"WE CAN WIN BY JUNE."

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1916, Page 5

"WE CAN WIN BY JUNE."

ANZAC GENERAL'S VIEV?. EVERY MAN IS WANTED. ; London, Dec. 12. An fmportant Australian Divisional. Commander from tlio Somme, in an in- ' torview, strikingly expresses the A.I.Fy >, views:— j 1 "The war," ho says, "can be won by i June with an Empire brought* really to icaliae how essential it is to throw in its utmost resources. We are getting nea* tli o last rounds. As in a prize fight, both 1 combatants are feeling the strain. Which* ever gets in the hard knocks in the spring , • % scores the knock-out. We can do it. Thq * Germans have taken the last step in ' mobilisation; the Allies must do same, putting their shoulders to th 4 ' wheel and fighting all in. "The men who do not work ought toi ; be compelled at the bayonet point. Thai i demand for material is insatiable, ana the workers of Britain and Australia! should turn out 50 per cent, more thanj they would do in peace time. If the* realised the conditions and the' gravity) of the war they would save untold liveg and money. The discomforts and higl prices would seem nothing if a halM» i year's thorough sacrifice ai)d strenuous ! effort would bring the compensation o| complete victory. Our difficulties ,| greater tlian the enemy's. We are flght* ' ing on ground as blasted as an alluvial S gold field. Their's is comparatively. \j clear. In the impossible conditions at the Somme our men walk knee-deep *t*J waist-deep in mortar-like mud. WhOT relieved they drag their weary ani swollen feet to a so-called 'rest camp/ .■where conditions are hardly less inhoa' ( .< pitable. Our wounded are dragged out > on sledges, each trip exhausting tlirc# horses. The Allies must keep on hftmv. < mering during the winter and preparo - for the next great push, which will decide the war. Every man must brat the Empire's call if, wanted. It is vita" 1 to adopt the German methods, buildisjj I up'.resen'es of materials as well as BMJ and munitions." ,