A LONG WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 6

A LONG WAR.

PEACE IS NOT WITHIN SIG-HT. In the course of an article in "Truth." "Scrutator" says there is no prospect of an early termination of hostilities. Peace Is not within sight. Economic- pressure and political complications may have their say hi bringing the war to a eloee. but up to the present hour there te nothing to show for all the fighting which has taken place except a stalemate, which comes to tic getting more pronounced every (lay. Nor when we come to consider the matter is this surprisln-g. The w-nr is not being waged by armies, bnt by armed nations. Between them the Germans and are credited with having already lost in killed, wounded, and missing come three millions of men. In former days such stupendous losses would have decided the rate of the campaign, but according to a high authority at the opening of the war Germany had at lean eight and Anstna five millions ot able-bodied men within the limits of the fighting; age. Only halt of these men had been trained when the war broke out. but the ilrill sergeant has Tjeen at work in Germany and Austria dining the pact five months as he has been in England, ami wo have to face the fact that our enemies have at their disposal some ten millions or men available for carrying on the war asaiist lie and our allies. The resources nf ttie Allies are, of course. much greater, hut they are not so well orI* another cause wliicli will contribute to the Jentflheninir of The war. Germany's rulers set no vuluc n n human life. As long a» they taav.:> the power to continue the war they will fight on. re- . gardless of all consequences to themselves or to their neighbours. The defeat of the Qamvan plunn U one thlnf;. the defoit o! ttelr irmiea is mother.