WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1915, Page 10 (Supplement)

WAR NOTES.

TIIK BKi ADVAXCK. London, Mav -J I. Thi' loll" winter <;uiij>;i u'iih all it, mi-cries and letliu,,).-. j- owr at la>-t. Th,. I'r.-!i oaiinpaign of l!ii., 1,.!-, begun in earnest. Tin- (.Vriiinn.-. ausual. were tin. liisl in tin- hold. T!i.y ilDticipati-tl Cencrnl .InU're's .-(.viiii,. ~l tensive )n driving a wcdne with all tlirir lorcc at \prc-. there i- no iloulit aliout their iiiteiition. I luv hoped to break through the Allied line'-, at the weak [mint, where the Unti.-h and French join .numls. If lho\ had Slle.-i-c-111-d III! anything like the' -ealc intended. tll« (iernians would have ei.inlndled a retreat on our jiait vvliirii would have left (he whole id liclgiiin. in their hands at length. They might even have threatened onre move that sternly contested road to Calais on which thov have „el their heart-. There really seems to he a sensational, as well as a strategic, attraction lor the (ii'i-maiis about the white elill'.- of Dover. The. general opinion i- Iha I the Kaiser's general .-tail would have been content to sie/.e Helium in itentirety, and to hold the' line aero-, the north „f France to Calais. In this way they would have been, if lliev could bold, oil securely, in a po-iiiou to threaten Britain, and -o intimidate France, menacing the one with pos-ihlo invasion, and luring the other by the fear of losing her industrial .province* of the north, into a peace that would to some extent retrieve Cerinauy from the ruinous. eU'ects of (his war. The Herman ■.rami stall' can have had wit little, if any, hope of doin". more I bail this, or of renewing the ambition with which they -el out for I'ari- (en months ago. I'.very ell'ort is now being -trained. and no sort of 'levilry will be -pared. to salve something for i.vnir.iny out of the stupendous ruin- of I his ghaMly war. The situation was cleverly put a (civ dais ago by a famous -late-man. who is one of the wit> of I'ari.-. lie said: "Lust August the Ceno.u.s -el out for Paris, and the he»emonv oi F.urope. staking everything on the throw. They arc now playing ade - pcrate hazard with their la-t eoiinler-, for the integrity of the Cerinan line pire, and their return ticket- to Berlin." And thai. I- leally what il conies to.

••K." I'C'J'S lll.s KDUT ])i)\\\. Lord Kitchener lias announced that ■lie warns another UOO.UUO im-u. aml that we and the French arc eoine d' sits against, the (Jcrmaiis. There i-. said to have Ticcn a siu«U -piahble in tin- I'abinei. over these decision-, some .Mini-ter.- huhtin- a",ain-t a dc miuiil fur mi'!! which they know may possibly invite compulsion, I al-o ajlivinst the adoption of to'iimm methods. The .Archbishop .if Cantorbury ha- come nut. stro»e.ly mi I In- iattor point, ami been most di-ened'v snubbed bv hi- I'rii'iic! ami froiiueiil host, the l'lini.' Minister, a- tl nh result. Dr. David-mi is m> doubt in some reelects all c-timahh' "out lemae ami a. e.'ood ;■ ii-iit.ir-ii..p. !l!ut m> pretends, nut o\ en the mn-t enf hu-ia-l a churchman, that hj" I- ime nf the ••.ianlof hi.s order. lie is said to lie a '.en distiiifjuislii'd courtier, hut he ha- mop than once pro\od himself a rattier weak kneed politician. Croat jiidio.nation haheeu caused by his action on thi- im-i siou. I'cople feet that (he nichhi-lma'-proper iluCm and appropriate role in ,'theso times are tn he found ill dit'ectinu and encnurae;in» liiiiiianitarian elloii mi behalf of the wounded, the il\iiiL\ the bereaved and the de-olalo. all victims „: tliis war of ruthless and riimiiuil Ccrnuiii a-;ere.-sioii, and not in ineil.llin.L' with politics or strateey. '1'1,,. aivb bishoji's tendency to forgive the l.'efmaii people in aihance for oulraaeoii- crimeiijraiimt all human in-tiiict, wiiieh tii'c\ are not .only now applaudine, with r\ull ation, but still coininirtiuj.'. limls littl,. favor with i-lmrehiiieii. ami nunc at all with the public generally. .Hut it -!io«,. the tendency of a certain order of iinidlcct, and that, the lieailnia-,ter of Kton does not stand ouite alone in hi- p,.,-,i liar ethics. As a inattir of fait, the Preni-h and liriti-li chemists, as nell athe Uiissiau. have alreadv adopted e\ pedienks that will ti'ili-h the (lefinuus a heavy lesson. l'oi.,01! "a- will be 1i5,.,) aKain.-t (hem without the Ica-t <nmp ■ thin whenever it is iikclv to he sumfill. It may be that the world is n„» witnessini; anotlier evolution in the science of warfare. The llcijish Ihi veinnieiit has called mi .the sen ices of a. hir»e number of youii". chemi-!- to superintend the for liiihtinf!' the euetiiy with in the west.

