NOT YET OUT OF THE WOOD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24506, 15 January 1941, Page 8

NOT YET OUT OF THE WOOD.

There has" been', a tendency to "think that', however long and rough may b# the road to final victory, the fight lor life is already won:. Th at impression is remote'from the truth,-asserts;-Mr J. * L. Garvin. The existence: of'Britain and the Empire are still at stake.; The fight for life itself continues' with unabated danger,' Not: only--.so..;sJh, some ways that dahge^has.increased and is increasing. X Whether; by sea v , air, or •* land, •have;? hot-yet come to the worst 6f -bur.'wrestle with a giant , enemy. While our own resources jare rising on every hand, the colossal; ;'enr deavour of Hitlerite organisation in the ■ Seich arid'its subject territories has hot come; to' its peak. , The submarine % rankings of our shipping are larger than before. On the other hand, the weight and method of the German overhead war ori Britain-?—like.our.own onslaughts on the Reich—are hot less formidable than before, but more : so; Recently the alternating attacks on the Midlands and London have been the ablest blows that the LuftwaffeJias yet . ■struck. "■ ■•■.• ' :, -1 -■ '.'"" "