POSITION REVIEWED BY HIGH BRITISH AUTHORITY

Nelson Evening Mail, 19 February 1917, Page 5

POSITION REVIEWED BY HIGH BRITISH AUTHORITY

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* MILITARY POSITION REVIEWED

BY HIGH BRITISH: AUTHORITY.

GERMANY'S -iDECLTNiING STRENGTH.

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(Rec. Feb. 19. 1.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.

A high. British military (authority, ■with the approval -of the War Office, prepared a statement for the New York rimes regarding the military position on the eve o£ the opening of the 1917 campaign. He reviews the Germans' repeated failures to "break the Allies 1 -lines, and adds that the ruthless submarine threat is & confession of Germany's failure. _ Growing military strength of the Allies faces declining strength of" the Central 'Powers. . lor two years the Germans had- steadily dropped -behind .in ma-terial-.xeiources, despite the .gross illegality of their employment of scores of thousands of war prisoners and) der ported civilians as munitions producers. Hie.co-ordinated ,Allies! pressure on all fronts had forced Germany and Austria tq:<ifaw_on inferior material. .'Germany was feeling severely the strain '' of bolstering up her steadily - weakening Allies, such as the Austrian army on -the Russian front and; the Bulgarian army in (Macedonia, which would "collapse but for Germanv's stiffening. . /The date of the end. of the war cannot be fixed, but the war inevitably extinguish the Central Powers' menace to the world's .peace. . , x

INCREASING ACTIVITY ON WESTERN FRONT

FURTHER BRITISH SUGGESSES ANOTHER BRITISH VICTORY ON THE TIGRIS

GENERAL DISARMAMENT AT ATHENS