BRITAIN MAKES BUSINESS OF WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 145, 22 February 1915, Page 6

BRITAIN MAKES BUSINESS OF WAR.

I ; KO "MUDDLING THROUGH." ..If one notices anything particularly in the visit to the British ha*e where icfficers and men come in. caked in the still wet mud of the advanced trenches (writes a war correspondent at the front), it is that the British soldier is beginning to have a supreme .contempt for the enemy. There is a splendid confidence in all ranks which auguro victory in the end, but not one that belittle the task tha* is? coming ■when the advance is to be made. They know that it is going to be terrific, |r:.i* •■)] along the line they see a great fabrfic being built —solid permanent works —ready scon to receive an army larger than Britain ever sen' beyond her shores before. It breeds confidence. Britain is not "muddling-through" this time. There is a perfection of organisation which is net even strained. When a French or Belgian, regiment runs suddenly short Gif supplies, either rati.cns or eiotlvn.g, the British can supply the needfu' articles. I had de jeuner with a French major in the only betel cf a lirtle on the main line of British communication. He had come down ii'oir. the front. - "You English," he laughii in complimentary fashion, "are trul f a nation ■ig£ shopkeepers. It is fortunate. France has thougiht war and dreamed war since '7O, but we are only just learning the business of it. You are our tssaehers." " That's it," said an array service • ■lieutenant. "The Germans made a machine of war. We are making it a business. What would*you like? We have anything from barbed wire to bath tubs in stock."