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HOW MANY MORE GERMANS ARE THERE TO KILL? MR. HILAIRE BELLOC'S. ESTIMATE..
onemy's diplomatists made one blunder after another, in the early days, and then the mad admirals dragged the Uniteding despatch in. The Chronicle; States into the war An America visi- tor of distinction who,, soon after reach ing this country, experienced the latest air raid on London, made a remark which is peculiarly apposit to-day. Ab," he remarked, as the "all-clear " signal given, "if only an American single night the last wavering person in the United States would be convinced that this war demands the energies of every one of the hundred million people living under the American lag.. We are three or four thousand miles away from the scenes of conflict, and out there the war
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MONDAY, JULY 29cm, 1918.
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city was exposed to such an attack for again, the enemy's plans of decisive vin- | defence, and in, both for attack anding to the military situation and the ap
Germany's conditions of peace are clear- The most terrible question of the mo- Lord Beresford, who had tabled a series trench that was recently recaptured In the House of Lords on June 8th, stated in a document found in a Ger ment is: How many more German machine-gun. said it was The despatch of submarines to the Amethere to kill? And when that question is vital importante, and if the gun in ques
of questions relative to the Danish Alndsen fente troops. The principal condi tions, as given in un official translation, rican coast is the latest of a long series asked one does not forget the terribletion were not adopted the war might end with Antwerp, is to regain under Ger
10after of of follies committal by the Germans other question which goes with it, states in defeat to our forces, and most certank man military, economic and political do- Belgiumi, especially the Flanders couat, townrda tho Amerkan people. The the editor of Public Opinion.
ly it would be prolonged. The Macken But as Mr. Philip Gibbs says in a mov.through various stages of alterations and
gun was invented in 1000; it had been pendence.
Liberty of the seas shall be properly now was in a condition of accuracy and Powers being allowed a commercial fleet established for all nations, the Central is a limit-axen to German man-poe was so impressed with the value of the
"There mamfacture with which fara hotalling 17 300,000-toms, while that of the
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should amount to 10,900,000 tons. of making these fields of France and use of cavalry. Since then he had fought and, surdly to God, their people will tire machine-gun that be invented one
Our colonies shall be returned without Flanders the graveyard of their youth with machine-guns both afloat and ashore, stronger naval stations,
augmentation. This freazy must pass from them, and but they were all faulty in certain parti
We any to have more numerous and from our stricken world, when the truthculars. comes home to them at last. The German wonderful machite er intented, and it which furnished France its weapona for
This Madsen, gun was the must
The Longwy and Briey mine fields, High Command still has many divisions was imperative to get it into our service attack, shall become German. untouched, bas their turn will come, and
Beadjustments of the frontier, particu- It was superior in every way to the Lewis larly in the Vosges, are to be fixed accord. if, as to-day, they are spent without great or Hotchkiss tory will be thwarted for ever."
certainly for attack.
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preciation of the eminandant. Our fron Ministry of Manitione strongly recom- mended its introduction to Bly rectiers must be such that their defeure in our forces. The Government must tay.
made easier. thu nelves out to get hold of this gun shall be incorporated, their rich soil fur- The former German Baltie provinces
got it, they must do their utmost to have pire against the dangers of famine. surely beat us in the field, and, having sant emigrants, thus protecting the Em- because if the enemy secured it they would nishing new cereal fields for German pea
He asked for a very clear explanation of Esthonia are to be colonised. the reason why it had not been adopted. it manufactured in sufficient quantities, Courland, Lithuania, Livonia and
down. Be afterwards moved the follow disposition of Germany, and why orders for it had been turned tons of Roumanian, petrol will be at the Une million eight hundred thousand
should be made by Buting resolution: That a full inquiry machine-gun experts into the capabilities of the latest pattern Danish Madan committee of
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gun, and which in some respects, and for more lustre and in its present forms to be a very good
The name of Bradford took on even some poses, was admitted to be super already deprived of two brave sons, gave a widowed mother, ior to either the Lewis or the Hotchkiss up a third bog when Lientenant-Coin- kun There was very little difference of ander Bradford of the British Navy opinion with regard to the actual benests was killed in the Zeebrugge, of the Madsen gun, and as had been
raid The naval offer sem deliberately sac- that if we were commencing the war die In the full ghare of searchlights and ster There may be Austrian forces in stated in the House of Commons by the rificed himself in an attempt to fasten: 16 ASAHI BEER 15
Minister of Munitions it was impossible ene of the landing-planks to the mole
Jay
the West behind the lines, but they cant appreciably affect the issue.
