NAPOLEONISM MINUS THE MAIN FIGURE

Southland Times, Issue 17654, 11 February 1916, Page 3

NAPOLEONISM MINUS THE MAIN FIGURE

The New York Tribune expects at least another year of war. “There is no basis for peace now. Germany cannot and will not consent to give up all her mighty conquests merely for peace—a peace that tvould bring a staggering and sterile debt. Germany’s foes cannot agree to peace while their very existence is in danger. “It took Europe ten years to dispose of the Napoleonic menace. It will take a shorter time to dispose of the German because It is Napoleonism with Napoleon left out. Fortunately for France and Great Britain and for the world, the peril of complete German success has been disposed of. Prance, Russia, and Great Britain keep the field with growing power and unshaken will. The blood tax on Germany has begun to tell. The British naval noose has been drawn to suffocation. The German advance lias terminated in the east and west, and only in the Balkans is there still progress. “All doubt of the outcome of the war as a military problem has passed. But one, perhaps two, years more of war are seemingly unescapable, for peace is impossible while those who rule Germany cling to the belief that it is within their power to organise Europe and dominate the lesser peoples.”