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Show BRITISH HOPING FOR PEACE. Recent Events Greatly Increases Feeling of Optimism. ' London. The Times military correspondent cor-respondent in France writes that the opinion on the British front is most optimistic that the war will be brought to a successful conclusion during the year 1916. The feeling of optimism, he says, is based largely on the following factors: Continually growing numbers of men and quantities of munitions on the entente front; the extraordinary successes of the Russian armies; the arresting of the Austrian offensive in Trentino; the silencing of the German navy through the sea battle oft Jutland; Jut-land; the exhaustion of the German reserves re-serves as indicated by the calling up of seventeen-year-old youths and the use of prisoners in German munitions factories. |