ONE YEAR MORE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 219, 17 August 1918, Page 7

ONE YEAR MORE.

AVAR CORRESPONDENT’S PRO- ; PHECY. ' WHEN PEACE WILL COME. O<ne of the latest forecasts, regarding the close of the war has come from Mr. W. _ Beach Thomas, the well known British war correspondent. Mr. Beaah Thomas has seen the war from the beginning. He is a careful and sober observer, and he I has not made many mistakes. His 'forecast, made when the German of- | fensive of this year was at its height |is that the w r ar will end within the next, twelve months. “I believe,” he says, “that Ameri-f can influence on the war will be ir j resistible : her ships, her men, he;’| wealth, her will. The cardinal reas- j on of the new German offensive, up 1 to and over the old battlefield of the: Somme, is the conviction in Germany ; that 1919 is America’s year, and j that if Germany is to force any sort: of a \ ictory, she must force If in 191 S, ] before America is ready. And not; late in 1918.” | “If this sumiiner is bridged, as it will b>’, thenceforward the scales should swing quickly in the Allies’ | favour. Amcricain ships, guns, aero-1 planes, and, above ail, men, wiil prove first an immovable . buttress,' and, later, an. irresistible ram. If; this iaifcrencc is true, we come verv i near to finding a. date for the end ot the war. As soon as the weight is prcpondcTating'ly against them, I the Conti al Powc±s will stiam i nerve to make peace, at any rate before the. winter of 1919, which I have called America’s year. 1 will not venture to be too precise. 1 win atoid I'm oi tcmint , and leave the date ot Germany s defeat oi* witlidrawiT to the 'v <k penod Letiveicu the autumn ot 1918 arid 1919.” M be e w II Ge man. be <l< Rated 7 Almost the first German prisoner Ii w‘h in 1911 nd, ‘I c'iuk'L tell vou when the war will end, but 1 can ; tell you where—very much along trie] spot whe’e the amis ai <L'tiexich-| cd to d<u. ’ -V d tli s Gee) an’s p’o pheev is not yet disproved. lucre I will be defeats and victories about: this spot anu along line but one' day there will be a defeat anti victory | iiom wh<h any obsenti will be abh to see with some certainty the pro-1 gressu c d< cline <an in ’ei come to the s de wh’th has Arne tea with Inr hundred million of people and illimitable iiso'iices Icaif aid soul in the cause. | •When the first of these progressive defeats come.’ says Mr. Beach! Tho rias, ‘ pc ret wil 1 be in signt Ge -I nianv will not wait —neither her i population nor her armv kuthonties 1 will penult it—till she tun hies bad tn successive failures upon her own frontiers, and the targets lor the growing hordes of airmen come nearer, and the boom or tne Liberty t-n--g.ue at lastplajs tonign musit ot i German cities. So German deleft w-,1 coi it wluli the annii s st 11 lie in rwav’rg Life of tienihis that join the Hoods by Nieunoit to the neighbourhood of the fowisis mountains, where the Irencli have clung steadily to one small leach of Getmaii tt tntory. ’ ,