Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-16
IT WILL De ALONG WAR,
is WIDESPREAD OPINION
Few Of Most Eminent Soldiers,
Statesmen and Bankers Of Sow
eral Nations Express Views.
FEW PREDICT SHORT DURATION
Russian Gar Says There Can BE No
Peace Negotiations Until Enemy Is
Completely Crushed---Question Of
Resources of Men and Supplies.
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Especial to The Times-Dispatch.1
NEW YORK. November 15.--The In
ternational News Service asked by
cable and telegraph a few of the most
eminent soldiers. statesmen and bank
era the best Informed men in III.
world, i'm London. Paris. Washington
and New York. the questions:
"Hcw long will the war iast?"
Hero are the replies received:
Ely Lord Kitchener: ct will be a
long war"
BY Gear of Russia Through the
London Daily Telegraph correspondent
at PetroGrad): There can be no
peace negotiations before the enemy
Is completely. crushed"
by Lord Northcliff publisher OF the
London Daily Mail and other leading
publications): Expert opinion con-
Hiders that the war will be over by
August II am not IN expert, my war
experience being limited to some days
In France with the French and Brit,
!sh armies. but think 1t will drag
OH much longer Modern warfare Is
Siege warfare, and siege In trenches
apparently lasts much longer than
sieges in fortresses, 30 that the driv-
Ing back of tho Germans into thu
trenches they have prepared on their
own side OF the Rhine must inevlta bly,
lat an almost indefinite period. The
whole Of the territory Of Belgium has
also been prepared for a retreat. All
the German plans of forty-four years
were smashed the day the Germans
retreated from Paris, but, reading ten
or twelve German newspapers daily. ]
soc that their unfortunate readers
have yet not been told OF this calam-
ity. nor of the lamentablc conditions
of the German armies In Belgium,
France, East Prussia and Poland. The
Prussians Will delay revealing their
horrible secret till the last minute.
Modern battles are slow. The Ger
mans have now for one month been
mourning CHASTITY losses in foolish,
attempt to reach Calais. They have
no possible chance of getting there,
and arc preparing Tor another re-
| treat. Commercially I believe that
the Herlnang can last out much longer
than most peopH think, despite our
frecze-out of their overseas trade. Our
unemployment figures are tho lowest
| In years We are getting an immense
amount Of German export trade.
From tho English point Of Wow. this
war is very much like the American
Civil War. Our military preparations
were not much better than yours In
1861. but NO arc accommodating an I'M
mense army for the campaign In Ger
| many, and every person in these Is
lands lis determined to avenge the
4 brutal treatment Of Belgium, and to
eStermtnate Prlssian military tyranny,
p"IG Germa1y's navy dares to come out
II VIII be aanihilated, I believe that
1t will emerge In a mad attempt at In
Vasion in combination. with Zeppelins
! and submarines.
American generosity IL sending
much money and food to Belgium, I'm
less great care is taken, these gifts
m Z, i,,- els
for the eNtortion of further blaclimail
from the little nation they have
thought 1t worthy to attempt to crush.
All EnBlishmen. with American
friends. are receiving constant evidence
that the overwhelming sentiment of
your country is apparently with the
allies l need hardly say these un-
solicited assurances evoke a grateful
echo In our hearts"
UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE
TO PREDICT LIMIT
Ely observation-disclosures Rouaett
Frances most prominent military
critic; 1T is utterly impossible to pre-
diet the limit OF the war. Both sides
nre fighting a battle OF trenches similar
to that at aebastopol. which II took
two years to capture. The Germans
viii continue to make terrific en-
deavors TO break through, but we can
check them. We have 100000 fresh
while there are other new armies IL,
the south. In the long run, Germany
must give way through starvation
The Anglo French blockade OF Turkey
further complexities the German food
problem"
BY T. P. ,o'Connor. member OF Par
Lament and editor OF NJ A. p: my
Impression is that the war will last
good while yet The only terms whici,
the. allies can accept will be terms
which Germany Is likely to refuse uu-
less she is thoroughly beaten. and that
| will take some time"
BY I,n ;,,ossphns Dsniels. Secretary o.
dare even to guess at It, No man in
tthis country can know enough about
the forces, their positions and th.ir
capacity in Europe to make a predie-
ton"