UNTIL WE WIN

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 February 1915, Page 4

UNTIL WE WIN

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The "Saturday Evening Post" 01 Philadelphia printed an interview on JL>eoember a, which Lord iiitcnener has panted to Mr lrvin Cobb, the famous .American writer. "lhe war will end only when «ermaliy is tnoroughly defeated by land and sea," said Lord iiitcnener. "1 do not think it is likely to end in a month from now or six months, or a y©ar_ so to be on the safe side 1 say three years—at least three years The Germans still think they will win. •'I wonder how long they think it will take them to win. Their cain--1 paign in the west is a failure, and will become more and more a failure as time fawn. "When an army of invasion ceases to invade; that army has lost ita principle object. When that army digs teelf in trenohes and tights *t lon S range it is doing nothing except wasting itself, and especially i» this true ; when that army, having reached its maximum strength, efficiency, and aggressiveness months belore, is now losing in all those essentials. "To lie in that unending chain of trenches is not waging a successful campaign—not even waging war as 1 conceive war to be. For an army of invasion, ao. •'J_v_.ts will justify my beliief. \Ji that I am as sure as I am alive. "Paris might be captured, still the war would go on. England might be invaded, through I believe the enemy has not yet worked out complete plans for that undertaking, and still the war weuld go on. Germany might take the other side of the Channel, and; still the war would go on. "Belgium might remain a captive jrovinoe for the time being, and still the war would go on. "This was is going on until Germany is defeated. "I do not understand why knowledge of the true situation has not spread through the German armies aftd effected the men. They must guess, as we know, their leaders ihave made some terrible mistakes. "All generals made mistakes, but the mistakes ,they Ihave miadie Are such great, such tremendously great mistakes.'' GERMAN VERDICT. Lord Kitchener asked Mr Cobb who had been through the German lines as a war correspondent, what the German attitude was towards the allied soldiers. Mr Cobb told him that the Germans regard the Russian soldiers as stubborn fighters and their officers as incompetent. They concede the excellence of the French light field artillery, but say that the French soldiers lack physical endurance. The British are the hardest fighters they have met, and they speak particularly well of the fighting qualities of the Scottish, but say that there <»re tiot enough British troops to count.

"That is a defect we are taking stops to remedy," «aid Lord Kitchener