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In a recent number of the Tames Educa tional Supplement, Mr. Clutton Brock writing on the Talent in a Napkin,
On one point the German and the rest of the world have ben mistaken abunt us. They thought that we were work them wo were only lazy, and timid when wo were only sceptical We have been sceptical about all things because we could not per suado ourselves that there was nothing worth having but material success, and Yet we could not clearly conceive of some- thing better worth having. We could ant make up our minds to serve either God or Mammon, because we did not much like Msimmon and we were not very sure of God's existence.
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THE RECENT VICTORY
VERDUN
SIGNIFICANT RESULTS.
AT Liko honing pigeong they eped back to the posts of command and circled round above them to drop their mesingen. Just hefore the assault, I saw one aviator who font of sheer lightness of heart was loop- ag the loop over General's Head- anarters
GERMAN DEFENCE MACHINERY MASTERED.
[FROM WARNER ALLEN
VERDUN, December 17th Too much emphasia cannot be laid on the significance of Friday's victory. It dependent is not a mero isolated success,
ment nas quocèzasu,
AVIATORS 45 COMBATANTS, On the French side there were many kite balloons in the air. Occasionally a [BY EDMUND DASE.]
drift of cloud would pass over them ond obscure their view, but they were able There took place lutely at Budapest a
to render valuable services in directing conference of the bodies calling them
the Freneu fire. Not till the end of the selves the Central European Economic
put in an appearance. It was well Leagites, and they appear to have drawn
afternoon did an enemy Drachen dare to behind the lines, but its shrift was short. Suddenly in mid-air where it had boon up scheme under which the Central
on local and more or less accidental con" European Union that is Germany, Aus
ations, but iz 18 tou, triumph of a new addies of grey smoke floated like a tria-Ilungary, Bulgaria, Turkey and
ethod, which may well produce on summer cloud Through the glasses I Overbend an presumably, if Constantine is left to
modern warturo elects a far-reaching saw something black fall from the stacke
lid iniportant as those accouplisted in headlong to the ground, their time by the facedonian phalanx aeroplane, no more than a black dot, was have is way, Greco, are to give each uther preferential treatment, while disThat has been the attitude of the or or the spanish mfantry faceles of die winning its way back to our lines. Its said Genora) the German Drachen fire, and tho criminating against all outsiders.In dinary decent Englishman for a genera arly Sixuenta Contury. The export work had been accomplished. It had set
tion or more, wintover class he may the ordinary course, perhaps, just now belong to. He has been a little out of Nivolle, as he let the glorious Second hydrogen still burn; away aloft after an event of this kind might be passed contest with the modern world and not Army after the victory; our method has envelope, car, and observer nad plunged Air conceit with anything else. He has justined itself Victory 18 assured.down to destruction. During the rest of over with little general attention. As as it wore, suspended judgment on all ine Hew matbed has been tried on the the afternoon no other Drachen dared to
things, and meanwhile he has tried to Somme in several of the later actions, show, itself. a sign, however, of German aim, satisfy himself with being decent and with and twice at Verdun. On every occasion When the rout began at several points pirations, and methods, it is at once
liking other decent people. He has tried it has shown that no German defence of the front the German collapse to do his duty, but he has not thought it works can stunā against it.
amounted to a rout-airmen descended portait and informative.
