WHEN WILD THE WAR END?
That clever little paper, the Balkan (“News, Gas ni amusing column of con-- ealed verse on the great question,
When will the war end The dual (parigniph rạng
*be who man a Balkan trench, and Bun and Bulgar, blonch (except, when they are making us sit up and say our (pringviver cuas) have my illusions on this cury The war may kist, like wars be Iped out we shall still be at our posts, ori ambered with the heavenly hosts. We've got a toughish job to do, but some
is will see it through. The rest of 12
rest in peace 17. much better landi dbad treesy. Id rather do most des- perste nets, including breakfasting on semets: tu rather take a dose of leal, or: panek Jack Johnson's granite boud; I'd father contraciet my colonel, I'd rather fry in fames eternal. than hear sorae folks by flown the law about the enling at the war,
THE SOMME AN EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
S. Venind, writing in the London New
e! He says of the Seinnig offensive: --- Lf the objective had been Lille- Lilla, with its mauitigations of railway- lines, German store hueges," powder- Magazin, dah that, now, wouki Lave been setzetting. For the Germans #VCzech__g¢¢vt arts
t
«Lälle aut hardly any to Bapaume. I do not say that they will not regret losing `Bagatan, the fall of which is imminent for they certainly will. But for the parposes, of their Western dinig Bapaume harily matters at all (its fall will touch narely, their military pride),
d Lille sters a great dest Bat the add fact is that the more Pekinking sections of the population, as. determined as ever to continue the War, are beginning the question, not real alleged blunders of the politicians, hat clie very obvious binder of the higher military aufkovi - ties.
The capture of Bapaume and
little Monastir will bring us very, forrader in a military sense. Why thun an at them: We shall be told that there were good reasons for our advanc ing on the Somme. Une is 1 readily admit, the fact that our line there joineil the rench line, and that we were in In lower touch with the French General staff We have much to learn from the Franch. Une is how se scop the naiber of men in the
Auxiliary serv
services down to the minimam; how to maintain the infantry the other Bad artillery in close touch before, dur and after an attack. This inter
bject old have been achieved-up posing the Lille objective to have been docued upon by attaching a corps of expert French gunners and officer of the rank of captain or major to the pection of British force engaged. I admit the benefits of the liaison; but I point to the enlcanness of Bapauma and the extreme importance of Lille."
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