Dr. G. L. Finlay, a British medical man, who spent the first three and half months of the war in Germany has given a representative of "The Times" some interesting views on the marked contrast he noticed between Germany's first and second-line troops. The latter, be says, reveal a much less high order of physical strength. They suffer much more than the younger troops and are swelling the lists of the sick in large numbers. "In them," he continues, "the essential weakness of the German people is revealed—the tendency to get out of condition at a relatively early age." There is, of course, no question that man for man Britons of from thirty-five to forty are far and away superior in physique to Germans of the same age. It is be tween these years that British tradtions of athleticism and fitness tell most. The average German has, by that time, ceased to be an outdoor man. He does not take exercise in the regular, dutiful, almost solemn way in which the average Briton takes it. This is one of the reasons why we can look forward to the spring hopefully. Germany's second-line troops will not, physical: fron
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