The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JANUARY I8, 1916. DURATION OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 36, 18 January 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1916. DURATION OF THE WAR.

The probable duration of the war is a good deal discussed both in Britain and America. The New York Tribune, which is certainly not a pro-German organ, says that fortunately for France and Great Britain—and for the world, as the Tribune believes—the peril of a complete German success has been disposed of. France, Russia and Great Britain keep the field with growing power and unshaken will. "The blood tax <m Germany has begun to tell. The British naval noose lias been drawn to suffocation. The German advance has terminated in the Kast a,l<l '" ' l '"' West; only in the Balkans is there any progress. All doubt a? to '-he outcome of the war as a military problem has passed. Such doubt as there might have been as to the endurance and will of the Allies has diminished in the face of recent evidence, of which the Paris conference I |s |,ui one detail. But the war of |one or perhaps two years more seems absolutely inevitable, for pence is impossible while those who rule Germany cling to the belief that it is within their power to organise Europe, to dominate the lefser peoples, and to build upon the nuns of I Mie French, British and Ru Man Empires the structure of 'Dcutsohlaud j über Alles.' " What Germany's aim i in this present year is. it is not dilli- . cult to determine. A well-known

j English writer sums up the .position las follows:—•'There are two ways of I fighting; one is to observe a certain j tradition of soldierly honour; the ! other is to break loose iikf a wild '' boa-it and it is the method followed by Germany. She ha s not only re- ! vealed what appalling deed: may be 'done hy ;1 nation which has brought 1 rlie art of war to a scientific perfection; she has also revealed to what ueeps ol shame, an army, calling itself civilised, boasting its chivalry; and including the best blood o) the nation, can incontinently dosc'ond. To soi out upon a career of conquest is one thing; to behave like a homicidal maniac is another. In the one ease you win or you lose, and there's an cud; in the other, an entire nation,is degraded. The German army is in- | deliblv disgraced; the national honour lias gone. Germany is fighting with a halter round her neck. She is fighting, not to win, for she cannot win, but to save a corrupt and criminal dynasty, whoso existence is forfeit, a hundred times over." The fabric of falsehood and criminality upon which Germany's mad ambitions have been raised is fast tottering, and the foul dishonour of a once great nation is complete. No amount of wild assertion and patently stupid lying about the actions of the soldiers and sailors of the Allied countries who have banded together Tor the world's liberty, will for one moment longer deceive the neutral nations. most of whom have had appalling evidence of German ferocity. The food riots in Berlin and other German cities are ominous of a change in the spirit of the people, and indicate tlr j the awakening is at hand.