Austria is, if possible, in a worse plight.

That is what will end the war--the exhaustion of our opponents." "The deciding factor," Mr.Hannaway Wells put in, with a very non-committal air, "will probably be America.

She will bring her full strength into the struggle just at the crucial moment.

She will probably do what we farther north have as yet failed to do: she will pierce the line and place the German armies in Flanders in peril." The Cabinet Minister's views were popular.

There was a little murmur of approval, something which sounded almost like a purr of content.