THE MENACE IN THE EAST

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1918, Page 4

THE MENACE IN THE EAST

GENERAL FOCH'S CALL TO-JAPAN / WD U.S. New York, Feb. 26. The New York Life publishes an interview which General Foch granted yesterday to its special "correspondent, Mr. Charles H. Grasty. One of the greatest qualities for waging successful"war, he said, is prevision. If America will look ahead, I am sure she will see a field" in which she can render immense service without relaxing her efforts on the Western front. She , should give her attention to the Orient. ,' Germany is walking through Russia. America and Japan, who are in a position to do so, should go to meet her in Siberia. Both for the war and riea and Japan must furnish .military and economic resistance to German penetration. There should be immediate steps in this important matter. Do not wake up after it is too late. Do root wait until tho enemy has too much of a start. One of our troubles has teen our letting Germany take the lead, and following after her. A live countrylike America should reverse this process, and be them with a surprise when Germany arrives. ■ Dealing with the prospects of the Gerjnan offensive on the Western front, which the enemy have so widely advertised, General Foch said TMit in view of the, successive failures of the enemy under conditions which were favorable to them—Lassigny, Arras, the Yser, Ypres, Verdun—the Allies were justified in the confidence they felt now, wnen the advantages were'all with them. Wo will stop this attack, he proceeded, but definitely to win the war we must have a big American Army, with shipping mobilization, construction of aeroplanes and munitions—everything. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Do not lose even half a minute. If you do your utmost you will make the right kind of victory sure, and you will hasten it. (