MR. DWELLS AND THE END OF THE WAR

Taihape Daily Times, 7 December 1918, Page 3

MR. DWELLS AND THE END OF THE WAR

q As a prophet Mr. Wells, firing a surprising number of rounds, has scored so many hv.Useyes that one takes a malicious pleasure in recording a clean miss (says the "Daily Chronicle"). Writing in January, 1916, on "the end of the war," he contemplates a state of general exhaustion about the end of that year. "The broad conditions of a possible peace will begin to get stated, and a certain lassitude will creep over the operations in the field." Quickly thereafter he sees the last phase and "very jaded and anaemic nations will sit about the table on which the new map of Europe will be. drawn." The most highly-trained observer sometimes overlooks a factor. Mr Wells forgot the United States.