“VERY LONG WAR.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 272, 2 November 1916, Page 2

“VERY LONG WAR.”

SCALES-FROM NATION’S EYES. ENEMY NOT YET DEFEATED. London, Oct. 25. Sir. Lovat Fraser, writing in the “Daily Mail,’’ says that the scales have fal.fen liom tne nation's eyes, and the public now. recognises,, that, war will probably continue for a-very long time. Four months ago the bulk of the new British armies i.ad not been proved in great encounters, and the rumour was current that Verdun was in deadly peril. The whole outlook was changed between tne dawn and sunset of the unforgettable First of July, vve nave become, for the first time in history, a great Military Power. The most noticeab.e result of the Somme fighting is that the Germans are beginning to talk a great deal about peace. An armistice in the near future would suit them very well, because they stiii hold Belgium, Poiaud, and Serbia, a valuable slice 'or France, a greater slice of Russia, , a scrap of Rumania and of Persia, taeAdcii hiuter.and, and the greater part of Smai Peninsula. With such cards they would sit at the council, table as conquerors, lliereiore the Allies must .continue to light. They can never count Germany as defeated until her road eastwards is cut, but Marehland disclosed the secret of victory when he said that the army winning on the Somme wins the war.