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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1915-8-26, Page 2• T10RaDAT Acehur 26 Mb 14148imnal THE !SIGNAL PRINTING CO., LTD. =?./o.sastS:wgita-aerarwssa+arN<teTpaMbeed'every Tlrereer sr.OsiOtsYaosat ora.Na snow -,..L4 and rat Eroma pear t U said Arbil, la sdraaee OLIN wt. be sseast.l : is wlemeibere is Use State. tbo rats Y O*. Dsllsr .ad rifts Owe Bab�arlb. Melody s/ view We who Alt N resoolev. TWO ewrtel s ►7 mon erW sssfw . favor by owl& r .f Motion .t tree) • ease ae parable. t.t.sas .f Mir d.drd, beth old ad t•k see eidr....b..,.W be siva I e.fttaseee Ms be .ewe• by bask draft. maw wow tt,pet-oreoe order. far rettAor.d letter. saki .o m...e M any tam AnvsarW.0 Teases -metas lar dispW wed contract tot tortls.snte will be stria a 6.0h - para Legal nal *Urn Waal. advert Wonts. tan oasts par We tar area lamellae .d four ppasWta lino no ter .sob ialweaes iseortH•. Ilreswme by •.oats of .olid g.preel-t mire We to aa loot Hmionet coed. ot .I. three .d seder, FIv. Mils, per year. 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At'.UMT _at, 1Ni5 TAKE A FRESH HOLD. We are now teddy launched on the second year of the war, and the end is not yet in eight. It may be that the mord crtsiral time is yet to come ; but 1st what may bappen it will never be time to lose heart or allow any feeling of discouragement t. find loigwent. Our enemies are tuu.b weaker than • they were • year ago, their plans of a swift stroke and a speedy victory have been foiled. and they are now fighting desperately for the hest terms they can make. On the other band, the Allies, who were snprepaied for war, have been gathering their forces and arming them. laying in supplies of monitions, and in all ways prrpsting for • nighty offemaiye movement that wet be irresistible. There is hot the atighlert reason to douht the staunch - nets of our allies and their determina- tion to see the Iglu Gummi) to the finish; but even if they rho•zld seek peace we believe firmly that the Brit- ish people will fight on until Belgium is avenged and Prussian militarism !tumbled. A more imminent danger to the people of Canada is that of losing the tine enthmiaem that charas tea ized the fiat pet iod of the war. %Ve must not get into tbe way of regarding the war as an everyday- affair calling for no furtbet interest on our part than the reading of the daily despatches. Earnest effort and self-sucrince in the great cause are aa necessary today, and will 1•e not lees so for many mouths, Si in those first days of the struggle. Our soldiers are still giving up their lives, are still facing the cruel iostruweota ot death an I disablement ; physicians and aurae. aro •Lill endur- ing untold hardships in oaring for the wounded t-saet for them the task is one that claims them until either the war endo or they are -killed or dis- abled. 8o for us at home, if we can- not go to share the danger or the hardship. our duty is no lees plain -to give. and give. and give, net once or twice or three dares, but mall the war is brought to a c'ose and the need of giving ceases. The longer the war continues, the more keenly should we real. sir the danger that threatened to, the danger of the establishing upon earth of a hideous rule of militarism, crushing out the tree life which is -the ideal of the British people. That dangdr is not yet part : there is still much to be done and to be endured by those who fi,iht soot battles: but we believe with utmost coufideuce that the sad will he • triumph for those principles io defence of which our Em- pire drew the sword. In the meantime, let us all see to it that so far as in our power lies we sae helping to bring victory to our cause. [OITO$IAL NOTES. Don't worry ; the Hessians will come back. The Toronto News ought to commit •'Bob" Rogers feelings and quit talk- ing an much about an election. Major-General Sada Hughes has beta koigiled. '1h. honor will not disturb Air Kant's accustomed modesty. Toronto Star: Capt Armand Lav- ergne appears to he • man wbo has dedicated his life to promoting intet- motional peace sad tiemeatic discord. About the biggest guessing contest Gm world ever knew centres around the question : Where and when is Kirsh/nee going to strike with his army The Kaiser could not fool those Nova Scotian.. They have been keep- ing their hones ready to sell to the War Odes for the last twenty-five or thirty years. reroute Telegram : Wonder it by any ihaco the white here nn which Xing William craned tbe Boyne was goad to the Government by some Nova Moots• patriot, and le off to the wan amain ! It 1. taking the Washington Gov- ernment • good while to make up its mind what to say to Germany, some delay having been caused by the cir- cumstance that Germany's latest note is in Arabic. THE LEAGUE OF He L gime Runs 1 • titre' B