CROWN PRINCE GROWS MAUDLIN.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 826, 3 October 1916, Page 11

CROWN PRINCE GROWS MAUDLIN.

SEEMS SATED WITH WAR’S HORRORS. STRANGE PEACE TALK TO AMERICANS. Ity Cubic.- Prr.ts Ation. — Copyright. AintrnJiim <‘:"l X.Z. ('nl)h' Association. i Rccrivi'i 1 October 12.0.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 2, A plea for rim I'niled Stales to Avork in the interests of peace Avas uttered by the German (Toavu Prince, in an intervicAV with W. Halt at Field Headquarters. whieh is published in the “Ncav York American." 1 Halt asked the Prince w lint war problem childly interested him, and he responded it Avas looking after the welfare of bis men. He then immediately began to talk of peace, while a papiermache model of Verdun and its defences stared at him in the room Avliere the interview occurred. The Prince said:—“ Does your heart ache enough over this sad region of the earth ? What a pity it is, all this terrible extinction of human life, this mortgaging of energies and resources far into the future, it is uot alone for German lives and wasted German. energies avo mourn. We are all Avell aide—at least comparatively—to bear it. but all the Avorld, including America, which invested in the Entente's chances of success, must aid in footing the Bill. That, of course, is one reason why the sympathies of your capitalists are Avith our enemies. Isn’t there a book Avhieh says: ‘Where the treasure is there shall the heart he also?' It is a pity your treasure is not invested during these hours of world-agony in sowing seed for preparation for the fruits of peace. Iso, your prosperity would rest in the great harvest Avhieh will follow the return to natural conditions, rather than the unhappy and uncertain fruitage of Avar. , I hope yon have not failed to be impressed Avilb tbe fact that every general, every officer, and every man Avould far rather sec all his labour, skill, education, intellectual resource, and physical proAvess devoted to the tasks of building up and lengthening life and subduing man’s common enemies, disease and material obstacles to progress of mankind, rather than devoted to the destruction of other men. 1 should like to knoAV your Colonel Goethals, avlio has been lighting swaifips, fever, and sliding mountains. It’s in that sort of enterprise the Avorld should find what one of your American philosophers, William James, designated the moral equivalent for war. I confess Ido not see any prospects of peace. 1 tell yon it's no happiness to look fonvard to spending a third Christmas her%, 1 have a wife and family, as yon knoAV.”