"COMING GERMAN COLLAPSE"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 18, 16 October 1917, Page 3

"COMING GERMAN COLLAPSE"

MR. T. M. WILFORD'S LECTURE.

The Town Hall whs packed last night when Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., lectured on "The Coining German Collapse." The Governor-General and the Mayor -(fere present. . The Mayor in introducing the lc©turer paid a tribute to his efforts on the publio platform on behalf of the war. ■ Sir. Wilford said at the outset .that tho collapse of Germany was in sight. The Germans had calculated everything except the things that had happened. As to peace propaganda, the time for a strong Army was when peace feelers were being 'thrown out. If V« l 0e n made .to-day there would ho 129,000,000 peopie left under German rule, and Wat would mean another conflict to-morrow. The hopes for the peace of the world lay in the Slav nations. Had ic not been for tho Kussiun collapse tho Turkish Army would have been arabble after tho fall of Bagdad. • Mr. Wiltord spoke admiringly of tho work of tho Italians, than whom there were no bettor soldiers and 110 more magnihcenl mining engineers. America was going to play a very great part in this war. In the air alone she was preparing for immense things; «£I2G,OOO,fcOO had been, voted by America for aoroplane construetion. In the future aeroplanes were going to fight in companies and Divisions, not as individuals. America proposed making 100,000 aeroplanes and training 25,000 flying men, each man to havo four machines. Olio of the Wst signs of Germany's weakening was ino frequent employment of storm troops. But their storm troops were n ot .™° equal of the Allied troops, all of whom were trained as storm troops. nio policy of tho Allies was that Germany could havo any Allied territory she wished for if she cared to pay the price. Tho German Army had lost its figutin» vnlno and its morale, but it had to li o ht where it stood to-day, because certain immediate losses would mean the c oiuiiig of the sea coast. The .jest Geiman troops had been tried out on the \\ est eni front and had failed, anil when Uai made tho next move Lille must tall, a . that meant that an important lme oi railway would go. Then the would have to fall lwefc on the next line of railways. What had been done on the Western front was a monument to our verv brave troops. Speaking of Jtussia Mr. Wilford remarked that lverensky had said that Germany dare not launch a great offensive against Russia, because it would unito the Russian people to fight tor.