WHY GERMANY MUST LOSE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 165, 14 April 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHY GERMANY MUST LOSE.

MR 1.1.0 YD GEORGE STATES THE REASONS. \ SMASHING VICTORY, NOT ATTRITION. MILAN, Jan. 2*. Mr Lloyd George, in an interview with Dr Mario Bursa, editor of the " Secolo." which will be published tomorrow, said—- " Freights are high for you, ju»t as they are high for us. Your consumers suffer. our consumers suffer. 1 will tell you frankly—we have perhaps made a mistake. We might perhaps have nationalised shipping, as wo nationalised railways, at the beginning of the war. But there were difficulties." Mr l.loyd George was asked whether he was pleased with the progress of munition work. " Yes," he said. " We woke up slowly to it ; but I am now perfectly satisfied with what we aie doing. \\ e have now 2500 factories, employing one and a half million men and quarter of a million women. We have adapted old plants and established now ones on modern lines. " We are not only satisfying the requirements of our own army, but we are also supplying our Allies, particularly Russia. One cannot have an idea of the tremendous work going on in Britain just now unless one can see it. I'LOWKR OK OCR MANHOOD. "Our voluntary army exceeds three millions, and the men now being train- ' ed and iroing to the front are the How- j e;- of l lie nation's manhood. They j are the classes between 19 and MO years el age, who are largely exhausted in the armies of the enemy. They are I j list coming on with us, and they are j splendid material. j " 1 am absolutely confident," declared Mr Lloyd George. " lint on what grounds do you base | your confidence?" " Fir.-t of all. on the fact that now j tlie Allies are at last taking counsel j together. We have made stupid mis- j takes in the past, all of us, and we i all suffered alike. We were acting I always independently oi one another. Great Britan was waging her war: so were France, Russia and Italy. Only lately we have realised the folly of such proceedings, and have steered a better course. "We are and shall be stronger r u only because we are united but also because we shall have really more r.en and more munitions, and this is the second fact on which 1 base my conlidenee. " By next f pring we sba'l have turn-?d j out an immense amount of munitions-, we shall have, for the first time in the war, more than the enemy. Our superiority in men and materials will be un questioned, and I t'enk the war lor us is beginning only now. CATGUT I'NPREI'ARKD. " We were all caught unprepared, j The French, Russians, and Italians had to organise their armies. We liar" 1 to create a new one. We have now three

millions under arms; by the spring we shall have a million more. You have seen our soldiers. They are strong, fit, and well equipped.

"Germany's economic and financial conditions are getling worse every day. And' that is the third fact on which 1 base my confidence. The riots in Berlin and other cities must mean something. She can still import things, but not on a scale to enable her to go on successfully for a long period. The army will be the last to feel the distress in Germany, but it, too, will feel it."

. "Do you think," asked Dr. Borsa, "there is any danger of the war ending jn a military deadlock?" "That would not be the end,'"' replied Mr. Lloyd George. "The victory must be a real and a final victory. The l.mg line, extending to two thousnd miles, held by the enemy must be broken. You must not think of a deadlock. You must crack the nut before you get at the kernal. It may take a long time, but you must hear the crack. "Wearing down the outside by attrition is too long, and would not be a smashing and pulverising victory. The pressure on the enemy is becoming greater; they are spreading their frontiers temporarily, but they are becoming weaker in a military sense. The process of strangulation is going on, and' wilt squeeze more and more the material resources of the enemy. "Make no mistake about it. Great Britain is determined to fight this war to a finish. We may make mistakes, but we do not give in. It was the obstinacy of Britain that wore down napoleon after twenty years of warfare. Allies broke away one by one, but Britain kept on. Our allies on this occasion are just as solid and determined as we are."—Renter Special.