A QUESTION OF TIME.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 11, 16 December 1915, Page 4

A QUESTION OF TIME.

Germany, though well organised for the sudden and brilliant dash of a short campaign, lias not tlio resources for a-long and costly war. H is the same with the supply of men. When the war commenced, it was calculated in (Jermanv that the number of the

.sons of the Father!find who year reach the fighting age (a (font 520,000 on the present population basis) would he sufficient to repaid, the wastage caused by the war. But it Is said that 1)00,000 Germans fell during the first year of the war—nor can these figures be considered excessive) when we take into account the reckless way in which human life was sacrificed by the Germans during thej first six months of the struggle. It! will Ik> seen therefore that Germany has not the means of keeping up the wastage.of human material.. ■ She has not calculated on a long war, and she is not .prepared for one. In the >C£i'se; of the American civil war, the turning point was the battle of Gettysburg, two years and three months after the war had commenced. When the turning point will be reached in the present war it would !>e rash-to pr#dief;s all that can be said with certainty is that it is only a question of time, says the Auckland Star.