REVIEW OF THE WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14204, 5 February 1915, Page 5

REVIEW OF THE WAR.

UNPARALLELED MAGNITUDE OF

OPERATIONS

UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT

GREAT PROGRESS

(Roceived Friday, at 8.35 a.m.). LONDON, Thursday

Lord Sydenham, iv a review of the war during the past si-x: months, recalls that a period of three years elapsed before the decisive operations of the Amrican Civil War began. Plevna, in the Russo-Turkish war, was not captured till seven months after the declaration of war. Considering the unparalleled magnitude of tho present operations, it was unreasonable to expect greater progress to be made towards a decision. Trench warfare and close hand-to-hand lighting tends to weaken our sense of tho perspective. It -was true that the Allies in the west had achieved more local successes. To beliovo that a

deadlock had been reached was superficial and misleading. Tho Allies had effectually ended the German offensive, and are firmly holding the larger part of Germany's military strength. The Allies' position was steadily growing stronger. The preponderance of British artillery was beginning to be felt. The German soldiers are fighting bravely, but have learnt that their generals are always ready to sacrifice life on a largo scale without a prospect of a corresponding advantage. The German War Office now knows that it hopelessly under-estimated Russia's fighting capacity and generalship. The great mass of the German people would shortly know that their leaders have brought them to disaster. Germany, though still unconquercd, is beaten.