TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11506, 30 September 1915, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

AN EXPERT'S FORECAST. Attention is culled by i!ie London correspondent of rlie " Daily Dispatch'' to tlu* H r ar forecast of Colonel 110 rrison, u. distingui lied officer in the United States Army, issued a month ago. In July he said t'.o marked, change would occur on the western front; and the same observation applies to AiP-CUM, but the British linos would lit' extended, fn for the last time, says Harrison, the. Germans will attempt on t'i• ■ western iront a. general offenMve ; the. I>:itdatelh's will be fom-'d, and hv October the Gorman offensive will have Ukuv definitely broken. '''Tic GVnm*ti<s,' ? ]it» says, will t.hen proceed on their own initiative to contract their Lines, a. process which will be hastened by n Franco-British odcn-ire,. The end ot that month will find the western Allies wtablisiied 'in the neighbourhood of the line Ard>nTile All stro-Hungarian Gen.eminent will stole retnee on German sod. The Genmuis aiU be compelled to evaluate both Ourland and East Pru.-sin. November will produce alntip the front a further re I .renient. of the German-, whos" line will he broken into three or four u'ap.uients. !>y thn end' ol November Germany Trill be iimidad. on

all sides and (the French having readied the Rhine) will sue for peace."