The Thames Star. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 1917. FIGHT ON!

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18466, 5 December 1917, Page 2

The Thames Star.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 1917. FIGHT ON!

f'With malice towards none ; with charity or all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right ... .—Lincoln

In a recent .speech in London oy Lord Bryce, formerly British. Ambassador to the United! States, .. wei have an eloquent and convhichiig: answer to the assertion by. come short-sighted individuals that the time for peace'has arrived.. Lord Bryce's motto, like that of Sir Kichard Grenville in the; immortal battle.of the Revenge, is "Fight (jhil" He says: The Allies .are.going to win. We believe that the. balance of strength is with the Allies, that our resources' are greater, and! that with those greater resources we shall triumph on.

land, and because we know also that "we hold the unshaken, and unshakable control! o£ the iseas. The Germans have fed their people with falsehoods. They have endeavoured to beguile and cheer their people by prospects of |territoriali jconcjueistlsi and annexations, and they are now afraid to acknowledge the truth, and to disappoint the German people by consenting to peace upon such terms as we and our Allies can accept. Any peace made upon the present position of affaiiTS would not be, a real peace. :It would be a, mere true©. It would be a triice full of disquiet, of constant; anxietiesl and recurring | alarms. Preparationisi for war would continue ; and the nations would be pressed down by the f right'.ful weight of \ armaments. It ie not for '■ ourselves merely that we ace fighting: it is for great principles, 'to which we owe a duty. We are fighting for "those principles of right and humanity which the German Government has outraged aixd which must, ..at all costs,, be maintained. We* want to a military caste and a- militai-y system which 'threJvfcetiisi the Amleridani countries, too, as well asr oure. Under the influence of thi® militant oaistie and . iUU military ' arid awgres'sive

spirit there lias grown up a desire to dominate the world/ and now the \ only safety for the world is to discredit that spirit and 1 thati caste.' When that spirit has Ibeen cast out of Germany and her people have for themselves ■ recovered that liberty • for which they are striving before Bismarck's /ascendancy .began,, they will be willing again 'to live "&ti peace with their neighbour's. Meantime, we must go on. TEei Allies' must press on to victory. They must press on till victory has been, won for those principles 1, and there has been established a permanent •resting! on thei sure foundations of justice and freedom. , ■