GERMANY AND PEACE

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13388, 16 January 1917, Page 5

GERMANY AND PEACE

LEADER'S SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT.

ENEMIES MOMENTARILY TRIUMPHANT.

(Australian and N.Z. Cubic Assn.) Received January 16, 10.25 a.m.

NEW Y(»RK, Jan. 15

A despatch I'mm Mr w. B. Halo from Berlin is printr.l in N>e .\>w York American, He says lie hud an intimate conversation with a leader in the highest political position, who slated: "What is it that a war-weary world wants—peace with recrimination now or a possible peace many years later with Germany crushed? A league of ten is momentarily triumphant, and Europe's whole political map will be a chessboard of complicated ambitions and sanguinary struggles during a hundred years to come." The fact that the censor passed the report is an admission of the crushing of Germany, and is the first open indication of the despair of the Kaiser's statesmen. Germany on the threshold of defeat must have a quick peace to prevent a debacle. THE KAISER'S ACTION. A GERMAN EULOGY. RULER WITH A CONSCIENCE. BAVARIAN INDIGNATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received anuary 16, 10.40 a.m. | AMSTERDAM, Jan. 1\ llie Nordeutsche Allegemeine Zei';r\r states that "The Kaiser, in his le!Vr tc I Dr. von Rethmann-Hollweg, on October 31st, proves his honest desire for pea?e, for when he wrote, it was clear that the enemies of his country were caught by the war psychosis. Supported by this deceit they s did not possess a man able or firm enough to speak to liberate the world, and by making the peace proposal the Kaiser retains his reputation as a ruler with a conscience. Realising that he is responsible towards God, and with a heart sustained and strengthened with the knowledge that he was acting in the interests of his own and hostile people, and inspired by a desire to deliver the world from suffering, our not minding the possible wrong interpretation which would lie placed uron his action, had courage to move. We, therefore, venture into the future, relying upon God."

The King of Bavaria has sent a desnatch to the Raise-, in which he declares that the indignation which has been aroused in the Kaiser's heart by the enemy's arrogant reply to his peace note is echoed in every Bavarian breast.