The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-06-24
British Impotence

call IL impotence.
r. We are greatly disappointed il
= our British cousins. 1--WE though
= they had some military genius
. some inventive ability, as well a
: the logged and unreasoning cour
:. age with which they rush into tn
re jaws of death, but it seems tina
5 they cannot devise even g scheln,
/ to shoe fly away.
- The Zeppelins sail at will anC
e unframed over LONDON, droppin.
I bombs, killing citizens and d.
- stroying property, while the Brit.
ish officials are impotenS to do
h anything but issue statements to
, soothe the populace and deceive
!, the world. Does any ore imagine
that that sort of business could be
successfully carried on for eight
months in the skies above the u
nited States without some means
being found to stop it? What
good are British aeroplanes after
a Zeppelin raid is over and the
great aircraft have sped to safe
Ity? Why should the aeroplancs
lie asleep, as it were, in their
barns and creep out after the de-
struction has been wrought and |
the foe is out of sight? Why are
not they awake and pacing aerial
beats through the nights with
guns and bombs ready?
And behold the humiliating
spectacle Of the greatest naval
power Of the world being utterly
unable to protect its merchant
ships from destruction Millions
OF dollars worth of British vessels Is
have been sent to the bottom and t
are still being destroyed, while
the admiralty consoles the owners
and the public with some such
statement as that only about one
vessel in dozen is lost. Abso- L
lutely nothing is done to prevent |,
this ruthless and wholesale de- II
Structlon of valuable property. L
The British admiralty is impotent. g
utterly incapable of solving the
problem. Isn't it humiIiating 1t a
IS positively exasperating to one y
who wishes to see Britain win
Look at the battle line in Bel a
GUM and France! See the Oar :
ianelles! What are the British
ioing in those places? Merely II
thousands of brave men u
% death.
What have the British accompli- u
'hed in all these terrible ten u
of war with all its stu ei
'endous money cost and appal- u
ing sacrifice of life? The only &c
hing worth while that they have ca
lone was to aid in preventing the
Germans from capturing Paris,
nd they could not have done this
ut for the help of the Belgians IL
nd French. ne
All, mel it is sad, very sad. III
lay, it is really disgusting. pa
On the other hand, the Germans, II
lough outnumbered five to one, de
re driving the Russians back to nj
etrograd and Moscow and, while ne
Ding this, are holding at bay all pa
lie rest of their enemies until they ,oi
1ish the Russians, when they will OF
ing up their 42-centimeter guns, ye
i've the French and British back ta'
Paris, lombard Dover from eV
llais, sink every British war-ship ao
sight and land an army on Eng
81 soil. That is what they are m
tending to do, and, if the British flo
, not soon discover ways and Nh
cans OF preventing this catastro- 20,
lie, its accomplishment is not be- 20,
md the limits of possibility. an
Because Kitchener, with trained oil
ldiers armed with superior wea- -
ms, fought and beat Bedonin s*
LIBRARIANS at Khartoum, the Brit :
4 think he is a great military Z
MUS, but the Germans have gen :
ais who can give Kitchener five (
one in game and beat him. :
Well, our supposed neutrality is z