Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-03
1915 WAR REVIEW FROM
ENGLISH VIEWPOINT

|, Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Dec. 30.-If John Bull
could see himself as others see him
might mend his ways. But being
eonstitutionally unable to apply the
reverse English to his eye sight he
gives his friends, neighbors and enc
mics an erroneous notion of his dis
position.
Americans recently arrived in Eng
and have been surprise to find that
his country is not in a state of
utter dependency and decentralization.
The visitor soon becomes convinced
hat the stories he has heard and
cad of internal turmoil, dissension,
ack of interest in the successful
prosecution of the war have been
'hiefly made in Germany He quick
Y learns that atho there has been
much grumbling about the manage
ment of the. war in the last year,
certain amount of industrial unrest
md negligible pro-peace sentiment
determined today than when the war
'trated, to defeat Germany thoroly.
John has himself to blame for the
tnfavorable opinion of him that ap-
parently has been growing in the
leutral world in the last few months.
What's the matter with England,
Inyhow?" constantly comes the
luery from his friends in America.
AipiiDg says it a certain God-given
'ack of imagination which saves us
rom being over concerned at the eff
iect of our appearances on others"
others call it modesty, others stu
pidity.
The worst failure of the year
he loss of Bulgaria to the allied
;ause-might have been prevented by
| proper amount of judicious SEN
advertising applied at the right time
where it would have done the most
good. But Johns dignity couldn't
abide the press-agent methods so
skillfully applied by Kaiser Wilhelm.
Bulgaria frankly put herself up to
The highest bidder and the safest
guarantee. Germany having field
in the advertising line with no effec-
tive counter measures on the part Of
the allies, the Bulgars naturally con-
Guided that the central powers were
the most likely to be able to deliver
the goods. 1t pays to advertise, not
only for recruits, but for possible al
lies.
The Englishman's fondness for
grumbling, which he simply can't
curb even in war time is another
token of his Indifference to outside
opinion. 1t is the inalianable privi-
lege of the British soldier to carry a
Crouch against his officers as it
is the right of the British civilian
TO denounce the government. But
this characteristics doesn't detract one
whit from the bravery of the one or
the loyalty of the other. 1t would
be a great mistake to regard the
recent hot debates in parliament, the
outspoken and at times bitter crit
icisms of military miscalculations and
diplomatic blunders, as evidences OF
mutiny or even WEAKNESS Of the
struggle.
True. the Englishman has found
plenty in the last year to which to
apply his traditional prerogative.
From the grumblers' point of view II
has been dismal chapter. The Oar
danelles disaster, the Gallipoli fias-
co, the failure of the big push on the
western front in the spring and fall
the German occupation of Poland, the
obliteration of Serbia and the British
retreat in Mesopotamia, against which
the accession of Italy to the allied
cause and her recent brilliant opera
tons on the Isonzo front, the Brit
ish conquest of German southwes,
Africa, the putting out Of business
of some 60 German submarines IL
the North sea and adjacent waters
and the successful invasion of thu
, Baltic by British submarines. makel
a comparatively meagrs offset in tn
, grumblers' opinion.
/. After all, Great Britain really eve