The fact that British soldiers returned to England from Flanders in high spirits is indicative of the fine moral existing amongst troops who have withstood so brilliantly the intensive hammering to which they were subjected during the past three weeks. When men can endure the punishment which they have endured, and, tired out, can land from the transports singing their song of "Roll out the barrel" and wave encouragement and greetings to the civilians who saw them arrive, it speaks well for a race which the enemy was so pleased to dub effete and decadent. Then stories of the returned men suggest that man to man they are much better than thei opponents and that when the latter were without the support of their mechanized units their showing was not too good. They, however, would not say that the Germans were effete or decadent, though they do claim that the Briton is the better soldier. For the second time
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