AFTER VERDUN, WHAT?

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 183, 16 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

AFTER VERDUN, WHAT?

]> Fitehett, in "Life" (for June), iu-t ; -.sr.ed, rightly describes the \erdun battle, or series of battles, as an .. ( .pic of the war." All the military crit'es asfive that the long-continued assault on Verdun is the n.ost important event since the Battle of the Elaine, and it is extremely interesting to note the varying points from which the operations are viewed, thus a leading Austrian critic sees in it nothing but a triumph for Germany. Ihc Frenvh authorities count up the enemv dead bv hundreds of thousands, and the most conservative English observer estimates the German casualties at a quarter of a million; yet. by some queer line of reasoning, the Austrian writer calculates that Germany saves 7(i,(|i)o men. His logic seems to be that of the Western cowboy who wrecked the passenger tram, but saved the child. Now Dr. Fitchett if. a past-master in the art of collecting these wide'y differing accounts, sifting and gleaning the truth from each, and presenting to his renders a complete review of the operations, which loses nothing of its informative value through being told in hits bright and picturesque style. Nowhere have we seen a better sumniarv of the \ erdun drive than m •• 1 iii'e" for June. ~ The other departments of "Life are so carefully edited that 110 one, wo are sure, will grudge the extra twopence that, 011 account ol the -100 per cent, rise in the co-t of paper, has been added to the price. At 9d Lite U siil! a cheap magazine, and remains the ideal magazine of the busy man. Ii ii cannot be obtained locally, a ])o>tal note lor Is (id sent to I. Shaw I it<hetf. ; ! 7ti Swanston St.. Melbourne, will ensure it- 1 egular delivery by post for ,-ix months.