stain s L rbia E'R&nee .fmt T 'negro Gal Y The refusal of the Minister of Fin- ance to 'auction the amalgamation of the Royal Hank and the Bank of Ham- ilton meets, we believe, with the geo- eral approval of the people of Canada. This country has enough large bank- ing concerns ; it need* tbe smaller Maks, giving attentloo to local re- quirements as distinguished from "big business " We believe that tbe majhrlty of Canadians do not want a general elec- tion during war -•line. it would dis- tta^t the attention .1 the people from the moat important business now on hand -t bat of helping Britain in the big light and caring for the wounded and dependent- When the war is ended the conditions wbich call for • party truce will have ceased to be, and it will then be in order for the people of Canada to give their atten- tion to the election of a new Parlia- ment. The action of the Speaker. Patriotic League in striking Prot. Rietbdorf from its list of speakers appear. to he unwise. Prof. Rlethdorf has been doing good work in addressing meet- ings of German -Canadians and ex- plaining the war situation from the standpoint of • man who. loving lib- erty, iberty, upholds the cause of the Allies and denounces Germany's ruthless methods. It is no fault of Prof. Rietb- dorf ;het be was born a German ; on the cont rat y, he deserves to be honored for the decided stand he bas taken. Canadians are working and fighting for liherty, and should welcome the winter) r of all men, no matter what their origin, who will fain with them in the struggle. The Toronto News complains that Liberals do not refrain from criticism of the Government. This is baby talk. Has Canada become • bureaucacy, under the absolute rule of a coterie at Ottawa ? In G. itain, where anything like disunion among the people would be much more asrious than it could be in Canada, criticism of the Government bas never ceased. Even the coalition Otivern- meet is under almost constant attack from some gttarter or other : people whn think that something should be done that is not being done, or that soulething is, being done that should nit be done, are not constrained to keep silent. The Toronto News itself I has goo* out of i;• way more than once of late to justify- journalistic attacks upon the British Government. Why should Canadians be forbidden to advise and caution and ware their Government ? As a matter rat fact, there has been and le very little parti- san criticism in the Liberal press, con- sidering a good many things that have happened in Canada since the war broke out. The News would let the country- be plundetrd end all sorts of frauds and blunders Ire perpetrated rather than that any reflection should he caat upon its friends at Ottawa ; but fortunately the petperted notions of The News do not command much respect. There is considerable guessing as to wbo is to get the position of cuetoms collector et Godeticb, and as every- body 1. entitled to a guess The Signal hazards one -that the om le will go to J J. Merner, M. P. for Smith Huron. Our Conservative frieods ate up against a rather d mcult problem in Louth Huron. With the existing anti - German sentiment, it would he danger. mut to tun Mr. Meitner again. On the other band, it would be dangerous to turn him down cold. If, however. he were placed in a nice comtortable office like that o1 cuetoms collector, Mr Merner's friends would be placated* and the way would be open for the selection of a new candidate in the Co.servativs Interest -somebody, say, about the size and complexion of Edward Norman Lewis, whores riding is being wiped out by the new redistri• button of Beets. The situation is un- doubtedly causing mote worry to the Conservative manager than it ie to the electors of Routh Huron, wbo will lava • neat -rat.. man, Mr. Thomas McMillan, to .ode for, no matter what the Conservative managers do. 1b some bark to the customs appointmemb the powers that he might surprise us all by •ppointleg for mats whose experience la thee; eastoms office en- titles bim to the collectorship, Mr. James L. Onus'. Avoid harsh The ideal lax at only by H. C. Atop. 1Ue, $e aced v Sold u as a'r Recall Orderlies. mass for ebikiree. Dunlop. the ReraU 50e hoses. "ROVON ON Rats, Mie., sir. Rouse lase and Country Stores. EATS" elear* net Don't Dia In the Me at Drug and THK SIGNAL 3OD&RIOR t ONTARIu The Voyage. W Nca.v'rr way tb* Wad With Mart, a'rms heart 1. sled 1• bar. e es: The Naw it seat w Naw tt week TM wired that wee tied wt. le Mtn. Mr ISM waft mage eat alma: • chewed assts f}s. •vary seas aro sat scorn • thetasand .sae ; Ad what ter M wren favotly hew Mist arae meats, site the shed (1 deer. use was Medea rect. A.4rt es set ewe a prey roe wle.d. to waft M oa os wee. Dot lentte eM1►.e Wei To 'day or earel tea ; treetlsd stn net all t. well. sad faro that cis Wberaaritedtoj