The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-13
British Minister of Muni- ti0ns Lays Down Principle on Which Allies Must Act If Victory Is Won
ADMITS SUPERIOR WAR EQUIPMENT OF
 CENTRAL POWERS
Faith Remains Unshaken In Ultimate Victory For AL lies If Men and Resources Are MObilized

London. September 12.-u:35 p. m.)-The ing superiority in all the material and equipment of war and the allies to win must put forth all their strength, Is the st tement made by David Lloyd-George. minister of munitions. in the preface of book containing his speeches since the outbreak of the war, entitled. Through Terror to Triumph
 After 12 months of war" he says, 'my conviction Is stronger than ever that this country could not have kept out of it without imperilling its security and its honor We could not have looked on cynically with folded arms while coun- try we had given our word to protect was being ravaged, trodden on by one of our own co-trustees. If British women and children were being brutally de- stroyed on the high seas by submarines this nation would have insisted on call- ing the infanticide empire to stern reck- oning.
 Everything that has happened since the declaratoin of war has clearly dem onstrated that military system so re- gardless of good faith, honorable obli- cations and the elementary impulses of humanity constitutes a menace to civil ization of the most sinister character, and despite the terrible cost of suppress ing it the well-being of humanity de- mands that such system should be challenged and destroyed.
 ''rhe fact that events also have shown that the might of this military clique has exceeded the g1oomiest prognostica- tons provides an additional argument fot It's destruction.
 Faith Unshaken
 '-Nor have the untoward incidents of the war weakened my faith in ultimate victory, always provided that the nations put forth the whole of their strength ere it is too late. Anything less must lead to defeat. The allied countries have an overwhelming preponderance in the raw material that goes to the equipment of arms, whether in men. money or access sible metal and machinery but this ma terial has to be mobilized and utilized It would be Idle to pretend that the first n ponths of the war have seen this task accomplished satisfactorily. Had the al- lies realised in time the full strength of their redoubtable and resourceful foe, nay, what is more had they realized their own strength and resources and talznp, prompt action to organize them, today we should have witnessed the triumph ant spectacle of their guns pouring out a stream of shot and shell which would have deluged the German trenches with fire and scorched the German lesions back across their frontier.
 With the resources of Great Britain France and Russia. yes, of the whole in- dustrial world at the disposal of the al- 1ies the central powers still have an overwhelming superiority in all the mate- rial and equipment of war. The result of this deplorable fast Is exactly what might have been foreseen. The iron heel of Germany has sunk deeper than ever into Belgium and French soil Poland is en- tirely German and Lithunia Is rapidly pregnable are falling like sand castles before the ruthless tide of Teutonic in- vasion.
 When will that tide recede or be l stemmed? As soon as the allies are sup- piled with an abundance of war ma terial.'
 Unpleasant Facts Stressed
 Lloyd-George says that he is recalling | unpleasant facts to stir his countrymen | to put forth their strength to amend the situation. There has been a great awak- l entng. he says, and prodigious efforts are | being made to equip the armies, but | he adds: Nothing but our best can pull us through He asks Are we straintng every nerve to make up for lost | A A WrA b~ shall want to put into the firing line | next year to enable us even to hold our | own? Does every man who can help, | whether by fighting or providing ma terial. understand clearly that ruin awaits 1 remission?
 How many in this country fully ap- prehend to It's full significance the Rus sian retreat? For more than IF months | Russia. despite deficiencies in equipment. | has absorbed the energies of half the | German and four-flfths of the Austrian forces Is 1t realized that for the time | being Russia has made her contribu- tion to the struggle for European free | dom and that we cannot for months to | come expect the same active help from | Hussia that we have hitherto received? | Who is to take the Russian place while | ynose Rus1ian armies are re-equipping? | Who is to bear the weight which hitherto | has fallen on Russian shoulders?
 France cannot be expected to sustain | much heavier burdens than those she nov bears with quiet courage which hos astonished and moved the world Italy 10 putting her strength into the fight | There is only Britain left
 ls Britain prepared to fill up the gap | that VIII De created when Russia retires | to the rear? h she fully prepared to | cope with all the possibilittes of the next 1 few month"; in the west, without forget ting the east? Upon the answer will de- pend the liberties of Europe for many generati0ns..
 "A shrewd and sagacious observer told me the other day that in his judgment tho course pursued by this country dur f ipg the next three months would decide | the fate of the war.
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