The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1918. PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 July 1918, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1918. PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

(With which is Incorporated The Taihape P.oet and Walnraitto News).

The progress of the war, so far as there is definite knowledge of it, is not sensational although it is so convincingly comprehensive as to have influenced the man in the street to realise that Germany can no longer, with any reason and all her boasted victories, deny that it is not "her destiny to become the world's predominant Power. All now admit that Germany is overpowered; that turn to whichever battle area one will he sees the mana of Germany overridden by that of the Allies. In Germany there is unprecedented political confusion; the Chancellor, the Kaiser's elect, told the German Parliament that victory by arms was impossible; more recently Naumann, the progressive leader in the House, pleaded for a peace on the understanding that it was impossible to achieve victory, and, he said, there were hundreds of thousands of German soldiers who thought .similarly to Kuhlmann; they were sick of the promises of "Victory next time." Even German soldiers, like thousands of children, have learned that by and by never comes, and they are sick of the way children are so frequently quietened. The Kaiser has, through his Chancellor, his appointee in the Reichstag, asked for peace, but fire-eating pan-Germans are reminding him that generals have been known to de'posS emperors, and William is betwixt the devil and the deep blue flames. The machine which the Hohenzollerns created is hurling them to death and extinction, the end to which the rapacity of most tyrants bring them. Then there is a growing fear in the craven heart of the Hohenzollerns that the.promise of victory which will not materialise will cause the people to win over the soldiery as the Russian people did their army, and that they will sweep him and his military swashbucklers into the red gulf of revolution. However, William has been told that he must cast off his latest selected Chancellor, and appoint another w T ho is most likely nominated by his pan-German supporters. If tne new Chancellor turns out to be von Hintze as cables suggest, Germany will have for Prime Minister the greatest and most confirmed rascal on earth. The military rulers of Germany have, in selecting such a man, clearly admitted that they have exhxausted the stock of men amongst them that have a scrap of dignity and honour left. It appears by this selection of von Hintze that campaigns of lying and corruption have callecL into requisition the most abandoned and shameless adepts, at the very head of whom will stand von Hintze, who has earned a reputation which the crookedest of crooks might envy. The Germans know the unalterable peace terms of the Allies, -therefore there Is little occasion to trouble about whatever rascals they may choose to direct their politics. The only war that is being prosecuted now is that forced on by the Allies; Germany boasted disgustingly about being in Paris on the first pf April last, and now admits that her armies have everywhere been fought to a standstill. The West front is an enigma to all except Foch and the Kaiser; the Germans are taking whipping after whipping lying down; they are losing most valuable military positions that they acquired at a huge cost in German blood, and thousands of their soldiers* and guns are being captured each week, and yet there is no retaliation worth mentioning. There are Allied guessors by the score who say that a huge German army is being accumulated—they don't know where —on the West front; men are being brought from wherever German soldiers have been fighting to swell this force—from Russia, Finland, Austria, Serbia, Ukraine, Poland —all for the purpose of trying to win a political victory., for all Germany, execept a few fire-eaters have realised that military defeat of the Al-

lies is impossible, and military victory tor Germany equally so. Nowhere are German arms, or German campaigns of calumny meeting with success; they have been defeated in northern Russia, in their expedition to Murmansk, with a view to taking possession of Russia's only outlet to the North Sea. A British force was landed and forestalled them. The commission to enquire into Ukranian subjection has given in a scathing report on German methods in conquered countries. There will be no food from Ukrania for two years and frequent massacres of peasants and workers have resulted in intense hatred of Germans, and in revolution.'- There are not nearly enough German soldiers to make the holding of conquered territory secure. It seems as though the statement that German military leaders are rounding up every possible military unit on the West front has in it at least a spice of probability. Is the assassination of the great Mirbacn the commencement of a terrorist movement in Russia against Germans,, and if sOy« will plans have to be changed again to strengthen rather than weaken the position in Russia? There is no longer any doubt about Germany not having sufficient men to keep Russia in check as well as to build up a concentration" on the West that could go anything like the way to decisive victory, every battlefield plainly tells the true story. There is even yet some doub"t as to whether the offensive on the West will be launched; despite many difficulties, Ludendorff may be secretly massing troops to attack Italy from the Trentino. In such an event success couia not be assured without drawing extensively from the West, and Foch wouhl most likely decide that was his opportunity. It is reliably stated that Al--1 lied and German numerical on the West is now'about equal; the quality of the Allied soldiers is much superior to the German, and in the air the Allies have developed a supremacy that is astounding to the meanest student of modern warfare. By air operations the Allies have converted certain defeat into brilliant victory; Germany no longer sends bevies of machines to seriously bomb English towns on the other hand Germans live in constant dread of Allied machines. The war temper of Germans is being destroyed as much, or more, by the daily and nightly bombing of their towns as by land battles. Everywhere the Allied arms are in the ascendancy,, while those of Germany are successful nowhere; the world waits in confidence for an offensive that will not materialise, despite its braggart heralding. Germany had its war foundations on corruption and calumny, and these are now giving way under the weight of truth and justice the Allies are piling upon them; Getmans are trusted nowhere, the Allies everywhere. German faith in the worst, most contemptible, despicable traits in human character is being dragged in the dust by advocates or freedom and liberty; German calculations have been based upon judgment warped by pride and lust of" a few, and the whole German Empire is being debased. The self-dubbed nation of supermen have sown the wind, ana the harvest of whirlwind is now being reaped. Encircled by enemies we fan to see- how the war can be indefinitely extended.