GERMAN MILITARISM.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14893, 16 October 1918, Page 4

GERMAN MILITARISM.

MB MASSBY SAYS IT MUST BE SMASHED.

SIR JOSEPH WARD ON CONDITIONS AFTER THE WAR.

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. . Wellington, Oct. 15. At the civic reception this afternoonMr Massey said ho was glad to be able to say officially that, an armistice would not be granted. (Applause.) The Allies were up against an enemy whom tJM? y r. not trust- They must s° on till Germany was smashed or there was an unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers. The German fleet must be taken away, and the Germany army demobilised.

Sir Joseph Ward said that when disarmament took place after the waxthere would be a great movement to 'bring the distant Dominions and tho heart of the Empire closer together. J|ut for the strength and solidarity of the British^ the war could not have lasted twelve months. After the war class distinctions would be nibbed off tne slate. Recognition would have to be oi Ven to the class without whom they could never have won the war. At the front the-richest and the poorest fought side by,site for freedom.