BRITAIN'S EFFORT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 7

BRITAIN'S EFFORT

GENEROUS FRENCH APPRECIATION. 'tie Paris "Journal des Debats," commenting on '\L'Effort Britarmique," remarks: "How many services which have passed unnoticed by the masses have been rendered by Great Britain! With their habitual treachery the Germans have endeavoured to spread abroad the legend that the English are taking advantage of the war to enrich themselves at our expense, and that it is to their interest to make it last. Yet how fortunate it is that it has been possible to employ all the commercial and industrial forces of Great Britain to provide us and our Allies with what we needed. How terrible would have been our embarrassment in the first months of the war if we had not been ablo to procure from across the Channel certain raw materials and manufactured articles. If the British business men have been able thereby to make a profit so much the better, since their gams help to increase that economic power every effort of which is' concentrated on the common causo. . . .

British co-operation, if it only consisted of economic support, would bo invaluable . . . but this is only ono of its elements. That co-operation, both by land and sea, has' attained proportions far boyond those which the Germans believed possible. The German Fleet has suffered serious losses. . . . Submarines cannot give the command of tho sea. Gorman acts of piracy will doubtless cause serious damage to individuals, but they will provoke a stonier repression on the part of tho Allies of contraband by sea." The "Debats" goes on to emphasise the romarkablo work accomplished liy the Navy in transporting a million men. "Tho wholo British nation," it concludes, "knows to-day that it is engaged in a, life-and-death struggle with Germany. If it has been slow to move, it has now its heart and soul in tho task. It is sure that it cannot bo overconm, and is fighting with absolute