The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1918. WAITING WITH CONFIDENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 June 1918, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1918. WAITING WITH CONFIDENCE.

(With which is Incorporated The T*i« hape Post and Yralnwimo News)..

Scenes are hourly changing in the great battle that is raging from the Aisne to the Marne and between Kheinis and Soissons. Before newspapers in the Dominion can publish one cable stating that the Germans hold three-quarters of the circle around Rheims, another comes to hand informing us that the British occupants of the city have knocked one quarter of the circle utterly to pieces. As we have previously stated, there is strong evidence that Eheims and Soissons are to be denied to the Huns. They may go through the opening between theso two places in any number they please, but they will not be allowed to widen the gateway. There are also reasonable grounds for presuming that no very determined resistance was offered to the Germans galloping due south to the Marne, nor even to crossing that river, but when a turn was made towards Paris there was almost instant Allied pressure brought to bare to block the way, and despite the fact that several new divisions were thrown in against tho defenders, not an inch of permanent gain was made. Villages captured have been recaptured by the French; it has settled down into a battle of ebb and flow, with the tide gradually going out. Yesterday, the invaders got an entry into two rather important villages, Neuilly and Lapotiere, but the French have conditions so well in hand that this occupation will only be temporary. The information comes from New Xork that British, French and Americans arc now rushing in their respective reserves, indicating that the time has arrived for the strength of the Allies to be most effectively used, The real intensions of the German high command are now fully discovered to be the destruction of Allied cohesion and Allied armies; the channel ports arc a secondary matter. In the course of a few more days it will be seen how well they have succeeded. It is plain that so much of German reserve force has been used up and will have to be used up before the second battle of the Marne is through, and the huge crop of German casualties will loom up so appallingly great before the German soldiers and people that it will cause them to hesitate before 'their All-high,est tp again lead them to the slaughter. Unless the enemy can capture Paris he is well aware that this battle, although being successful from a purely invasion point of view, is in reality a serious defeat. He has sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his best troops and has gained absolutely nothing of valuo to him. He is no nearer either Paris or the channel ports; his ports at Zccbruggc and Bruges are receiving attention of a disastrous character from Allied airmen; he is alarmed at his German officers being made the target of mutinous bullets throughout the Austrian army; Bussia is giving him added trouble; he is being held at every point on the West front, and all these matters arc causing great concern amongst the German people, so much so that another peace campaign of a vigorous character is now under consideration by tho Reichstag. Germany may yet rally again and again but the true character of the Military dictators is now so well-known throughout the world that peace offers, or any other offers that do not include unconditional surrender, will be accepted by the Allies: America will agree to no compromise. Through the Crown Prince the divine right of the Hohenzollerns has again been tested and in only a few days the world will learn how ignobly it has failed.