THE ONE BURNING FACT OF THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2473, 28 May 1915, Page 5

THE ONE BURNING FACT OF THE WAR

ARTILLERY SUPERIORITY WILL DECIDE DEMAND FOR GUNS AND EXPLOSIVES ('Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, May 26. Tiie "Times" correspondent at British headquarters says: "What strikes an observer of the British Army in the field is its homogeneity: it is all one quality—the 'best. We know that the German ranks are of twenty grades, extending from the veterans of the Guard to the rawest cannon fodder. Even in the crack corps like the 7tli and loth the gaps are filled with questionable material. "•Some of the British battalions and brigades \_are long famous: others are just winning their spurs, Dut it would be rash to say that the actual fighting value of one is higher than the other. Never in the history of Great Britain have there been such proofs of the mettle of our soldiers. Manifestly, man to man,' they are superior to their foes. The reports all tell the same tale. When the German infantry attack, it is haltingly and half-heartedly, likejJazed, drugged meh. The One Burning Fact. "All the strategy and tactics of war depend to-day on one burning fact: The enemy has got ail amazingly powerful machine, and unless we can provide a machine equal in power he will nullify our superior fighting quality: The machine consists of a fjreat number of heavy guns and machine guus, and apparently an unlimited supply of high explosives. The French recently, in Artois, mad© a great artillery concentration, and as the result advanced, -untroubled, for four miles. "High explosives in sufficient quantities will annihilate hostile high trenches, parapets, and entanglements. ' One authority states that with sufficient artillery preparation wo can take several miles of country with a walkingstick. This is not the time for scolding and criticism; we are all to blame, except the soldiers in the field. Our business now is to redeem the miscalculations and got a counter-machine without delay." FIENDS OF THE WAR. BISHOP DENOUNCES THE HUNS. Sydney, May ,27. The Bishop of Riverini (Right Rev. E. A. Anderson), referring to the German atrocities, said the world knew that if the Germans discovered anything more fiendish than corrosive gases they would employ it. In dealing with such infamy they had to have recourso to reprisals consistent with the Christian calling, but had incidentally to preserve their existence and also to punish a great crime.