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This Is Opinion Of Sir Gil
bert Parker, Noted Eng
lish Raronet.
ALLIES PREPARED
PUSH THE FIGHTING
British Peer Points 10 German Fail
Ure. and Allied Successes Since
the "Big Push" Was
Launched.

London, July 29.-The Right Hon.
Sir Gilbert Parker. Bart, M. F., whose
services to the British cause have been
notable in the field of publicity in thc
United States, has made the following
statement to the Associated Press or
the European war:
"You ask me to make statement
upon the two years of war in which
England, with her allies, has been en-
gagged.
"Three months ago the task would
have been far more difficult than it is
today. Since then Great Britain and
France have moved forward on ther
fronts and with tremendous effect
but of that later. Also during that
time Russia has moved heavily upon
the troops of the central empire and
in the southeastern corner of the Rus
sian front has driven in league upon
league the Austrian troops, has cap
tured sector upon sector, city upon
city in the regions where Austria was
dominant, and has made prisoners of
300,0 men.
Cover in Asia Minor the field of
conquest has been enlarged and de-
veloped Erzerum and Erzingan have
been captured and other centers of
Turkish authority have been taken.
The renowned Won Hindenburg up in
the Riga district has been driven back
mile after mile and Russian pTess has
proved itself beyond question Il,
"Looking back one is forced to
wonder how Germany was stayed in
her march of conquest. According to
l. o1>1 hnVy in
Paris at the time she herself appointed
early in the autumn of 1914, She
came very near it. What stopped her?
tions the strategic skill which be-
the new French army from behind
ish army
at is a remarkable thing that on
the western front the only gains of
Germany were achieved in the first
few weeks of the war. Those gains
were of immense strategic value to
her. They included the mining and
industrial districts of France and
nearly the whole of Belgium, from
which she has steadily drawn practical
support and advantage and supplies.
The wonder is not that the allies have
done so we'll, but that with all her
preparations and her perfect arma
ment Germany and her obedient
colleagues. Austria and Turkey and
Bulgaria, have done SO badly.
British Navy Saved Allies.
apparently at the beginning of the
war everything was in their hands,
everything except the British navy.
If Germany could have mastered her
as she mastered Belgium and a good
lily portion of France, the war long
Since would have been over; France
Would have been a third rate power
under practical German control; Rus
STA would have been driven back into
her steppes and plains, once more the
slave of German influence and control,
and the British empire, as we know
it, would have become thing of the
past. What the British navy did was
to sweep German merchant commerce
from the seas, prevent Germany from
trading with the rest of the world ex
cept by crooked methods, bottle up
her fleet to uselessness, drive her
south Atlantic fleet to the bottom of
the sea and throttle and choke German
exports to an extent that great cities
like Hamburg have lost the hum of
their activity, and outside the Baltic
sea there is no stir of German COM
merce save in a freakish enthusiasm
like that of the Deutschland. Those,
however, who count the work of the
Deutschland as extraordinary should
remember that it is not original since a
considerable number of British sub
marines have crossed the Atlantic
during the past year safely and surely.
1t is not strange that the Deutschland
accomplished its feat. 1t will be very
strange, however, if that feat is re-
peated by many sister submarines.
German foreign commerce cannot
be rehabitated by activities of sub
marines. Since the battle of Jutland
it can be safely and surely said that
the seas still are controlled over
whelmingly by the British fleet. The
German fleet came out and then fled
ito cover after a stiff fight.
| Move Slowly but Surely.
"But let us now take the field OF
battle on the western front. For a
whole year or more critics in the
United States whose only idea of war
: fare was that Of constant action have
continuously asked why was 1T thai
Great Britain, which had recruited be-
: tween three million and four million
: men, should be doing nothing on the
: western front. They complained that
: France was left alone at Verdun anc
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