WHAT WILL VERDUN MEAN TO GERMANY?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1546, 4 May 1916, Page 4

WHAT WILL VERDUN MEAN TO GERMANY?

That Ihe defeat of the Germans in their efforts to break through the French lines at. Verdun will have very far-reaching effects is {jointed out by Dr Fitehelt in a very graphic review of the lighting of (he month in the May issue of “Life” magazine. it is the. moral rather than the material effect that will be most costly to Germany, thinks Dr Fitchelt. “That long, victorious wrestle with the German masses in front of Verdun," he says, “will act like a strong wine in the very blood of the French ; and French armies are never so formidable as when they have the wine of victory in their blood. But,” he adds, “it is the effect on the neutral Stales of the German failure before Verdun which is most significant.” Pointing to the'aetion of Portugal and Brazil, and to the mutterings of lionniania, Dr Fitchett writes : “When mice begin to nibble at the hide of the lion, it is a sufficient proof that —in the opinion of the mice, at all events —the great beast is in extremis.” In a. semi-hmnurous article, Dr Fitehelt also deals with the visit to London of Mr Hughes, whom he describes as “the most interesting, the most loudly vocal, and the best-re-ported man in the three Kingdoms.” The regular departments of Life are packed with accurate, authoritative, and concentrated information on a. thousand and one topics, most of them, of course, bearing on the all-ahsorhing question of the war. Life should be bought by every thinking man or woman who desires to keep abreast of the times. It is sold locally for 7d ; or if unobtainable, 3s (id sent to T. ShawFitclictt, 37(i Swanston Street, Melbourne, will bring it by post for six months.