The Cairo bulletin., 1914-11-16
Great WORLD
WAR HOW LONG
WILL II LAST?
Leading Men Sey it viii Continue
For at Lean a iear. Many
/ Think Much Longer

soldiers, statesmen and BANKERS the
best Informed men in the wol ld--in
London. Paris. Washington and New
York the question: How long will
the war last?" Here are the replies
received;
ny Lord Kitchner: at will be a
long war
BY Car OF Russia (throush the
London Telegraph correspondent at
PetrosradD: There can be no
peace negotiations before the enemy
is crushed completely
BY Lord Northcliffe. Publisher OF
the London Daily Mail and other
leading publications: Expert opin-
ion considers that the war will be
over by August. | am not an expert,
my war experience being limitcl to
some days in France with the
French and British armies, but /
think it will drag on much longer.
modern warfare is siege warfare.
And siege In trenches apparently
lasts much longer than siege in fort
~essea, so that the driving hack OF
the Germans into tho trenches they
have prepared on their own side OF
the Rhine must inevitably last an al
most indefinite period. The whole
OF the territory of Belgium has ais,
been prepared for a retreat.
"All the German plans oi "A wears
were smashed the day the Germans
retrested from Paris, but from read
ing 10 or IL German newspapers
daily ! see that their unfortunate
readers have yet not been told of
this calamity nor the lsmentsb'e
conditions Of the German armies in
Belgium, France. East Prussia and
Poland. The p ussians viii delay
revealing their horrible secret till
the last minute
Modern battles are slow The
Germans have now tpr one mouth
been mourning CHASTITY losses in a
foolish attempt TO reach Calais,
They have no possible chance Of get
ting there, and are prepared FIR
another retreat
Commercially, believe the Ger
mans can last out much longer than
most persons think, despite the
freeze out of their overseas trade
Our unemployment figures are the
lowest for years. We are getting an
immense amount of German export
trade.
From the English point of view
this war is very much like the Amer
lean Civil War Our military pre-
parations were not much better than
YOURS in 1861, but we arc accumu-
iating an immense army for the cam
paign in Germany, and every per-
son in these islands Is determined to
avenge the brutal treatment of Bel
eium and TO exterminste Prussan
military tyranny. -"
eff Germanys navy dares to come
out 1T will be annihilated believe
that 1t will emerge Id mad attempt
at invasion in combination with
Zeppelins and submarines, ~
BY Lieutenant Colonel Rousset
Frances most prominent critic:
ut is utterly impossible to predict
the limit of the war Both sides are
lighting a battle of trenches similar
to that at Sebastopol, which 1t took
two years to capture.
"The Germans will continue to
make terrific endeayors to break
through, but we can check them.
We have 100000 fresh troops not
far from the front, while there are
other new armies in the south.
In the long run Germany must give
way through starvation. The Anglo
French blockade Of Turkey further
complexities the German food prob
lem"
BY Josephus Daniels, Secretary OF
the United States Navy: Il would
not dare even TO guess at it. No man
in this country can know enough
about the forces, their position and
their capacity ia Europe to make
a prediction.
TIE consensus OF opinion Of mill
tary men, both in the navy and in
the army. who have made a study of
the war is that 1t will last through
next year. Some high authorities
among the % to whom the question
was put says that 1t may go two
years,
One of the very highest authori- |
Ties In the Navy Department, whose ,,
name carries weight throughout the !
world said.