JOFFRE'S PROPHECY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 22 February 1916, Page 4

JOFFRE'S PROPHECY.

APPROACH OF GERMANY'S DOOM

Mr Whitney Warren, the eminent architect, who returned to America after sixteen months' relief work in i'Vance, in a lecture he gave at the Rvtz-Carlton Hotel in .New. York (says a Daily Express correspondent) described an intenesting interview he had «'ith General J«tfre just before his departure for the United States. "in France," said Mr Warren, "everybody understands that Germany's successes are misleading. Nobody doubts that eventually she will be beaten. ''Before my departure I saw General .foffre at his headquarters. He was kind enough to receive me' and talk to me for some twenty minutes. Ido not wish to repeat all that he told me, but I may quote these textual words of his: '• 'Germany will be defeated, and on' our front. The wastage of her men is considerable. We" see the moment approaching when she will be unable to hold out any longer.' i "When General Joffre speaks," con- ! tlnued Mr Warren, ''no one would for i a minute doubt what he says—he is a man of such simplicity and so straightforward, who receives you with a charming cordiality. One'finds him in \ i bright room, without eny pretension i whatever, sitting quietly *in an arm- j chair before an empty table; no pom- | posity and no setting. | "This man, who is responsible for France, and for the entire world, as '■ a matter of fact, has the air of not i for 11 moment knowing it. He gives j the ■ impression, of calmnes-s and firm- ' ness. He is a* rock, and, I should say, I the most amiable of all rocks. "The Allies have, thanks to England, whose actual efforts are so admirable, the mastery of the seas, which assures them continual breath while Germany is smothering between her frontiers', and, again, they have a confidence which is steadfast, and they are resolved like one man to fight to the bitter end." I