WITHIN SIX YEARS!

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3431, 24 January 1912, Page 8

WITHIN SIX YEARS!

''GERMANY AND ENGLAND WILL FIGHT.” VIEWfel OF U.S. SENATOR. ! John Norton Griffiths, Conservative member of Parliament for W ednesbury, Bays that witfhin the next six years England andi Germany Mill be at war and all of Europe will feel the effects of the conflict. . He made this. prophecy without qualification following his arrival in New York from the Canadian North- , west. In saying it he gave n-hatUie believed to be the reason for Canada c , refusal to_ accept reciprocity at the ro-; oont election. “The people of Canada,” said Oritfiths, “realised in their election that a far • 0-raver problem than trade comity witlAhe United States confronted them and that problem was the bringing together of the English empire in unity to confront the menace of a war which would soon threaten the existence of tin? mother nation. , “I believe there is no doubt, lie continued. “but that within six years—-mavbe’muc-h sooner —England and Getrnanv will be at war and all Europe will be shaken by the conflict. Yes, and America, too. for America could not heln feeling keenly the existence of so great a conflict as that will assuredly be. Why do I think this? Because the whole German nation is seeking a war with us at every turn of the road, and when a whole nation is behind a think like this, there is no stopping it The bankers stopped the war o-r the time of the recent crisis, but war was verv near, and the bankers cannot always stand in the way of a whole people.”