WEST FRONT TACTICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 7

WEST FRONT TACTICS

TIME ON SIDE OF ALLIES. There are more than a few people who think that France and Great. Britain tire making slow progress on the Western Front, but the great majority of citizens are thankful for the signs that there is to be no impulsive wastage of young lives, as on the Somme in the Great War. The temptation to indulge in costly frontal attacks, says “Scrutator” in the "Sunday Times.” must be resisted. If Hitler shrinks from the prospect of a long war, that is perhaps one good reason why we should not. A still better reason is that against fortified lines like those of Germany, attack, without the most careful preparation and without any element of surprise would result in a repetition of the last war's carnage . . . . that is precisely what the enemy wish us to do. Victory in war consists not in inflicting loss on the enemy, or even in the ratio of losses inflicted and received, but in convincing the enemy that he cannot possibly win. Already the Germans are half convinced that' they cannot win a long war.