A BEMERVOIR OF BOYS!
weapons in the hands of our troops would MERITS OF THE NEW WEAPON. Then to increase the number of types of
Captain Brifford, who has been made member of the Distinguished Service bravery.
Order in recognition of his services. is still in France. He is the widow's last.
Mr. Hilaire Belloe, and here is his latest No one has studied it so recently as as real as it is to Europeats."statement in Land and Water Now the Germans have bridged the
The cucny has for effective use upon the Atlantic and brought the horrors of wit West about or perhaps just aver--170 to the very shores of the United States; divisions. ships have been sunk, scores of sailors he can count in the West as a total 18 The netual number on which have hem exposed to the mercy of the now a litle over 200 divisions. sea in small boats, and lives have been will not be able to use more than 170 or sacrificed how many is still uncertain. 173 of these because the balance are not With the aid of his submarines, of which of a composition suitable for the tremend he is so proud, the common enemy of the nineteen nation which are now engagedus strain involved. Call it 180 divisions ut a maximumy and you have a figure cer in war on Press,anism has extended the tainly beyond the mark. Can this figure area of piracy, with the result that the be materially enlarged in future! fighting spirit of the sast population of cannot. The small active balance of the the United States has been raised to fever German arates is needed in the East even point.
under present conditions. The succour When piracy was inaugurated in Euro small. That Power is not now more than that Austria-Hungary can afford is very Dean waters 10 February, 1015, elaborate official statement was issued in bus to act upon the East, and, unless we a one-third as strong as her Ally. She also Berlin by the Chief of the Admiralty are misinformed, is compelled to main Staff, announcing that the waters surtain the great mass of her forces upon the Founding Great Britain and Ireland in Italian front- cluding the whole English Channel are no Austria divisions against us
As a fact, we have seen hereby declared to be a war zone." on the war zone area was formally revised guns.
Later though we have such plenty of Austria and extended the Mediteranean was brought within the spher of the enemy's operations, and then the waters which A division is, for nearly all the here that gun raight well be adopted in shells he leaped to the parapet of the wash the Azores were ineluded. notice of a war zone off the Amer eus nonmilysed to-day in the West preference 10 either the lexis or the mole and sat astride, il, trying to get coast has been issued The Americans bayonets, says Mr. Bello,
measured. L 5,000 Hotchkiss. But to adopt it at this stags the plunks into place. Many machine- will not attach much importance to this with deductions for services out of the Lewis gon of to-day was a very much was only a few seconds until he was shot In practice, was a very differit proposition. The Suns were sweeping the parapet, and it informality, but it is ignificant. The held for meritable delays in recruitment, pored weapon to that first introduced
df course, malise that though for occasiond temporary disabilities, etc., into the service. It had proved its value Brigadier-Ceneral Bradford, the youngest
dend. they may be able to make sporadic at
Mrs. Bradford's most noted son was it is 8,000 or somewhat less, teks on American coating vessels, of measure in bayonets that is, in infanty military report had been received regard general in the British arms. He had won
You must on any occasions, and no single adverse which a large number are always at sen,--because although aley
your other pretend to blockade the targely erase the total, and are each hence in the Ay, and was in use by and hecante a general at the age of 24. rasing it. It commanded universal con the Victoria Cross for extreme bravery United States even to the extent that we essential, yet the one great mensure of are blockaded. Though the raid is met strength, the great element that is they were turning out more machine gun speech to his men just before they attack- scores of thousands, whilst every weeke was killed shortly after pinking a ly a demonstration, there may be others used up, and the using up of which is that they possessed in all at the outbreak ed in the future. But the distance is so die test of the whole, is the infantry.
The speech has been printed in great that the entry cannot hope to main
of war. If they decided to manufacture evers Allied language, tain many submarines so far away from
the ladsen gun factories would have to Another son, an army lieutenant, also ...their bas
he orectal, and equipped with new ma
was killed in France. He held the Mili- This new development is the latest phaspire 2 men is about "half a million. I some considerable time, and make a very
The annual income of the German Emchinery, an operation that would takeary Cross, a decoration won through of frigl.tfulness. It is intended-to-con- probably in practice a little less: but serious inroad on the wan-power of the peal from the German pople the increas-halt a nition is the round figure to take country. ing failure of piracy in European waters, These ads provide, by the time they are and
particularly round the British Isles trained and incorporated, the equivalent The loves in submaring which the Ger of a divisions. All class 1019 has nays have stained during the past few incorporated long ago. weeks have far exceeded the enemy's empating incorporated, but it is the bulk of and diflculties of dualities, not only in licked it to be enormously superior to
Part of 1920 city of construction and wanaing. If the 1920 which we have to consider. It has the training of the den. They might con of much expert opinou in its favour it
be inevitably to incur all the drawbacks present rate of sinking can be main already been summoned for some weeks;
the manufacture of the weapon, but in my other gar in existence. In the face tained, Admiral ron Capelle will have to it will be examined and put in full train Ceivably in the future put in the hands was not right that the gun should be sing new song.
