The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 3rd., 1916. THROUGH FRENCH EYES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1559, 3 June 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 3rd., 1916. THROUGH FRENCH EYES.

AX open letter on Britain's saeri(fce in (Ik- w;ir has been read in all the schools of France. It gives in simple language the history of Britain’s efforts. The latest developments are referred to as follows ; “Bv August, 11)15, Britain had three million men under arms ; one sees at once how prodigious was the work of one year. Since then the figure has gone higher still. The recruits have hastened, as in the first davs, to respond to the* call of their King, and Parliament has raised the strength of tin* army to four millions. It was not enough. To meet the growing needs of the war a supreme sacrifice was called for, the renunciation of the principle of voluntaryism. This moral revolution, one of the most remarkable that any nation has ever undergone, has been completed. The effective aid that Britain gives us is to-day ten times stronger limn at first. She has a million soldiers in France ; in all, on every front, without reckoning the colonials, a million and a(|uarter combatants. She will have more when it is necessary. Even (hough she has already paid the price in blood—her casualties in January. IffKi, amounted to 550,000 men—she has still the flower of her youth of her force. When the allies understand that they must, he,at the (remains by gunfire they made an inventory of their resources in machinery as in men. Our glance turned to England, beneath whose soil sleep iron and coal, Towards those towns where the high chimneys towin’ in thousands. To-day there are 1,750,000 workm's making munitions in England. Despite this unexpected development of the army and the munition-making, the fleet has remained the principal weapon of a maritime nation. It is like a cord round the neck of tiermany. The British blockade, slowly perhaps, but inflexibly, assures us of victorv."