MR ATKINS, SPORTSMAN

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 223, 30 September 1916, Page 5

MR ATKINS, SPORTSMAN

EUL^BYWAR^IhISfER

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SPEEGIf #f MR LLOYD GSBORGEL

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NEfrTRAtS MUST KEEP OFF.

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Ifai a iefcriking inter.vi©w given no f '• 'tbe -lioftidon press Mr Lloyd, Ge«nfg«,

British soldier is a good """"^Tgja&tffeSifla'ii. He enlisted in the wrap in ,a -iftEagjciing spirit to see fair jpiay ' for ;a -small nation trscmpled cat 'by s\- ibriliy, He is figMrai.g for fair jplay fia lint#rnational dealiags.. He lias • tfaught, as a good sportsman. b*r. the. tfehousands. y He lias diea fike a .-sportsman. He hiss necier dske^.for amytKiitg more than a spirting reliance, and has not afeays had that. TC£h©n ho couldn't get at he.f<lidnfc ♦quit. He .■ played, the .gaice. ~..' He -did not squeal, and did not ask anyone to squeal for him. Now that t*u> ffioctoaies of the game have turned a. Biifc ifiih© British are not disposed to, estop Kbecauso of squealing by the Germans, or for ,the Gernxaus. by probably well-meaning hv& nxßjguMed s^srinpathisers and humaiiitarians. The Ifttft&h soldier for two srea-rs 3tad a 3ja& ftimo. Nobody knows so well, .as :be wha!t a bad time it >w>as. He \wass sadly inferior ia equipment and, <©n tthe averse, inferior : in training. Ho -saw the "Allied ouis© beaten aIV :about thn ring, but he made- no npg»eal t(» spectators-or-refeire© .to. stop the iiight on the ground .tiiatfc .it was iimibal; nor di&'foe' ask fct* ,'jSM) :r^le's. changed.l: He. took lusvpunishauent, even when beateax like a dog. iHievw^s a gam'© dog. \ "When for bed to tak© refuge in a 'irerich, when v'too badlj -asefl. up io. •carry the fight to the enemy., 'he hung «oa isrithout whining and fought 9^. •cwery attack. -:','Hj6 biSeS ftiis tinie. iH« endured -without __ wincing,. aiid wfwffeed without. V flagging-.;. and1 ;at. tftiisltime what was the winning Geranan doing? Was he worrying over •±he vterrible slaughter? JNp, ho was stalking of annexingß^Jghisln, jaaid-'Po-ilaocl as a result; of his victory,, aid while he was re-making the map of %uxope without 'the- slightest regard jfor 4he wishes; of, its peopde v£he Brit-, ash.people were preparing to jjay.'the. rpriee that wo knew m«sfc t fee paid for a. time to get the Army.jready. Ii is tone'thing to look back^om'i&epounding .the British soldiertt&^l* iflmdng llu>:'ficrst two years of the. war- But dt is-a different thing to look for•srar'd, as he did, and know aSeating could hot bd-avoided/during < 4Jho<fe months. ' . ■•• "Mhon it seemed that >tsi& ifiriish of ■<£he Sritish Army might come quickly, •Germany elected to > -^n^fce f fit ,», a, dight to a finish with England. Tha IBriiJ^h soldier was .ridicule4 4 a«3. held'. in <'Oijtenipt. Now; wo.intend to! s^§% iibarf: Germany has her way. I'Ttt^figHtr must be to a finish, to a kbook-outi IThe whole world, including^ jrusmtbcails of f\vß highest purpose &ri«f • hiiinaniiarians with the best motives, nrust 3mow dihat there cann.ot.be outsMein•±erf<er*.'UC'e at this stage. ; Britain'^id ■not at'k for mteiTontion when, tahe; was iwiprcpared to fight^.aild ;sh© will ■tolerate ;none r\ow. Shei-is ,prejjaaaad | to go ■©n until the Prussian militaofy ■ ■cJespratasm is broken beyond repair. There tras no l'ogret voiced in ijner- - suany ■oyer the useless; slaughtei-, anS no if firs, .wore shed by German symyathisers y.heri. a few thousand British citizens who never expected to be •soldiers Trent out to be: b*'attere#-, lombed, amd gassed by people who are now moved to tears at- the thought of ;what is to come, and who watched tiao early rounds of the unequal cotitie^ dry-eyed. "None of iti^e oarnago which is to «ome can T>» iworso ilvan tho sufferings o? these .Allied dead who stood the full shock of^the Prussian war tnachino l>efo«.3 it began to falter, but in tho Biiitisli determination to carry on the fi^h.t to a decisive fini&h there is ."something more than a. • natural demand for vengeance. The inhumanity and pitilessness of the, lighting that imist como beforo a lastisig pecpo is possible are not c&mp:irablo with the .crueltj-- that Vv-oulci !>e involved by stopping the war while there remains a possibility of civilisation being again menaced from tho samo quarter. "Vva-ci now or at axty time before the final and complete Elimination of. this menaco ip unthinfe-aWe.' No nation witii the slightest -understanding of the temper of the British Citizen Army, which took *ts terrible, ■hammering without wMne or grumble, will attempt-to call a halt now Tt took ' England twenty years to defeat Napoleon. The first iifteen were Mack with Bi-ftis^h defeat. It will not take twenty. years to win this war, but whatever trrne it retjuires it, -"-HI }>c done, and 1 cay this recogJiising that we have only rbagnn tr» win. There is no disposition

f'-uii oitt- fckV to "ft* Ua« Ikhh- of -it It-i----■m- tfkyfcftary. ' W'6 jkaVp n» dolusioflS that tlie War is nfeawft^'th® end. Wy> havo ■##& the • slightest dbwbt how it is jg&JWg to endv Tfe will b«\ m> * qiu-Vteni among *Ji6 Allies. '-Jfever' aaa-in" has be<ioai6 «m- battteciiy.. Tliis ghastliness must never te re-eu-fcrtedioti thfe •^ai'fch, ttlMl '.one jtiie+hod at least (of '$Mb e&d is thte irtfiiction .«bf such, .pumshmert upon t3jo p&r.i£3tratoK> of, this outrage ag^ansfe husnanity. "that any tioaiptatiun.,'4o -©mulato th«rr .exploits will be olin*mat6d fi-om tbcj h<Su-ts or the evil-mimd«d ii*^ rulers of men "■•■;•