"THE WAR WILL BEGIN IN MAY."

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9988, 26 January 1915, Page 2

"THE WAR WILL BEGIN IN MAY."

The military expert who writes war notes for the Sydney Morning Herald says:—Lord Kitchener was recently asked when the war was going to end, and he replied, l 'l don't know; but it is going to begin in May." It characteristic reply—the reply of the seasoned soldier, who knows what big wars are and what little wars are, and who knows that this is the biggest war in history. And he is right. Mr Wells and others who write of war in books were of opinion that this great war would be over in throe months; and we have l>een fighting now for nearly six months—and the war has not even begun! The real beginning will be when Lord Kitchener has his great army of two or three millions in France and Belgium. and the Germans have been driven back into their own territory; and that will not be for some months yet. When the Germans are fighting for their national existence in the Fatherland, as the British, French and Belgians are fighting to-day. the great deciding battles will be fought—battles far bloodier than anything that has yet [been told. And when the great fleet comes out from the Kiel Canal we shall have a naval battle, compared with which all the naval battles of the past will sink into insignificance. The war Tia6 not yet begun. All the soldiers of the Dominions—from Canada, from Australia, from New Zealand, and every other part of the British Empire—will be there in lots of time. It is for us to see that there are cnougn of them there.'