CORNERING THE MAD DOG OF EUROPE.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 September 1916, Page 3

CORNERING THE MAD DOG OF EUROPE.

A PICTURE of the Kaiser standing at bay, and ringed about with a pallisade of gleaming bayonets, adqrns the cover of the September number of " Life," and the legend beneath it, )(Cornering the Mad Dog of Europe," indicates pretty clearly what the Editor—Dr. W. H. Fitchett--thinks of the position of Germany after t"WQ years qf war, In the qpeniqg gag^s gf this number Dr. Fitchett gives us a magnificent summary of the twenty-four months during which this titanic struggle has raged. It is a fine piece of writing, and is worth preserving as a record. Turning to the situation to-day Dr. Fitchett outlines the great offensive on the "Vyestern front, and Iquohes qn, th,e p.srfqrrn.anQes of both the Anzacs and Kitchener's men, and, in a similar way, reviews the great Russian drive qn the Eastern front. In this number, tqo, we fi*n,4 § reprint of the lecture wbjich, Qr. fitc^et^. ' d' eliv.ered in the Library on, "Some Literary Aspects of- th© War-V Am,onS \he sp.ec.ial ar.^es.^ perhaps $n,sY< $W\ Pr.ofess.or. Gilbert Murra.y'-s de^ur-ip.tiqn qfj q|- \h§ British Army in France, in whjeli bo uses the striking simile : " The army is like a vast wedge, with just the apex white-hot in the firing-line,"