BRITAIN'S PART.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13658, 29 August 1916, Page 2

BRITAIN'S PART.

THE END OF THE'WAR'? - ; . NEWSPAPER DISCUSSION IN ENGLAND. • HOW THE BETTING GOES. ' .. ! LORD HALDANE'S PROPHECY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Associatiea), •' Received August 28,7.15 p,in, LONDON, August 27. .. The newspaers are discussing, the likelihood of Hie prolongatibii of the • war. Tlicy point out that all official, indications, including ' Lord Kitchener's, urge pry'paratiuus for a long and tedious struggle. The latest pronouncements contain no.moro optimMk istic hints. The military continue on the vastest scale, and tliero ■ : are no signs of diminution or stoppage.,,;.. - ■ Everywhere there aro' indications that the authorities are steadily increasing the supplies of moil and munitions. War Office has taken , over. 247 volunteer battalions, thus freeing'men fit; to go to the front, 'and.invites.all men physically fit, and not engaged in war: work, to join the volunteers. It,is noteworthy that the military are call- . ing all classes for sedentary work, nevertheless a large volume of the bet-" ting is at short prices predicting peaco' before June. ' • ' Lord Haldauo, speaking at Auchter-, arzer, said Great. Britain had-two .an-' xions months when the German-hosts were pouring through Belgium,' and the. second occasion when the Germans held • .. overwhelming- superiority in numbers at Ypres in October, 1914.' Now, with the French magnificently resisting ''at Verdun, ami Britain's armies smashing the Gormans on the-Soiuinc lie recognised they, had reached the final,chapter,'of. tho/war, • :