WHEN WILL THE WAR END?

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

WHEN WILL THE WAR END?

"IT WIL NOT LAST ANOTHER YEAR." Some further striking views on tin probable finish of the war have lately eben given by eminent people. Here are a few selected from a symposium lately published in the 'New York Am»nesiu : * * * "I do not think the war will last Miother year, irrespective of the efforts of theChriFtian nations to stop it."— Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.

"Considering tiie immense advantages Germany started with, my belief i-s that it will take another full year to beat Germany as thoroughly as the Allies must and will beat her."—Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge.

"The British Navy will throttle Germany, as it did Napoleon, before 1916 ends. The vital centre of the octopus being crushed, the power of its feelers and suckers withers away." General Sir Alfred Turner.

"I do not believe the war will last another year . The limits of enduranceare being approached, and a sense of despondency is arising among the civil populations of the enemy countries." — Lord Sydenham.

"I do not believe another New Year's Day will dawn on the bloody European battlefields. Germany must be decisively beaten."--Mnuricc 3lacterlinck.

"I believe the war will end in the second half of 1910. The manner of the war's end will depend mostly on the effort which the Russians will be able to make in the spring."—Guglielmo Ferrero, the Italian Historian.

"I don't think the war will last another year. The more Germany scatters her forces the more she enfeebles herself and the more she adds to the problem she is compelled to solve." — Stephen Pichon, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, France.

"My personal opinion, which is shared by many high-placed men in France, is that the war will continue until next October or November, when Germany, for political, industrial, and other domestic reasons, will be obliged to ask for peace. Her destiny will b© dictated by the Allies."—Alfred Capus, li\ nch Academician.

"Unless the All : es commit new political or military blunders of a grave character, the war will end in 1916. It already has been greatly prolonged by mistakes. Germany's economic position is worse than her military position. When the mark descends so low in foreign morkets it is significant of profound economic weakness." Joseph Reinach, France's Military Historian.