LOOKING FORWARD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 14, 19 February 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

LOOKING FORWARD.

GENERAL JOFFRE'S FAlTlf I;

THE FUTURE.

An officer In the French army givi some notes of a conversation he hi had with General Joffre at some u; named place at the front. He says: "With a calm and u: shaken voice, the General express* his confidence In the coming victoi —a mathematical victory he called i First of all he tola me he had 1 forge the weapon which was plac< in his hand. Rellabfe generals h£ taken the place of tliose who hi

been found wanting. At present tl French military machine is in such state that the German attack, brokt in its first onset, will dash itself upc it in vain in the future.

"When I alluded to the victory ( the Russian troops I expressed tl view that the necessity of pushir forward reinforcements would weak* the German armies in the West. "General Joffre replied that he wi not anxious for them to decrease tl number of their forces in the Wes In that case the Russians, he wei on to say, would be able to advance i a greater rate, for he was in a pot tion in the future to dispose of a the forces which Germany can brir against him on this front. " 'Was that bluff?' it may be as ed. No; it was only the quiet co fidence of a man who is coYigclous his strength. This is the man w! on the day following the vfctory the Marne, replied to th,fcongrat lations of an officer, who told hi that he had just won the' great< battle in all history, by saying, aft a moment's reflection, 'What I ha won is an early rest in my little hoi in the Eastern Pyrenees.' "