DUNEDIN MAN'S VIEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17281, 23 September 1916, Page 7

DUNEDIN MAN'S VIEWS.

[From Otjr Correspondent.] DUNEDIN, September 22. Councillor ■ J. S. Sinclair, who returned to Dunedin this week, after an unsuccessful trip to the Motherland, with a view to enlisting, has been detailing his impressions and observations. 0 * Speaking as a layman, backed up by facts and information, gleaned from military peoplo, Mr Sinclair expresses the belief that the end of the war is not nearly in sight yet. The suggestion that Germany and her allies wi soon become exhausted, by reason of the heavy drain on their manhood, does not seem to ' bo' seriously accepted by the authorities at Home. The opinion at Homo seems to be that the Russians on the oast are going to be the advancing aggressors and will invade a portion of Germany, Austria and Bulgaria to such an extent as to force the decisive termination of the war. As to the effect of the blockade, ho says that much has been written in the newspapers concerning the scarcity of food, in Germany, but prisoners who quite recently returned from Germany say emphatically that they saw nothing to indicate in any way whatever that the effect of the blockade was boing severely felt, • nor can it' iße conceived even yet that the'enemy .is likely for a long time to cometoAe handicapped by a*; shortago of ~m*u~n.Qiver. The confidence of the. .country ■. stillX rests, in.-, the 3 tit ,;h Hvh'Mh*>;ihii» ""i'jnoro than .Jjtia.ptained/th'o highest possible., exneclW -f It.. V '