An English Marvel

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 14 January 1916, Page 3

An English Marvel

M. Charles Humbert, writing in the “ Journal,” describes the vastness of the effort which the English are making, both with their Fleet and their Army. He praises the energy and skill which they have displayed in improvising a machinery of war that can vie with that of Germany. “ England’s mobilisation of her industry is a marvel, ” he says. She has understood, thanks to the admirable leadership of Mr Lloyd George the capital importance of raw material in modern warfare. In England everyone knows that the factory hand is as indispensable as the soldier at the front. Indeed, in the trenches their comrades tell those among them who are skilled workers that it is their duty to go back home. Victory is now the one and only thought of the English people and the over-sea Dominions are heart and soul with the Mother country. From all lands across the seas where the Union Jack flies is coming a continual flow of soldiers workmen and money.

“Those who sometimes incline towards pessimism should go and spend a few days in London They will come back filled with new enthusiasm by the sight of the fine tenacious spirit of this people which will never yield and can never be broken,”