A LONG WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 233, 11 March 1915, Page 6

A LONG WAR.

PEACE IS NOT WITHIN SIGHT. In the course of an article in Truth, "Scrutator" says there is no prospect of an early termination of hostilities. Peace is not within sight. Economic pressure and political complications may have their say in bringing the war to a close, but up to the present hour there is nothing to show for all the fighting which has taken place except a stalemate, which comes to be getting more pronounced every dav. Nor when we come to consider the matter is this surprising. The war is not being waged by armies, but by armed nations. Between them the Germans and Austrians are credited with having already lost in killed, wounded and missing some three millions of men.

In former days such stupendous losses would have decided the fate of the campaign, but according to a high authority lit the opening of the war Germany had at least eight and Austria five millions of able-bodied men within the limits of (he fighting age. Only half of these men had been trained when the war broke out, but th'' drill sergeant has been at work in Gemini!" and Ausl.r-.i during (he l'r. • r-ruths, as he has been <><. l'lghmd. and we have to face the fact that our enemies have at their disposal some ten millions of men available for carrying on the war against us and our Allies. The resources of the Allies are, of course, much greater, but they are not so well organised as are those of the enemy, and this is another cause which will contribute to the lengthening of the war.

Germany's rules set no value on human life. As long as tlioy have the power to continue the war they will light on, regardless of all consequences lo lliemselves or to their neighbors. The defeat of the German plans is one thing, the defeat of their armies is another.