The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-31

HE SUNDAY IEELE GRAM.
fed until it seemed humanly fmpossi-
Bile to make any further headway.
Then came the tanks, secretly made, \
piece by piece, all over England and
shipped to point Of assembly on the
Somme front. Not even the men
whom / was training as gun crew
for one Of these ponderous but as
tonishingIy flexible death-d callers
knew the kind Of q juggernaut In
which they were to operate until they
were ready for the terror-spreading
assault. The surprise to the Ger
mans was complete and Thiepval was
ours. But now that the Limitations
Of the tank are known to the enemy
Its usefulness ts no longer exception
al.
while there must still be vast
amount OF important lighting on the
west front. it Is the general belief OF
many of our officers that the war Will
be won from the southeast. Firm in
this belief, the British, French and
Italians are making phenomenal
at Saloniki and in the
spring the world will be amazed by
the gigantic stroke which will be de-
livered from this quarter. or course,
IL Roumania's situation were to be-
come genuinely critical the Allies
push through the Balkans would be-
fastened. for everything possible will
be done to preserve the national in
tegrity OF our latest ally.
ZepPclins Arc Failures.
TT is Interesting to note that while
our tanks spread terror among sea-
dZnTuTt
which the Germans so confidently re
lied as means of overwhelming
England's civilian population with
uncomfortable fear. have proved to
be a complete failure, except that
their comparatively Inconsequential
raids have reacted against the would
be terrorists and have been&the most
effective recruiting agents that the
English army has had. Indeed, 1t
would have been a profitable venture
II England had constructed Yep
and sent 1t, flying enemy colors, on a
tour Of our islands. for wherever the
their comparatively ineffective bombs,
there has followed a remarkable in
flux OF raw material from which fight
ing men could be made to avenge
these raids upon our helpless civilian
classes.
It was my good fortune to witness
the destruction Of Yep on the oc-
casion OF the first deliberately organ
lied but. as it proved, abortive air
raid on London several months ago.
The airship was attacked by an aero
plane, a wasp of the sky, which dart
ed past the cumbersome hulk. and, at
tile moment when the two were side
by side, made a thrust with its dead
81 1Y, Lost h
a dull, distant report the irnpotent
cloud-craft was split asunder with
flames and sank rapidly from u
height of several thousand feet, both
noses pointing downward
Battle Watched from ISooftops.
Half or London was on the roof
tops watching this battle between an
aerial CyclOps and a flying Ulysses,
the latter pigmy inHsize but inyinci-.
bic In skill and cunning. AS the
great ship settled each watcher I'M.
Iagined that 1T had fallen in an alley
Just a block away, and forthwith an
army OF 100000 sightseers set out
upon a wild night chase to inspect
the wreckage. Daybreak found fully
100000 Of these curious ones lost in
the byways and hedges on the OUT
skirts Of the city, and only small
percentage of the number ever reach
ed the wrecltage twelve miles distant
In an open field.
Very exaggerated reports of the
protest against according the mem.
bers of the }Zeppelin's crew a military
burial reached America believe
there was a single instance Of a
woman, distract over the loss Of a
relative, who hurled a stone or a POI
tato at the funeral cortege, but no
other untoward Incident occurred
while the Germans were being inter.
red near the spot where their atrshfp
fell. The bodies were all carried to-
their graves BY members Of the Brit
ish Royal Flying Corps.
ITO the British subject one or the
most notable achievements of this
war has been the fact that England,
nobly aided by Its colonies, has sue
5ceeded during the short space Of two
years in raising its effective lighting
from pitiful 100000 Cthe5
size Of the British regular army at
the beginning of the struggle In AlI-
Kttchiner declared at the beginning
of hostilities that he could not tell
how long the war would last. but he
did know England would reach Ell
flctency in three years. The war
Ilord's hops were anticipated by full
yearin July. 1916, we We're ready
to fight, and actually began to fight
with our fully developed army of ma
tional-mnnhood strength.
Supplies the Allies.
And not only has Great Britain
trained and fully equipped 100000
men, but it has undertal5en the task
of supplying all its allies, except
France, with the munitions which
they sorely needed at the beginning
l5of the struggle.
France has modified its own re;
sources SO admirably that tits ablt
ITO hand' e its munitions problems un.
assisted. One of the great problem!
of supplying Russia has been to get
1.-THE material to the cars men aftel
Hit is manufactured Much OF it, 81
course. has been sent through Arch
iangel. which is now connected BY ;
sEdouble-track railway with Petrograd
with the advent OF winter. and tn
4 closing OF. the Archanagel harbo
with Ice the difficulties are greatly In
"A creased.
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