DR DILLON'S APOLOGIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11800, 11 September 1916, Page 4

DR DILLON'S APOLOGIA.

Tho "Fortnightly Review" for July leads off with an article on "The Situation and the Outloou','' by Br E. J. Dillon. It will be road with mixed feelings. Old admirers of Dr Dillon havo been pained and perplexed by much he has written lately. He has been writing both recklessly and foolishly. Now come the apologies and explanations. Incidentally he has lectured the Allies in outrageous terms, and was cversasthngly expressing unbounded admiration for the Central Empires. Ho made a statement about the resources of the Allies whicli was wildly inaccurate. In his new article he corrects himself. He sajs: "Parenthetically I should like to remark that competent authorities, who are in possession of detailed and well-sifted information on tho subject of the available military forces of both groups of belligerents, have questioned the accuracy of my estimates, of the enemy's reserves, and convinved me that I overstated them considerably." In a note he adds: "The difference is 1,100,000.;' Which is his way of saying that his original statement that he know beyond question that Germnay had '2,000,000 men in reserves was untrue. That was not tho only grave error in Dr Dillon's recent writ'ugs. While obstinately standing in the main by what he has haid, Dr Dillon now affirms that the Teuton nation has been reduced to such a state of flabbiness that any severe shock administered now would suffice to knock it over for good and end the contest. And this knockout blow can and will be effectively dealt bv the British Army in its own good time, which will k> neither hastened bv the impatience of friends nor deferred by the expedients of tho enemy.