The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1915. A YEAR OF WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 81, 4 August 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1915. A YEAR OF WAR.

A full year lia.s passed sinw the momentous step was taken by Britain of declaring war against Germany. Never in all history was there a more honourable or more justified taking up of arms events have amply proved. It is even now that the world is only beginning to realise the unspeakable brutality and shanie- | less perfidy of the German nation. Britain joined her noble Allies, France and Russia, to vindicate the principle that small nationalities may not he crushed in defiance of international good faith by the arbitrary will of an overwhelming and ambitious power, and little prepared as she was for the great struggle, she lias done well. It is without boasting and self-aggrandisement that each of the Allies has done her share,/ and j it is more from the tributes paid by both Russia and Franco to Britain's aid than by what the Imperial Government lias made known that we understand how tremendously import-! ant n pnrt the British Navy lias played in the great game. If the American Government is spineless and supine under Gorman insult and outrage, public opinion in the United States grows more insistently loud in its expressions of abhorrence and disgust of German methods, as exposed by this ruthless war. With the fate of Belgium, who gallantly resisted the armed oppressor, and also that of Luxembourg—the little State which relied on the Kaiser's false promises—before their eyes, it is no wonder that American newspapers agree that oven the safety of the United States of America depends upon the thorough defeat of the Germans. To-day there are being hold throughout the Empire demons/! rations to commemorate the outbreak of war. The prevailing note at all these should be the duty we individually owe our country and the cause of right and freedom. When victory conies, as come it must to the anus of the Allies, then we may strike more joyous and lighter notes, but to-day we should bear ourselves in proud humility. Whatever !ritain\s sons have suffered together with the brave' soldiers and sailors of the Allied nations, their hands are clean and will remain so to the end, and: that is a good thing to remember.