The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1914. PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 308, 29 December 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1914. PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

From the meagre and very scrappy information which has been allowed to filter through by cable during the holidays regarding the doings at the seat of war it appears that, generally speaking, the Allies are making good forward movements, and that there are plain indications of grow.Mg alarm in German military circles and growing unrest in Germany 'tso I f. The people must eventually learn lie truth, and the truth when learned will he fatal to the House of Hohenzollern, despite the fact that, fanned by falsehood, Britain, who in the past has been Germany’s best friend and kindest neighbor, is to-day the target at which is hurled the boorish

Teuton nation’s most venomous Hatred. The news of the raid on Cux haven by British submarines and aeroplanes which led up to f t.e novel combat in which seaplanes, Gorman Zeppelins, and big guns took part, is an interesting forward development of affairs, and will certainly teach the Germans that aggressive acts such as the murderous raid on the unfoi-

tified Anglian East Coast towns, and the bomb dropping at Dover, will not be permitted without some effective retaliation. Of course we can know but very little of the secrets of , the War Office, nor of the real reasons which prompt the administrators of onr Army and Navy in the courses they take, and it is simply supreme folly for the man in the street to lav down the law as to what tiie

Admiralty or the War Office should or should not do. But of this there is no donbt: every act of Britain’s, from i the dark days before the actual cut-, break of war (when Sir Edward Grey, with statesmanlike firmness, tact, nndi courage, used Ids finest efforts to prevent the world disaster which Germany had determined' upon) to the' present moment, has been the course of honor and integrity and in the best interests of the Empire and Immanity itself. The Allies are fighting to-day to make forever impossible the horrors for which Prussian militarism stands as the whole world now knows, i