MAGNIFICENT ARMY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 248, 29 March 1915, Page 3

MAGNIFICENT ARMY.

NOTHING LIKE OLDEN WAH. (Delayed Caub). London, Ma:c'i 10. A Times correspondent who has made his first visit to the front, writes:— = Never before has there boen &uc:i fighting as that in which the British. Army has played such a glorious part round Ypres. Never before was an army worthier of its destiny of forging tin liistory of the world.

It is not the old type of war of prancing steeds, leisurely sieges, ami sne suspension of operations in -vriniisr. It is dull, yet it is a more glorioir, war in the mud trenches, where a man not only lias other men as foes, but Nature herself. With cold blasts, snow, rain-laden clouds turning the trenches inio canals, and the country side into a b'oer, Sir John French welcomed a pviy of six British correspondents, in the glad circumstances now made possible, journalists can now see something of our armies in the field.

"It is not spectacular work. Headquarters bears the same relation to the operations in the field as the deliberations of the board-room to the clangor of the workshop. The staff includes every imaginable manifestation of human activity and intelligence—financiers, engineers, cartographers, flight-ex-perts, photographers, transport managers, Oxford dons, linguists, detectives, men from the diplomatic service, scientists, .journalists, and -ilstorjnus. "I was particularly impressed by the si.cccss and thoroughness of the Royal Flying Corps, whose storehouses were filled with every imaginable spare part. Tailors, cross-legged, were stitching wing holes, electricians were fitting the wireless apparatus, and msehanics wei'B I adjusting the guns."'