,I'HK C.W.'IM.T middi.i:. Hut al. the moment, attention in i.i.u don and elsewhere is ineiissed on Ihe Cabiiiel'a crisis. Kion'binh who j, not ■A hopeless politician is convinced llial we. oneht. to haw done what trance ami liu-shi did at Ihe outbreak of the ii.n. Wo oii"ht. lo have al mice ahandoned all |iie(.eii e of parly eoventmeut and milled the best voimeiis of tile whole nalioli for the .purpose- of the war I'ntil this war is over 11ti-, country |oi„v... m . polltics but, vvar lint, (here via- a oia-ii and straie'c reluctance anions (he icad el's on both -ides to join band-. I inleluelanee says very little for their |.,il riolisin. ami still le-s for Ih.-ir inlelli eence. rnforliiualel;, (Ills ~ ~,,1 ~n \\V Ineii laliieiitnbly the \ ielorinii in I (he Ceor-iaii 5|a|,.5,,,,.„. „„.„ „ In, in re "iants in llnnr ,ln\. and who- inanil. ■■ are all too 1ai0... f,„. i„,„|ern s|„,iiJ,|o|-. Aider iiiiiddbue alone |,,r lei, month-. dui'in.e vvhieh lone Lord Kileliener. and (ln.se win. have s| remnmslv -\i\<: ~,-1.-1 him in Ihe 1 abiuel, have ahme -avei Hi.' situation, a crisis ha- now ari-cn. In l.he verv vor-te\ ol the world w,,r when Hie late ~i llritain and Ihe Km |iire. and the fortunes of tin- Alii.- ,'.- pond absolnlelv on the Nnw. a d.-eulc has occurred in Whitehall al Hi" Ad inir.ilty. whi„h Ihi'ealeii-, or I in,ail en- I. serious coUse,|Ueuees. I'll,, i.i.i hav not vet been disclosed, and ma v neve, be disclosed until after (he war. Hot ■there is"oo,l reason l( , Imlievo that I. nd fisher and 'Mr. Chim-hill have imind tiieiuselvcs mutually iuenmp.il ible. V: Churchill is accused „f inlei'ioriie.: .villi the man al the wheel. Mid his'i. , • - said to June rcsiened. Writm- al thimom.nl. II is iiii-i ible io -a v vvhal I 1," upsliol. inav -lie. II is probable ilia! Mr Churchill will lie "iven another ollice h is cerlain, in any case, ibal a Coaiitio.i Aliuistrv. ineln.lin.ir Ihe best mc, ..i all parties.' and .partieiilarlv Mr I'.aiieir. will be the result of (his ama/aue ■■■■>: dnl. It ist.be best solution of ihe '.-. . and the one that would ensure lb- n. • , .public eonfidence.