men out to the Allies, The prospects facing Austria-Hungary are exceedingly unpropitious. The ramshackle Empire cannot long hold' together against the combined forces of Russia, Rumania, Serbia, Greece, and Italy supported by the mighty offensive by the Allied forces from Salonika. The invasion of Austria-Hungary by the great armies of the Allies, along a front extending from Cracow in Western Galicia to Lake Garda on the extreme western wing of the Italian front, eoupled with internal misery and disaffection among her alien subjects, must eventually .bring that unfortunate Dual Empire to its knees, and the tramp of the conquering armies of the world's emancipation resounding fo the gates of Berlin from the southeast will find Germany standing along to face the impossible task of holding these great forces at bay, while.she' engages in the futile life and death struggle against the ever-growing armies of her grim Eastern enemy on one side, and'on the other the silent and unconquerable determination of the French, supported by British tenacity and Belgian revenge, Herr Ballin foresees the terrors of the final struggle. Defeat on the field, certain ns it is, will not subdue the German nation, This war is tinlike all other wars. It is not a boxing match nor a cricket match nor any sport conducted according to the accepted law of the game. It is a murderous 'attack by an organised race of bravoes on peaceful nations. The feeling of the armies that oppose the Central Powers must become the feeling of the countries saved by the defeat of Germany. A deep and bitter loathing of Germans and everything German will grow out of the war and defeat Herr Ballin's post-war scheme. Some months ago a wounded Indian soldier at Brighton showed a visitor a silver coin and asked was it a franc or a shilling. When he was told the coin was a German mark, he threw it 'away and none of his comrades would pick it up. That Indian gave a fine lesson to our commercial and working people. After the war our slogan must be: "Away with everything German." This is why the Allies must "stick it out" to Hie bitter end.