GERMANY UNCHANGED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16848, 13 May 1918, Page 6

GERMANY UNCHANGED.

m NO DESIRE FOR PEACE. * STRENUOUS STRUGGLE AHEAD. LONDON, April 30. Loan Robert Cecil, Parliamentary UnderSecretary to the Foreign Office, un a speech at Hit«hin, said that we had an indefinite period of terrible, strenuous struggle before us. We must not underrate our enemies, who had the great advantages that came from 50 years preparation for war, a favorable geographical position; and united command. But the British, 4 who had withstood the Germans for four years, had proved that, their valour was equal to the German training, while recently our forces in France had been placed with the French armies under the command of that great soldier General Foch. .. - j • Lord Robert Cecil did not think that the enemy's formidable advantages would decide the battle in his favour, but we must not fall into the error of facile optimism. The Lichnowsky revelations and other things proved that Germany I was absolutely unchanged. She strove to! lull us to sleep by talk of peace while i planning this attack; but now the battle ad begun there was no talk of peace. In- j stead there was nothing but talk of German annexations, indemnities, the in-! crease of the power of the German mili-| tary caste, and the slavery of the rest of 1 the world. " I We were fighting indubitably for the! freedom of the world. Anyone who now said that the Germans desired to live at' peace with their neighbours and were ready to make a just and righteous peace was indulging voluntary self-deception.