EARLIER MESSAGES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 8

EARLIER MESSAGES.

— j • I WHAT THE WAR MEANS. I THE END'OF BRITAIN. OR FREEDOM FOR EUROPE. j t, SPEECH UY LOUD ROSKBERY. j t ( Prc«3 Association —By W.—Copyright. j LONDON. Sept. 6. The Karl or iio.-eb.rr. speaking at a trfi t-tiLcinix meeting at Broxburn, said j " "Tlie prtstnt Ls perhaps a. more solemn | m<miwt than any in. the history of the I world. Th.? war is due to a spark| amidst i-, get at power magazine which v tli" nations of Eurt:p>» have been build- ! \ in.g for twenty years-. Il some great j organiser has [!t-inne<.l this war. th«| curst- of humanity will pursue hiut tot th»> end. It w.- hat! allowed Germany! to vio'ato the Belgian treaty how tonic! should wi- have .-nd'ired seeing the 4 oppression anil .slaughter «>t a small bat ] K»Haat people in tli».» tlef.-nce «tf terrt- , ti/ry whieli w.- guaranteed ? \Vo should h.u> joiri'il in, )'tit too tale, and only had thf rwir»» «>c our tlrs: hesitation. This is a war »t nations, not *>£ armies. , arid tin- British natinn is not able to stand aloof tor we ar c , lighting for the! sarn-tity ot public- la win Europe. It ; cm: arruit.-s ate conquered we are de-, .stroyed for eri.-r. \Y.> must make no. mistake. This war will not be -ruled Fiv a ct-sion of territory or it money, indemnity. It is a. tight to a finish. S If we go tinder now wt» go. under fori pvi'i', I don't .-uggi~-t i'or » moment! that Britain is going under. but if not.! f\-i vy man cap-.tblc of defending ourj country is tmuiut to step into thel breach. If we are to fx? reduced to. an. inferior Power tiring at the goodwill <>F, n. superior lord, with our Empire cat j np ut;d divided amongst our ptnnderere.' T would rather that alt British people' av we now exist, pass into exit.- and death, leaving tills bland vacant for sort:.' superior race." The addresi eonelinkd: "But \v»? are going to win. because- our profile are

! united as never before, and because our overseas dominions vie with each other in a penerous emulation which s-hail ;;ive us most valuable support in supplies of money and men."' SIR EDWARD GREY. SEES THE SAME ALTERNATIVE. Sir Edward Grey, in a letter says: •'England is ens;a«:c<l in a conflict with militarism, under which system "Western Europe- will fall it tho Germans sucked. If tho independence of the! itnalkr States it secured the German! people themselves will be freed from :he Prussian militarism, which has iriven Germany into the conflict with Europe. A brighter and freer day for Europe will compensate for the awful sacrifices