Show OFFICER PREDICTS SPEEDY END W 1 I havo have a feeling that tile the war will bo be won this spring mcclar declout col W D D B S 0 before tho the empire club in III at james parish hall yesterday afternoon lie ile clooke he said riot not as ft a military man mail hut but as a road maker maler and ho he suggested that other military moil men might with his opinion I 1 maya maybe be wrong her he continued but this look to me like the last throw of tile tho enemy and inside of a month or six weeks we should have a decision lour reserves havia not yet been touch ed ad and that means they iro are still intact the boccio blocho has haa run ninny many ot at hla his divisions through tho the mill and it will take much time almo to sot set them u up p in fighting shapo shape again col Alac mackendrick Kendrick confident that the enemy could not break through the ot of territory at a terrible price would prove ot of no benefit the bodies or ourselves lie ho said can call take any ally piece of land at ary any time provided they fr T we pay the price and are willing ito mako make the expenditure in munt alon and mens lives col then than gave a vivid description ut of tho the conditions under which the ho gallant canadian lads are fl fighting and lie he dealt in detail with the work ot of road making at the front and the amly difficulties which lie ho had been forced to contend with ow owing in g to tho the lake of proper appreciation a of the problem of tile the over soak authorities when lie went to the somme he sald said lie ho was retting tons of filone a day but before he left tho the supply was up to tons each day and the men wore were laying that quantity with the aid of metor lorries service wagons 60 rollers and other supplies and equipment in proportion the tha canadian corps Is tile the finest unit in the world today he declared they aro are that because they work together and in fit this roa res peet they show to lo advantage against any other corps in the british army except tho the anzack tile tho tour four divis long aro accustomed to team play and that is ono one ot of tho the lessons taught by the war namely tho the blaue of cooperation and coordinated co effort it was this lils team play lie ho said which had made poo possible sible the builta building ot of roads through tho the torn terrain about tile the somme and ad it wm walls planks which solved tho pr ot of putting down highways across a territory literally riddled with shell holes lie ho said twelve thousand thou band men w wore or a working on oil roads in the eth army district and until the iho canadian idea of standardization band team blayvas introduced their e afi IlI CIll SPEEDY 1 bedy UND OP OF wail concluded from pago anro 1 arta ra were in be pact wao ut lt least boft different methods af pf road making were being attempted |