The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-06-14
SOLDIER TELLS WHY
THE ALLIES MUST WIN
Former British Subject, Born in New
Zealand, Fighting in South Africa,
Reviews Conditions Arising
From War.

NcNSWS SOHulIlOHS <IASihS
From War.
The following review of the stirring
world events is written for the indie
pendent by James Shaw, who was born
in New Zealand fought with the Brit
ish army in South Africa, later spend
ing several years in London, but now
a subject of Uncle Sam, anxious to
take up arms for his country:
When, on that placid August day,
the wires which link the far flung out
posts of civilization carried the terse,
yet fateful message that the dogs of
war had been unleashed, in an ever
turbulent Balkan theatre, the awful
significance of that brief declaration
passed human comprehension. A
realization of the appalling carnage,
which has since staggered humanity,
the arraying of each race, from every
cline, Christian, Mohammedan, Budd-
hist and Brahmn, of the development
of engines, solely destructive, diabol-
ical in ingenuity and effect, with the
dawn of a deli berate policy, of ruth
less determination, sparing neither
the aged, the women, or children, the
sick or feeble, which disregards every
hitherto reverenced law of compass
sion, of God or of humanity with a
callousness inconceivable, bids US as
we stand aghast at the awful, yet
imperative sacrifice, face the ordeal
influctuingly, determined to prove our
selves men, Individually and people
collectively, to whom democracy is a
vital principle. For the mighty ir-
resistible forces of evolution, focused,
directed by the answering, yet in
visible hand of just God, have de-
creed, that the domination of an auto
cratic despotism must cease, prof
fering as blessed consolation for the
suffering and sorrows of a sin and
shell SCARED world, the assurance
that posterity enjoy undisturbed the
fundamental rights of a citizenship,
based upon freedom and justice.
We of this country can today, bet
ter appreciate the lack of prepared
ness SO evident throughout the British
Empire, when called, with unexpected
suddenness, to clash in deadly embrace
with a power, which for forty years
had conferred her energies and re-
sources in anticipation Of a conflict
which would demonstrate the ambition
of a monarch, whose dominating per-
sea, the earth and all that is contain
ed therein. With an army of but
100000 seasoned troops with world
wide possessions to defend, of these
but 10000 were available to cooperate
with a million and quarter Of the
valiant sons Of France. With equip
ment, ammunition, sadly lacking, out
classed in range and power of artil-
ha cfo,~y
mans, flushed with success, triumph
world, the day, the hour, they would
as to the Divine right and inspiration
and govern the universe. Russia, on
the eastern border, lacking also trans
portation facilities, clothing, equip
ment and all that is essential to a
modern army, mo bilized so slowly as
to permit the employment of the full
power of a force, which has been just
sive fighting machine history records:
in the defeat Of the Kaiser's forces at
to the Aisne, stragetic or inevitable,
tilcil ouDooIuCiiC ASe>oiiAS''o w AetiA va -
upon carefully prepared .entrench-
that the spirit of France was in no
sense crushed and that England's
Contemplate little army" was WORTH
ly upholding the glorious, traditions
which punctuate the growth of free
aroused an Empire. From each com
pass point, the manhood of the Anglo
Saxon race responded nobly to the
child of Greater Britain, their colon
les, represent the acorns shed by the
parent tree (England) which as the
years .lapsed have attained stature,
which forms a natural protection
against the tempest Of stormy winds
which may assail her. And that spir-
it, while it animates her distant
youth, is unconquerable.
The late Lord Kitchener, possessing
an intimate knowledge of the Empire
resources, emphasized the need Of four
million men and period of training
which would prohibit British military
coming available until the fall of
1916. Recent months have demonstrate
ed the growing man power of the Al
lies, CIlC 1uCuIc WILL CNAuCAV ChS
superiority Of that same power, num-
erically and individually. Ammuni-
ton, artillery, aeroplanes, reserve
to replace casualties, modernized
equipment, every scientific lesson the
struggle has taught is reflected to-
day, in the Allied forces, so unmis-
takably, as to compel even the re:
luctant admiration, and admission OF
their foes, that in inventive genius
and armament, in three short years
they have excelled the results that
Germany in forty could boast.
The power of Russia, as a potent
factor in the Allied scheme, has from
the outbreak of hostilities been seri-
ously miscalculated, and but for the
heroic resistance of gallant little
Belgium, their dilatory methods woulc
have proved fatal to the cause
of democracy. But the new repu blit
while unquestionably responsible fol
the prolongation Of the struggle
stands today twixt the Devil and the
deep blue sea. Her DETECTION from
the Allied ranks, will mark the imme.
diate activity of Japan, ready and
anxious to embrace an opportunity Of