The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21

which can only be continued few
DAYS from want of munitions. Let the
nation and army be told once for all
that the offensive will only be taken
when the English and we have a full
supply of munitions, and not before"
mo Inconvenience can arise rom
telling us, as the enemy will not
know if ii will be week, a fortnight,
two months, or six, before we have the
amount that our headquarters staff
NAV Judge Indispensable, and SO will
not over4trip MS western front to
move all its forces against the Rus
slams. as the game would be too dan
gerous.
Have we. the English and our
selves, sufficient munitions to sustain a
fierce offensive for several days? IL
so, If more results cannot be obtained,
| it must be that somewhere something
is defective in the use of our troops.
Can the high command arrange
! that the most advanced troops. who
are fienting, and sometimes by sur
prise, carry, as at Carency, two or
| three miles at a run. shall be sup
ported. and If necessary replaced after
their effort, by fresh troops?
Has the high command enough
psychology to refrain from employ
ing the remains of an army corps that
has suffered severely in earlier affairs
before raising it's spirits by infus~x
new blood and constituting new staff?
Have They Youth.
Have the higher officers and gen
| erals, whose bravery none questions,
/ enough youth. keenness and go, to be
/ in the midst of their troops a the
! tragic moments of assaults, To carry
! them along and electrify them? AT
a time when there Is "A return TO bay
| onet charges and hand-to hand fight
I ing IS hi the 'gErGd Ng}si ttsuss, :wtSufa
il not he well that high officers and
generals he near to the front, and
| that at certain specia1 times they draw
! their swords as the generals did in
| oiden times under the revolution and
/ during the empire?
! Are the officers of the head
quarters staff slipping on a slope too
well known in every age and place
and are they not in danger of falling
! into the mistake Of constituting q
too closely shut caste, and of not
entertaining with the officers of the
| troops those close. confident. cordial
and fraternal relations without which
/ those bitches, clashes and rubs must
t occur from. which every army suf-
/ fers?
when generals are relieved OF
! their commands are they first listened
I to with kindly feeling in such a way
! that all spirit of initiative is not killed
among other generals by dread OF
! pitiless disgrace?
! Asks More Questions.
Are our choice corps used for dogs
work? The Germans have the Prus-
sian Guard. which comes into action
on great occasions, when something is
| 10 be carried. We, too, have corps
which, without offending other corps
which all eontaiG iegtons of heroes. are
/ far more solid than others, the TWEEN
/ tieth Corps, the Naval Fusliers. the AL
pines, and the Colonials. for example
These corps form the Republican guard
| Are they kept for great undertakings
! I am not criticizing, | am asking ques-
4 tions---questions that men Of reaec'
| ton every where are asking.
TT is not our business, mere civil
ians that we are, to say whether some
/ thing is wrong.
our high command showed us al
the battle of the Marine. which was not
solely won by the miraculous interven
/ tion of Joan of Arc. as some believe
that IL includes enough great inteIlec
/ tual force that we may rightly ask
/ Of it, respectfully and cordially. to make
an investigation itself to find out ex
actly where the saddle is chafing u.s."