NOW OR NEVER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8463, 31 May 1916, Page 5

NOW OR NEVER.

.. ;... ; LONDON, May 30. There is no abatement in the lighting on the Verdun front, but even if the j Germans make a further advance there . 1 is no reason -to th'iiik" that the French are likely to lose their grip of the situation/ which, it ia unanimously agroed, is well in hand. Further terriiic lighting 18.expected, because everything points- to the intention of the, German Staff to; leave nothing undone * to smash "France. Military critics agree that the enemy knows that he must succeed in the war either this year or never. Mr J. L. Garvin, editor of the " Observer," thinks 1 -the . Germans will attempt to attain peace with all or some.of the Allies in 1916 in order to save* their War Lord's prestige before the risk of the final penalty becomes imminent. It is reported that the Germans are, [ more and more, changing their tactics by sparing their men and using their heaviest guns to batter and flatten out the French'trenches. When they think they have succeeded they send out parties to reconnoitre. If the trenches are still occupied'they continue their bombardment, but if the trenches are abandoned they occupy them.