BRITAIN'S UNPREPAREDNESS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2488, 15 June 1915, Page 8

BRITAIN'S UNPREPAREDNESS.

3- Sir, —To read tie letter in your issue ;, of June 2, signed by "A John Bull." :t makes one ashamed of any man who does not place his proper nom de plume r- at the foot of his letter." "Rank Tory" ir is the proper name to be at the foot 1- of that Insult to tho British Govern--10 nient—"Rank Tory," the class of men -o who lounge about the club rooms of ;a London, the idle rich, who employed e German valets previous to this present i- war, and wept bitter tears when they i- lad to part, but tho best of friends a must part. Britishers don't want tho J- opinions of smoke and club-room wasy trels, and neither do we look for the i- opinion of the street-corner loafer, for boil are tie same class, liabilities to s the. State. How many of the writer's s club-room friends are at the front heirs s ing Britain to pull through— oratory in > a smoke-room won't win our battles?

Thank heaven, the ranks of the Liberal Party, Irish Nationalists, Labour Unions, Radicals, Democrats, union agitators, and strikers form part of the great machine which Britain is using to' enable her to come out victorious. Those brave working men, whom "A John Bull" dares to call fools, when England sent out her summons to arms, when the Liberal Government hoisted Nelson's famous signal, "England expects every man will do his duty," who answered that signal? Lcok elown tho list of our fallen heroes, number out how many Liberals, Irish Nationalists, Labour men, union members, Democrats, Radicals, and strikers have laid down their lives for England, then yet your correspondent term them self-interested fools if his Tory conscience will allow him. England prepared for the present war ? Was any country in the world prepared for such murder, except Ger- [ many? Thank God, Britain can carry [ it- through prepared or not prepared. ; Britain's Navy cleared the seas of all ■, but submarines, yet the Navy, in your ■ ccriespondent's opinion, was not prei pared. Had our Navy been not pre--1 pared I am afraid your correspondent [ would have been having somo sour crout 1 ere this.—l am, etc., , BRITISH BORN, READY AYE READY. ! "CIVE A CHEER!" ; Sir,—l quite agree with "Trooper's Sister" m the statement that we do not know how to cheer. What is the matter? ( Are we reserved, unconcerned, and coldhearted? Surely not. I think we can [ take a lesson from the chivalrous , French. The papers told us some time ngo,_ when the French artillery were leaving Paris for tho front, the women threw flowers to the soldiers and gave them a very jovial send off. Cannot we be of the same spirit? I think so if we try. What is really wanted is some "French blood" infused into us. So ccine forward all and cheer from tho depths of your heart till our ribs give way under- the strain.—l am, etc., AV ARM-HEARTED. Levin, Juno 12.