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TO END THE WAR.

WHAT IS needed: The London correspondent of the New 1 Zealand Times, writing on November 30 to what is needed to end the war, stated that he had the advantage quits recently of hearing from the lips of a really distinguished military commander his private impressions .about the broad course of this titanic struggle for thu future of Europe. This sound practical authority, a soldier of high rank and great experience in the present war, believes that, if the fighting goes on over the winter without any collapse on tlw enemy's part, of which there are certain limits, but as yet no completely convincing symptoms, the Allies ought to be able to break down the barriers conclusively during the spring and summer of 1917. He predicts-that any reasonably formidable and efficient offensive operations, begun early next year a..d protracted for a month or two without intermission, in which Germany would have to face serious anil determined fighting at the crucial strategic points in the West, in the East, and in the South, Would overthrow the whoVi | enemy military structure. In other j words, this first-hand authority is convinced beyond doubt that Germany, whose fighting divisions alone leaven the whole lump of nondescript enemy forces or. all fronts, is even now absolutely an, definitely unequal to the strain of meeting simultaneous pressure on all fronts for anything beyond a brief period. He look forward with great confidence to a repetition on a grand and fatal scale of I'ic Verdun-Soifime manoeuvres. Our offensive on the Somme, constantly eating into a vulnerable juncture of the German lines, at first drew off the enemy's concentration against Verdun, and eventv.rlly enabled the French troops to «*• gain almost at a bound all that the most Orprcssive German efforts had slowly ana at infinite cost hammered aw»y in nwny weeks and months of ghastly <-hast!v"figl l t' ll ff- According to this view the end will come quite dramatically and rather suddenly, when the enemy is tested strongly' and persistently everywhere at once, and can no longer turn away from any one ltarjl-pressed point, to- fiuttress up the threatened breaches at- other points. The tide of retribution will then swell formidably in a sea of arms through the battered enemyjs lines at several and perhaps many critical points d'appui, and the grand defensive dreams of the Central Powers will collapse as hopelessly as their first dreams of conquest and dominion. This is -in sober and grim twith a war of e\liaustion. and it will end, if the end is to be by fighting, only when on- 1 i'.dc lias reached the point of exhaustion.

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Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1917, Page 8

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TO END THE WAR. Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1917, Page 8

TO END THE WAR. Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1917, Page 8

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