No Peace

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIII, Issue 15629, 2 June 1915, Page 4

No Peace

Robert Blatchford, in the Clarion, says : —There can be no peace until the enemy’s power evil is destroyed. With'that power left intact it will only be a matter of a dozen or twenty years before war will break out again. Even when peace comes it will be imperatively necessary to take the most stringent precautions to preserve it. Never again must that evil power be rebuilt and rearmed. Any weakness, any foolish sacrifices to ideas of chivalry or generosity, will be a crime, There must be no more latitude given to bloodthirsty swashbucklers in “ shining armour.” Christian charity extended to a race of dishonourable, and malicious savages would be an injustice to Europe. Let those forgive the German who can, but surely no sane man or woman will trust them ever again. These Huns arc not only the enemies of France, of Britain, of Russia, of Belgium ; they are the enemies of humanity. They are carnivorous, a threat and an insult to peace and progress. They have displaced the idea of justice and humanity by the idea of force, and by force must they be overthrown, and- by force must they be restrained. How harsh soever the remedy may seem it must ■be enforced. To trust the Germans is to betray the peaoe and well being of the world. An arrogant, a violent, a rapacious and cruel people, a race of traitors, spies ana liars, a nation organised for murder, pillage, and tyranny, that is what the Germans have proved themselves to be. Their blood guiltiness and shame are patent to the world. 'We know them to be incapable of good faith, of sober reason or honest dealing. They have declared themselves by their own words and deeds as pirates ; and have to be disarmed and placed under police supervision by the civilised peoples they have at v tacked and outraged.