WILL THE WAR END THIS YEAR?

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1918, Page 8

WILL THE WAR END THIS YEAR?

GERMANS NOT BEATEN YET

THE TIME FOR A SUPREME

EFFORT

GENERAL MAURICE'S OPINION.

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received October 7, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 6th October. General Maurice, writing in Lloyds' News on the question whether the war will be over this year, says that Germany, since the 15fch July, has lost not less than a million and a quarter of men, of whom quarter of a million are prisoners. The part taken, by the British Army in this fighting is the most glorious in its history. Though in strength considerably less than half the total of the Allied forces on the West front, the British reconquered more than half the ground won, and took half the prisoners taken "Germany probably still has four million men on the West front. They are a proud people, who for more than a generation have been regarded as the world's first military Power. Is it reasonable to expect that they will Burrender until they are convinced that the struggle is utterly hopeless ? Therefore, on military grounds, there is no justification for the hope that we will be able to compel the Central Powers to surrender this year." • General Maurice admits that lie was surprised by what happened in Bulgaria, and he may be surprised again by what will happen in- Germany; "but the only way to end the horrors of this war quickly is to maintain and to intensify our efforts, and increase our power to its extreme limit. When a boxer finds his opponent 'groggy,' he goes in to win. That is the plain duty of everyone to-day."