The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916. THE WINTER OUTLOOK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 77, 28 October 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916. THE WINTER OUTLOOK.

The splendid confidence of the Allies in their' ability to not only hold the Germans on the Western Front but to steadily dispossess them of French sqil and finally drive them back to Germany, broken and defeated, must have been strengthened greatly during the past few weeks by the progress made and the heavy punishment inflicted on the enemy. A continuous strenuous effort is apparently the Allies’ plan for the coming winter so that the enemy may have no opportunity to remove troops from the West to operate elsewhere, nor yet to rebuild battered divisions at his leisure. General Maurice estimates the number of Germans held by the Somme offensive as five-eighths of their strength, probably meaning that five-eighths of the whole German army is held in the West. The mili-

tary correspondent of the Fortnightly Review, in the September number of that magazine, wrote: “Reckon-: ing by divisions, it lias been ascertained that on loth August, out of a total of 174 infantry divisions, the Germans had 121 on tho Western and 53 on the Eastern front. When General Brusiloff was threatening Kovel in June, four divisions were transferred from West to East, and the 121st Division, which suffered so heavily in the early days of General Haig’s offensive, was also sent to the East in July but no other troops have been taken from the Western front, j nor would it be possible to weaken further the enemy’s line in lace of llu> increasing pressure which tho. Allies are bringing to bear all down the front occupied.” Tho Czar’s soldiers are following up their advantages also, and Brusiloff will continue his smashing tactics on the great front he is holding. Elsewhere it seems that the tactics will be ■ on similar lines so that the war makers may get all they want of it, and more, before the winter ends.