The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-08-17
ENGLAND WAKING UP


seems to have been rudely shocked,
and both government and people have
begun to realize that all is not well
in their conduct of the war. A study
of the English press shows that the
people are more alive than the gov
eminent to the serious task that lies
ahead of that nation, A few weeks ago
this was far from being the case.
Swiss professor, writing in the Ga
zette de Lausanne, describes his ex-
periences in London in the month OF
May, and remarks upon the imperturb-
able air of the people:
| people in London, generally speak
ing, appear not at all to realize the
seriousness of the situation. This is
especially noticeable in the demeanor
Of crowd when any one is appealing
to the people. s. A twofold ten
dency is observable. On the one hand,
there is certain sentimentalism; en-
I the other, an incredible levity. 1t is
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thinks of the descriptions which Ger
mans are fond of giving of panic
stricken England So far from this
being the case, the English people
show gerat deal too much conf
dence and calm"
All this is now changed, and the
people are awake to the serious prob
lem with which they are confronted.
The newspapers make no bones about
admitting the nou-success of both the
army in the field and the organization
at home The Manchester Guardian,
sober journal not given TO scare
headlines, thus candidly sums up the
position:
we had hopes three months ago of
being through the Dardanelles by this
time, and the first of the Turkish lines
of defense on the peninsula is still I'M
captured. 1t looked as though by
now Russia might be approaching
Budapest she is, in fact, preparing
to resist campaign for the capture
of Warsaw and Litovsk. In France,
instead of fighting for the line of the
Scheldt, where reasonable forecast
/ of the probabilities, after Neuve Cha
pelle might have put the battlefront
| in July, we are, in fact, still in front
+, of the German outer lines of defense
! and may presently be defending our
selves against German attacks. Let
it further be admitted that some of
these disappointments are due to our
own mismanagement, that if we had
mot blundered in the opening of OPP
erations in the Dardanelles we might
by this time have been through, and
that some of the energy now being
given to the manufacture of munitions
might, if it had been applied six
months ago, have given us Lille by
now"
! Meanwhile, the recently formed CO.
alition Government does not seem to
have gained that universal support
4 which a government needs to be sue
cessful in wartime, and many strong
!ly worded criticisms appear in the
press. For example, Mr.. Austin Haf-
rison, editor of the English Review,
writes in the London Times
Instead of real government, strong
direction, fearless graphing with the
situation, the Cabinet has been in
creased, though tie essential need OF
the hour is singIeness OF aim and con
troll Instead of stopping the dis
graceful waste as the result of cha
otto enlistment, the Coalition does
nothing as il spellbound by its owl
. spate of advertisements. Nothing has
been done to systematitze recruiting
the unmarried are Still free to shirk
: the married go and throw enormou
: burdens on the State ON the most nn
: economical an Ito the State) evil prin
: ciple conceivable, as if money wa
: of no matter to the country. Nowher
K is there any real sign of the promise
e reorganization, reconstruction, or eve
understanding of the crisis"
S The Times indorses Mr.. Harrison
S letter and claims that while the pee
Q pie are awake to the seriousness of til