AN AMERICAN ON PEACE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 35, 11 February 1916, Page 3

AN AMERICAN ON PEACE.

The best military opinion in the United States has not been affected as regards the eventual outcome of the war by developments in the Balkans (says a New York correspondent). It rests unsh'akably on the conviction that the Germanic Powers are doom- '. ed to be decisively defeated. After predicting at least another year of war, a writer in the ,New York "Tribune" disposes of the empty peace rumours in the following passage*—"There is no basis for peace now. Germany cannot and will not consent to give up all her mighty conquests merely for peace —a peace that x would bring staggering and, sterile debt. Germany's foes cannot. agree to peace while their very existence is in danger. "It took Europe ten years to dispose of the Napoleonic menace. It will take a shorter time to dispose of the German because it is Napcleonism with Napoleon left Out. Fortunately for France and Great Britain and for the world, the peril of complete German success has been disposed of. France, Russia, and Great Britain keep the field with growing power and unshaken will. The blood tax on Germany has begun to tell. The British naval noose has been drawn to suffocation. The German advance has terminated in the east and west, and only in the Balkans is there still progress.

"All doubt of the outcome of the war as a military problem has passed. But one, perhaps two, years more of war are seemingly unescapable, for peace is impossible while those who rule Germany cling to the belief that it i s within their power to organise Europe and dominate the lesser peoples.'" I T;