Jan. 16 ive dullness of suggests that something more than bad wearily is responsible for the apparent inactivity at so many points in east and west: 'Ihe belief that the Allies are largely time" seems to be supported on several co: siderations, one of them being the fact that so large a number of the men now. fight or shortly to fight, at least in the British army, are' new recruits. However rapid the progress they have made, and we know that it has been amazingly rapid, the fact remains (hat such men must be tested before undergoing: the full strain of a great attack, such testing, it might be, consisting in a certain. course of—judicious "salting" in trenches. This view does not ignore the very work that General Joffre ing out in the pr and again it has been shown tactical advantage is not to be Ineasured in phical terms. For example, the capture—of Ferrymvin's Hut led to the complete clearing out of the enemy from the west bonk of the Vs The capture of the Chi of Veruelles promises to have less important results at Fat As one correspondent puts eel Jotre's str ple to that of y-feller who levels tall stuck by removing th pin at the t moment" fact of which the German y. ner are becoming nneomfo aware. At the same tine the of stir critic is a little difficult to por oneself that these thods, skilful as they are, pected to as Cly day. will the wil the spring time br coup, some of Fores ep pared with which oven the onskusht on the rather thu fegan ts 0 core nome nth it ath pant the oundiis a held th not last, esond Christin fashionable expression the pundit if on turn on the Fir influence And whi tthe only end with the fin, equal, trust beat 115 millions, he insists strongly on the faults th: been committed by the partly in want of the war, partly in i emphasizing that until these red "the war mi become "interminable in the journal nse,. Tu this greatest of wars sind four months after its Freak, we find cursely s with i ud for y one antu we can alter this pro-ion, and five men at the front for every three in these is hose are but the views of oriel: critic, who, though well informed, is necessarily debarred by his position as © con Uibutor to a newspaper frou touch inforimaticn which—would be valuable in forming a correct estimate and must at all costs iv kept from the enemy's know-ted Tut the wisdan of them, we trust always net as if for st duration of the war, Kerable. if it be futile to ask, "Uno when are we—fighting' the question, "Kor what are fighting?", becomes increasing: y easy to answer. British statesmen have proclaimed again and rain that we fight for the liber! of the smaller States. Yet it is, perhaps, but recently that the meaning of the phrase has be 9 come home to us all. We heard much of the spirit of Belgian, French and Briti troops, of the undaunted chee: fulness with which they fa foe; and thus bearm: ye have begun to think of the war too much as an occupation for soldiers only. Now the other side begins to filter thronzh, the side which tells of the utter ruin: tion of Belgium, of the misery of: millions of defenceless men, women and children, iny porket," writes respondent qu ted tombly, al spe SOT Wiis ren {Ypres ite on vai wen dri of it stow lat Wes and art witch can ever be ne pie ho Toa which the jones ordered by Ge riy's rulers, Tu stk of Magedelia: yexainple of nan porce Nis not to he in the sine bewith the destruction wen And for what eri possessing win had Relwium done to the war? What Fort would she have don? There (one nation in the world not instiatty rely. None, eostead in Wv's.
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