WHEN WILL IT END?

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 86, 10 April 1916, Page 6

WHEN WILL IT END?

SOME WHIMSICAL OPINIONS ABOUT THE WAR. Several prominent people have been giving their opinions in reply to the question, “How long will it be before the war is over?” Here are some more answers that got omitted from the other symposium:

Mr. Asquith; “I should have preferred to have notice of your question; hut since you ask for a definite reply at once, my answer is in the negative.”

Dean Inge: “Not before 1946, I fear.’

Lord Northcliffe: “Say rather ‘How long will it be before the war begins?’ I doubt whether the nation has awakened to the fact that, far from the war being over the real business has scarcely ” (Etc. The mixture as before.). Dr. Woodrow Wilson: “What war?”

Colonel Maude, C. 8.: “According to my statistics the war should end next Tuesday; but, to be on the safe side, let me say next Wednesday.” Lord Kitchener: “Didn’t you read my preliminary prospectus in 1914? Three years.” Mrs. Elinor Glynn: “Three weks.’

Lord Fisher: “War would have been over a year ago if the pilot hadn’t been dropped.”

The, Postmaster-General, in a printed letter, dater the 10th hist., acknowledges my favour of the 3rd inst., and begs to inform me that the contents have been noted and will receive attention in due course.

Mr. Justice Darling: “Ten days, or forty shillings and costs.” Sir Herbert Tree: “I can best answer your question by recounting a bon-mot of mine made to a friend as I was standing on the steps of the Green-Room Club a few weeks ago. ‘Herb,' said my friend, T wish I could see an end to this infernal war.’ ‘So you can,’ I replied, in my best epigrammatic tone of voice, ‘if you remember August 4th, 1914. That’s one end.?” (Copyright in the jhy H. Beerholm Tree). MORE VIEWS. Out in Flanders, “The Salient,” the organ of the Sixth Corps in Flanders has been giving more views upon how 10-'f iriM war wdi m• ’ .We quot*.— “Just as long as Asquith remaais m jx.w. r.-Lioyd Gevg.e “My pearls at Little Willie’s feet if it would shorten zee war a day—although doctor ’e say that would mean pneumonic.”—Gaby.

“As long as Northcliffe is at large.” —Simon.