The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1915. WAR MIRACLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1915. WAR MIRACLES.

*lM> '»i.J 'i r. 1!.. I . ,i. —■■: (1.1 .‘(if. 'Ti?of”-ilrc probably imany -happenings in the great war which might alnlost fho germed''miracles, hut Mr Archibald Hurd considers that the miracle of the war is the extent of the military !i efloT% which we have put forth in association with our incalculable services at sea. of which we may lie jnsti■Tfiably proud; and the crowning error ■of the war is the indiscriminate mantier in'which the new armies were recruited without regard to the injury done to the hundred and one industries required for providing war'munitions. This War. lie tells us, is as much a test of the industrial organLyirfioti ! of the countries engaged, as of| their navies and armies. Britain—the. greatest manufacturing nation in the world—failed to realise this fundamen-j tal faet. What is the consequence There are thousands of men in khakr to-day who would he hotter serving their country at the bench, in the sliip-| yard, the gunshop, the warehouse, or evVii the office. it is not that tooj many men have been recruited —there are thousands of others who could he spared from civil life—but that the' movenielit was pressed forward, under the inspiration of the War Office, in i tit of wild and chaotic enthusiasm without a thought to the fact that an army fights'on its stomach, fights with rifles and guns, and fights with shells and ammunition, requiring variety of war supplies in unstinted; quantities, which the (iermans and ( Austrians prepared in peace, but in which we, ,t\iul onr Allies were defi-j cient. Tliis. Air Hurd forcibly reminds' ns. has been the muddle of the war,! as the uprising of the manhood of the British Empire has been the mirar.o of the war, “Recognition of the mistake which was made, and which must now he remedied,” Air Hurd coi eludes, “does not in any way detract from the splendour of the reflection of j the patriotism, virility and discipline of a free people who have in so snort a perid,! made such a magnificent contribution to (flic defence of the Win Id’s freedom without hope of 1 ■(>iapt*nsat>' , i.j in money or kind, or exp u cia;ion reparation For all that they are suffering.”