WILL STAND BY RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3

WILL STAND BY RUSSIA.

AMERICA'S TOSELE7SH ALMS..; (Australian and NiZ.' Cable Association.) 1 , (Reutors. TelCfciam.) . J (Received :! May .21^ 8.45 a.m.) : • NEW YORK, May 20. J President Wilson, speakuig at ' .tlioi fled Cross demonstration, . said : l 'We are not to be diverted from pur given purpose of winning tlie war By any* 1111 siiicere . approaches .upon the subject of peace.. I'csiii say with a clear conscience that I have tested;, these intinuitioiis and r'ecogniso ■ih^nl' for • whkt.. I% they. ai'e-r- : an opportunity to have a "free hand, particqlai'ly .Jn the East>;to carry Jout the pui-pbse of a coniiue"st and exploita,tion. r . ( . . ,-■.", ' „;;■■.. •■ vr ■ j ' "Every proposal with regard to accommodation in, the West involves a reservation m jegai'd lo.jthe.Eastrj therefore \fe intend^-,^ staiid by Ituissia as e^ as ' France. If- G/ermany.. thinks we jare going; ( to sacnfice, anybody, ,f 6^ our own' sake, tell them nqw'.- they "are mistaken/ for the glory of this war j " so far! atf we are concerned, is that perhaps ioo the first time m history it is an u'nsel^iah' war. ' z"If" they wish for peace let them come 1 forward through accredited represents tives and ; lay their terms on the table* We have laid. jours. w ,T.hey know whafe they *are." ... ,< . •• . , ri 'President Wilson euiogised the . workof,; the great ...Red Ctosb ; organisajt-ion^ which' was recognised iiK by •.'internationan agreement and treaty. ' Ojne of tlie d^ep 5 ? est, sfains on tlie, reputation,' of , the Geiv man army, wa^ that it, had not respeqtea the Kea Cross. ' '' "" ;"■';'. Ifj "'.'That goes to the root of the njafff teiy'.said the, President. "They ms\ not irespectedi itlio' ' v instrumentjafitysjbfmercy and succour wli^jh , they ..pavjgpt' p/ited .in setting . , up ax ,'.qri h\u.»>amty." '. . ' . „ ' ,' ' -," '.. ' ; "-. , *