When is the War Going to End?

Levin Daily Chronicle, 16 October 1917, Page 1

When is the War Going to End?

CHAPLAIN-CAPTAIN BLAMIRES VENTURES A PREDICTION.

The "Herald" reports that speaking at Wanganui on Sunday night, Chap-lain-Captain Blamires said he had frequently heard the question asked: "When is the war going to end?" but no one questioned how it was going to end. He had come direct from the trenches in Prance, where everyone believed that decisive blows were being struck. The end of the war had been held back by Russia's internal troubles, but the horizon was now much brighter than it was 12 months ago, and all along the hundred miles held by the . British they were winning, in conjunction with their allies. There was no thought that we should be pushed back, but a strong conviction that wherever we decided to push we could win. 'The cost of rapid pushing was expensive, and our leaders were conserving their forces and strength. "We have beaten the Germans on the West front," continued the preacher, "and the only question is, when will they acknowledge their defeat." Proceeding, Captain Blamires contrasted the conditions in Britain and France and in Germany. Last winter was one of the severest experienced in Britain and France for many years, but the conditions in Germany were infinitely worse. Our men were better fed than the Germans, and if the latter held out they were going to have a bad winter. Without attempting anything in the nature of a definite prediction, he believed that the end of the northern summer, when America would be ready to add hor full weight to the strength of tho Allies, would see the end of the fighting.