their machine-guns, a nanouvre that has. possible that any duty might become a The new method implies new infantry, and shot down the dying enemy with
him. So he has. passion
seemed him slack tide of time, new artillery, and now aviation tactics invariably a most demoralising effect on Greater Germany under another hamneself to be living in
as well as a perfect organisation behind the troops exposed to it. It produces a By this time it is not only possible, is between a past, that he ornnot believe in is altogether probable, that Geitany and a future that has not declared itself; the lines. Artillery, intantry, air service feeling of helplessness and insecurity that may have to give up her projects utaud, mouwhile, the German has thought must work together and his one into the only those who have been fred at by an direct territorial expansion. Everybody that the fattire was his and that he could other to form & mosaic of victory neroplane can realise. It was, of course,
have been allowed to give a very
inevitable so low taking knows that in Dutch auction it the make it as ugly as he chase seller who makes the bids. He begins And the world his believed more and shadowy outline of idu now infantry such racks the French airucu should meet with a high or fancy price, and lowers more that the future is the Germau's tactics, which are based on the principle with a certain number of accidents. Bui the terms until some one is found will-Before the wa, we were losing oar pre of a scientific utilisation of all the new such accidents wore surprisingly rare ing to take him. For a long time bige even among nations that liked us weapons that experience has proved to considering the very large number of he more deadly than the rifle the machines in the air, and up to the end past the German Government has been No one looked to us for ideas; no one carrying on a political nuction on these asked even what was doing in England circumstances of trench and shell-hole of the afternoon not one of them hat lines. Germany wants release from the for it was assumed that nothing was warfare and ou & systematic planning resulted in loss of life. Twice I saw an We were supposed to think of of the assault its smallest details aeroplane obliged to land at a very steep grip of the British Fleet-caucot, it doing. fact, get on without that release Sne nothing but being gentlemen and sports which demands from the troops engaged angle, but in each case the pilot and also wants relief from the pressure of men. We had the secret, it was thought, a clockwork regularity of movement, achserver escaped unscathed, and the of living very agreeably on our own part proficiency in tuo use of their weapons, damage amounted to no more than the the Allied armies,
And the Kaiser came over here and enjoy and a power of initiative that can only breaking of the train d'after stage. ed the English holiday life much as: Eng be attained by special training. Artillery Even if she had destroyed or worstedish noblemen in the eighteenth catury and air tactics have been profoundly the Allied armies, the grip of the enjoyed the holiday life of Venice, modified in correspondence with the British Fleet would have somehow still Certmily we had hid our talent very changes in the infantry method, and the to be got rid of It cannot be got rid dangerously in a napkin and for this result has been in every case a succes far of by fighting, and it is now not less reason the German and the pacifist alike greater than the losses it entailed, certain that there can be no relief from say that the present war is our fault. We The enemy was well aware of this state the pressure of the Allied armies through had no right to stem so much more of affairs, and did his best to parry the their defeat in battle. On a contrary Frivolous and lazy and weak than we from now onwards the always relatively were; and the Germans and all the world blow Since the beginning of the war
for the mistake they made them has been a general tendency with that was attacking in the neighbouring falling numbers of the enemy forces must They have convinced us at all the belligerents to decrease the aum-sector claims to have got to Donaumont make that pressure more and more insist about 18, ent and more and more dangerous. In the andanwhile the British Fleet is always there to be reckoned with too powerful even to be challenged
NO BIDS.
list that the war against them is worth waging. We do not suspend judgment on that point. That future which seemed to is so vague and distant lias rushed in pon us, and whether we will or not we have to play our part in making it,
The Germans set to work with im mense industry and seriousness to make what they believed to be civilisation can wo, with the same industry and serious ness, now try to make what we believe to be civilisation?
A story that was told me concerning. the capture of Douaumont fort on October 24th is interesting as showing the great difficulty which the High Command has to face in making its detailed plas for the assault beforehand. Among the soldiers themselves there is still some friendly dispute as to the actual troops which first, reached the fort A battalion
ber of men holding the front tronches admittedly by accident before the troops The wholesale destructive power of whose objective it was The objective of modern artillery made it obviously this particular battalion was a quarry desirable to reduce casualties by exposing on the slopes of the Dounumont ridge. the minimum of men to the artillery Every vestige of this quarry had been That in its largest outline is the war
preparation, and the same time the wiped out by the artillery preparation, situation in view of it, let us brickly In two years a new age seems to have machine-gun and other scientific methods and the men, as they could find no trace retrate the successive bids which have begun, and we hardly know ourselves, of destruction made it possible to hold of is at the point where it should have been put forward. To begin with, Ge since we, too, are a part of it. There is a position with a far smaller force than been, decided that the best thing they many was not merely to keep all occupied real good and a real evil, a real Man had hitherto been possible. It is only could do was to go on advancing They territory, but she was to exact an hormon and a real God and for both men just to the enemy to recognise that he went on until they cams suddenly on n mous war fine from France Not long will give their live comprehended the defensive posibilities deep depression. One of the men shouted after the war began the figure was meaWe have to learn the technique, at of the machine-gun; he also realised that out Why here is our quarry after
Have you ever seen a quarry with toned, on high diplomatic authority least, of war we, the nation of amateurs, front-line trenches could in modern con All Lock at all those stones there.”
