The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-16
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the best informed men in the world
in London. Paris, Washington and
New York, the question:
How long will the war LAST"
Here are the replies received:
BY Lord Kitchener, head of the
British war Office:
ct will be long war
BY the car of Russia Through the
London Daily Telegraph correspond
ent at Petrograd):
There will be no peace negotia-
tons before the enemy is complete
ly crushed
BY Lord Northcliffe, publisher Of
the London Daily Mail and other
leading publications:
Expert opinion considers that
the war will be over by August.
am not an expert, my war experience
being limited to some days in France
with the French and British armies,
but 1 think it will drag on much
longer.
Modern battles are slow. The
C6T1I1dHS HdNC AOW AOA OAC AASA@SAA
been mourning CHASTITY losses in
foolish attempt to reach Calais. They
have no possible chance of getting
there and are preparing for another
retreat.
eff Germany's navy dared to come
out it will he annfhilated. L believe
that it will emerge In a mad attempt
at invasion in combination with Yep
pelins and submarines.
BY Lieut.-Col Rousset, Frances
most prominent military critic:
cit is utterly impossible to predict
the limit of the war. Both sides. are
fighting battle of trenches similar
to that at Sebastopol, which took
two years to capture.
I'VE have 100000 fresh troops
ready 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 Anglo4French blockade of Tur-
key further complicates the German
food problem
| BY T. j. O'Connor, member of par
liament and editor of M. A. p:
My impression is that the war
will last a good while yet. The only
terms which the allies can accept
are terms which Germany is likely
to refuse unless she is thoroughly
beaten and that will take some
time
BY Josephus Daniels, secretary Of
the u. s. M:
} 'TI would not dare even to guess q
J it. No man in this country can knoN
enough about the forces, their posi-
ton, the capacity in Europe to makt
) prediction.
j The consensus of opinion OF mil
: itary men, both in the navy and II
; the army, who have made a study o
the war, is that it will last througl
; next year.
by Frank "A Vanderbilt, presiden
5 of national bank of New York
5 which has just loaned SO, 100000 :
France:
ST have not been in close toucl
: with affairs for a month now, an,
: even if / had been I should feel tia
S / was venturing a good deal to pre-
0 dict when the war will end.
!; '"rhe stubborn resistance and tn
i relatively small gains that have bee
: made on either side since the retrea
t from before Paris, indicates a Ions
hard-fought contest. Indeed, it seem
to come down to a question of re
! sources in men and supplies.
$ ''It may be many months befoT
t the end can come
y BY T. H. Gary. head of the o.
L Steel corporation:
n sfMy guess at the beginning of til
o war was continuation of eightee
lie months. i have seen no reason |
Is change my opinion"
lr BY George Sutherland, u S. sci
N ator from Utah:
e, 81 do not think the war will
Ell ended in less than a year.
lg Some high authorities among I'll
twenty-five to whom the question W.
put by the international News Sc
e vice say It may go on two year
70 One of the very highest authoriti
in in the navy department, whose nan
lie carries weight throughout the worlt
ut said:
n THE answer to the question
he made by Great Britain herself, VIII
is / notice, is calling for a millit
a more men as soldiers. Just nc
there is scarcely any use to ia
about the end of the war when &c
he many is fighting beyond her own te
ne ritory. with a navy yet untouch
'e- and people at home ready to supp
"a the sinews of war