“PEACE WILL CONE SUDDENLY.”

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 152, 30 June 1916, Page 5

“PEACE WILL CONE SUDDENLY.”

U.s. FENANCEER SAYS GERMANY IS BEATEN. NEW YORK, May 15. Mr. Samuel Hill, the son-in-law and intimate business associate of tne late .Mr. James J. tHili, the North Western Railway magnate, returned last night in the liner Philadelphia from a visit to Europe, where it is believed ho was sent by his. father-in-law for the purpose of learning the present status, of the war.. Mr. Hill said in an interview: — “Germany is beaten, and the end of the war is in sight. Peace will come as suddenly as the war started. “There will not be another winter campaign. Germany cannot struggle against the overwhelming financial strain and the economic conditions prevailing since the war began. In 1913 Germany imported half a million labourers to harvest her crops. This year sbo will only gather fio per cent, of the harvest of the year before the war ”