He recently told the ing inunediately. It can begin to appear of our troops a better weapon, but they urged down without having been properly Reichstag that as far as the other un deniablo demands of the industries will
in active wits towards the end of the would deprive them for an uncertain investigated and tested by those who sat allow, the whole of the war
and navy present fighting season, but not before.
period of what was a very good gun-a be
at the disposal of submarine possible presire--that 18. spending French in May. 1915. did ask for ma- he was perfectly convinced that they could
As the enemy is working at the highest step that the military authorities would in judgment upon it. (Hear; hear.) building
The Earl of Stair, as one who had the Even that concentration of
he very loth to take. Certainly Viscount raining of men for machine-guns, said effort will be unvailing if the recent sue
at the maximum rate all that he reallchine-guns, but no special number was train the ten now on the Lewis gun to cesses of our scupen can be continued, The truth will leak out in Gorsmans, and of this spring and summer is the sum of mentined, and it was probably a request use the Muden gun without adding on that is one reason why submarines are
more than 1, but less than 180 divisions. for more guns rather than for any definite day to the period of training. being sent far afield to operate. But, Of these he us put in since March 21ste The present Commander-in-Chief Lord-fun, as a very old soldier, however distant their crises, they must I have been put in twice, and some of the only were the Army Council not in favour regarded the Madsen as a great inprovi- | på "least. 10¢--perhaps 110. Many of them had not asked for the Madsen gun, Not Dass at least twice, through our danger even three wines; Int for the momente of areas with their patrols-destroyers, Hub-
ment on the presentschine guns. the change, but General Headquarters marines and aircraft and mines. That only considering the total number of thought, the disadvantage of adopting as the duty of the Government to pro suggests that the defence of the Americasted lay hisa i balance of something advantages. The Ministry of Munitions The Duke of Somerset remarked that no divisions available Fresh divisions not new type at this stage outweighed the ride the best possible weapon for the men cast against submarine, as the defones between EU and 10 divisions which he can realised to the full the value and merits one inspecting the gan could fail to notice.
irrespective of expense. of American interests against the High use in various fashions according to what Prime Minister, when Minister of Muni..he extraordinary improvement on those Seay Fleet, can be made most effectively, his plan may be, and on his use of them.tions, did, order 5,000 of these guns, but in on the previous day that for the
of the Madsen gun. It was true that the in European waters.
as compared with the Allied use of their the War Office intimated that they did
now in uso. A New Zealand officer fold will depend the result. It has been suggested that the raid on
It is mere waste of time to argue not require them at that moment, because verument not to accept it was not a the America coast was a net of follygainst people who think that there is the prime need was for agro-engines, and stake, but a crime,
some miraculus method of increasing the in view of that the Ministry agreed to on the part of the Germans. But is not number, condudes Mr. Belloc
divert the manufacture of guns for the the whole campaign of piracy a colossar blunder
The result, then, depends upon what manufacture, of Rolls-Royce engines. mistake, as will realise in
the German 1 war are the to to to divisions of 500 Germans They were anxious in no way to dictate time, and would have realised before it they had read their Moltke. They are
something over half a million niore anés type of gun or shell should be used, buž
were desirous of doing their utmost to sen and the Hotchkiss guns mounted on probably the most short-sighted people on can do... whom the sun ever shone
supply them with what was required.alty horses The Madsen gun was A revealing statement on the folly of the submarine
The non-ackupwledgment of the Madsenrought into action in fifteen seconds, and campaign was recently made
gun was solely on account of administrand tired something like 100 rounds by the Grand by Admiral von Tirpitz. In addressing the Turkey are already starving-literally was glad to say, on behalf of the War willing to withdraw his resolution if the
of people in the Russias, Austria and tive and manufacturing difficulties. Here the Hotchkiss gun was ready to fire, Düsseldorf branch of the National Party starsing; German supplies have reached Office, that further consideration of the Government would give an assurance that Lord Beresford intimated that he was he declared that neither Central Europe their lowest do, and the four ratios will whole matter led them to the hope that they wild find out if the gun was really. nor the Orient, nor Northern Europe, be reduced by one-fifth on this 16th inst, way out of the undoubted dificulties could supply Cerronny with the raw owing to the failure of expected supplies might be found. The subject was under useful to the Army; that they would have materials requisite for her industries She needed, he added, free access to all contemplate the privations which the war Office, in close cooperation with the quarters in France, in order to obtain a from the Ukraine. It is not pleasant to the niest careful consideration by the War 3 trial of it, and would send it to Head- the world. How could she achieve that has brought to the Belgians, Montere Minisity of Munitions, and both parties ival opinion of its merits. It had been end, even if her arimes managed by son grins, and Sathians. The economic salva were anxious to find a solution of the that the chitage could not be effected miracle to dominate the whole of the Continent! The sea entrols the land,on of the abole of Europe resides dificulties, in order; if possible, to under. within a year. Well, this war would not and Germany, without the use of the sea, ships, and the Germans are engaged intake the annufacture of the gun, (Hear, be over until the Americans came over in
