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The right hon. gentleman spoke highly

yard of a London house, listening to a "VICTORY WITHIN OURGRIP.*** band of strango instruments from Barce-

Mr Austen Chamberlain, Secretary. lona which set our midriffe, vibrating. with their terrife fortissimo; and our for Indis, speaking at Norwich Just

But the [BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW]

Cry Was Louder, louder." thundering batteries on the Somme were onth, said matters were reaching” a Mr. George Bernard Shaw visited still better than the Barcelona orchestra climax, and we had reason to know that the British front at the invitation of and found myself wishing that Strauss Sit Douglas Haig. We publish below were with me to enjoy it; for at the front ultimate victory was in his article giving his impressione. you do not hate your enemy, though it saw the enemy heaten; we saw him alter- Thy title is Mr. Shaw's, and like the may be your lot to fight him and killing his tactics; we saw him yielding article itself has been passed for him Hating is one of the things you ground. We could gather something of And what the Prussian lust of power and publication by the military authori can do better at home and you gen what the war had meant to Germany,

erally stay at home to do it.. ties, says The Daily Chronicle.

Thus, you soe, Bret Boche no longer the desire to dominate had cost the Get- All gentlemen of the armchair will agree with me if I say that questions as fires at you increly because you fire at man people. We saw victory within our to the origin and spiritual justification him: he fires when he wants to hit some grip, but it we saw only that we saw of the war are matters of opinion, to thing; and my point is that in spite of but half the picture. We must not slacken our efforts if we were to achieve which no two mon can be expected to give all the devastation. I described in my the enme reply, and that questions of last article he does not hit it except once the victory we wanted; on the contrary,

we must increase our exertions. military technique are questions of in a way, almost by chance. After all, ascertained fact to which there can be it is the man with the bayonet who goes Government appealed to the people to answer. But I shall gay straight to his mark; and the artillery do more and more only because the know- nothing of the sort, because, as an old is most useful when it is clearing the ledge of what was necessary reachett politician and amateur of science. I barbed wire from his path; for the days them first. The people would do it of know better. At the front, if you ask of the cutting pliers are past; and he their own accord if to each one of them excessively complex, perplexing, and who sends his men over the top before could be brought home the knowledge finally unanswerable questions as to the the wire is brushed away by the guns is which rested with the Government, and psychology and ethics of the war, from a dugou, who is likely to be permanwhich could not be spread broadcast ite far hack germination to its still ently dug-in if he is rash enough to through the country. highly speculative upshot you will had she the exploit ha orders. fifts mer giving you the same answer, Hence you have the miracle of roads especially if they all read the same news. [rowded with terrains of lorries and of what India had done, and mentioned paper. But if you ask the technical troops coming and going from the, that seven times in the first eighteen experts a question on a point of simple trenches, and of railway trains puffing months of the war there were warlike fact concerning their weapons of any away as orienly at Croydon, of eruptions on the frontier. The Germans other part of their technical material, batteries with their camouflage worn out attempted to stir up a revolution in the you get answers of startling discrepancy and howitzers without any camouflage at Punjab. There was no better testimony When the answer to a question is all, naked to the heavens, all so well, to the British rule in India than the figure, one authority saya 100 and another known to the enemy that if I were to fact that the peasantry and villagers 20.000. Every playwright is familiar give not only the names of the places, of the Punjab give their assistance to When the story with this phenomenon. He has to con-but their very latitude and longitude, hunt down those men who tried to stir salt experts on technical noints when I should make him no wiser than he un trouble. (Chears. his play touches on technical matters alreally is, and yet I was safer there of the activity of the Germans in India. (often litery, and sometimes medical); than in London after dark. I had to Afghanistan, and Arabia came to be and every expert gives him a different dress for the part of man-at-the front in written it would be a most interesting nuswer, and what he pleads the previous khaki, lest the visibility of my ordinary one, but he could only say that the re- Well, in America, with whom Germany was answer declares that the other exper: is clothes should devote me to certain death velation of the activities of Germany friends, nicht give some idea of her an ignoramus. Finally the playwright at the hands of the Hun.. is driven enclude that science is a traversed the Somme front very agree, matter of the taste and fancy of the ably in the company of General Gior activities when friendship was not in scientist, whilst the conduct of a hus-gescu, whose brilliant Roumanian ani-question. He resented, not for himself, of India, the aspersions which som band when he discovers his innocent wife form would have tempted anyone with but for the Government and the people oritics were inclined to cast upon this conecated in the bedroom of another the true spirit of a marksman even in When the general was

