SIR JOSEPH WARD.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 6

SIR JOSEPH WARD.

A PARTING INTERVIEW.

CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE

and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Sept. 4, 7.20 p.m.) .London, Sept. 3.

Sir Joseph "Ward, in an -. interview-,-isaid he was immensely struck with the fine spirit of sUI classes^and their fixed .determination to go right on, and the general aversion to peace by negotiation: The latter be a disaster to the whole of -the . civilised world. iWe. vv ere now ■, certainly on the road to victory, and it was only a matter of time when we would secure repayment of our great sacrifices. Labour had acted well, and without ij^ co-operation the successful carrying on of the war would be impossible. There was no need for gloominess over the future. People who /; provided their own requirements as Britain had done during the war could be depended upon to meet after-war conditions satisfactorily.

Sir Joseph Ward added that In? went Iback satisfied, that the authorities here Wets ahxions Ufct to allow the Pacific islands to revert to Germany.