16 DECEMBER 1916, page 1

While Dealing Elsewhere With The Proper Answer To Give To

Ger- many's peace proposals we have pointed out that the German Government no doubt hope to rally the drooping spirits of their people by indignantly denouncing the rejection of......

This Is A Fairly Good Specimen Of Teutonic Impudence, But

worse follow& The Central Powers, we are told, were obliged to take up arms in order to defend justice and " the liberty of national evo- lution." Then Luddenly the theme of......

But Though We Can Negotiate Only On A Basis Of

reparation, a basis which the Germans will of course reject, Germany's suggestion of terms is a great event, one of the greatest in the history of the world. It marks the......

The Text Of The Note Is, In Truth, Hardly Worth

summarizing, but we may make a few extracts. It begins with fustian talk about the most terrific war ever experienced in history, " a catastrophe which a thousand years of......

In The Special Note Presented To The Pope We Get

a double dose of religious and humanitarian phraseology. We hear of the " un- limited treasures of civilization being destroyed," of "extensive areas soaked with blood," and of......

News Of The Week.

T RULY do great events come huddling on each other. Last week we recorded the sudden destruction of the Coalition Government. This week will be famous in history for the first......

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We Do Not Know How These Words Will Strike Pacificist

readers. On us they produce a sense of physical nausea. Tamerlane with words of frightfulness on his lips to match his deeds is a tiger, but in a sense a respectable animal.......

Within A Few Days From Now We Shall Hear From

Berlin that all thought of negotiations is over owing to the folly of the Allies in not realizing that they are beaten. This will be coupled with threats of the direst......

These Unctuous Words Were Amplified By The Chancellor's...

the way Germany wages war :— " Ur:confused by asseverations, we progressed on our way with firm decision, and we thus continue our progress, always ready to defend ourselves and......

We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The Reception Of The News

by the Allies in general, and by our own people in partioular. Here we can only say that it is summed up in the slang phrase: " Thanks, we aren't takin' any." But though the......