hart will sell eau Through .sora .d eel.. and ell/ not tad. Whatiler brewer may prevail. To led See, Thiry mg peel. Within hl . .i.Itaries harm at test. TMS. what.sover wind doth New. My heart le glad to have It ea: Aad Wow It eget ar New u wart, Ti. wired that Newe that wind le hest. -Carona* A. Mase► WHAT OTHERS SAY. Knssi. poly Beginetng. Lusdeo Deily [Apron. Russia i. only at her beginning. Her strength is inexhaustible. Behind the army is a' complete national unan- imity and an inspiring faith that the Empire is fighting for its *out and for • sew and fuller lite. The tzar wares bis people that the war will be long, and that many vicissitudes must inev- itably occur, but Russia, equally with great Britain. France and Italy, will carry on the fight, unperturbed and undaunted until the enemy is crushed, "fur without that peace is impoei- bl Seasoaalle Suggestions. The Pensee Advoo.ts. It is time to begin the finishing touches on the stock for the fall faire. Push the stockbreeding Wainer,. Grain -growing is sure to fall if per- sisted in -stockbreeding never ! Pigs will fatten on sprouted wheat, so that if the buyer shoves the price down too low the man with the live •tock still has another chance. An unmistakable proof of emcleocy in farming is capadty to deliver the land from an excess of water at one time, and at another to have plenty of it to grow • prolitatrle clop. Jolietl�tpsslldwe. The charm of •perfe.:t Juneevaiing, with the odor of roses in the air and a cloudless summer sky. added the final note of exquisite harmony to the ap- pointments of • sweetly Hoopla wed- ding last night .t Grace M. B. church which united in the holy bonds of marriage Min Edo. Nichols and How- ard Bateman. One of the interesting features ot the grooms pert in the weeding was the fact that the sus pendent which he wore had limn care- fully embroidered seventy years be` lore, by his grandmother, for his grandfather's wedding. Ireland's Cause. remiss'. Joursal Dob'la 'There is no principle which Irish- men have aver taught tor which 'the Allies are not fighting for tod.iy. They are fighting for • recognition of the principle of nationality, for wbleb we lrishnren bees fought for six hundred years. They am ligating especially for small nation. They are htieg for democracy, and the Irish people are democratic They are fighting for liberty, for wbi'-h tubes ty tens of thous- ands of our people have lived and died." Tne case could not have been more pithily and mon rneuprebeosively stated. The eseemre of this war is the vindication of nationality. • A Mooapo oto Canadian Courier, Sir Adam Beck alwoy. was a mono- polist. Sines be -was pieced in c of the buying of horses for the Cana- dianfi�army he bas shown his dominant charseteristie. He refuses to .Ilow the Britiab and French authorities to buy horse. in Canada. As a conse- qusoce,Iarge shipments of horses from the United States are being made every week for the British and French buyers who have headquarters here. Up to date, the monetary loss to Cana- dian farmers by 8ir Adam'. desire to mouopol,ze the buying in tbis country is probably in excess of three million dnll•te. This is • rather barge price to pity for • laurel wreath to adorn Ole crown of even so eminetrt a ciliz-n es Sir Adam Beck. Germany's Great Leases. I'b!lade'phla hedger. The German fleet is as if it did not exist. Its submarines have sunk mer- chant ships and murdered noncom Itde .ata, but the military effect of thele successes he nil. Its hottleships re- main In port. The few that were foot- loose have been captured or sunk. The German gag has been driven from the ocean. A rich commence has been deetrore ed. Mcover. German methods of warfare have aroused bitter indig- nation and resentment all over the world. If every German merchantman were now released, it would takecan, to regalia what bas been lost. With the memo, y of the Lusitania graven deep in our hearts, bow many Antill- ean* would sa11 again on • German liner ? Shifting the Ofsce-beldam. Masltoba Fre 1'ree. The Norris Government has plied out of their sinecunw various ssembees of the Provincial civil service whose sole duty It was to carry on election work year after year. 1n nearly every case the dlpoese sed have been transferred to the Dominion service. where the will continuetheir politi- cal activities es The Immigration 1).. pertinent has proved itself a haven of rest for most of these refugees. If them worthies must live off the people it le better that they 'rhombi he at- tached to the Domdobce pay -roll. Having added 10,000 ttdditlosal civil servants to the Deinhomn pay lie *Ines tell, the Dominion Government ran dmshtless take mire of these few ilditioaal party workers. ,The Oassedi•n Peelle Railway will reale be one of the principal exhibit- ors at the forth-maing exhibiting' to he