BRITAIN'S "COLD TENACITY."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 22 February 1916, Page 8

BRITAIN'S "COLD TENACITY."

WHAT THE GERMANS FEAR AJiU'Vi. Aju.l,. The Ronte Secolo publishes an interview Avith a Avell-knoAvn beantiinavian writer who lias just concluded a minute stuciy of the German situation, which he will shortly publish in book form. Tiie writer (says the Daily Telegraph) concludes as lollows; "j. repeat that lor several months yet, per naps for a year, Germany will be abie to withstand her internal difficulties and her external enemies. If peace is concluded in 1916 it Avill either be to the absolute advantage of Geri:k.n,y or suuii a peace that Germany will find herself partially ruined by her saoriiices and cor looses; but Avhat Concerns Germany is hoAv to deal Avith England. You cannot conceiA*e the hatred Germany has for "xLngland; hatred and fear. The Germans knoAv the English well, their faults and their virtues, but they know, and fear, above all, tft'eir cold tenacity. "Tt is admitted, even at present, that the most serious injuries sustained are <lue to the British. Before the Avar, the German Colonial Empire Avas 2,000,000 square kilometres in extent. Almost all that has been lost. Before the war Germany had 2000 steamships, with 80,000 sailors. That also no longer exists. The English blockade has been fatal, whilst the German submarine nlookade has been ineffectual. Sixty submarines haA re been lost, and noA? the British are predominant also in the Baltic. Germany sought, in her Balkan enterprise, to break the blockade, h-nt even when she reaches Asia fche will never have the sea.

"This Avar will be won, definitely, '■m hnA hv the Germans in 1916, or by khe British on t the sens in 1917. That is., my impression, and that is what is Wfteved everywhere in Germany. A1 «rrent German effort, however, must he. f^nseted in 1918, of which an aflack in "Flanders f>nd art expedition against Egypt will be, perhaps, the first acts."