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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 250, 25 November 1914, Page 6

That inspired journal, the "Cologne Gazette,"' 3 oius issue with Mr Asquith over his assertion that the Kaiser's armies halve been wrecked,, and Straightway .goes On :to quote the immediate aim" of the Kaiser t which is,'feays the "Gazette," -to protect the. Gei'inan people frolll the Allies and tlieir/: 4 black, wliiit eyi• y in<l* bro^n.mi^tutes.''. Probably " that is the immediate aim. But all! the sophisty of German journalists will hot controvert the fact that the Kaiser's original plansj the successful invasioii of France, and the attack on Russia,-v have failed dismally. Germany's; "immediate aim" is nothing like Germany's first planned schemes of campaign. Prussian strategy has had to acknowledge since the retirement from Paris- that it stumbled badly, and so far has not been able to recover itself Meanwhile, to soften the blow to the-patient citizens in the fatherland, the Kaisei and his apologists have been dn\en to ni\ent other aims .and objec--tnes. . One is tlie attempt "to engulf tlie channel coast line, and thence threaten England itself. So far that plan has not been carried out,. though the enemy has stinted, neither men nor ammunition to break through Ypres to Calais. The latest reports from Eurojje indicate that the desperate effort of the ill-fated Prussian Guards is to be repeated on a larger scale. If this plan No. 2 fails, as did the rush on Paris t then the Kaiser will have to get his imagination to work to allay the anxieties of his subjects behind the Rhine. It must be fagging work this, on top of battling witlian enemy who refuses to be forced back.