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Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1915, Page 7

IS THE WAR GOING AGAINST US? ■ At tlic present moment there is a tendency, to which all of ns are prone, to take u gloomy, not to say fearful, view of 'the progress of the war. The experts warned us that the Allies inust win first by negative results, then by positive victories, but negative results never satisfy, even when they are being successfully accomplished, and so in the German successes in the Balkans and in the refusal of the. Dardanelles to open up to our knocking, the man in the street is inclined to read defeat for the Allies. But when a writer of clear vision takes the whole facts—as Dr. Fitchett docs in the November issue of "Life"— and shows -us that the Allies' position is growing stronger, whilst that of the Germans and their forced friends is not nearly as strong as it looks on paper, our confidence js renewed. Dr. Fitchett's account of the fighting of the month is, as usual, vivid and picturcsq»e, whilst his summing up of the moral factors in what he terms "a spiritual balance sheet of the war," is at once a mental and moral tonic. These special war-articles of , Dr. Fitchett's are, as usual, the backbone of the issue, but the magazine is rounded out with a number of special articles, stories, and departments in which subjects of quite other kinds are dealt with. There is, for example, a clever detective story with a woman in the chief role, a lengthy review of the South African prize novel, and another "Morrissey" snake sketch, in which humour and instruction are interwoven, Morrissey's adventures with an Indian princess and her rattlesnakes being described with pen and camera.

The publication locally a few months a«o nf "Johannes' Prophecy" excited considerable interest. Many enquiries were made us to the author of the prophecy. According to the London Evening Standard the prophecy was first published in their journal in October, 1914, and caused a profound impression. In reply to many enquiries as to the history and identity of the author they state that the Latin original was found among' the papers of the late Adrian Peladan, editor of "The Annals of the Supernatural," and it is believed that Brother Johannes was a French monk, who lived and wrote in the ICth century. YOU REMEMBER THE TASTE OF • RUSSETA ciiter. Because it's so delicious! It's pure, too, made from the juice of rosy-uheoked apples and cane sugar. Stores and hotels everywhere sell i\ Ask for it. Russetta Cider, the purest, healthiest non-alcoholia drink i