"FOR MISS CAVELL!"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2688, 7 February 1916, Page 3

"FOR MISS CAVELL!"

♦ BRITISH BATTLE-CRY BEFORE ATTACK, Mr. Frederick Palmed, who has been attached to the British Army as war correspondent for the Associated Press, has returned to New York on a three months' furlough (says the . London ''Daily Express"). "The British are spreading all their bad news broadcast,said Mr. Palmer. "The Germans are suppressing theirs. If that steel curtain which is drawn over Gerunany were lifted, the revelations might amaze the world. Only peace' will lift it, however. Significant of Germany's lack of material, which she ordinarily gets by import, is the fact that Mr. Gerard, the American Ambassador in Berlin, can get tires for his motor-oar only by having them sent through an Embassy messenger from England. "Sheer hard work and courage and bVairis put ati end to' the submarine campaign. There was iio. magic about it; the dream plans of lay inventors did not prove practicable when tried out. It was the professionally-trained naval mind which found the means to cope with the submarines. • Why is it that the British are not holding a longer stretch of line .than sixty miles on the Western front? You would not ask that question if you had ever been in the Ypres salient. German prisoners say that when they are sent to the Ypres salient they consider it a sentence of death. Ten thousand men can hold five miles easier in some places than a mile of the Ypres salient. "Tli© Germans on the Western front are fighting well, but not as well as they did six months ago. ( 'The initiative is -now with the Allies in this stubborn siege business. A year ago the British were fighting with:;.'rifles- and., flesh and blood against machineglins. Indeed, the' Germans' fired 1 five shells to their one. But- all that is changed. They are now. firing more shells, than the Germans. I have not heard a British or French officer or soldier mention the possibility of any compromise with Germany. - "When will the war be "over? Not until the British have put into action more than 1,000,000 men who have not fired a shot in anger. Nobody at the British front ever considers anything short of next summer.

"One thing I have changed my mind about. You can make a good infantry soldierJn a few months; a,good gunner, too. The New Army has proved that.

"The British are a stubborn people, and they do things in their own way.

"If I know anything about war, and if my experiences at the British front count for anything, then the talk that the British havo fallen down in this war is nonsense. There have been costly mistakes; but the rank and file of the army in France have put up one of the most splendid fights in history.