Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-11-17
FRANCE WANTS ENGLAND TO DO
MORE FIGHTING.

MORE FIGHTING.
When the Europeon war began
England was unpreparcd in a mil
itary sense. She had only handful
OF soldiers to offer as her contribu
tion to the task of holding back the
Germans from overrunning France.
We know what part the English OK
pcditionary forces played in the
carly stages of the war. The French
had to sustain the bront of tho fight
ing all through August and Septem-
Der of 1914. II was French general
ship and French bravery that stem
med tho German invasion at the
battle OF the Marnc two years ago.
In tho twenty-siS months that have
intewened since that battle was
fought, French blood has been split
like water, while England was en-
gagged in trying to organize an army
TO help France in her life and death
struggle with Germany.
After that army was gathered to-
gether, there followed a long period
Of watchful waiting on the part of
England. The defence of Verdun
with its accompanying slaughter was
bleeding France white. Still the
English army rendered no assistance
to its French ally Then followed the
Anglo-French drive on tho SOmme
begun on July and not ye. finished.
The cablo dispatches appearing in
the daily press show that the French
have done most of the fighting in
this latest attempt to break through
the German front. Al last the French
are beginning to grow tired of bear
ing the chief burden OF the war
whilst their English allies are hus-
banding carefully their resources.
In a cablegram from London dated
November ! 8 we learn that the Lon
don Express" gives prominence to
an article from the pen of Captain
PHILIPPE Millet, French military
writer in which he calls upon the
English army to take over moro of
the western front and thus relieve
the over-tasked French. In tho
cabled synopsis of Captain Millet's
article we read: Captain Millet says
1t Is necessary to speak plainly that
the alliance Of Great Britain and
France cannot be based on mere
exchange of compliments and that all
Frenchmen are wondering whether
the English fully realize what is hap
pening in France. He says that the
French recognize gratefully what
Great Britain has already done, but
feel that the time has come for the
British army to relieve the French
more efficiently" Captain Millet
then proceeds TO cite from speeches
made in the French Chamber of Dep
uties by members who pointed out
that the British are holding only $50
kilometers of the Western front.
whilst the French are guarding $50
lIilometers IN other words, the
French army is defending almost
four times the amount Of territory
defended by the British army
Thus the task assigned to the
French army is four times a difficult
as that the British army is called
upon to perform. That is to say, the
French, who have been fighting con-
tinuously for the last twenty-seven
months, are expected to do far more
than the English who during a
greater part of that period were rel
ativoIy inactive. Captain Millct,
commenting on this state OF things,
says There is not one village in
France where the people do not ex-
pect our friends to enable us, after
twenty-seven months hard struggle,
to have some rest during the winter
and prepare for an advance next
year without having to exhaust our
selves. This is what our people feel.
They have put their trust in Great
Britain and they all expect the relief
of a good bit of the French line to be
made soon"
1t is safe to predict that England,
If she can avoid doing so, will not
grant to her French allies the relief
they so sorely need. She went into
the present war with the firm de-
termination to get the greater pos
sible profit out It with the least
possible cost to herself. She acted
on that principle during the twenty
years OF the Napoleonic w9rs. and
she is acting on it today. II looks as
II France, at last. is beginning TO sec
how she has been duped by the ma
tion that in the past was known to
her as perhdious Albion.