CONFIDENCE IN FINAL VICTORY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14195, 12 January 1917, Page 6

CONFIDENCE IN FINAL VICTORY.

The chilly reception given to the Kaiser's scheme 'by, the people of the Entente has brought home to Germany a realisation that th,e Allies are sustained and encouraged by 'an infallible confidence in final victory -.(wr'tes a correspondent). Tlie effect will probably be that it will b© impossible for the German Government to rekindle any ardor for the war, while at the some, time the consequences for the Kaiser and Kaiserism are likely to be extremely dangerous. The long series of promises ymade by th© military, chiefs, which have always fallen short of real victory, no matter how brilliantly the armies haye performed, has left such promis.es far below facex value in Germany. A<* it becomes ch\ar that this latest promise of 'peace must rank with those issued before the Marine and Verdun, it is' likely to be, found that it has intensified, rather than allayed, th© growing discontent and war weariness which it was . designed to meet. The,, peaciQ aria ngementg now proposed by the German newspapers, including the suggestion to hold a conference at The Hague in January while the fighting continues, simply infuriate the public here. Taking the opinion -of' all classes, one thing is certain — sooner than leave Germany in her present position with 1 ability to consummate her "Mittel-Europa" idea, and also to threaten India, Britain will , fight to the last cent and the last man. (Under present conditiors there can be no thought, of peace.