THE GENERAL SITUATION.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14395, 24 April 1917, Page LI

THE GENERAL SITUATION.

REVIEWED BY LORD OURZOX.

GERMANY'S POWER NOT \KT

BROKEN

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN

{Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, April 22,

Lord'"Curzon, in '& sixjech-Kt I^eiby, said tiiat the past foinight'.> operations tin France had shown the woii'lerful enperiority of our artillery, had fired four million projectiles. ( GerEftahy's military power, nevertheless, was not suificiuntiy broke-i to irv'iuce bei" to accept any terms the Allies could aregard as reasonable. It was difficult to say what the internal condition of (Germany but lier military p-^wcr and arroganec could only be broken in the field. . The consensus of expert opinion with regard to submarines v/as that the position V/as comparatively stationary. Tho.nurribfir o£ weekly sinkings of British raoreh iiitxnen does not indicate any lad-: of success in dealing with tho submarine •menace. On the contrary, ho believed £h© Germans. were daspatehiag fresh, batches'.of submarines .weekly, not «'aiting for tidings of those cent previously, •many er\ which never returned. The •Germans' obvious intention v/as to; aiaintain the campaign at ?fche -highest; pitch of intensity'as long as possible.

'The "Observer" remarks, 'that' the' difficulty is not in destroying isubjnarinesj but in finding* them and getting them within range of the implements o£ destruction.