THE WAR NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, 14 March 1918, Page 6

THE WAR NEWS

The Rev. W. G. Monckton, lecturing in Auckland on the war, said it was best to read the papers from France to get a sane view of the war. He had never found the French papers so optimistic and hopeful as at the present time. The French, more than any of the Allies, have the military mind, for they are a military nation. Even if Germany took Petrograd, Russia would only be in the same position as if England had lost the whole of Lancashire, Rumania may also have to capitulate on the terms, but th§rq are certains laws of strategy that have been perfectly sound from the time of Alexander the Great till Napoleon's time, and the most important these laws is the one that Germany has broken. If you are fighting a foe and his armies are not concentrated, then all your energies must be used to prevent the concentration of the army you oppose. It was by neglecting this law that Napoleon lost Waterloo, ail d it is this neglect which makes the papers in France so jubilant. The All ied armies on the Western front are concentrated in a strength' equal to the Germans, and are growing In strength day by day.