Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1917. WHAT OF THE WAR?

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3338, 6 September 1917, Page 2

Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1917. WHAT OF THE WAR?

The new position is most interesting, a?id gives no grounds whatever for a feeling of pessimism. Even the development on the eastern front is such that we need not worry unduly over ie To the reader who is inclined to emphasise the failure of the Russians rather than the success of the Italian? in changing the situation we would suggest that a closer examinatio.i of things should turn his thoughts from sadness to an appreciation of what might have been—but isn't. First, the pessimist regarding tho eastern front must remember that all four enemies of tho Allies have not only to keep watch and ward ovei a tremendous length of front— at least 800 miles of it from Riga to Roumania—but they have to make good • along that front • for the sake of the bombastic reports the commanders of the German, Austrian, Bulgarian, and Turkish armies have been sending back to their own folks in Berlin, Vienna, Buda Pesth, Sofia, and Constantinople. Have they made good to date? Not they. Despite tho tremendous opportunity that has been theirs throughout the whole summer as a result of the revolution in Russia, the Central Powers have next to nothing to show for it along tho Russo-Roumanian line. Tho Roumanians, against the greatest odds, have held up the host of the second greatest strategist of the Fatherland, Vor. Mackenson. The Austrians have failed to score anything worth while in Galicia, and neither tho Turk nor the Bulgar has done anything but keep watch on his border.