The War Situation.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 March 1918, Page 7

The War Situation.

Mr. Frank H. Sinionds is one of the best of American students and critics of the war, and his special gift is the power to see incidents of the great war in relation to one another and as part of the whole. Writing of the the war position generally, he makes the following sane remarks: “Neither the French nor the' British armies can be conquered in Italy; and unless the French and British armies a're conquered —I mean the millions on the western front—Germany cannot win the war, and her Chances of winning it will diminish ■ regularly as our troops arrive. But it is possible that Germany may conquer the British and French publics by a campaign in a local and subordinate field which may acquire a false value among war-weary and disappointed civil populations in the nations fighting her; while it creates a new confidence among her own discouraged populations. “Let anyone who has doubts look to the statistics of the population, wealth, resources immediate and eventual. of the Central Powers on the one hand and of the British Empire and the American and French Repub- ! lies on the other, without counting | Italy, or that contribution in German and Austrian casualties made by Russia before she quit. Let him bear in mind also what the command" of The sea means to the Allies, and lack of se a communication to the Central Powers; and there should "be a clear conception of the mathematics of the war problem. Napoleon had a better chance than William 11., and he lost; Louis XIV. faced a far weaker and more disorganised Europe than the German Kaiser, and failed, because his own people were out first. To-day the Allies face a crisis of palpable gravity, but it is moral, not military.”