BRITAIN'S TASK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 84, 7 August 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN'S TASK.

GERMAN DERISION.

A semi-official article in the "Cologne Gazette," in June describes British war perparations in terms which are unintentionally instructive.

"For the first time (the paper says) England has now to face an enemy who employs every technical resource and every resource of organisation with an art which is far superior to that of Great Britain and her helpers. Perfect technical skill and perfect organisation have this in common—that they achieve the greatest effects by the smallest means, that they exert the greatest force at the smallest point, and that they use human forces to the full and extend them, just as the telescope extends human vision and the telephone extends human hearing. They have this also in common—that they cannot be improvised. The Quadruple Entente is lighting against the results of the best technical schooling which the world knows.

"Even if one multiplies Lloyd George by 10. one cannot require of him that now. in the midst of thisexhausting war, he should become master of our superiority.. He is expected to raise out of the ground a mighty national munitions indus-, try. For this purpose there art, needed a proper number of welltrained and well-practised engineers, technical experts, and chemists of the first rank, a wealth of the most modern special machinery, and a band of workers who go at their work with devotion and understanding, and strain their whole strength in unity from the first man to the last. What was slowly built up elsewhero in a decade, upon the basis of countless individual experiences and with the help of the best trained work-/ men, is now to lie improvised in England.

"Meanwhile, side by side with this the military developments in tho theatres of war take their course, and require of England that, at the same time that her new munitions industry needs every strong man, she shall also .send into the field every man who can carry a weapon. And I what is more, each man has to be persuaded individually to go. MeanI while the detested German system I works quietly and surely at the training of the millions of strong men I whom Germany i.s still able to put into the tield as enthusiastic defenders of the Fatherland. While, feo jise Lloyd George's phrase, the British machine is beginning to move the (ierman-Austiian-Hungarian-,Turkish machine is moving unceas-

ingly, and its movements are regu later! by an organised technical skill ■ whose successes in gunnery, in tin air, and under the water are such k? people in Kngland know only fron; the imagination of novelists,"-