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Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1917, Page 4

Warlencourt, where one of the Guard regiments has fought up to standard. MEN AND METAL TELL. The number of prisoners, whose stream still flows, is not so much a symptom of enemy’s demoralisation as a sheer, undiluted compliment to the perfection of the attack—the dash of the infantry, the weight of the artillery, the co-ordination of the schemm Though the enemy’s troops vary inrmensely in quality, neither places nor prisoners yet fall into our hands by default. It is well to remember this in the moment of victory. At the same time it is true that no lot of prisoners have ever so openly and obviously confessed the failure of German hopes. One man manj times rejected but at last swept insaid that “ no man with two legs could now get exemption from service,” for German generals know that while war is aotive their soldiers mast be relieved often and for considerable spells if they are to kesp up their courage. The Somme battlefield is like a concentrated form of the belt of country within • fifteen degrees of the tropics. No man from the north can endure it without frequent relief; aud the more often he returns the weaker his resistance-