BRITAIN'S PART IN WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1916, Page 7

BRITAIN'S PART IN WAR.

'...' 'ITALIAN WRITER'S TRIBUTE. Dr. Mario IBorsn, the editor of the •Secolo, who has recently returned from England, after having also visited the British front in France, has published in the Secolo several exceedingly interesting letters respecting his impressions of the British Army and the colossal forces created, by England. He writes with immense enthusiasm and unbounded admiration of what he saw, and lavishes unstinted praise on the results obtained, not only in the military and naval preparations, but also in the munition factories and the huge financial burdens 'borne by England. He describes the British and colonial troops as young and strikingly har.dome men of magnificent physique, the result of open-air life and vigorous exercise, which, thanks to their intelligence, has enabled them in a few short months to be equal to the best Herman troops 'which they are now fighting. He praises their" system of military training, which, eschewing the method of teaching troops merely how to march, has taught them how to fight, and all the new requirements of trench warfare, where bayonets, hand -grenades and personal dash play a very important part. Dr. Borsa explains that the apparent inactivity of the British troops for a long period preceding the offensive, while the gallant French were bearing the brunt in a terrible and continuous attack on Verdun, resulted from an arrangement with the French Generalissimo in order to enable the British to perfect their preparations, and to prevent' the frightful losses which would have resulted from attacking the German lines with troops insufficiently trained and unsupported by masses of formidable artillery, Dr. Borsa writes with great clearness and vigor, and lias enabled the enormous number of Secolo readers to understand and appreciate the great role played by England in the gigantic con-. Ilict in 'which she is fighting for the liberty of the world.