ALLIES' WHIP HAND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14742, 22 October 1915, Page 8

ALLIES' WHIP HAND.

WHY GERMANY MUST GIVE IN. - ,article dealing with Ahe general ; rituation- of- thu : belligerents, the Tri(says the Home correspondent of tfiir Daily; Telegraph) puts forward • the hypothesis^-that ta© war; may not lieces- . sarilv be dfecidwl !))>“ military means, exclusively, and that. A conference will bo siimmoiito' tofore; .pile group of Powers has really crushed the other. The Tfibuna observes that this eventuality lufs been admitted-: by the Germans tliemseh;os'.- who, - however, ■ consider that their claims' can be uiade to prevail at any aujsh mnferent)c in view of the security ihey -bohl in the, forhv of. oceupiril;terri-. -tojy-, Belgium; Poland, part of Franco, etf. '■ ■ • ’ ’ .-Aoeetding to tlie oi-gan I quote , from; nevertheless, tlie territories belonging -to-, the; Entente Powers and their Allies now in. possession of the enemy are of much less, value as compared with tlie seefirtiy ,in another form held by -Germ'any’u adversaries. For example, , the suspimsion of German commerce alone represents, according to the calculation made bv tb© Tribuna,- no less a sum than RfiSO.DOO.OOOi - The complete paralysis of .German sliippirig meiins another gigantic ■loss; ,> • It is held by the Tribuna that securi-ties-of tliis Irihd in'the possession of. the Allies are of greater value than the areas occupied bv the enemv, and apart from the itemsvjufit-referred to there are also thoyGerinaa colonies tajton, by- various British expeditipfis. ’ The writer main-tains-thatdfr re of much more urgent importance 1 for (he Germans to come to terms with the Allies than it is for the Allies to re-eccupy their temporarily lost possessions. ,