The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1916. THE PUSH ON THE WEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 19 September 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1916. THE PUSH ON THE WEST.

The great push on the Western Front is proceeding with honors to both France and England and corres-! ponding loss and discomfiture to the Hunnish hosts. The new armoured motor cars which the British are using appear to have been a great success and evidently played no small part in the assault on enemy positions. It was Mr Hillaire Belloc who used the phrase "breaking the crust," in his reviews of the military situation at the middle of July, when he remarked that the enemy had nearly two years in which to create that "crust" which has been broken/ to pieces over an extent of over fifteen miles from the fields just outside Villers to the fields just south of Tliiepval. "We may be cer- < tain," Mr Belloc said, "that all the energy the German can now command I is being furiously concentrated up on the consolidation of his third line, along the ridge, and whatever new work he is beginning beyond. But he is doing that work under such a tiro as he never knew before, and within limits of time exceedingly restricted." To-day the third lino has been broken and the Allies rather than the enemy are bringing up new devices and more effective engines of war. Under Hindenburg's direction the Germans are making a tremendous struggle as all military writers agreed they would. "Let there be no mistake about it," says Mr J. L. Garvin, in the Observer, "they will still try to make up in mechanism what they lose in men. Their multiplying factories will run day and night to increase their present gigantic output of machine-guns, heavy artillery, gas shells and all their apparatus of war." it seems though that even in mechanism as well as men the Allies are quite equal and in some points i superior to the inventors of fright-, fulness in modern warfare. "We have come to the crux and kernel of the struggle for the tableland be-| tween the Ancre and the Somme,"| write Mr Garvin. "How heroic an(l ( masterful lias been the effort the Germans no longer deny, 'mt do us | Jie honor to declare that their most ( dangerous antagonists now are the ( Ui-itLsli. 'Men know what is the iiuestinn to-day,' says the correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt.j 'They see in the English attacker their most dangerous as their most guilty enemy. That enemy is exerting all his strength, and it determined to conquer. His capacity has risen very high. He has advanced to the last fight, and is determined to! end it in victory.' What more memorable tribute could the new armiesl hove won? The rpeognil'on wrung from) the enemy will not be the last nor

the highest. It is a long way from Mons and Lo Gateau. 'The English,' says a Hungarian witness, 'arc now the most respected of Germany's foes.' Nothing helps the Boche to understand like the grammar of hard knocks. By such teaching it seems the 'contemptible little army' in two years has become the 'respected great army' of to-day."