The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-08-23
Frenchmen Frankly Charge John
Bull with Not Doing His Fun
Share Of Fighting Against
Common Foe
HOLD CNLY THIRTY
MILES OF FRONT
Fulfillment Of Promises Delayed;
Kitchener Raises Three Mill
ion Men but No Arms
Available for Them

BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMms.

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SiMMS.
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Paris, Aug 6.--(By mail. EVERY
body in France knows it, So why try
to keep it a secret; France is not at
all satisfied with what England has
done and is doing In this war. and
Englishmen in France, soldiers as we'll
as sojourners, admit France is right.
And now come stories by private
conveyance from Great Britain that
London is being fortified with couple
of rows of defenses running entirely
around the city; that the English are
saying ''one never can tell what will
happen" that they admit they lack
ammunition and will continue to lack
1t even under best possible conditions
for some months to come; that If the
Germans make a dash for Calais and
other channel ports with forces such
as she ~ using around Warsaw, there
will be no stopping them at present.
What do all these stories mean? the
French are asking. What is the mat
ter with England after more than
year OF war; Why can't she, with all
her steel mills and kindred works, turn
out more than sufficient ammunition.
enough. in fact, to supply her allies?
Strikes have hampered us, English
men in France give as an excuse for
many Of these questions.
why tolerate strikes?" the French
as impatiently. when the life OF Eng
land hangs in the balance with our
own and that OF several other coun-
tries perhaps as well?v
| Now. with falk almost at hand, Eng.
land is still holding, with great effort
at that, her little thirty miles of front.
The French hold 500 miles. In the
eleven months of trench fighting this
proportion has not changed and many
has been the time when French artil-
lery has been called upon to support
the British even along their short
front.
Gabriel Hanotaux, former minister
of foreign affairs, historian and un-
| usually calm thinker, has said:
From England there have come H.
customary catchwords on which we
have lived for months and which, after
benefitting US for a moment, have
ended by doing us harm. Was 1t not
Lord Kitchener who evolved that for
mula so pregnant with hope but so
tardy in delivery: Our forces will
continue to expand increasingly while
those of the enemy viii increasingly
| diminish
| Hanotaux did not express this crit
icism of England in private, or be-
hind Englands back. He said it in
print, to England's face Nor Is that
| all he said. "The English ministers
were prodigal of magnificent phrases"
he writes, "but their workshops we're
idle.'
/ asked an Englishman why England
still held only her thirty mile front,
why Kitchener's promise of more and
more and still more soldiers has not
been made good His reply, in effect.
was that Kitchener himself had made
good his promise He had raised the
soldiers.
There are three million soldiers or
thereabouts in England. he said .'But
they are equipped with wooden gunsl''
SO admitted my English friend.
Il There are men a-plenty." he went
on, sbut they lack the necessary equip
ment. They have uniforms, or most of
them have, but many lack belts, knap-
sacks and the like And Of the thou
sands and thousands OF recruits one
sees drilling around London daily, very
few have rifles. They are using the
sticks used before the war in Ulster
with other limitations made since.
The French whole-heartedly admit
that England furnished the broom
/ which was largely Instrumental IL
: sweeping German ships and German