TWO MORE YEARS OF WAR?

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3159, 10 August 1917, Page 5

TWO MORE YEARS OF WAR?

AN AMERICAN VIEW OP GERMANY) "Tho Germans can't be starved out, is the.verdict of Mr. Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the Commission, for Relief in Belgium, who is to bo tho United States Food Commissioner during the war. Mr., Hoover reached tho United States from Europe recently, and ho made the statoment lo a New York correspondent of tho "Central News" on tho day after his arrival there. "There is only ono chanco of tho German people or of the Kaiser's Army starving/ Jib said. "That is a bad crop. ' If thd crops are normal they can keep on going. The last reports I had from Germany More I left Europo were that the cattle was practically intact. By that I mean that for a year or moro tho ; Germans have been using only the sur-' plus of tho herd, keeping the baso of the herd intact." Mr. Hoover was reminded that ho bad been quoted by a Cabinet Minister in Washington as reporting that tho Germans hnd food enough to last for two years. Ho was asked if ho meant that the Germans would bo out of food at the end 'of two years. "If tho understanding that tho Germans would have no food at tho end of two years was gained from what I have said, it was incorrect, lie said. "What I meant was that if the Germans went right ahead and ate at the dictates of ■ appetite, so to speak, of what they have, tho present food supply would last two years. It is r.ot to l)e supposed the Germans are going to-do that." ' ~ ~ ~ Mr. Hoover does not behevo the war will end for many months. Ho said: H the Hohenzollerns and the militarist Government are to be destroyed—and nothing short of tho destruction of these mad dOR 3 will give hope of permanent peace—the war must go on at 'east a year moro, or probably two years. Jno American people should bo under no illusion that forces making for popular government in Germany have as yet any consequential weight, although they show occasional snarka of growing light. From a purely military view the Central Powers have a greater man power and ■• rmament than hitherto, and this, together ■with interior lines, enables them to put up a steady resistance to the continually growing strength of tho Allies."