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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 438, 6 July 1915, Page 6

The Kaiser, it seems, has promised his troops that there will be no winter campaign, since the war will be over in October. No douflt the War Lord would like to think so. If there is no winter campaign it will assuredly not be because the Germans have overcome the Allies. They have already begun a furious offensive at certain points on the western front, but, so far, with small success., Several months ago the military correspondent of the London "Times" expressed the opinion that the resumption of a general offensive by the Germans would be welcome to the Allies, since the German method of piling blocks of infantry against the opposing parapets meant simply wholesale and cruel butchery. Germany cannot afford to spend her men as lavishly as was done between August and December of last year. Emboldened by the success in the east, and made more confident by the fact that the campaign at the Dardanelles and on the Austrian frontier is making but slight headway, the German General Staff will doubtless essay a heavy blow in the western theatre. The bloody scuffling in North-East France may be accepted as the beginning of a serious effort to break through the Franco-British barrier that bars the way to Paris and the Channel ports. If this attack fails, then these objectives will be in no danger thereafter. Not that the enemy has any hope now of hacking a way through. While Warsaw remains intact, Germany must regard the future of her armies as a thoroughly dubious one. The success chronicled to-day of the Allied forces on Gallipoli will not tend to reassure the enemy. It indicates that, though the Turks are lighting stubbornly, they are still being edged back along the peninsula. Sir lan Hamilton has only to persevere long enough to bring the Balkan neutrals into the struggle on behalf of the Allies. Then complete victory and the end would be in sight.