NO STAGNATION IN COMING WINTER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14126, 19 October 1916, Page 8

NO STAGNATION IN COMING WINTER.

ALLIES WILL GIVE GEIHMANS LITTLE BREATHING TIME. ' '' l£- PARIS,' Sept. 23. : Lieut. -Colonel Rousset, the military •critid, says tl\a£ the- , operations of the coming winter campaign will differ from tho^d^bf former winters. "Williout being in ihe secrets of God," he says; "I think t'liat I can predict that the, coming 1 winter -will not be entirely one of stagnation and waiting on all fronts. No doubt the -sledge hammer b'ows we intend to deal will be> separated by greater intervals, but, notSvithstanding that, we do not intend to remain merely. in an expectant .attitude.' Haying everywhere our foe by the throat, we int'end to allow him only as much breathing space as the circu'm'stances render inevitable." ' ' The situation, the critic says, is no longer what it was at the beginning of winter campaigns. On all fronts, the Allies have driven in M'edges of victory. In Picardy, the Anglo-French armiea have established indubitable ascendancy over the Germans, whose powerful coun-ter-attacks are continually repulsed and prove sterile in result. Italy and Macedonia," says Rous,set, "the situation is becoming more threatening for tlie> Germans from day to day. At Verdun, the Gernians are ceding ground. In the Dobruja, the victory of von Slackensen has already vanished into thin air after the latest success of Cavereso. In Transylvania, the Teutons have all they can do to stem thj© victorious forward sweep of Uio Rumanian^, arid in Galicia they are making diesperate efforts to save wJiat they still hold with the aid of the Turks, who, to help 7 the ■•Aiistria.ns, have had to sacrifice Armenia. " • ' ' The Allies, he goes on, are ho longer playing for time.. * The production of armaments wifl 'certainly tend to increase during the coining months, but'the Allies are no longer obliged to mark time for it. ' , "For all these reasons,"' Colonel Rousset, concludes, " it is unlikely" that the approaching winter „-wll'l see a, total inteiTuption of fighting, as waa the case in former years."