hear)
effective force, and put two or three mil will be faced for an indefinite period by sinking ships
That is not the worst of the folly. A what must amount practically to starva
lion men in the trenches, and that might tion. She has lost to than balf her large proportion of the ships are heavily The Marquis of Salisbury regarded the the very fun that this gun would be mercantile marine, besides ruining the these are being sent to the bottom of the as being not very encouraging, but there difficulties could be surmounted, and they Jaden with food and raw materials, and early part of Lord Elphinstone's speech most need. Moreover, if they tried, all merchant navies of European neutrals and she has antagonised practically all sea. Since the war opened, according to was a note in the latter part that reassur-ould get large numbers of these guns in the commercial classes of every overseas million tons of British, Allied, or neutral was inclined to find fault with the Minis
the Admiralty statement, eleven or twelve el him to certain extent. No one the ranks within six months. State.
If she could make friends with shipping have been sunk
The Earl of Crawford replied that the the business men oversees after the war
Imagine the try of Munitions in the matter, because my Council had agreed for their cx- has ended, she would still possess too few replaced, these goods, straining the agri acted with absolute correctness, and that
cargoes which have gone down! We have they recognised that the Ministry had perts to investigate this gun-- ships to carry the goods she would urgently cultural, ruineral and industrial whatever difficulties arose they would
Lord Burnham-And immediately require, even if she had found some means sources of the world.
The Earl of Crawford-I will add and of regaining the right to use the seas.
Everywhere the attempt to surmount them. They neither inmediately. The military authorities
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anger of the encly getting this gun Lord Henrage asked what was the whilst the War Office were considering whether or not they would have it.
The Earl of Albemarle said he recently:
can do that this final balance of to the military authorities as to what witnessed a competition between the Afad.
BALANCE OF ADVANTAGE-
In the Tight of those facts, the matter stocks of everything are at their lowest desired to criticise the Ministry of in France, he continued, would be given may be carried a stage further Faminen the meantime Germany is plunging Munitions aur to force tho hands 40 immediate opportunity to examine the is rapidly advancing over the Cantinent to her min, not recognising that of the military authorities, but their gun on the spot. The Army authorities Millions of men, possibly as many
piracy will bring her face to faces in time function was to press on the would take due note of the remark uttered- 30,000,000, have been withdrawn from pro- solved only as the cost of millions of lives of this gun, and to leave the decision in
with an economic problem which will be Government the immense advantages by Lord Heneage.
Lord Heneage--The Germans at the pre- ductive industry, and particularly from agriculture for perices varying from in the German Empire The Allies will the latter's hands. It was really a ques-sent time are trying to get the newest three to four years. The harvest on the look after cab other when peace comes tion of the balance of advantage, and if pattern of the gun. What steps are the Continent in 1913 was worse than the beggars, will be left to bear the dire con- other it would be worth while to undergo getting it instead of us
Germany and her partners, reduced to this gun was very much better than ay War Office taking to prevent them from harvest in 1914; there was a further talk sequences of a campaign which, apart a certain amount of temporary dis. The Earl of Crawford-Even if ing off in 1816; things brame still worse from the thousands of lives sacrificed, is advantage in order to secure the addin the position to answer that question, in 1917; and this year's harvest, rowing to shortage of labour, and fertilisers, willaggerating the economic constriction tional benebt. Having inspected the gun, it would be impossible to make a public almost certainly be the worst which has throughout the world, which would, in be was deply improved with its simpli- statement on the subject. All necessary been experienced for a century, Hillions any event, have followed upon wax which city, ingenuity, and efficiency, and be precautions will be taken.
has now involved in its operations twenty.
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