The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-12-05
HOW LONG WILL
The WAR LAST?
PrOtraCted Struggle Predicted
by Noted Persons.
MANY EXPRESS OPINIONS

View of international Banker That
Struggle viii BE Over In Six Mont
Not Shared by Soldiers. Statesm
and Other Bankers. Generally-Lo
War, Says Lord Kitchener.
The question How long will the we
last:" propounded to eminent soldier
statesmen and bankers in London.
Paris, Washington and New York.
brought tue following repliess
BY Lord Kitchener:
1t viii be long war"
By the czar of RUSSIA through the
London Daily Telegraph correspondent
at Petrograd:
There can be no peace negotia.
tions before the enemy is completely
crushed
BY Lord Northcllffe, publisher of the
London Daily Mail and other leading
publications.:
Expert opinion considers that the
war will be over by next August. but
think it win drag on much longer.
Modern warfare is siege warfare And
deges in trenches apparently hast much
longer than sieges in fortresses. 50 that
the driving back of the Germans into
the trenches they have prepared on
their own side OF the Rhine must In
evitably last an almost indefinite pc
rod
By Lieutenant Colonel RoGsset, prom
inent French military critic:
1T is utterly impossible TO predict
the limit OF the war. Both sides are
lighting Il battle of trenches similar 10
that at Sebastopol, which it took two
years to capture"
Germany Must Accept Terms.
BY 4. II. O'Connor. member of parlia
ment and editor:
My impression is that the war will
last good while yet. The only terms
which the allies can accept will be
terms which Germany il likely 70 re-
fuse unless she is thoroughly beaten
and that will take some time
BY Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
United States navy:
II would not dare even to guess at
it. No man in this country can know
enough about the forces, their position
and their capacity in Europe to make
a prediction.
The consensus of opinion of military
men both in the navy and in the army
who have made a study of the war Is
ha& vril laC tnI,
Some high authorities among the twen-
ty-tive TO whom the question was put
say that it may 20 on for two years
One of the highest authorities I'm the
navy department said:
The answer to the question Is made
by Great Britain herself who is calling
for another 100000 men for service
the other allies know that IL even they
push Germany into her own territory
Germany will then only have begun the
long struggle against those who mean
to conquer her. Just now there is
any use to talk about the end
of the war, when Germany is fighting
beyond her own territories, with
navy yet untouched and a people at
home ready to supply the sinews of
war"
An international banker in New York
said:
THE war will be over within six
Long, Bitter Contest.
Frank A. Vanderlip. head of the Ma
.ional City bank of New York. which
las just loaned $10O0000O to France.
aid:
The stubborn resistance and the rela-
lively small gains that have been made
IN either side since the retreat from
before Paris indicate long. hard
ought contest Indeed. 1t seems to
.ome down to a question Of resources
II men and supplies"
By E. FL Gary. head of the United
'tates S.ee; computations:
My guess at the beginning Of the
var was continuance for eighteen
months. have seen no reason to
hange my opinion"
By George Sutherland. United States
enat0r from Utah:
Il do not think the war viii be end
d In less than year. lie the allies
ucceed in throwing the Germans back
within their own borders the Germans
Till be stronger there than on the of
ansive"