Second Edition In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 90, 13 November 1916, Page 6

Second Edition In the West

(THE DURATION OF THE WAR.

WAY LAST OVER 1917.

Press Association. -Copyright,, Auabra.

Bank and N.Z. Cable Association. i! ! (tlecoived 9.35 a.m.) •c I,;,: London, November 12

Mr S" f : li, Garvin, writing in the Observer,'states-' if is possible the war will last beyond 1917 unless the Allies accomplish mighty things. The position is less favourable. than in Ootoj)er. It is no i,'true that an enemy military collapse is imminent. They are able to collect enough men for another year’s fighting. There are indications that there will.be no breakthrough in 1916 on the West front, and it is unlikely there will be an extensive withdrawal of the German lines by Christmas. Mr Garvin blames the Allies for their dilatoriness and bungling in the Balkans and adjacent theatres; also for their fumbling and paralysing action towards King Constantine. The Roumanians made a mistake in not crushing Bulgaria first and severing the connection between Berlin and Constantinople, so as to eable. the Allies to ig 'lMrlfoy and Bulgaria. The' Anstrci-German position is disagreeable, but not disastrous. Allied hopes will be postponed, but not jeopardised. . Russia will, in 1917, for the "firstYimVC possess an equality of heavy guns and an immense pr«d‘>«.}u?ma reserves, and, i t is likely Gfefieral HincTcnbnrg‘will make his crowning effort .on the Coast frqnt before then..* 1 . ')} . . - C C-.

SOMME OFFENSIVE STOPPED.

THE-JNAR IN 1918.

5 (Received. 12.10 p.m.) London, November 12. Tli© Observer states: The Battle of the Somme practically ceased a few weeks back. The Allies slowed down in a marked manner. There must be a new battle with a new character before any important change develops. The fact d;hat there was , breakthrough' the German llha| this must force the presumption of the war lasting- for - into

A BONO OF BROTH ERHOOIB,

PRAISE FOR OVERSEAS TROOPS.

SHARE FOR THE NEW ZEALANDERS,

Published in “The Times.”

(Received 9.35 a.m.) London, November 12

A correspondent with headquarters reports!: One effect of the war on the Empire will 64 6ur menVßdndf/of brotherhood with the Oversea troops. Since the Somme began, they have held an honourable place in the fighting, continually sharing in the operations involving the whole of the front, and invariably justifying our confidences. The New Zealanders fought finely throughout, and any list of the 1 foremost lighting regiments is incomplete which does not include them, so magnificent was their share of the capture of Fleurs, and in, fhe .fighting to the north-west, when they were a tower of strength to the Ityifieh troops on each side. POSITION AT FORT DOUAUMONT Press Association—Copyright. Router’s Telegrams, (Received 1.50 p.m.) London, November 12. A correspondent with the French Headquarters, after a visit to Fort Douaumont, says: Owing to a big explosion of a magazine the Germans abandoned it hurriedly, though they undoubtedly intended to return, but the French . forestalled them. The German stories of its destruction were inventions ■; 4 Excepting for a large hole in the roof of the fort, it is undamaged, and ? . besides, there is pinch stores, two seventy-fives and a heavy gun being left. When the French evacuated it, the remains of sixty Germans who were asphyxiated months ago in an explosion remain immured in the inner wall like fait'hless nuns. !