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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 6

The famous Prussian Guards were smashed up under the Kaiser's eye by the Britishers in Flanders; the German losses in the month-long carnage on the Yser Canal are estimated at 200;000; the allied,fleet has well nigh blown the enemy off the Belgian coast;.the Germans have been rolled up between the Warta and the Vistula —all this notwithstanding, his Imperial Majesty Kaiser Wj Ih'elm 11. is • 'still., promising his armies victory.- Ever since the descent on Paris and the retreat across the Maine 'and the Aisne, the Kaiser has been promising his soldiery and his subjects great and glorious victories. He, has not kept one of those promises; the German legions will have to. earn victory themselves, because their omnipotent War' Lord is not yet powerful enough to give them something he does not possess. The campaign in Flanders 1 • so far brought little but «i omfiture: and disaster to Germany, so far as the actual loss of men is # concerned. Hordes of Germans have been and are being fed into Western. Belgium, with the object of overcoming the Allies' resistance by sheer weight of numbers, but the scheme has been a bloody failure. The Germans have a grim hold on the greater part of Belgium, and are hanging on to Northeast France, but they can get no further forward. It is a negative success, purchased at a tremendous price. . The, Germans have 1 trampled Belgium into terrible ruin, but their arch enemies are still to be overcome. Under the circumstances, the Kaiser's promises are but pitiful little stinfuli to the .men in the firing line.