Arizona republican., 1916-01-11
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fully evacuated" the position of heavyweight cham pion of the world
 We are also reminded by the British iubilaton the happy ending of the Dardaneles campaign of the fortutous conclusion of the adventures of a wood becker who finding himself pursued by q hawk with mafevoent intent. sought the secluslon of hole in a and reached it just in time to , save himself, but not all his plumage. Once within his sanctuary he turned and chattered world that he had lost nothing but his tafeathers.
 The allies left nothing behind them when they abandoned the Dardanelles except some hundreds of thousands of dead mamed and prisoners, lot of battleships and cruisers-and. prestige where prestige counts than in any other theater of the great war. It of loss far concerns British interests in the Near East and on the Mediterranean, than twice many and warships lost.
 The prize sought in the Dardaneles was worth going after-Cons tantinope. If it could have been the probably would have been In the of the success of that enterprise Germany and Austria could have been hemmed in and eventually beaten down, though at a terrible cost The task, though. probably impossible any force that the allies could have possibly collected Germany had thought of Constartinople first; long before the broke out. lolg before the Archduke Ferdinand murdered At any rate the allies did not gauge the enormity of the task German stratesists must have been with glee when that naval attack begun on the Dardaneles last March An assault with pop-guns would have been equally effective, as concerned the chief object of the enterprise
 Still later after the futity of ! naval attack had been made apparent the admiralty and cooperative land assault made, tlle allies forces were fed in small bodies Q the Moloch of han he Turks at one time. Enormous forces in the aggregate were sent to death the peninsula, a small spot in the war, but heavily saturated with blood than any other.
 Months ago it evident to British statesmen and military and naval authorities that the Dar- daneles could not be forced and Constantnople could not be taken. The imrossbility of it fully realized when Bulgaria joined the Teutons and the certain crushing of Serbia began. Yet Great Britain dared not acknowledge the egregrous blunder in all the history of military operations, though it was apparent that acknowledgement would eventually be forced. There politics home, democracy had be reckcned with.
 And, nere we come to another matter, the ques- tionable efficiency of democracy in matters quiring promptness of action firmness of purpose and sourdness of judgment. Germany in the sua- of Britain would have permitted continued slaughter of its soldiers and tbe of valuable time because of a dread of the people The German military authorities would nave trieved hastily as possible any blunder they might have made without thought for unknow- ing popular opinion.
 We dc suppose that the blow which months ago plainly inevitable, has fallen any less verey upon the British people or that they grieve less sorely for the thousands who have been sacri- feed The disaster has been in now'se softened by a successful evacuation