WHEN WILL PEACE COME?

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2862, 29 August 1916, Page 5

WHEN WILL PEACE COME?

" INDICATIONS OF A' LONG, TEDIOUS STRUGGLE. . Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. August 28, 7 p.m.) '• London, August 27. ' The newspapers aro discussing . likelihood of a prolongation of the war. Tlicy point out that all the. official indications, including the late Lord Kitchener's, have urged preparations for a long and .tedious struggle. The latest Ministerial pronouncements contain no more - optimistic lints. Military preparations continuo 911 the vastest scale, and there are 110 signs of any diminution or stoppage. Everywhere' the indication's aro that the authorities are steadily increasing the supplies of mc{i and munitions. The War Office has taken over 247 volunteer battalions, thuß freeing men fit to go to the front. It invites all men who aro physically fit, and who are not engaged in war work, to join the volunteers. It is a " noteworthy fact that the military authorities are calling all men who have heen classed as for sedentary work. Nevertheless, there is, a largo volume of betting at short prices predicting pcaci before June, 1917. EARL HALDANE'S VIEW. (Rec'. August 28, 7 p.m.) London, August 27. Earl Haldane, speaking at Auchterarder, said that the Allies had two anxious months when, the - German hosts were pouring through Belgium, ■and a second .when tho Germans were in overwhelming superiority of numbers at Ypros, in October, 1914. Now, " with the French magnificently resisting at Verdun, and our armies smashing, the Germans on the Sommo, people recognised that we had readied tho final chapter of the war.