The Daily News. TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1916. THE ALLIES' PRESSURE TELLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1916, Page 4

The Daily News. TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1916. THE ALLIES' PRESSURE TELLS.

In one of those fantastic articles which appear periodically in the Gorman press, it is stated (by the Lokal Anzieger) that the situation should fill Germany with the greatest confidence, as the pressure on Verdun ha s allured the British from their trenches and wrecked them appreciably. Then is added some mock heroics over the unprecedented los.ses of the British and the small results obtained, and it is blazoned forth for the edification of the German people that when these enormous losses become known, the British cries of victory will soon be silenced, and a bad awakening will follow. Such is the method used to deceive the people of Germany and to distract their attention from their impending doom. It is significant that the Lokal Anzieger makes no mention of the French, who go gallantly and successfully withstood the whole of the German furious assaults at Verdun, but the reason is obvious. The German armies are feeling the full weight of the British attack, and their third line must shortly be taken. Teutonic ingenuity in blinding the eyes of the people to the real giavity of the outlook is illimitable, lii order to explain away the victories of tiie Russians in Galicia, a pompous statement has been issued that the Ircneh-Flandcrs line must be held at all costs, although it may necessitate the withdrawal of troops from other fronts, or, in plain language, that the Germans are forced to retreat, ft is interesting, under the circumstances mentioned above, to turn to the pronouncements made in another German paper, the Weiser Zeitung, wherein it is asserted that the hour has come when Germany must grind her teeth, for the situation is grave. This is an important admission, and one, moreover that the German people should not be slow to realise. Lord Beresford contends that if the blockade were made really effective the war would be over before the winter,. We have always contended that although the blockade is a very important factor in assisting the final issue, victory to be thorough inust be by for.ee i of arms. We arc not struggling for mere honors of the battlefield, but for 'principles that affect the freedom, security and peace of the world. We know the price must be heavy, but are. content to foot the bill cheerfully and courageously in order to put an end once and for all to the hideous menace which has to be utterly stamped out. The military caste in Germany knows this only too well, hence their desperate, unscrupulous and dastardly methods. The programme mapped out by them before starting the war was simplicity itself—a dash upon Paris, followed by a victorious swoop on the Russians, huge indemnities and aggrandisement. Britain did not count, for it was never supposed she would rial; interference. This alluring scheme failed at the outset, but still Germany boasted and blared of victory, and promptly adopted thos? methods of frightfulness with which we are now so familiar. Now these (irebrands see the net drawing closer and closer around them. Never has been .vitnossod such a stupendous failure, nor such a succession of h'jvror. The Weisner Zeitung asks: How shall liuse things end? The answer to that query is slowly, but surely, being framed by the operations of the Allies,' and not until the completion of their gigantic task will the full measure of the reply be realised, no mutter how long the final chapter of the war is spread out. For the first time in Its existence as an empire Germany is feeling the pressure of determined force, and she is becoming more and more desperate as that pressure increases. The Kaiser, assisted by his grand military stall' and statesmen, may adopt the advice of the Weiser Zeitung and clench their teeth to the utmost; they may declaim that the future belongs to Germany, but they will find that the last version of their programme will be a s futile as the first, and that the future will be in the hands of the Allies. All the recent talk about peace terms is pure frothy nothingness. The present •Lord Grey, when speaking in the House of Commons (a;* Sir E. Pirey) rightly said: "The facts are that the Allies are not beaten, and they are not going to be beaten. The first step towards peace will be when the German Government begin to recognise that fact." Meanwhile the Allies are striking hard in every theatre of the war, and exerting a pro3sure on the Germs* 1 thai-, they

will find greater tlian they can boar. The whole of the Gorman colonics have practically been taken from her, her lines of defence arc melting away, ami her manhood decimated, Admitting that she is still strong, the Allies have now the preponderance of .strength, and their stimulus is not only greater but nobler, for the peace and welfare of the world at large is a stake well worthy of the most intense efforts and sacrifice. There can he but one ending to this terrible war, and the Allies are firmly agreed what that end shall be.