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VI.—BATAIN
A YEAR AFTER,
LAND-POWER AND SEA-POWER.
Russia's Mighty' Defence.
The Enemy's Heavy Pressure.
Britain And Hor Navy
(From in London - Obmrver" of July 25.
(Continued from yeste day.)
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hine in the way of wow, nobritetion, size ! klis, melirends of war-is, probably the most Totables i institime annois, funks argely to the inventive genius of Loni Fisher
Why should the sensorship concon from this nation asrying moment certain encouraging things which every German knows and depleros, Why has all the vaunting about the prospects of submarine piracy becnie salt and flat in the Gemon Press? One reason might be read at sous length the obler
AFFLIS OMY.CT. I ports shows that the Admiralty has no day in a prominent German newspaper.. Here is where we tara from the Con- reason to be dissatisfied. The enemy in Is deelt upon the range, strength and the last five this has hardly succeedcüigonuity of certain hopelessly ambar tinental war where it aways most donht- fully to the naval position which has been destroying out in three hundred of our rassing measures employed by the Ade merchant ships entering and clearing. In miralty to safeguard certain u-paanges, the latest week's returns the Germans te explained these “* gigantic devices."* * drew a blank after five months" desperate conjured the Cherna preply tot to be exertions to Use and multiply their impatient for results, but to realise what OMRANİN-OPAIS. We shich now tonnage diffenties British vigous and oficiency ahe now at the sory leuat bids fair to for faster than the aneing has ok the stava had throw in the way of Germa do, then the military as well na navall. Our merchant duct is larger than submarines. The Admiralty knows woll effects of complete sea-power must int this time last yenes our importe big what we mean. The enemy knows. Is
vitably decide the whole conflict against e
only the more brilliantly secured because it had been won without anything like a full battle or serious wastage of material. If Russia gains time for the complete reorganisation of the land struggle, as
the Central Empire. It is well-nigh in. credible that among as of the people this truth sidy be lost sight of in s welted" of "couplaint, earping, bewailing and general pessimism spread by the evil spirits of shallows and rafaith.
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backwards and forwarda
In a year of war we tast have carried
hot high time that the British public khould kubw↑ We bang them that Mr. four las is in his power by a single scross the speech to sweep intɔ a limix of ignoaniny seas not far short of a million and reproach the organisers of discont altogether, counting the transport | doubt and depression, who talk and write of wounded and esker returns. Yet as though muddle, incompetereo -aud whatever may happen at any unment-failure had bein the chief part of our for it would be a mimela ! this alsolute record instead of such a steady and No wore sure und formidable efficiency minity were contiuned-we have not cumulative triumph of unphibious power in essentials has ever been shown by any yet lost a single troopship, not a man or us was never rivalled in its completeness country on any cleinent than Britain hus
a key tr a pound of and variety since the world began. a gun, not A wielded on sef, There along she was preatures. At the same time, we are a paired. There she has achieved a triumph, taining by ses in the same wonderful more sweeping by far than anything which Germany, in spits of all her colony the Dardazelles campaign, carried sul preparation ats! hosted eficiency, has three thousand miles from our island quined on the Continent. Because that upon al without example in Grand Fleet is not in the Hmcght, whil amphibious wer.
mywh of the work that we accomplish!
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We will try to sum up this testimony before we apply the moral to the future. of the struggle as a whole, Our, naval supremacy us exercised in the control af sea-comEmicutions na+ BITE wom thorough since the first day of the war aching hostile sabeucines is accessarily These few considerations will deeply than is over was nur Tullgur, buried in the dark. Fardly one in o thaimpress every man of right mind and ruilitary effort, though not yen enough, súrud of our own people seem to realise marina, though the lesson umy well is already innuensuralay" larger than what has been the sure of the British based quia the superficial perverts, everything we achieved in that way dur Navy's sucess or of "The Admiralty's war, who can see nothing in the war but the ing the whole twenty years and more whi
enemy's atticienny
They to Waterloo. Before six months are out magnify and exaggerate every point in we venture to prophway that we shall' "When Mr. Churchill touched the but favour of Germany, they minimise, dis.hove nearer four million men than three tom that mabilised and concentrated our pan and deery th achievements of millions under arms or in training, W. fighting squadrons nearly a year ago by Fritain, though these achievenients taken equally ventars" to assert that with ses the most decisive single stroke of all, the in their entirety and insufficient as they power anshaken nothing can prevent war he grasped son-power in one second yes are--have surpassed all that was ever Britain's military force from turning the more effectially thar we had ever secured done or approached in a single year by balazes against Germany's forty years ol it before for years. It has never been my free and non-military society in the preparation, and deciding this struggle in favour of the surer peace and larger seriously disputed since. It is far more history of mankind,
freedom of the world. secure than ever now according to all reekening, that morts! wit can depend on in the inculetisble gume of war. The weak souls who "nze hypnotised by the achievements of military Germany and are blind to the silent and continuous victories of naval Britain are like the hindu devotees who in their morientary aloration of say one deity forget the at tributes, and the existence of every other. Never Was an ouny more completely buffix after nearly twenty years of in-, tense and confident planning than Ger. Chesterfield many Tus Leen at seu.
