VICTORY DELAYED

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13851, 31 August 1918, Page 5

VICTORY DELAYED

MORE MAN-POWER WANTED

APPEAL TO DOMINIONS

(Australian and N.Z. CaMe Assn.) ' Received August 81, 10,10 a.m. LONDON, August 30.

General F. H. Maurice writes: "The present offensive, great though it pxoniises, lacks the weight to carry tfV to complete victory. The American armies will give, the necessary weight, l.ut the war must he prolonged unless the Rritish armies are kept tip. The qu< stion anxiously asked in France o- ; : ' Will they keep up the (!f:f ' If we rely on the annual eonti' :etit of 19-year-olds end ilie recouved si>k and wounded, we cannot mainl ■ n our torees at full strength, and the war will he prolongul. Every alile-l.o.lied man possihl,. must he sent to the front. While Ireland is out of the war we are nit doing our host. Our ov, rseas exports must lie reduced to vita! necessity s and we must appeal to the dominions to look up their man-power. If Australia could sec at work Ivr glorious troops, who saved Amiens in April, and now with reduced ran!;, are driving the iii\ along the Somme, the Australian ranl-r. would not lung remain unfilled.''