LOOKING FORWARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 83, 14 March 1916, Page 4

LOOKING FORWARD.

Last Christmas Day a war correspondent asked some of the British Generals if it was likely the men in the trenches would spend next Christmas Day at home. One of them spoke shrewdly when he replied: "If our position as compared to that of the enemy improves as much between now and next Christmas as it has between last Christmas and this, the war will be over before 1917." The correspondent adds: We may not raise as many men. in the I'nited Kingdom during 1916 as in 1910, but on the other hand there will be within the next few months a great improvement in the fighting value of the new Army troops as they get more field experience,. Then our> Supply of artillery and machine guns and ammunition will show an enormous increase; while, although anticipation, about the failure of Germany's military resources is dangerous, one may safely look for a steady diminution in her main power during 1916.• Again, the German hopes of friction and disruption 'among the Allies is not. nearly so well- founded as the hopes of the Allies might well have of disagreement among the forces of the enemy. Bri-| tish generals mentioned these and fifty other points which went to encourage the belief that there will not be an-] other Christmas in the trenches. j