No call had been made. gentleman at immutable as the orbits time of peace. of the spheres are supposed to be--prob remonstrated with for running this risk action of India

She laughed and pointed out that the upon her that had not been honourably bly erroneously,

Therefore my remarks on the technique snow had made khaki as visible as scarlet and willingly responded to.

the and gold. He was quite right: might of the war are founded, not on

a herald's authority of the experts whom I con.inst as well have borrowed snited at the front, but on my own civilian observation and common sense, which must be taken for what they are

worth,

MILITARY PARADOXES.

tahard from Sir Alfred Scott Gatty for front, or being themselves in training for. hattlefield wear as far as my visibility that fiery ordeal, are tormented by the was concerned. On all hands I could geeidra that nothing can long escape these bodies of men moving about, showing up terrible engines of destruction which against the glittering virgin snow like have eyes in the air and whose trajec First, then if the big guns had the the bull's eye on a target Yet neither tory can be determined so exactly by their elaborate sighting contrivances and carefully calculated corrections that they precision to which they pretend, or even they nor I were a penny the worse.

A POOR OPINION OF HIGH. EXPLOSIVES.

can slay a man infallibly 15 miles off. anything approaching it. the war would

I must add that I was left with so poor be uver in two days. The armies could out off each other's communications, and an opinion of high explosives that They can, O. anxious ones; but somehow consequently each other's supplies of believe we should go hack to the blackthey don't. The Commander-in-Chief; food, at a trifling cost. On the Somme gunpowder of Waterico if only it were with when I spent a very pleasant after- front the Germans, having recently possible to carry the great bulk of it soon, was good enough to take me to occupied the British positions, know na that would be needed. I have already witness a series of experiments with much about them as we do. Our nero described how the houses of Yures are certain terrifying methods of destruc seasoned planes have provided as with photo still standing, though practically every tion which the hardiest hero might graphs of the German positions, and the hearth has had a high cyplosive shell shrink from facing stereoscopic projection and interprete detonated on it. They make prodigious warriors who had tried and faced these, tion of these photographs have mached a holes in the ground, these shells, and things laughed, and made offers with: pitch at which they are now practically they hurt the clods to the sky with respect to them which reminded me very A less ardently on the old St. Pancras Vestry used to completely intelligible The British taxvolcanic energy but the sky is just where strongly of the bets which my colleagues payer rands of how the big gans can hit they are not wanted. an invisible mark at the other side of a aspiring, more terre à terre, expansive make when we discovered a new method range of mountains, and of how the explosive wuld be much more useful. It of detecting the germs of deadly disease airman, with his wireless telegraph, can would bring a house down by blowing in milk. They would, for a bet of half From his perch in the empyrean send to its ankles from under it instead of first a crown drink a quart of it and they. never paid the penalty which science the gunder the correction for his gun knocking its roof in and then very super- and ensure the destruction of everything fuously blowing it off again. Lateral, declared inevitable. The danger of thes within the range of his bird's-eye vision. nou vertical energy, is what, as it seems infernal machines is real and appalling And the British taxpayer, knowing that to the amateur, is needed, Inventor enough; but it cannot serk: its foc, as a man dors. At Ypres, when the gas sent. shells cost anything up to £1,000 apicee, please note.....

The combination of imprecision with tored ons regiment, and its victims lined and that even a small shell will dispose of 15 men and wreck a railway line, or the narrowest localisation of effect leads the road, coughing their lungs on ir dig up a roadway so as to make it to an impunity under exposure which is torment, another regiment, undaunted impassable for at least two hours, is led incredible to the man at home. I saw a by the spectacle, went right through to calculate that five million shells would steel foundry, one of the largest in the them up towards the gas and carried on. wipe out the entire German nation, and country with its furnaces visible at No doubt these miracles can be explain tha 19 shells per day per road would cut night for a dozen miles round, in full ad; but the certainly occur; and, ther

