A GERMAN VICTORY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1358, 20 June 1918, Page 5

A GERMAN VICTORY.

WHAT THE KAISER DEMANDS. (Heuter) AMSTERDAM, June 18. A Berlin message states that the Kaiser spent the anniversary of his accession to the throne at main headquarters. It was an occasion of extraordinary speeches, Marshal von Hindenburg renewed a vow of unswerving loyalty till death in the name of Germany's sons. He said that the German people and army in the face of a world of enemies, had never in their history shown such proof of their strength and right to existence, which was due to their indefatigable War Lord. The Kaiser, replying, said that he had always hoped that when danger was most threatening, God would supply the right men, and this had been done, for Heaven had bestowed upon the German Empire von Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Proceeding, the Kaiser said that the struggle was between two world views, either the German principles of right, freedom, honour, and morality must be upheld, or the Anglo-Saxon idolatry of mammon must he victorious. "We must gain," he concluded, "the victory—the victory of the German standpoint, that is what is in qucstion."

The "Koclnische Volkzeitung," referring to Mr Lloyd George's speech in which he allegedly characterised Germany as a nuisance which must be_exterminated, says: "So long as Mr Lloyd George is England's spokesman, there can be no question of peace negotiations."