ENEMY'S NEW DISPOSITIONS,
window in its side? Look at that window us £4,000,000,000. In the meantime and have to fan the antion of professionals ditions be held with a handful of men, Another man replied:- I think not. until it was paid, France was to become and if we were beaten we could not flatter a German dependency. Of cours, the ourselves that we were right not to have les payment of such a sum on the part of our hearts in the game. It is quite clear Now, however, in face of the new tactics up there. All unawares they had a beaten Power would be impossible, to us now that something is serious, that he has perforce changed his methods, jumped down into the most of Donau- and, needless to say, the impossibility we must serve someojo; but is it to be though that change must inevitably result ment fort, and the stones the first man was calcined, because the real purpose God or Mammon? That is still the ques in a very considerable lengthening of had seen were fragments of masonry torn
October 24th, which gave back Douuu ORGANISERS OF VICTORY.
The organisers of Friday's victory were was annation, not admittedly in name, sion before us, and success in the war his casualty list. In the battle of from their place by high explosives, but beyond question in fact The inde, will not settle it for us. pondence of France would have become
mont to the French, the German mussed nominal- and worthless.
their men, so far as was possible, in their Ceneral Nivelle, now Generalissimo on scound and third lines, leaving the the Western front and previously cura- defence of the first lines to comparatively manding the army of Verdun, General: small forces. This method was unsuccess Petail commanding the group of armies ful, so they decided to mass more inen of which the Verdun army forms part, to resist the first assault. It was a con and General Mangin commanding a fers on that the new French tactics had group of divisions. The figures of to a certain extent neutralised the General Nivelle and General Pétain are defensive power of scientific weapons, farsilitr to the British public General Our Friday, the massing of men in the Nivelle half English, is short and thick front trenches proved of no effect, and set, with a merry smile and a pretty wit, bearing lightly the heaviest burden. it simply increased the French triumph and his sturdy shoulders soom capable of and swelled the list of Friday's success was not only a victory General Potom, erect, fine featured, with over German methods; it was also Serce white moustache, was the man the hard tried troops at Verdan. that time I remember seeing him walk with his springy confident step scross the muddy street of the sordid village in which his headquarters were. An officer who was with me at the time, said, "Who could doubt seeing Pétain, that Verdun will never fall! On Friday I saw him cross that same village street, and in the moment of victory his step was not a whit more confident or his mien, more sold-reliant than it had been in the sorest hour of trial
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The schent perished on the Marne, and Ypres made even its revival chimer cal Compensation was sorgat on the East. It took two forms. One was the revelation of the German confideracy by smaller States became, therefore, not dragging Turkey into the conflict, and merely ecomonic dependencies, but mili giving effect to the secret understandings tary dependencies. When que State with Bulgaria and with the Court cama stands in that relation to another, it is rilla in Gred the other was the tall intents a province. It may, like snatching of territory from Russia. The Bavaria, Saxony, or Wurtemberg, be naxt bid accordingly was on the basis called a kingdom, but in fact it is a of the war rap, plus indemnities from possession of the dominating Power, victory over weather conditions who brought fresh hope as The At Chur Trance and Great Britain France as Now that is precisely the position to buy back her occupied departmentzen riisis intends Austria, Bulgaria, The French troops have shown that not Great Britain was to ransom Belgium Turkey, a posture even General Mul, who until this with reservations designed to protect future to occupy in relation to herself ear has exercised almost supreme con one has nireany the control of their trol over the operations, can check their There were no takers for that bid military forces. She is seeming to gain offensive. The troops who advanced from Then the indemnity proposals wore trol of in bruer to explost, their Douaumont and Vaux had to make their dropped. Again no offers. There follow-conomic resources. In name these counway over such ground riddled with deep ed a proposal to evacuate France and tries might continue for time to be shell-holes inches, even feet, deep in mud part of Belgium, if Antwerp and the spoken of, and even to look on them a sticky and clinging as glue, as could chass were retained, together with Peland vs as independent: Their indepen seareely ho found anywhere else on the front Nothing that winter can do can and the Bati provinces. Still no reply done would be a simulacrum. As make it volgense of us who went to
General Mangin has always reminded The latest bid had been made oficially muser of nard fact, there would energe Douaumont and took an hour to cover
