16 DECEMBER 1916, Page 2

The answer of the British people and of all the

Allies to such threats is easily given. They will still further raise the Sibyl's price for peace—the passion for which, as is shown by the latest news from Berlin, is literally maddening the civil population of the Empire. The cost of reparation will grow greater and greater, and indeed may grow so great that not only'the German Junker but the whole of the German people may be overwhelmed by it.