The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915 HOW THEY FIGHT TO-DAY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 January 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915 HOW THEY FIGHT TO-DAY.

A ivcll-kiiown American war ourr-espon-dent in a rccent article point's out that ! he .struggle in France has been robbed L ■' its spectacular efl<x;t.s and lie likens ihe fieJd oi' operations to a gigantic nali en where human bemgis have dug themselves iti like rodents. Kverylijing is concealed and 110 man throws lii.s liir or liis ammunition away rocki.'ssly. When hostilities commenced,

ii" say*, everyone was eager to distiii giiish liiinsell. hut each 111 turn received a salutary Wson that taught liiiu to expose liiinsell' heedlessly. The frerniaus received their iirst losson at l.iege. the French 011 their Adventure i:itn Alsace, and the English 011 their charge of tlie Xinth Lancers. All tlie.s* things jjo Id show that warfare 011 the grand old scale has gone lor ever, and

1,1 '' s wo havi' the grim. sloiv.dragging, almost guerilla. method of fi uhtinLS that Bloc'i anticipated. Though we arc not prepared to follow tills clear thinker to his ultimate conclusions that vast armaments are needless for defence and useless tor aggression, aiul that those who relv upon them, are mere visionaries, yet ho lias m*ode a very valuable contribution to the literature of war, the more valuable .since recent developments proved the soundness of his surmises. OOURT-MAiriTAU,TCD. Loudon newspapers which .arrived last week report that a naval court-martial ■which was sitting at Weymouth • 011 Rear-Admiral E. 0. Troubridgo in connection with the escape of the German cruisers Goeben and Bresl.au at dn beginning 'of the war arrived at a verdict of full a.ml honourable acquittal. When the war was opened Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne was Comnnn-der-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, with Rear-Admiral Troubridgo in command of the cruiser squadron. The British forces consisted of the battle cruisers Inflexible. Indefatigable, and Indomitable, the armoured cruisers Defence. Black Prince, Duke of Edinburgh and Warrior, with the. four light cruisers Chatham, Dublin, Gloucester and Weymouth. twelve destroyers and three submarines. After the escape of :je Goeben and Breslau—the only German •ships in the Mediterranean—Sir Archill aid Milne returned home, andi 'he Admiralty announced that he was exculpated from blame. Now « courtmartial has decided that Admiral Troubridgo was not responsible.