Life is very off the food and ammunition of the blast under the very noses of the German moral is, do not be in a hurry to bid eremy, and bring him to his knees in air service yet none of the many bombs the devil goud moming. 48 hours. When nothing of the kind aimed at it have dona any damage worth uncertain at the front; but so is deathe happens, and he is asked to find money mentioning. Its risk from its own acci- The inevitable does not always come off enough to cover his most extravagant dents is greater than from the engines estimate of the cost of bringing the war of destruction brought against it by ita to a sudden and decisive end ten times powerful enemies. The British over every week, he is tempted to com- squadron which entertained me for a plain that something must be wrong: night has discarded observers, photo that the armies are not really trying graphic cameras, and bombs, and can.. that the kings and the profiteers are aists of pure duelliata. Their machines intriguing to make war perpetual; that carry one man only and he, with one the Generals are dug-outs who should be hand on his filler and the other on his is a gamble in which the German superseded; and that a more resolute machine gun, throws himself on any citizen and the British citizen must play prosecution of the war should he made German he can find in the air and the impossible martingale of double or apparent by the infliction of some new intimates, in effect, like the Shakes quits. The German is economising his At that madly when the battle is joined again. and extraordinary inconvenience on him-pearesin warrior, that for one or both ammunition only that he may waste it self and his neighbours (especially his of us the Lour has come." neighbours) and a sensational annihila-station the commanding officer, in pointe are damping the expense and hain- ing out to me an naro: horn which mering away because it is a poor heart. tion of the Hun."

cause we have calculated that extravag meant "Hunt," accidentally touched the that never rejoices; also no doubt be

cal- ance. But calculation

the law of cnlation, waste Now Is an amateur uod a civilian, button and sounded it Before he could

modern war; and nothing is cheap ou must not venture to say that the instra explain that it was a false alarm á knight errant sprang into the air and ments of war are not instruments of pre spent the next hour searching for an

For the credit of the battlefield except the lives of men, cision but I way and do say without imaginary focman. risk of contradiction that the things one of my own profession let me add that Give your soldiers trench mortars which would happen if they were instru- this commanding officer was a famous enough; and no enemy can live in hia ments of precision do not happen, in actor. That he handled a flying squadron trench or escape being buried alive in much with truth. Therefore, my tax- spite of the fact that the desire of the without effort was easy for me to under-bis dug-out. But the Kaiser can say as payer. resign yourself to this: that wo soldier, that they should happen is beyond

BILLETS AND THEIR BILLETS.

air

My second reason for, insisting is the aforceaid British taxpayer. He must b taught that war is not precise and ceivably wasteful and extravagant. It and economical. It is almost incon-

even then seldom roaste him effectively. burns the house to rust the pig and

or по

may fight bravely, fight hard, fight lon

be alive to tell the tale. To work out modern comedy, a campaign is child's all question. If they did, I should not stand. To a man who has produced a

fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in I do not, of course, mean to imply that hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot on paper the correction for timing a big physio child gun takes a chartered accountant five

organise to increase our production. minutes, and would take me haifan duelling in the air 18 superseding fight cheaply. That means that we must observation, photography, bombing, re- hour. But when the correction is made direction, and the like. At another Mere savings wins, no battles. If we and the gun fired, a dozen conditions station I had seen the two-seater care to destroy with one band we must of atmospheric pressure and refraction plane with all its apparatus, including

and heaven knows what not evade all the sighting contrivances by which the create with the other.

correction, and shake oven the eternal

One more moral. All the gases and But the poitous and flame projectors that our

principle that every bullet has its billet dropping of a bomb ean be aimed like a You have to are 5,000 shells on the off rifle on the Bisley ranges. chance of que reaching the mark, and the consequence is that unicas you are very flush of ammunition you do not fire atrall. I stood with astonishinent behind and before British batteries tholling the Germans with reckless prodigality. We were within easy range of the German

VA 2IES OF EXPERIMENTA guns; and I waited for the reply There to do it was no reply Brer Boche evidently con-

duellists brought me back to the fret enemies en invent and we copy are that the man is still the instrument of negligible as factors in victory compared precision par excellence. You do not to ar increase in the number and pre have to send a thousand airmen to do cision of the weapons which kill whole the work of one. You do have to send a sale. And you can increase precision thousand bombs to do the work of one not only by improving the weapon, but That is the mischief of hatred: it is And, after all, they are much less likely by keeping your head better when using bad for the head. The man who says, "I will turn the handle of the machine-

sidered that a shell saved is a shell insist on these points always int gun; but I will not bate my enemy" is gained. As the besieged Roman destroying you to bear in mind that I have no really more likely to hit him. He who

authority for them except my own con-

alusion from my own amateur observa buries the hatchet is more likely to bury

ed the hope of the beleaguerer hy throw ing loaves to hum, we parads on resources by showering shells on the tion-for two reasons. First, for the Germans as if they were eggs at 18 sake of those who, having husbands and shilling. When I last met Richardsons and friends and brothers at the Strauss we were standing in the pur

(Continued at foot of next column.)

in the skull of his respected for that

to chop his own shins with it.

my next and last article.

But I must reserve my moralising for