THE CRISIS IS AT HAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 26 July 1915, Page 6

THE CRISIS IS AT HAND

GREAT WAR SPEECH BY MR. HOLMAN GERMANY'S DEATH AGONY Telegraph—Prcea Association—Copyright (Rco. 2<5, 3.45 p.m.), .• : Sydney, July 25. Speaxing atthe Commercial, Travellers' annual dinner, Mr. Holman (Preinier of New South iWales), said that the approaching climax to the war had been «• race.between Britain and Germany to tiring into existence liew armies. '.'The German authorities," he said, "must know that they wiill be outnumbered, but they still have another chance of bringing up a reserve force before Britain can do so. Apparently Germany has beaten Britain in tho racei for' the moment, and is holding greater forces than even tlie 'Allies, reinforced by Italy, are able to placo in the field.. •"The moment had arrived when Ger- • man generalship was falling back on the last hope, and the trial which would now be made would bo exerted with the utmost tensity and concentration of tho German Empire. The struggle our men ; .will have to make will entirely eclipso anything that - lias yet occured.: Tho. hour of the crisis is upon us,, not past, «s some optimists tell us." ' . • Ho felt confident of tho ultimate re- ■■■. suit, hut if there were any doubt it would he better for us all to perish in ; the trenches than contemplate succumb-' , ing to .the struggle..Sir Gerald Strickland (the State Governor), who presided, declared that those who did not go'to tho war had a continuous duty to perform, and that was-to forward the interests of .the Empile. " • • _ '• : Senator Gardiner, responding to the toast of '."The Federal Government," said that people should not be led away by rumours. 1 The Government knew ho more than 'did' .the public. .' Mr. Josepli Goolc hoped that when the war was:over:the British Empire would • trade only with her .Allies.