heli in Toronto, and, in additkre to the dlselay of Canada'. golden Whet redeem, . new deem mare will be added taking the foray of • railway kitchen and dialog car. Ihle will dowh u,s. he a retreating' to meet people, and of partieel•r interest to [acmes' wives .ad deegbters. THE WAR. THE FAMo1J13 FIG HT FOB HILL ell. la ons e[ his lettere to The Christian Guardian, key. Owen S. Wallis., senior Wesleyan tb•plaln to the ford.., describes the terrible atrugel* for Hill au: Fur days it hal been common knowl- edge that we were on the eve of great event.. T1s Germans were ouuern• tinting foe attack, we were canoes - treating to resit attack, and all were ant i ci pati ug one rat t be greatest hostiles that the world had oyer twee. South- east of Yprw., clove to our line. .ad completely owe'betking the whole of the salient, was a little mound known to us as 11111 110, from the fact that its height was sixty metres, and it was marked on this limp by • sixty. An insignificant mound, but for ail that one of the most important strategic points in the German line, for it was their priucipal -Weal-vine ram ioo" for as tllery fire, and also commanded the roads whereby they brought up their supplies and ammunition. 11 wee evident that In the eveat of an attack this position would be invaluable to tttaem, and equally evident that if we could oscura it their operatione would be great! hampered and probably de- feated. weeks the Ro al Engin- eers bed bees mining, the hill; their woe 1: was now complete, and on the evening of eaturdy, April 171h, it be- came know• 10 soma cl u. that at 7 n. w. the mines would be find. 13ta- tionicg ourselves on top of tbe Asy- lum, field glamors to our eye., we watched the hill. Aa ledneriballs Straggle. At the stroke of seven it was as though • volesnic eruption had taken place. The whole bill went sky-high, *poet after spoilt, six great explosion. -tree*, wagons, bosses and men in the air; and Oben tainth the sound ot a dull roar. Almost at the same mo- ment every gun we had in the salient concentrated its tire upon what was left of the hill, and nothing could be *sen save rolling smoke, which wall constantly rent with the larh of obeli explosion. It was simply terrific; there are no wtds to describe it. What the German loss in lives was nobody knows; we only found three or four wounded. mangled men, and they said they were all that was left of ■t least 500 who had been bolding the trenches- A half-hour's almost un- precedented bcmbardn.eot, and then the Royal - We Kent Regiment charged Into the inferno of smoke and Same with the bayonet, capturing the next lire of trenches with a fuss of only three killed and half a dozen wounded. 90 utterly broken and ter rifled were the Germans that in their panic they bayonetted each other in their baste to get away, fighting their way to safety over the bodies of their awn comrades. But :he enemy, draw- ing upon what sometimes seems to us tbeir inexhaustible reserves of nun, threw treab tenons into • fiee'ee coun- ter-attack, and were o0 our men be- fore they nonld dig themselves in or adapt the Gowen trenches to the new conditions. Now cur looses really bolus. aid D dtw't behave theme to any man living who Muld describe that fight. We were instru:t.d to boa it at all cost; the Germane were ordered to retake the position, however greet tbe sacrifice. Humanly *peaking, the hill had heroine untenable for either side, for it was .imply swept with shell frond both German and British rams Nothing Like It Ever Seen. For concentrated fighting 1 do net believe anything like it bog ever been seen in fire history of war. in an area of duo yards' from and about 1141 yards in depth there occurred something like 3,000 casualties. The ofneers and men of the Royal West Kent', the King's Own BQt,ttiab flatterers, the King. Own Y6ektbire Light Infantry, the Duke of %Velliegton:s %Vest Riding Regiment, the &h Liverpool. and the East t'umrey Regiment performed un- paralleled deeds of valor, and sgein and again accomplished the imp.. bible. Driven back from the trenches they bad captured, they occupied the .rater. [Wade by the explcslons when the bill wa. blown up, and here was witnessed some of the sternest fighting of these ds} . and night. of horror and blood -fun lir l -ohs ped holes some twenty feet deep, our men lining the rim of the craters ; shrapnel bursting over them, a ceaseless stream of ma- chine gun and rifle fire pouring irto them, and as they were hit the rolled leen, the bottom of the funnel, which eooc became a twisting, writhing mass of wounded „rid deed. To enter • crater was almost certain death. Volunteers were called for from amongst the doc- tors serving with the regiments in re- set ve, and %Aunt ems were not want- ing, but most were stopped before the got there. Lifeteoant Eccles. R. A. M. C. 1 attached