PESSIMISM DEPRECATED
mm i REMARKS BY LORD LIVERPOOL By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wanganui, Last Night. '< "Something was recently said to the,; effect that we are very near ■ said Lord Liverpool, at the annual ftriie- < giving at Wangapui Collegiate ffehool .' to-night, in referring to the war. If that statement was correctly reported,, his : Excellency added, "AH I can say is %t the Government of New Zealand Wow .' nothing about it. Our worst enetty is , the class of gentleman who seems to delight in being as pessimistic as he pos- i sibly can. There arc many people who can play cricket from the pavilion, and imagine they could /»ptain the side better, and if wc want to win this war we must Implicitly trust somebody; if not, < we would soon be in the condition Of . Russia to-day. People should not take a pessimistic view, because we are bound to have ups and downs, just as we bad in the Peninsula War, when Sir John Moore retreated to Corunna, and itt %« Boer Wa,r, when we had Ctolenab.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1917, Page 5
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