WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1918, Page 7

WAR NOTES.

ALLIED NAVAL iPOWER. Vienna is scarcely the quarter from whicli to expect a lucid exposition of sea power and its effect, but it would be different to improve upon an article on this subject recently published by the Arbeiter Zeitung of that city. Germany is told point blank that even the conquest of Calais and Boulonge would not mean the defeat of Britain mid America ."The Germans may break the war spirit of the French, but to make England and the United States helpless, to force them to lay down their arms —no victory on land can accomplish all this as long as the English Navy dominates the ocean," says the Vienna paper. "Even were Germany to win the most complete victory on land, even if the whole English army were taken prisoners, England and the United States would not even then be forced to capitulate. These two countries would carry on the war by sea and continue to blockade our shores." The Vienna journal then reminds its readers that the Central Powers cannot exist economically without cerium raw materials, of which there will be a great shortage when tho war ends,' "and if England and America refuse to supply us with these commodities, if they carry on an economic war after the war of arms, then even as conquerors we shall be conquered." As for the submarine campaign, the Arbeiter Zeitung declares that while it can injure England, it can never defeat her. A tribute is paid to British endurance, and the article concludes with a warning to Germany that if Hindenburg's successes nre used to enforce a peace based on might, "then bitter disappointment will be the result, as everyone must realise who looks at facts i.s they are."