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Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1917, Page 5

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MILITARY POSITION REVIEWED 1 BY A HIGH AUTHORITY. GERMANY'S FAILURE. Wasliingtoli, Fob. 18. A high British military authority, with the approval of the War Oilice, ; has prepared a statement for the New York Times regarding the military position on the eve of the opening of the 1917 campaign. i He reviews the Germans' repeated to break the Allies' lines, and : »dds that the ruthleae uubmarine threats are a confession of Germany's failure, the growing military strength of the Allies and the declining strength of the Central Powers. For two years the Germans'havc been steadily dropping behind in material resources, despite the gross illegality of their employment of scores of thousands of war prisoners and deported civilians as munitions' producers. The co-ordin-ated pressure of the Allies on all fronts/ has forced Germany and Austria to draw upon inferior material. Germany is feeling severely the strain of bolstering up her steadily weakening Allies, such as the Austrian army on the. Russian front and the Bulgarian armv in Macedonia which would collapse but for Germany's stiffening. The date of the end of the war cannot be fixed, but it will inevitably extinguish the menace of the Centrai Powers to the world's peace.