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strong hand with others in settling the We will venture is draw & contrastate of the East.. If a Panic Press existed in Germany what would have been said about the vapour
About all, what of the Grand Fleet? Strang the lot of Sir John Jellicce, his hers and man on board that marvel- os aggregate of battleships and aux
If we hopes have been dupes on the aries. They are our life, like the airings and borderings which have acconside of the Allies, many fears have been we breathe, yet Eke it they are unseen.panied the enemy's prodigious energy and liars. When the state of the whole war They are apparently naremteinbéred by ability in other ways. Upon the methods
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Įits outbreak when German expectations" the pesimists. To the suprines of the of our paule Fress, making, judicious by fund and is reviewed a year after find Fleet we oweit that the enemy's selection of unfavourable facts and extirelve months ago are soberly: com merchant Bag has been swept from the cluding of minimis all the rest, Ger. "ess, thus in spite of submarines ou n merchant trafic plus-nent and for in mors safety than it ever did after Trafalgar
the The
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The best local weakly, published every Saturday morning, it contains all the mans might be made to appear as tire Pared with the realities of to-day and pews of the week, thus ensuring one, while away, being kept up to date regarding nest egregious race of muddlers under with the probabilities of the future, we all local happeninga. the icy. The bid for Calais might bere not underestimate the auprezedented represented as a mixture of frantie vaunts magnitude of another year's struggle, but
we can as little doubt the sue. The great machine now works as before
and deadly failure. The threats about If or transports run almost as regu- the scare-guns which ever materia'isod usuler Mr. Balfour, second to no m amongst us in serenity and perrearly as railway trains between this island might have been stigmatised as national stalem if ever there was one and the Continent, it is because Sir John exserable rant of braggadocic. since Pitt. We reature to say thas if he Jellicoe and his sailors are on guard dreams and menaces that Zeppelins would Chaira, sake, as we hope, at one of the forth hundreds of wiles away, and the enemy has a track of ruin through. London BLACKWOOD. — Cabinets, Flower Stands, Brackete, Marble-top rizning meetings in connection with the risks no challenge. For the same res-would be denounced at the present stage first anniversary of the war his alterance on the ports of the Allies are open for of the contrast between performance and Tables, Card Tablas, Stocks, Photo Frames,
-made as he would well know how to operations or supplies throughout the promise as the very ignominy, and in- etc., etc.
make it, without the slightest accent of true continents of the Old World. As sanity of boasiininess. The results of five false optimism would encourage the Mr. Lohar Law showed in his adaurable months of aulanarine piracy compared coultry at this jubelure in a manzer atatement the other day, the Colonial with the programme would be considered It would dominion of Germany, which covered uvern disgraceful exposure of Admiral Tir infinitely to be welcomed. restore once for all a healthy balance a million square miles of territory when pitz and his bombastic agents. Abore to the public mind in spite of all the the war began, is vanishing before British all, perhaps, the sequel of the poison- sedulous organisers of discard and de. seu-power like mists before the sun. previon. We cannot lift the veil. We
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can at least state souse things that ar0 notariota.
VIL-KINKING TAK SUKMARINES.
This is the record of the past twelve mouths. We do not presume on the
coup would be said to have convicted the authors of thas device of equal eruelty and, futility. All this and more might be said by a German Panie Press were
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. XI.—THE FOUNDATIONS OF HOPE
Tako, first, the sati-submarine eam. own long wait, may devise means to pain. We have dine better than we make something like a Sght of it Jet. 738 expected-better perhaps than Admiral. No one can know." The Grand Flect only;
Tirpitz fenred in his gloomiest dreams. longs for the supreme chance. Its men W know that of the submarines sent out ure in high health and spirits, krem from German porta a considerable num- on the Brst day. Their Hie affeat awarns ber will never return. How many have with activity. Their resources in ships been sunk or captured, or low the thing and applizaces are being steadily strength has been done, no outsider can tell for ened, wo may safely indge, to meet overy certain; but even the knowledge which thinkable contingency of eventual battle anyone may glean who moves round our or other action. The work devised and beyond their organised expacity as was
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