WHEN WILL IT END?

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 13

WHEN WILL IT END?

SOME WHIMSICAL OPXHXONS ABOUT THE WAR. (By .4JSHLET BTDBISB, In 'lendon Opinion.") ' . Several prominent people tore been giving their opinion* In reply to the question, "How long will It toe before the war Iβ over?" 'Here are come more answers that got omitted from the other, eympoelnm:— Mt. Asquita: "I should have preferred to have notice of your question; but since yon ask for a definite reply at once, my answer is in the. negative." Dean Inge: "Not before 19*6 i I fear." Lord Northcllffe: "Say rather 'How long will it be before the war fcegtasr I doubt ■whether the nation has awakened to the fact that, far from the war being over the' real business has scarcely—V (Etc. The mixture as before.). Dr. Woodrow Wilson: "What wart" Colonel Maode, C.8.: "According to my statistics the war should end next Tuesday ; bnt, to be on the safe aide, let mc ■ay next Wednesday." •I/ord Kitchener: "Didn't you read my preliminary prospectus in 1914? Three years." Mm. Elinor Olynn: "Three weeks." Lord Fisher: "War would nave been over a year ago It the pilot hadn't been dropped. ,. The Postmaster-General, In a printed letter, dated the loth Inst., acknowledges I my favour of the 3rd Inst., and begs to inform mc that the content* have been noted and will receive attention in due course. Mr. Justice Darling: "Ten day*, or forty ■billings and costs." Sir Herbert Tree: "I can beat answer your question by recounting a bon-mot of mine made to a friend as r was standing on the steps of the Club a few-weeks ago. 'Herb,' said my friend. 'I wish I could see an end to thle Infernal war.' 'So you can,' I replied. In my beet epigrammatic tone of voice, 'if you remember August 4th, 1914. That's; one end.'" (Copyright in the TJ.S.A. *y H. Beerbohm Tree.) MORE VIEWS. Ont in Flanders, "The Salient," the organ of the Sixth Corps in Flanders, has been more views upon how long the war Will last. We quote:— "Just ac long as Asquith remains in power.—Lloyd George. "My pearls at Little Willies feet if It would shorten zee war a day—although my doctor 'c say that would mean pneunionle." —Gaby. ••As long as Xorthcllffe la at large."— Simon.