The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1915.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1915.

VAM'LYG l-'ORTUNES OF WAli. A view ot the war in regard to eventualities, given by Mr F. A. McKenzie, war correspondent to the Daily Mail, in May last is strikingly in accord with expressions of opinions given in The Chronicle's leading articles of April and May last. In elfect, the Daily Mail's contributor argues cogently, as well as reasonabty, that those perfervid people who retu.se to admit'- the possibility of temporary set-backs to the Allied Forces are a source of ultimate vexation to the communities ol which they ionn a too-con-siderable part. He says:— "The campaign must ot necessity be terrific and costly, and casualties cannot fail to bo very' great. At point after point in long sustained fighting, now ahead we <".re bound to receive some hard knocks. We may lose positions that we desire to hold. There must coine days when the messages from the fighting line will cause u.s all grief. Ow resources will be taxed to the utmost. This is the inevitable necessity in a war such as we are now waging. I emphasise this darker side .because I believe that there is at present a very decided and dangerous tendency to over-confidence. The peril is that the people who are elated hy a false complacency to-day ate apt to he plunged into needless pessimism to-morrow. The man who is certnin now that the Germans will soon be swept from the hoard will he inclined, a month hence, when the fighting Is fiercer than over, to declare ihat we can do nothing against them. E;toh extreme is equally harmful and equally absurd." K