Mar, 3.
In another column the opinion of a Staff officer is quoted that the war will be over in July because the pace will be too hot to hold. That opinion does not appear to be generally held by men in authority, although it may be said that their responsibilities do not allow them to raise hopes possibly false, even if they hold a different view in private. Meanwhile an extremely interesting review of the Allies' position after six months of war, contributed by Lord Sydenham to The Times,"' comes to hand by the leat mail. In other wars, he writes, six months of fighting have but brought the belligerents to the beginning of real work: and in the present war, so far as clearing France and Belgium of the enemy is concerned, the Allies may seem to have failed in their first objective. That, however, is a superficial and misleading view.
German offensive The Alice have sBectoally, ended the larger part of strength on their long front, and are thus eaerciaing ® power(al influence over the paign. The enemy has ull toes tu woes The ipoutian Tet his opporaniin of breaking through Calais that any advantage Allies is steadily growing conveyed by prisoners; but, beyond doubt; the sense of moral sipeiorty has to the Allied Forces. The Ger-soldier has fought, and still fights, area if the strategic situa tion is a conscious of tactical led to hi has learned that his gene re ready to nactifice "life on @ large" scale responding advantage. Those are do without any reasonable prospect of com pressing circumstances which will not by reinforcements of second-class confidence are not lacking. In the Kast, troops, and signa of growing want of
to reach, Warsaw hae fied with huge iso yuaaging. The attempt tuation from the German point of
loeses, and developments elsewhere may shortly throw fresh strain upon the sorely-tried German military machi rediatributions of force. will take pi ly, defeated the man Army, and must be weighted by the loss of prestige. On the one hand, the military' advisory of the Kaiser now know that they and in defence have splendidly distinguished themselves. On the other hand. they must now the Dual Alliance is doomed, after proving disspfcatmenh fo Gemmeny, and' panty disastrous to Austria-Hanj
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