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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 WTites that the opinion on the British front Is most optimistic that the war will be brpught to a successful conclusion during the year 1916. The feeling of Optimism, he says, is based largely on the following factors: Continually T0w;-g numbers of men ' and quantities of munitions on the entente front; the extraordinary successes of the Prussian armies; the irfestlng of the Austrian offensive In Trentino; the Bilencing of the German Davy through the sea battle off 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. |