Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-30
b r / t S h Spent First
Year in Chaos of
Preparation - N 0 w
Ready to Fight.
BY ED. L. KEEN

LONDON. July 3O.-I5ngland starts upon
the second year of the Great war with
decided advantages over her position Of
12 months ago.
She has command Of the seas. she has
an army, trained and in training. OF
nearly 100000 men. Her "expeditionar,,
iorce' in France is now firmly intrenched
IN position regarded as impregnable.
even IL the prospects of making a sue
cessful general offensive movement are
not immediate. Her airmen have estab
iished beyond question their superiority
in skill and daring over those of the
enemy. She is building a great aerial
Meet She has at last begun with ali the
resources at her command, material and
human, to manufacture q preponderntins
quantity OF arms and ammunition of tho
rlsht sort. She has back of her a united
nation and united empire.
TROUBLES GONE
Now most of these troubles have dis
appeared. Some of them remained longer
than others, 1t Is true. 1t has been a
year of readjustment. Liberals and Con-
servatives, Radicals and Tories now sleep
In the same bed. SO far as the Irish
dlsanection, upon which the Kaiser
counted so fondly-thanks to the lack OF
understanding on the part OF his emissar
ies-is concerned, that vanished almost
over night. 1t was short way from Tip
perary. Sir Edward Carson, whom they
were about to lock up in the tower, is
now Attorney General of Great Britain,
and John Redmond could be in the Cab
met IL he wanted to. One hundred and
twenty-five thousand Irishmen have
Joined the Kings army. Nationalists and
Unionists-i5,OOO of the former and $4,000
Of the latter-instead OF drenchiug Ireland
h oh ~,
by side under the Union Jack.
Canada heard the call to arms and re-
sponded at once with $4,000 men TO whom
she had been adding regularly since.
They-or rather what is left of them
are serving in the trenches along with
Ghurkas from India Australians and
New Zealanders together with Welshmen
and Scotsmen are engaged in the Dar-
danelles in one of the most valorous CAM
paigns in the history of warfare The
sporadic uprising in South Africa has
been suppressed and the great mass of
Beers against whom England conducted
her unrightcous war Is years ago, with
General Botha at their head, have con-
quered German Southwest Africa for
England. Labor and capital have joined
their forces in the conflict.
CONSUMPTION DOUBTFUL.
There has been much talk of conscrip-
tion of late, both military and industrial.
The leaders of the nation still believe
England can win without either, and, IL
the recent response of the manhood of
the country is any criterion, they are
right But they are prepared for con-
scription, II that should prove to be the
only solution. The national register
scheme looks as If 1t were a step I'm that
direction. The mcahinery for conscrip-
ton is to be created, but only to be util-
lied in the gravest emergency.
Although she has lost her cocksure-
ness, England has by no means lost
hope. She realizes now that the strug-
gle may be long and desperate. But the
longer the better. for her and her Allies,
in the end. Military writer's, many of
them. say Germany has now reached the
maximum of her efficiency. while Eng
land has only got a good start toward
that goal. With the boundless resources
of the British Empire still to draw upon,
England believes ultimate victory for the
Allies can only be question of time
II the spirit that now dominates England
continues.
II II is to be a war of exhaustion, she |
says, then the odds are in favor of Eng |
and and her Allies.