The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. ON THE WEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 96, 20 November 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. ON THE WEST.

Further reports fully confirm the great importance of the British victory at Anerc, and it may be fairly assumed that the Allied forces are now in a position to command the whole road from Arras by Bapanme to Pcronne. The unremitting pressure, on the enemy continues and there is evidence that Germany has not the reserves available to stem the invincible onward tide. For nearly live months the Allies have steadily pressed back the enemy, blowing his entrenchments to dust, inflicting immense losses and, on the other hand, conserving with the most scientific care their own fighting manpower. The Saturday Review writes most hopefully of the situation a month ago, and since then it has certainly improved tremendously. It is pointed out that the lesson Germany ought to have learned in the past three months is that where she herself, with all her well-planned contrivances for war, has failed, her foes have succeeded. The German war map of the West as it stands today, compared with that which was presented to the people on July 1, 1916, is the terrible confession of a second defeat. To fail in both the offensive and the defensive is indeed to fail. Looking back to the days of Ypres two years ago, can we ever sufficiently extol the courage, endurance, and unflinching heroism of that brave little army of Regulars who withstood the countless hordes oi first-lino Germans which were hurled against them:-' They fought for England on the Yser and at Ypres to defend the land of their birth. "Now," the Review goes on to say, "on the banks of the Somme, new armies are fighting both for France and England, no longer to defend them, but with all the spirit of the attacker, in the endeavor to crush for ever the vile creature that has sullied the sacred soil of honorable nations. The Allies have thc> domination well established, and the enemy knows it As the foe "rows weaker the AngloFrench forces gain in strength." But we have by no means yet accomplished our great task, for desperate and utterly reckless, and knowing full well the punishment that awaits the criminal, Germany will die hard. There is heavy fighting yet before the gallant soldiers of freedom who arr> forcing back the Huns on the Western front. "Our duty is plain," say? Horatio Bottomlev. "Shells and men

—men and shells; blockade and more blockade; money and munitions and ever more money and munitions for our Allies; and a stout heart, and a resolute will at. home. Then the ghastly thing will soon be over, and the world will be ridded, once and for ever, of the accursed Hun."