The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1915. MORE MEN FOR THE FRONT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 January 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1915. MORE MEN FOR THE FRONT.

The general opinion is tliat we shall have to send more men to the front, and without delay. The Defence authorities recogniso this, and so does the Acting-Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Hughes). He saye that every means at the disposal of the Federal Government is being utilised for this purpose. He says: (r Not a day, not an lion ris toeing wasted in order that wo may with all despatch do our part in this great struggle'against the tremendous forces arrayed against us. The Government is very keenly alive to its responsibilities in this matter and realises to the full the true nature of the task in which the Allies are engaged. I fear that this is not as generally recognised as one could desire. The struggles in which the Allies are engaged is at once titanic and desperate. It is literally a.struggle to the death. Let the denizens of the T/omnionwea-th rid themselves of illusions. Let them not think that the issue is beyond' doubt. Let them rid their minds of the idea that the power of Germany has been shattered, or that her resources, military and economic, are or must soon, become exhausted. Such misconceptions of the position are fatal anodynes, dulling the senses to the danger in which we really stand. "We must face the grim facts. Never in the history of the world! has there been a war like this one. So, too, never have Britain and her Allies confronted snch an enemy. It is a fact that the tremendous instrumfent wliioh Prussia's militarism has created for tffe ennlavement of all who will not bow the knee stands like some monster in the jungle baulked in first spring, but with, its deadly purpose still resolute and its power unimpaired.