What most of us feel here is that the Germans are staking everything on
fighting in France or Belgium, and when they are beaten, as they will
be sooner or later, they will howl for peace to save their own country
from the horrors of invasion. That’s an idea we have got from their
prisoners, and they think it’s a rattling good one. If it were left to
the army to settle you may be sure that we’d vote to a man for giving
the devils a taste of their own medicine, and you’ll see us crossing
their sacred Rhine before long unless you’re the greatest fools in
creation. You are only a woman and can’t vote, but for Heaven’s sake
rub it in to all the men you know that this is what the army feels
about the thing. We wouldn’t make peace with the devils until we’ve
rubbed their noses well into the ground of their Fatherland, and we’ll
do it yet, even if it costs us a million lives: _Lance-Corpl. S.
Northcroft, of Wolverhampton_.