VICTORY ASSURED.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7921, 21 August 1917, Page 3

VICTORY ASSURED.

GERMANY A BESIEGED FORTRESS. United Service. (Received This Day 11 a.m.) PARIS, August 20. A Japanese officer who participated in the Russo-Japanese war, after a long sojourn in France, interviewed by the “Matin,” says:—“Victory is assured scientifically and mathematically. It has been so since the middle of 1916. Germany to-day is merely a besieged fortress. The critical period in the military sense has passed, and there is only one way whereby victory can slip from your grasp. It is that you should voluntarily abandon it.”

LABOR*'- Part

IN SCOTCHING THE ARCH FIEND. Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 18. The Seamen’s Conference, representing the Allies and most neutrals, has opened in London. Mr Havelock Wilson, presiding, announced that the' delegates represented all sections of the maritime world, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, West Indies, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He said it was proposed to consider the attitude to be adopted towards Germany after the war in view of the submarine atrocities. He explained that it was not intended to discuss the origin of the war, neutrals were entitled to express their opinions on German methods. Neutrals equally with the Allies had suffered barbarities. We are not calling on the Government to take action. The seamen are better able to look after themselves. He added that the seamen were still undaunted by Germany’s barbarism, which had not yet delayed a single ship’s sailing by five minutes, He also believed that the seamen could induce the wharf laborers and transporters to assist in a German boycott after the war. He suggested that if other seafarers refused to work with Germans it would be punishing the German shipowners. An international commission should inquire into the submarine murders and punish the commanders and crews and the authorities according to their guilt.