THE GREAT ADVANCE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7752, 22 July 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE GREAT ADVANCE.

“THE WORLDS NEWS" SHOWED HOW IT COIU.D lire DONE. i In their issue of Jim: 17 “The World’s News" published an article from the “ Fortnightly Review” by a Reserve Officer showing iiow the Allies could br/.y.ik through th the West. The great offensive begun a few days ago is much on the lines there set out. That is an article well worth reading, because in it the writer, who knows the game from A to /, “Tile throe conditions which must lie postulated for a successful advance are: Unlimited shells, greater numerical force, and an army not inferior in courage, skill, and administration to the German. The two first conditions have been lu Iff Ik’d. What of tho third? The posimist contends either that no army can break through modern field defences or that, at any rate, our Army cnanot. “The answer to this argument lias been given at Hooge, Neuve Chapelk\ Loos, ipul elsewhere, though these actions have been often written down as “partial succesv.’s or incomplete failures.” The German front has been broken frequently up to tlu* first Jin?, several times up to the second, and at least a once up t;> the third. “Can we do it? W,e must at any rate attempt it, and if we fail the first time we ruii>t try again, and if v.o fail the second time we must make a third effort, “and if British soldiers are what we think them to be they will succeed before they have finished . . . and victory will errv.vn our efforts with peace before the year Ins run out.” If you have not read tho article from which those extracts are made, we strongly ad vis? you to do so. REAL DEEP SEA FISHING BTOIIY. Since M. Pa in leye was appointed Minister of Inventions, French inventors have swamped tho Ministry with all sorts of weird and .wonderful ideas,’ many of them of the most astonishing kind. that dogs and cormorants, ncUng together, can overcome submarines. First of all a dog is to be trained to bark whenever lie hears the noise made by a submarine projxdlcr wke'.i the vessel is about to dive. Then the corniornt’s attention is to be ditectcd to a p-et e of meat fixed to a periscope, and as the cormorant tries to snatch t!v* food the vessel dives. 'l’his manoeuvre is rejteated several times until tin* bird associates the id.** of periscope with meat, and then tlu* bird acid dog work together. Every tim.e. the dog harks the the cormorant looks for a pariscojie. The inventor of this schema adds:... “It goes without saving that, ns soon as the cormorant perches on the periscop?. the gin.is fire on the submarine.” J