WATCH THE HUN.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 958, 21 November 1918, Page 20

WATCH THE HUN.

Nothing is Secure until Peace is Signed.

"TVTOTH.ING is secure," says Mr. Lloyd George, speaking of tlie possibility of a resumption of hostilities, "until peace is signed." But nothing will ever be secure, so far as the shifty, treacherous Hun is concerned, unless the Allies-made peace •ensures the complete disarmament of Germany. It is quite clear, from the tone of the Junker press, that the militarists of Prussia would play the Allies some dirty trick if they got the chance. The wireless instructions given to the German Navy—after the armistice had been signed —prove that •anless the Hun is actually deprived of his weapons, he is still to be reckoned as dangerous as he is always a treacherous beast. ■ . * * * In Paris, at least there' is, thank foodness, no silly self-delusion that the [un Government can be trusted. ALL this soft-sawder talk of a new Germany, of a repentant Germany suddenly converted from a wild beast into a peaceful lamb, does not deceive the French, who describe the "democratised government at Berlin as an elaborate political camouflage. The French know the Hun far better than do the British and Americans, know him to be "a, spiteful, spitting, snarling beast," as Axthur Adams wrote in his famous reply to Lissauer's "Song of Hate," and we hope that if Washington shows any inclination towards weakening— and there are signs that President Wilson is "out" to placate the German and rebel Irish vote at the next Presidential election—that France will stand to- her guns, the guns of Marshal Foch, and insist upon the terms of the armistice being adhered to in their entirety. Senator Lodge is on the right track when he says theore can be no. guarantee of peace until a big slice of German territory is occupied by the Allied Forces. And the occupying forces will, we hope, be strong numerically and backed by an overwhelming strength of heavy artillery. Trust not the Hun. He is the same treacherous beast today that he has been all through the war.