The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-18
READY TO LOSE
100000 MEN
England Is Prepared to Pay
Says Frederick
Palmer
THE WAR MAY
LAST FOR YEARS
One Long Battle, Says Re-
turning Correspon-
dent

| New York, Nov lS.-England is pre-
pared to lose million men next summer
| ii necessary in that battle OF the Sommt
which will continue until the end of the
war, is the way in which Frederick Palm
er, the war correspondent, sums up tn,
situation as he found it in the months
he has spent in the field with Gen. Haig's
army Mr.. Palmer returned yesterday
ON the Nieuw Amsterdam.
THE staff informed me before the
great attack OF July that there was
no expectation of breaking the line this
year." he said. "Only victorious be-
ginning of the greatest military under
taking of all history could be made
Whenever weather conditions will per-
NIT through the winter you will read
of more attacks, more trenches and
more prisoners being taken.
Next summer the British are pro
pared to lose a million men if neces-
sary, and they will have twice their
present gun power. They keep on build
ing munition factories and adding 10
their plant in France, which already is
so enormous that ii will take at least
a year to move it back when the war
is over. After watching the Somme
battle for four months, with liberty to
go where | Reased, my brain is left
numbed. | wonder how it is that | am
alive or that any one is alive.
"The recent French successes at Yer
dun have been an inspiration of victory.
Indeed no foreigner can appreciate the
thrill of the news that France had re-
gained in rush the ground which the
Germans had been months in taking. 1t
was an immortal victory and every
French soldier realized it. | saw the
men who stormed Douaumont and the
German prisoners who were taken and
what most impressed me was that the
half inclined to think that the average
Frenehman has added another inch to
his height since the recapture of Douau-
mont.
"Sir Douglas Haig has become as much
Of an institution with the British army
as Gen. Joffre is with the French. Last
spring he was given absolute authority
n the field over the immense new army.
New divisions that came in France from
English drill grounds thinking that they
we're already soldiers found they had
much to learn from Drillmaster Haig,
In the midst of the close and com
dictated fighting of the Somme battle |
he British have taken $4,000 prisoners |
nd the Germans about 1000 The Brit |
sh simply refuse to surrender when any I
roup of them get too far forward and /
heir supports on the right and left are |
epulsed. They dig in and fight to the
asst man.
After you have watched them fight
or months in his thorough, stubborn
ray you realize that he means it when
e says: It's much better to die, you
now, than not to give the German
roper beating"
Recent developments in the precision
+ artillery fire in cooperation with the
lfantry are almost incredible. The
-ay that a 'whirlwind' bombardment can
e laid on trench and lifted at the
ght moment and moved about at will
lese days is like some terrible magic,
nd so it is; magic of drill, discipline,
experience and unlimited supplies of I
lells :
with drive after drive, under cover OF
ayes of artillery fire, the offensive will
e kept up for another year, perhaps two,
arhaps three years--or until Germany
ields. Commanders say that the amount
{ ground taken is less important than
lie moral effect of this continuous {
Dunding of the German"