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Show FUTURE OF II ; ftflEGWEH OUT Former Premier of France Predicts That 1916 Will Be Year of Victory for Allies. EARL OF DERBY IS SURE OF SUCCESS Declares He Awaits With Confidence the Time When the Allies Shall Triumph. PARIS, Jan. I, 4 :'A0 a. pi. lit observation obser-vation of the New Vear, prominent representatives rep-resentatives oi! various allied countries have contributed to the M a tin statements state-ments of their views com'eniin? the future of the war. Louis- Biirtliou, former for-mer premier of France, miv tin? war is now "being conducted like a branch of industry, and adds: Speak i up from personal knowledge, knowl-edge, I know that the ex perieuees of the French with ' 'aretve pases" and rht-jjiii-al weapons, afford af-ford the best reasons for relying on their eiYiciemy , both in attack and in defenno. Tiie year 1014 wa a year of pur-prises pur-prises and 10.15 was a year of re-sis re-sis tanee and pre pa ration, and J 0 1 G will be a year of victory. Triumph Is Foreseen. Tho Karl of Why, who oryanizi'd the movenient in Fnland for obtaining recruits, writes: I await wilh absolute confidence . the moment when the combined forces of the allies triumphantly shall prevail. Our allies may be assured as-sured that our effort will not fail. Our overunu'nts, our peoples, have eon fide nee in one another. Our soldiers and sailors are brave. This union of i-nr.f ideui-e and courage is a cert aiu sin of victory. Sir Kdward ('arson, former attorney ;enei n I of Kaplan d, says : A It hotiph we :;j n not OApect any (1 run i a tic joveh;pnieui s ' of the war at present, the moment cannot be far off when the central empires will feel serionslv the effect of the pressure we and our allies are exerting ex-erting on all their fronts. Speaking Speak-ing for the whole country, I promise prom-ise we shall nor. cease our efforts to reach tho maximum of our power. I think our principal objective should be in the western theater of war. We must give attention to '- these important points: First, the necessity of permanent, co-operation among the different general staffs of the allies: second, subordination of political to military mili-tary considerations; third, the need of maintaining- economic pressure on CcnuKiiv; fourth, combination of all efforts and resources of tho allies. al-lies. Is Great Crisis. Guglielmo Perrero, the Italian historian, his-torian, says the war is one of the great crises of history. He believes it will stimulate the creative energies of hu-nnrtiitv. hu-nnrtiitv. The work of reconstruction after af-ter till' war will offer a great field for these energies. Jle asserts an epoch of difficult trials, but nevertheless of grandeur, gran-deur, has begun for Ivu'rope. Professor Henri Bergson of the University Uni-versity of Paris says that although the future cannot be discerned, he has no doubt as to the issue of the Var. lie predicts a revivified France, greatcr than before and animated by a new impetus, will-emerge from the struggle. M. Sazanoff. Russian foreign minister, minis-ter, predicts that the day will come "which will witness the definite triumph tri-umph of right over force, aud of civilization civili-zation over scientific barbarism." More Patience. The following was contributed by Madame Carton de Wiart, wife of the Belgian minister of justice: " Patience a little longer." Gustavo Herve, who for many years before the war was known as an anti-uiilitarv anti-uiilitarv agitator, proclaims his conviction convic-tion that the allies will triumph by changing the name of his newspaper from La Guerre Sociale to La A'ictoire. Mis leading- article today is an editorial of fervidly patriotic tone. |