New Britain herald., 1915-11-10

home affairs, responding to "Our Allies,' said that the alliance would become stronger with the duration of the war.
 Paul Cambon, the French ambas- sador. said: Although the number of our enemies may have increased since last year, the number of our friends has been augmented. I am happy to see today our Italian colleagues"
 Describing the war, he said: "On the one side are tranquil courage, faith in an ideal of justice and lib- erty and the will to employ only le- eitimate means of defense. On the other, thoughts of lucre, forgetfulne ess of all the principles of humanity, the destruction of an open town, the talk ing of innocent lives, a sort of per verse joy in the accomplishment of evil and a plan, pursued with child ish disregard of scruple, to dominate the world by terror"
 He made reference to the execu- ton of Miss Edith Cavcll, saying: Quite recently we saw German military tribunal sentence noble wo- man to death for the crime of gen. erosity, and a German officer indulge in the pleasure, though not compelled to do so, of executing the sentence Himself by murdering this defenseless victim"
 The ambassador concluded: When the hour strikes for the enemy to realize that all his schemes for world domination have broken down. we shall see him prey to a moral de- pression which will make him fall suddenly from the height of his dreams"
 Balfour on Army and Navy. MT. Balfour replying for the army and navy, said that the French am- | bassador, in a speech of. burning, l scathing eloquence, had told them | what were the moral objects for which | the allies were fighting. He had to deal with the means and weapons by which the great ends were to be at | tatned.
 The whole strategy of the allies, said the first lord, was based upon the allied fleets. Never was there a war in whioA dramatic incidents con- nected with allied fleets were fewer never was there a war in which the operations of the allied fleets were more essential to the land forces. Their fortunes would have been very different from what they were, and what they were going to be, had it not been for the fact that the allies from the first moment took command of the seas.
 Dealing with the armies, he said no historian in the future might say there was a moment when the calcu- lations of the central powers were near realization. Their campaign the first spring, which might have been fatal, was foiled; it was many months since any success could be claimed by the Germans on the western front, and it WIS two months since there had been any advance in Russia. The pause in the war he said meant that tide of the enemy successes had reached it's limit, and what they had to look forward to was the ebb, slow or fast-but ebb all the same.
 Success for Tcutons.
 One great success the central pow CTS might claim, said MT. Balfour, but it was not military success. It was a diplomatic success. Undoubted- ly, the betrayal of Bulgaria of all her traditions, under the leadership of the King, was a triumph for Ger man diplomacy, and had important military consequences-cons which he would be the last to min imize The rulers of Bulgaria, he declared, were animated by two sim pie motives-greed and fear-and when they were dealing with rulers of a certain type, greed and fear were great and powerful motives.
 He believed that no diplomacy on the part of the allies would have been sufficient to outweigh the simple fact that the rulers of Bulgaria thought that Austria and Germany were the winning powers. The in- f1uences which guided the Bulgarians he asserted, would prove to be pro- found miscalculations, but the allies | must remember that it was "de!ib- | crate miscalculation."
 England to Blame.
 Many things had weighed with | them but they misunderstood the | power, resolution and will of the | allies with whom they had to deal. |