The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1915. A SWISS VIEW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 34, 9 October 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1915. A SWISS VIEW.

One of the ablest Swiss newspaper writers. Colonel Secretan who owns , and edits;; the iCJjiiKP.tte vile Reviews the present military situation alter twelve mouths' trcjnendous fighting with its attendant loss of life and treasure, and I its upsetting ~ «.f.,, the whole world's industry and commerce,,! and.a.sks: What pan the two CeutraL KiDpires hope frpni a continuation, ojjl " this dreadful; war? He Ulceus ..Co.i;-:| { many.add Austria To besieged fortr.cs-. * ses, and goes on to say that a fortress, whether a town, nil pillivneb- , ed camp, or a country, is hound to capitulate if no help comes from without. Whence are Germany and Axi >- bria-Hungary to get such help? Ho " reasons that both Empires, as a year of war has shown, are capable of holding out a long while on the two Iron is on which they are fighting, hub i a year of war has also shown that they are powerless to carry out decisive attacks on these two front''. Nevertheless, they must do so if they/ are to wjn. Even if they succeeded in preventing the Allies reaching Constantinople, Colonel Secretan holds that they cannot break the iron ring encircling them, and the Huns will go neither to Paris, nor to Koine, nor to Potrograd, nor even to Calais, and. above all, not to Loudon. It is logically inadmissible that they can ill future wrest from an ever-increas-ing enemy what they could not take from him in the past "hen they were still in possession of their- full strength. Proceeding, Colonel Secretan says: Certain newspapers announced that the German Emperor. addressing a meeting of uneasy hankers, assured them that the war would he ended in October". Many phophebic assertions are put in the mouth of this monarch, hut they must b(» taken for what they are worth, and this particular one is certainly false.l The German Emperor is not in a position to dictate either the time or the conditions of peace: that is not within his power. He has against him six armies, none of which is exhausted. On the contrary, banded together by a solemn compact, thev are all six firmly resolved to continue the strttg- ■ gle until their common enemy shall have laid down his arms. This will probably not be for a very long time yet. The Allie s know this, and have l made up their minds to everything. I They are increasing their armies and. ' are constantly increasing their war M material; they have gold, they have '< the sea. Meanwhile the Allies' stra- ' tegy is that of their policy the - strategy of a besieger with plenty of I tune before him. They ale waging a war of exhaustion, in which they them. selves are not being exhausted. .