Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-12-16
ENGLAND BUSINESS MANS VIEW
0FEUR0PE'S WAR SHOWS new SIDE

innate the military power and
strength of Germany. We are quite
aware. on land. they are by far the
strongest and will put up Il most ter
rbic fight. but thanks to the kaiser
they have taken on too much, and in
time. but ii will take time, the allies
will he quite able to defeat them.
That is how England, to a man, feels
about it today. Party politics have
are thinking and acting as nation
with three main objects i'll view. First.
to win this war, and we feel i'll our
souls we will do it; second. to restore
the Belgians to their country with as
far as possible, adequate cOmpcnSa-
tion for the fearful losses and suffer-
ing they have been put to, and third,
to make such IL peace, if possible, that
this thing cannot happen again. | am
not So sure that this last can be ac-
complished, but this country will do
her best.
Up to this time the Germans seem
than land. They have given England
several nasty jars on the water. With
their fleet safely boxed up in the Bal
tic, they can afford to take risks with
their submarines. They have done it
and did it very cleverly. We don't
complain SO long as they play the
game. Bat in many little things we
think they have hardly done that On
land, apart from cleaning out moor
Belgium, they have done very little
indeed, except slaughter their army.
Their right wing, which is doing most
of the fighting in the west, is still
over l40 miles from Paris. The fight
ing for the past four weeks just south
west of OStend has been the most Sc
we're of tho war. and is still going
on. The losses have been terrible on
both sides, The only gain the Ger
mans have made is they took the town
of DiXmudr last Tuesday. Just
whether they will be able to hack
their way through to Calais, their
object for the moment, is hard to say.
On the east they and the Austrians
have suffered one defeat after anoth-
er, and the Russians have now en-
tered Prussia at two points, and the
indications are that within a few
months the scene of the war in the
east will be ON German and Austrian
ground.
Zeppelin Fear Passed.
OF course if the Germans in the
west should be able to get through to
Calais. they could annoy England with
their submarines and Zeppclins. But
as things go in war Of this char
trter, that's a small matter. The
Zeppelins have already lost their ter
ror. If London is not destroyed until
1t is done by Zeppelins, it has a long
history before it yet. And then our
navy ought to be able to make Calais
Il very warm place for them. Not
to do serious harm to England, Ger
many has got to get her fleet safely
out of the Baltic and sink our navy.
And as matter of fact with the as
sistance of the French navy we would
count between two and one-half and
three boats to their one. The proba-
bilities are largely the other way
Quiet in London.
You ask: How are things rum
ming there in London?" Well you
may be surprised when ] say fairly
smooth, and rather quietly. There is
no real excitement as we understand
that world in America. They seem
cool lot these English. But do not
misunderstood me. They know they
are at war. and there is a quiet, deep
spirit of determination to see it
through and settled as 1t should be
settled, with the abolition of Prussian
militia rism as we now know it. But
it's all been done so quietly. was
in the states when they went to war
with Spain. There is not. and has not
been one-twentieth of the excitement
here there was there. OF course if YOU
landed in London tomorrow and
strolled into Hyde Park you would
notice thousands of young men dress