GAMBLER’S LAST THROW.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 30 December 1915, Page 3

GAMBLER’S LAST THROW.

Writing in the Paris Journal, Col. Foyler, of the Swiss Army, says he considers the of the usury of men, the squnaddring of the effectives of the German army, the impoverished recruiting, and the formidable losses which are thinning out the lines already weakened by the extension of fronts. He concludes with

this opinion:— “The immense, but everywhere immovable, fronts have absorbed an excess of the manoeuvring units. The

Headquarters Staff forms new units only by impoverishing old ones, and all the units regain the spring and freshness of life only by the supplementing of their cadre's with such second-rank elements as the nation can still afford to send. That is precisely the general situation in which the German forces find themselves at a moment, when the campaign of 1015

is approaching its conclusion. This explains the meaning of the Balkan

enterprise. “1 do not know whether one must look at it in the light of a gambler’s last throw, but assuredly any hopes the enterprise may awake in the minds of its authors are deceptive. The campaign of 101(1 will be for the Germans a campaign of decline.”