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Show ENDURANCE IS TO WIN THECONFLICT Sir William Robertson Reviews Re-views War and Predicts Ultimate Victory. London, Nov. 2G. Carrying on a war is not like playing cricket. The nation which shows the greatest endurance en-durance and the greatest willingness to sacrifice that nation will be rewarded re-warded by decisive victory. This is the keynote of a review of the present situation of tho war as given today by Sir William Robertson, Robert-son, chief of staff, who added that ho would stake his reputation as a soldier sol-dier and as a man upon the prediction that tho British people "will seo this war through." Tho British army chief showed no inclination to minimize tle recent successes of tho central powers in the Balkan theatre of war. He frankly frank-ly conceded that for tho present the entente, and particularly Great Brit ain, was passing through a period of stress. But there was not the slightest slight-est reason, ho emphasized, why tho situation on tho whole should not bo characterized as entirely satisfactory from the allies' point of view. To maintain it so, howover, and to swing tho tide of the war's fortunes definitely definite-ly and decisively to the side of tho entente powers, Sir William said, It Is necessary that "tho people at home" continue to do their full share to cooperate co-operate with the forces in tho field. Great Britain, tho chief of stafl asserted, as-serted, had only begun to muster tho full strength of which she Is capable of throwing into tho scale of war, and was becoming stronger every day. He pointed to tho stale or uupreparedness ' cgj3 1 TMEDA BARA DIRECTION WILLIAM fOX j England found herself in at the outbreak out-break of the conflict. In view of this, he said, the achievements of the British Brit-ish army could not be overestimated. "Proper action at the right moment," mo-ment," he added, was tho imperative guiding motive for tho future. Sir William expressed Implicit confidence that the women of Great Britain, as well as the men, stood unitedly behind be-hind the nation's leaders in tho determination de-termination to push the war to a successful suc-cessful conclusion. |