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Panpora, the first of women, according to Greek mythology, made some amends for the ills she permitted to spread over the earth by leaving behind, in the bottom of her box, Hope. Combined wisdom and experience have long since shown that even Hope may be deceiver, 'a bait to cover any hook,'' as Ben Jenson calls it, but that is only when man permits himself to be deluded, when he is credulous enough to believe what he wishes without any attempt to discover whether his faith may not mislead him. For that reason it is that we now look for a sure basis on which to build our own hope for the new year. Glancing at the change which has come over British affairs we may remind our readers that it was not till January 1915, that our German foes gave us the chance of teaching them by the Dogger Bank the naval lesson they have never—forgotten.' Three months after that our submarines were alarming their naval men in the Baltic, and since that time there has been no question regarding sea supremacy, and all that it entails. It required another four months, however, before we had taken the full measure of the submarine menace. Long Jbefore that our soldiers ashore had definitely put an end to German progress at Ypres, and with that success had for all time dashed to the ground the burning hope of Germany for a successful invasion of England. The German soldier drawn by a Berlin cartoonist in the act of leaping across from the Belgian to the British coast is still in the air, and the great Allied advance in September last gave proof of a newly acquired superiority of the Allies in munitions as well as men. Coming after the pheno-monal success of General Botha in South Africa, this event showed that we, with our gallant friends, have but to bide our time, add to our forces, and crease our supplies to ensure that victory which the whole world looks for.
It would be a hard task to decide which of our Allies most deserves our respect and honour. Belgium has secured an immortality of which the greatest nal f OF
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