The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-12-18

within n week at the recruiting depots. They
locked in from the mines in such numbers that
we became anxious for our coal supply-until
We found that the patriots who stayed at home
we're able and eager to shoulder the work OF
he patriots who left the mines for Flanders.
And when the Ministry OF Munitions was
formed the other day. what was the Initial step
taken? The first to search out and
try to recall the skilled mechanics and
engineers in the new armies who had not al
ready fallen I'm battle or been proved indispens-
able to the military forces II that was worth
while It shows in what large numbers the
engineering profession must have responded
to Lord Kitcheners appeal. and there is no
reason to believe that the engineers have been
more specially patriotic than the other trades.
professions and classes In the country.
No. the great bulk Of able-bodied men in
Great Britain. working class and upper class,
married and unmarried. have put their lives at
their countrys disposal. and are either tight
ing. or learning how to fight at this moment
Il would be not far from the truth to say that
the vast majority OF men have done their duty
and have proved their patriotism.
why has your great Spring offensive never
nateriaIized on the western frontr'
Who declared officially that We were going
to undertake such and such operations at such
a Il
section Of the British press. speaking in its
hopefulness during last Winter. when there
was such hard going, and certainly it may >os
attributed to the German press at the present
time. whose transparent object is to congratu'
late itself that our hypothetical plans have
failed. But. in any case, is our supreme COM
mand bound TO fulfil the scripture" of journal
lists. and enemy journalists. TO boot?
Lord Kitchener never promised an OFFENSIVE
I'm the Spring He kept his own counsel, as
we would expect OF any Minister charged with
a public trust and he is not likely to depart
from that policy to crafty the curiosity OF the
world. He spoke Of May as momentous
period He said that the war would really
begin in May. Has II not been sog Have not
the armies OF all the belligerents greatly in
creased since then. and have not the operations
ueye4opea enormously it may be sald tnal ~
has been Germany's operations OF attack whien
have so vastly increased. Granted; but so
have the operations OF defence increased pro
portionately.
We are well content with what troops
and their French and Belgian comrades have
done and are doing under their appointed
leaders Between them they are holding up
aud wearing down over 2OOO,OOO Germans In
. vest, and IL there Il little that Is dramatic
TO record IL Is because the Germans have been
given too rough a reception to keep up
demonstration in their earlier style.
The eventual strategy In the west probably
hinges upon the competition in munitions; but
the trenches OF Belgium and France While
the Germans are making their costly drives
I'm Poland the Turkish Empire is at bay in the
Dardaneles. and Germany has more TO lose at
the Straits than she can ever gain on the
Vistula
Is n realized how many men and how much
munitions We have sent 10 the Dardanelles.
and what the prodigious nature OF that opera
ton IL? u has been said that we entered
upon II ught-heartedly. That is not the truth.
N was a deliberate decision, in which were
taken into account all the difficulties and al
the sacrifices which must be made. We have
sent an army out there which Is probably as
large as the army sent to South Africa; we
have set Il 10 work In country more trying
than South Africa. and where the natural draw
backs are greater.
Our armies have been fighting in France.
Belgium. the Dardanelles. Egypt British East
Africa, South West Africa. the Cameroons and
the Persian Gulf
Finally there IL the British navy.
why doesn't your navy get . move on
Why doesn't IL come out and make the German
navy hahtr we are loudly asked.