IF THE WAR STOPPED TO-DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1407, 5 June 1915, Page 4

IF THE WAR STOPPED TO-DAY.

One of the leading British journals says that If the war stopped to-day history w r ould record a signal German victory and a decisive British defeat. This statement is roundly challenged by Dr Fitchett, the editor of Life, in the June issue of that excellent Australasian magazine. In his most graphic style, and with that keenness of insight which characterises his writings on the war he points out the exact reverse to be the case. “Great Britain,” Dr Fitchett writes, “has suffered no defeat; the foot of the invader has not touched her soil. Her command of the sea is absolute. She has created in a few brief months an army of Continental scale and of at least Continental quality. But, on the other hand, what a catalogue of failures makes up the story of Germany ! Her whole plan of the war has been wrecked. The ‘march to Paris’ failed ; the swing eastward of victorious armies, which was to overwhelm Russia, has not taken place. Germany has tried to teach Paris and failed ; to reach Calais, and failed : to reach Warsaw, and failed, She has lost her colonics under every sky ; and, it must be remembered, she entered on the war with the confident expectation of absorbing all the French colonies. But Germany has suffered a worse loss than that of colonies, or trade, or of strategic hopes. Something has gone from her never to return.” These fine sentences form part of a special article in Fife in which Dr Fitchett deals with the general outlook of the war. We refer readers to the magazine for the rest of this brilliant article. He follows this with four other special articles, which form as a whole the most illuminating and interesting review possible of the mouth’s fighting and the situation as it now standsThe whole of Fife, however, is not devoted to war, for we find some capital illustrated a Hides on general subjects, some bright fiction, and a dozen well-filled departments dealing with science, art, books, athletics —even furniture making. In a word, Fife for June Is the usual abundant sixpennyworth for the busy man and woman. If unobtainable locally, a 3s 6d postal note sent to T. Shaw Fitchett, 376 Swanston St., Melbourne, will bring the magazine to any home every month for six months.