Honolulu star-bulletin., 1916-02-16
HERBERT White GIVES STRIKING
STATEMENT MWEST FRONT FIGHTS

can Ambulance. The successful sur
gIcal work has become famous and
our ambulanees have handled $4,000
wounded since the ambulance was
organized.
Mr.. Bacon asked me to help the
work and | went prepared to stay I'LL
March
Il found, however. that should stay
on till the end of the war, or else
leave it alone altogether. And it was
not possible for me to stay through.
So decided not TO mix in at all
From Paris I came back to Lon
don and so home-a very pleasant
voyage, just missing two bad storms.
London is dark, of course, but full
of a new spirit Nothing Is talked
about but the war and enlisting. |
was twice asked on the street why l
had not enlisted, and several Of cur
doctors we're also accosted.
Il saw company of men marching
through the city, men all more than so
years old and ranging up to 7O-white
haired men and men whose faces
showed that they were cultured.
Il asked what they were and was
told that they we're merchants, and
bankers of London, not employees but
men at the head of their respective
businesses, who have formed them
selves in National Guard.
England 10 Awake"
But surely you are not sending
these graybeards to the front" l said.
No. said my informant, but they
al - CnnA half ~
don's police force. They have bought
their own uniforms and pay their own
band. They do police duty, guarding
the palace, the museums and public
buildings at night, doing four hours on
and eight in reserve-sleeping in their
clothes-eyery night. They go about
their regular business by day
England is awake. Everybody Is
at it now, and everybody is prepared
to see half his income go in taxes to
support the war II it becomes neces.
sary. What they want most is to get
on with the business
Il can't see when the end is likely
to be-certainly not for q long time.
England is not going to stop half.
way. She has not yet begun to fight,
really. She hasn't yet got all her
100000 men in the field, but she's
got the men-and another 100000 in
training. .<
France, on the other hand, has ap-
parently shot her bolt so far as pro-
viding many more men goes.
London is full of men, but you
hardly see man in Paris. They
have all gone to the front; England's
are still to CO. -
"The English expect a tremendous
German drive on the western front
soon. They have heard that there Is
a great deal of internal dissatisfac-
ton in Germany with the conduct of
the war. They believe that the people
of Germany have begun to demand
that the war shall get somewhere
TO quiet this demand and show
that they are doing something, the
English think the German army strate-
gists will startsa new drive. l don't
believe it, however. ,.....
Appreciated In London.
I've met with wonderful courtesy
in England. In the first place the
i1di u SIuu VI LOuuOu, WHICH, Gull
sists of $50 Harvard graduates most
of them Englisbmen-gaye a luncheon
to the doctors Of the unit at the Savoy.
Lord Bryce was asked to receive the
doctors and he made most interest.
ing and patriotic speech.
Then Sir William Osler entertain
ed the surgeons in the unit at Ok
ford, for an entire day, giving the
Americans wonderful opportunity
to meet some of the greatest men in