400 yards of ground, and that unburdened me, so far as appearance goes, of one of in general terms, but its bedrock is not difficult to divine. If she can get no That magnibed Prussia would cherish with rifles or grenades or provisions, those soldiers of the Renaissance who won thing better, Germany is prepared to
have a vivid idea of what that mud great victories and patronised the arts, sccept the status quo ante bellum. It tuo same traditions and pursue the same Hounds well. There is however, a very us by same bicans. The achieve means. Yet on Friday the French He is very dark, and his face is alivo Bwift intelligence and energy. material condition attaching. The concent would go down in Prussian history soldiers showed that that mud was as with dition is that the German confederacy
migny victory of German arms. powerless to stop the r methodical
and martial ardour. His energy and ufas the Central European Union, shall try case would go up in its advance as the German barrage or the There is at Rimini a portrait of one of be recognised. So weighty is the cond wir estimation and in that of the German infantry. Henceforth the Malatesta that has just this vivacity tion, and 90-much difference would it Germans generally as heroic and uncon-enemy cannot afford to leave the guard power of organisation have played a most make, that in the opinion of Sir William querable. Who would be told or care to of the Western front to winter and important part in the two victories that Peleniter that they had got it all by reduced effectives. No matter what the have wrested from the Germans almost Ramsay, history would, declare, vere the condition agreed to, that Germany had,gging and bargaining Nobody weather he will always be in danger of all the ground they gained at a cost of after all, won the war. Beyond any Lus old haired and contempt for a serious attack, and he must at any cost sort of doubt, this opinion is right. In the British would svived more intense keep a very large force to maintain his line on the vital front between the North other words, should the war resal in the than before, and u propagated with creation of a Greater Germany, all the 3ven more intensive activity, Bit by bit Sea and Switzerland.
In my last despatch I described at some other so-called concessions, leaving the too military machinery would be ro map of Europe what it was, would be fitted, only improved, and enlarged by length the part played by the French the military unification of the confede-infantry and artillery in Friday's attack. racy. German capitalists would eat to The account would be incomplete without work to grow rich by the exploitation
illusory
GERMANY'S AIM.
a magnitost frussia
The point may be very shortly illus of the Balkans and Asia Minor, and the some explanation of the all-important Allies aastery of the air was never for trated. How was the modern German chett and Certain outcome of all this services rendered by the air servios. Our Empire Anited under the bosdahup of would be a renewal of the war, only that Prussia? Mainly by two steps. The it would be still more rutheas first was the zollverein-the abolition of Nething leas than that is the meaning the Customs tariffs between the several of going in appearance back to where German States and the establisament we were made of free trade within the Empire. It was an economic benefit unquestionably, but it gave the capitalists of Westphalis and of Silesia no great a pull that the smaller, Btates became commercially Prussia's dependencies.
over half a million nich. It was on bis orders that the French after they had reached all their objectives in Friday's attack pushed patrols still further for ward, and while the enemy was still demoralised worked havoc with the batteries behind Louveront and Bezon- vaux-Morging Port, N
ALLIES AND M. VENIZELOS.
Whatever desire they may have hed to see the rotarn to power by the lawful
a moment in doubt. Throughout the day In a communiqué to the Press regard or 2 sirgle French anti-aircraft gun în
never saw a single German aeroplaneing the bogus letter, which Me Vol action. On the other land, there wore was alleged to have written to General many tuure French aeroplanes in the rakis the Allies Ministers at Athens
declare The conclusion is plain. We can now Han it was possible to count. The if we choose, inflict on Germany not
method of popular consultation of M merely defeat. We can inflict decisive weather was overcast though cleat, and
could not fly at any considerable altitude. Venizelos, the tried and sincere friend of defeat. We can end this thing once for the clouds were low, so that the airmen all. Our future and our security depend They were everywhere, skimming a few Entente, since the day on which on our doing i The choice lies between hundred feet above the heads of the Venizelos left Athens they have never, avest predatory State and & Europe de Franca infantry as it swept over the either on their own initiative or on The next
next step was to invest the come from the blight of a despotism mand of the armed forces of the smaller which is organised and exists for plun crests of the Meuse hills, and darting orders from their Governmente, done bring him back to the capital and to the signal rockets glitored tinsel States in the King of Prussia, in his der. To adapt the former course would back from the smoke chinesagainst which anything to facilitate any endeavour to
stars, with the news of the advance.
impose him on the Grck people. 1% to throw away everything we have capacity of German Emperor.
(Continued at foot of next Cctumn.)
done.