to Ahe East Sur- reys), stone reached the crater, and there for three hours be worked 1. that inferno of suffering till his task was done and he was needed elsewhere. A subaltern of the King's Owe York- shire Light iefantr (be was himself wounded later in the fight) was sent up with reinforcements. Them was only one communication trench avail- able. and that very narrow. Half -way' up he was met by wounded wbo were just capable of crawling out of the awful craters above, and the way was bloebed. But he most go as res the position would be let. 8o he or- dered the wounded Wig down in the bottom of the trent*, and he and hle as. marched arm them. bee of it later, he said : i bated to it. r'e ; it mud* me positive) Het there wws nmhlsg elks M and the wounded were flee -they let .. pass OUR. them without a murmur." And so i might go no. mnitlplyleg horror- .ddieg *.tall to gauenomte detail t *sough baabeer said. To those w were there and neare nut of it all it was as though they had here reamed from Kbe bot- toenless pit. • • • Mr. Watlds* then deserilw the arrangements made by the H. A. M. 0. for eolleetiog mad looking after the wounded. The ("eery and men ea - mimed in the task eostinrned at their work witho..t sleep or amt 01 soy pest for three days and eights. Hy Met time the hewers were daoppieg ex- hausted r their Meek* read the thee - tare were almost hilliest asleep as they attesided to the wounded- • • As Seeday lensed. Meaday dawned, but there was se (souse la the stream of horror and suf- fering whicb flowed 1■ ups• res from the hill above. Every available motor ambulance was osaeele.sly at wank. the drivers ugly electing rest .tsd taws to eat during the ire shout• s ►pent In loading and unloading their oars. With the soml.g of Jaylight the whole of the road treat the Asylum to the leading paint was *belled persistently by the •nem s guns ; car attar ear was hit. but fortunetel not use was put out of action. Then the goes were imaged os to the advanced deee.- iog-Matics bi alt. Wouoded who lay un stretchers walling for the cobs were hit agaia as they lay t the bars, tato which we had gathered man of the se eases, was struck. emend 01111* per dente being wounded and killed, and six of our R.A. M.C. bearers wounded. The barn caught fire. The patients had to be rescued (euro the Hawes with shrapnel bunting over us. The whole day lives in my wind confused said horrible -the memory of a bad dream. The tidings from the hill ahoy* varied r from hour to hour: sometimes lei whole position was in our hands. later we learned that we hadn't a man left, upon it, end all the work was to do again. Wben the sun set we were told the Germans had been completely driven from the position, but vowel preparing for another counter•strack.' In the lull which followed we worked feverishly, strivieg w deer the hill of the wcanded before the fighting started once again. Major Hannatln arrived' from his station on the bill. looting haggard acid wore, but deb,nair asI ever. He reported that be had OJO- stretcher cases, waiting to be carried out. They bad been gathered in the railway cutting and must he moved as once. If the guns opened fire, every man of them would be torn to ribbons by shrapnel, for their was no shelter, and the cutting was swept from sad to end by their deadly fire. Our bear- ers were dune to a man, for long since all the regimental hearers bad been killed ear wounded, and we were now working right into the fire -trenches. Finally I was sent off to Yore', to try to secure yet further assistance, and by dawn the hill was clear and we wave reedy for the next phase of the fight. • . • Monday passed and Tuesday dawned, and still the flub raged no. The tMt- tered remnants of the 13th lntentry Brigade were drawn out, and others took their place, and at last Major Hannifin and his comrades, almost in • state of c diaper, wet- relieved and given the oppottunity of ■ few hours' sleep. Wbetber the hill was ours or not we did not know, but if the Brit - tab could not hold it, neither could the eneruy, and- their great attack, which had meanwhile developed on every side of us, was greatly hampered thereby, Some Dauntless Heron i feel I have failed in my effort to make you realize this fight, and there WO .0 many Ides of heroism 1 mirht have told. The gallantry and devotion of Mei .r Heimann and Lieutenant Moil is, working on the hillside under dreadful fire, or in the railway cutting swept with shraptwi, and when it seemed impossible anything eneld Iles, is one of the finest things I have met with in this war. The work of Capt Lindsey and Lieutenant Lee in tbe .d- ♦anced dreseing-.tttion, ezpect'ng ever y moment to he swept away by high exploitive *bell, would in • lesser war have wren them epecial recogni- tion. The sleepless labors of the Rev. D. F. Carey (Church of