AMERICAN VIEW OF THE END OF THE WAR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 219, 20 October 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

AMERICAN VIEW OF THE END OF THE WAR.

A(1 the American newspapers printed long reviews on the occasion of tlie closing of the second year of the war. There is unanimous agreement, except among the hyphenates, that Gernany cannot win. The British Navy and the British and Russian armies an expected to play predominant parts in the third year. The commentators are reluctant to express any opinion when the conflict v. -11 end, but the belief is widely prevalent that the Teutonic abandonment ot the claim to a victorious peace ma 1 come very quickly, and >wil! be hastened by the growing distress in AustriaHungary. The New York "Times'' savs-

" Libeity begins at last to be ready for its defence against the superman. I iberty memxvd in 1914, in desperate clanger in 11)15, holds too her long-en- ( angered faith :n 1916, and sees in the future the salvat'on of that faith. Wit'i no pretence to Godlike 'efficiency, ar.it vithout retaliating on {'rightfulness, the nations that light for liberty contine doggedly at work to save her, and, though the war may last long yet, .t •'s evident that they will save her.

"Tlio old liattlo i.s ending, or will end, ir. the cid way. Men and nations will not sulmiit to live other than in their own way.''