GERMAN PEOPLE SURE OF A DRAW.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 87, 24 September 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

GERMAN PEOPLE SURE OF A DRAW.

MR. BELLOC EXPLAINS THEIR MISTAKE. ''The great mass of the enemy is now confident of a draw." This is a psychological factor, says Mr. Hiliare Belloc in "Land and Water," which will sooner or uatcr react upon the enemy's strategy. But. adds Mr. Belloc. the enemy military expert "knows that with the grand alliance unbroken, the purely military result of the campaign oannot he a draw. " There is not the slightest doubt that if we could hear the private conversation of the higher commanders of the enemy we fchould discover a frank admission that, short of a real decision before the winter and granted the tenacity of the Allies, defeat is ultimately inevitable for them. . . Hut the political effort of Prussia at this moment is the measure of her reliance upon the weariness or disunion of the Allies. •'The enemy's wastage proceeds at about five to six times the rate which can be repaired bv recruitment. Meanwhile the Allied forces suffer from a wastage loss than the amount which can ultimately be repaired by recruitment—e.g., Russia has actually ready and trained, though not yet equipped, more men behind her fighting line than a>ll the men she has lo»t. "Great Britain has actually ready and trained in the West, though not \et fully equipped, more men taan ha\e l.een lost in every fashion to all the Western Allied forces during the whole war between Switzerland and the son Further, Great Britain and Russia >" !Ve behind these again further fields ol recruitment. The enemy has none. "What about, equipment and munitions 5 The enemy has f;il'. equipment for his diminishing numbers, Within certain calculable limit «.t time known to the higher command el the Alius, nil this immense untouched risen e. East and West, will bo fully equipped. With everv passing week a arger and a larger proportion receive the:r equipment: the Plant for increasing the output is itself rapidly growing and tin neutral supplies of the world are open to the Allies as well. , «ft is the s line with munition*. il.ul we stopped cotton going "Uo Ocrmanv t\, e would alroady have been oa„