Ragland), who (tom beginning to end of th+ rush walked the wards, helping the doe - tare, comlorting the wounded. prey- ing with the dying -doing a work which brought fresh glory to the name of Christian rcinister. Then there were our gallant comrades of the British Red ('rose, who brought their cats to our help over shell.swept roads. noteworthy among these being Mr Fisher (in pesos time • don at Oz• ford', who. during all these days, never slept, war ready to turn his hand to any work, froiu driving a car to carry- ing a stretcher, and so give sone ex- hausted bearer a brief rest. There was Mr. Gibb, of the Society of Friends' Ambulance (• barrister and the son of Sir John Gibb), who did such good work with bis travelling kitchen, bringing his "motor coffee - shop," as the men call it, right up to the dressing -station, always under fire, night and day dispensing to wounded and to exhausted doctore and bearers hot bowls of soup, tea at d coffee. "I reckon we should all have oollap.ed long since but for him," said use of the bearer., an& be spoke no less loan the truth. When his cook collapsed under the strain Mr. Gibb did the work single-handed, aod wben towards the end his stores gave out he still found work to do, for he filled hie coffee -shop with wounded men, and with shell burstiogg in front of bim and behind him, for his caravan made a good mark for the enemy, be drove back in triumph to the hospital. Noe will the 14th Field Anibulanoe soon forget the lits of the fi:h Liverpool Regiment tTerritoriale), who. when drawn out of the fight for • Niel rest, volunteered to cam stretebers, and made It poreibls to accomplish the almost Incredible feet of earrying out of action so great a number of wounded in so .bort • time. Thee there are the .tori.e of for fight Itself, many of which are now familiar to a11, for wee tot their heroes been decorated with the mueb-eoeetsd V. 1.1.'s ? The *sh- akes who as ogre period of the fight almost single-handed bid the pealtten allJeet the enemy t the Boum Coen - tautly who, while the figbs wen 1 oogwes, .o tautly wtwted between tie o(sou.ing Ines putting up wire tagwb flem- t it M must .top. Sealer It to say 1 e sever en proud ef the British bane, or realised before how high human .edorenes and calor could go. 1 thank (ltd that M bas boomed me by permitting em M call sorb men see comrade. • e . WHEN THR BIG DKIVE MAY BE EXPECTRD. From the time that the Russian re- treat became • definite and e Urised fact. with Its deeming sad ex teat the remaining questions, a greet part of the world has been .skive • "Whet about the irks at the ABMs se W. ACHESON & SON New Suitings Dress Serges, Tweeds Suiting Serges Suiting Serges, 54 inches wide, pure wool and beau- tiful finish, at per yard $1.25, $t.5o and $1.75. Dress Tweeds Dress Tweeds and for Coats. 56 inches wide in neat and stylish patterns, all wool, at per yard $1.25 and $1.5o. 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Like many other !question.. it was very easy to ask. especially as it 1 pec y ba been runs -wed that Is great drive bad been looked for to start in May. As the Russian retreat continued and daily seemed mon dangerous, the question became more arid aunt* persistent. As the fall of War.aw became certain many thought the blow in the west would he .truck to save the Polish capital. But it bas' often been argued that the fall of Warsaw is not nearly so oerious as many people imagine and the further the l,ermaos penetrate into Russia the more nearly impossiltle will be tbeir return. It is .aid that the Ger- man &rine is on its way to Petrograd and that Russia is preparing to Iran. - ter the capital to Moscow, as Frame" transferred her capital to Bordeaux for similar reasons. The drive towards Paris and Calais bad the double object of capturing these two cities and splitting and encashing the , French army -especially tbe latter. I it was a mighty coetly failure. So tbe German drive in the east. the most powerful. roost extrusive, mid so far most successful launched b Germany and Austria, ham the two4obi object of capturing the most important atrategi. poutloms in western amnia, and splitting and smashing the Rus- tal•sF mien army. So far they have succeeded only In capturing meveral of tba moat important etrategie positions at vary heavy sacrifice. They ase push - lag on toward. Petrograd and nail e usury 'known tactical move to drive a wedge tbroagh some point ot the Russian tins. Time and again cher have need every force at their cnm- weed in the vain endeavor to peat through and isolate a large section of the Russian forme. Further and further they follow greedily In the trail of their wary and form,dahle foe, getting daily more distant from their base and more dangerously involved in the enemy country. 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