WESTERN ATTACK.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1917, Page 5

WESTERN ATTACK.

COLONEL REPINGTON'S VIEWS. SIXTY NEW DIVISIONS' WANTED. ADOPTION .OP GERMAN SYSTEM -I'RGED. | .'imes Service Ht'Cflvod Jan. 15, j.fj p.m. London, lan. 1.1. Colone Repington aueiai'os ih« necessity of securing sixty now divisions on the Wost front. The belligerents are still far apart in their views on the basi„ of conditions of peace, therefore tlie sword alone must decide. The numlie/ of French, British, -,nd Belgian divisions is insufficient for a cleehijve offensive. Even supposing we l.ad two million, ind the French three? million, •ao mast debit the non-fighters. Before tho war we supposed a three to one uspciiority not too great fo.- the at-tac-Ae.'s, out we had nothing like this superiority. Victory .lepcnds upon obtaining it frequently-on the Nelsoniaii maxim. If the number of the annihilated shown to be 'cornet, fresh divisions must be obtainable, sending to tlx West those dispersed elsewhere, thu. copying the German system of expanding the total divisions and creating new home, dominions, and ovj'.s.-as divisions. Remissness in the creation of new divisions is a departure from the conception of Lord Kitchener, who had proposed to continue the cetseicss development of forces Until on- enemies were exhausted. He urges the immediate passage of a Civil Mobilisation Bill based on the German law. Kv.n then | it will be August before tlie are ready.