THE COMING CAMPAIGN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11443, 24 January 1918, Page 5

THE COMING CAMPAIGN.

ALLIED RESERVES SUPERIOR

PAST YEAR’S DISAPPOINT MENTS.

London, Jan. 10. Reviewing the situation a high mil it .ry authority says : Winter lias set in hard on all the fronts. Heavy rain h, s stopped work in Mesopot mi u The main feature of Sir Douglas Haig's desp tch is that it proves th t the British bore the brunt cf the fighting in 1917. Wo have no complaint to make in this respect. It gave the French time fro recover from their previous two year’s fighting without calling up the younger part of the male population, as Germany has been compelled to do. The story tells of hard and successful fighting throughout the year, and shows clearly that the war does not depend on any one country. This can be seen from the effect of the Russian situation and the failure of the French offensive iu Champagne, to which our attack at Arras was at first only intended as a subsidiary incident. Everything shows how intimately the operations on all fronts are linked together. Though the work of the year was largely by the Russian collapse,' there is one thing which the Germans have not yet felt—that is America's full entry into the work of the war. The Allies have still the largest reserve up their sleeve. It depends on when those reserves are used how long the war will last.