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coal and oil, 13O,000,00O tons Of
food and other stores.
And the British navy has conveyed
more than fifty per cent of the Amer
lean Expeditionary Force to landing
in France, in such manner that only
800 men out OF 100000 have been
lost at sea through enemy action.
1t is difficult, in limited space, toI
convey a fair picture of Britain's
work in other fields. In heavy guns
alone she manufactured, during the
third year of the war, twenty-sevenl
times as many as in the first year and
two hundred and twenty times asl
much ammunition. In August last
the expenditure OF rife ammunition
per week was sixty-five times greater
than the average weekly expenditures
during the first ten months of thet
war. The output of machine guns
was increased thirty-nine times. Two
thousand miles of railway track, one
thousand locomotives and many tens
of thousands Of wagons were shipped
abroad.
The Ministry of Munitions handled
100000 articles and sent abroad
$4,000 consignments per week. In
addition to over 80 national arsenals.
5,046 government controlled fac
tories. all working day and night onI
munitions were established. In Oc-
tober, 1917, about 100000 men
and 100000 women we're engaged tn
munition work. In July, 1917, the
number of women employed In gov-i
eminent work OF all kinds stood atl
1,O65,O00. Four months later, &C
cording to the Board OF Trade La
Dor Gazette" the number had risen
to 100000. Altogether about ell
100000 British women launched into
work for their country in her need;
many of them never did any sort Of
work before.
Statistics CT different sort prove
why "Kultur," ill-omened institution,
could not have been allowed to be-
imposed upon democracy. The sta
tfstics cover the period between 1897
and 1907. They show an enormous
increase of crimes Of violence In
Germany.
"Kultur" should be known by its
results; such they are.
Spectacular achievements Of Bril-
tain's army are many; so many that
those who, from the beginning, have
been close to the war refuse even to
attempt to say which has been the
greatest achievement Louis Tracy,
the well-known novelist and member
of the British Mission, has mentioned
as interesting the feat of moving the
British Expeditionary Force. COM
posed of 10000 men, 400 guns and
$1,000 horses, from Southampton to
Bologne and Dieppe in two nights
those of August IL and Is, 1914
and across France, so that the first
clash with the Huns took place on
August %.
He mentions, likewise, the retreat
of the British Army from Mons as in
tensely dramatic.
There were eighty thousand SOL
diers." he said. well trained; pick
of our boys. They had fought for
three days and three nights with no
rest: sleeping as they walked; drop
ping to their knees, stumbling up
right and pressing forward again.
Seven hundred thousand Germans
were hurled against them; Germans
crawling over the rolling plains like
a plague of gray-green locusts. They
killed them as one exterminates
swarms of pests, many at a time,
shooting from the hip when they
were close. 1t was like stepping on
locusts, crunching dozens Of them
under ones feet, they said. Huns
poured over the plains, swarming
endlessly, with our boys Staying them
as they came"
OF the men who have given their
lives for Britain, Mr.. Tracy speaks
thus:
What grieves me most profoundly
is the knowledge that Britain has lost
the flower of her manhood. Yet they
are at once our tribute and our in
spiration.
I'VE who are left must be more
resolute, more knightly, more
grandly Indifferent to loss or suffer
ing. The blood Of our dead Is the
seed Of a race which shall transcend
in power and greatness the widest
dream ever dreamed by enthusiastic
Pan-GermRns. But / cannot blind
my eyes to the immediate gaps in our
ranks. Our universities are empty.
Oxford and Cambridge gave eight
thousand of their undergraduates to
the army in the first year of the war
These young men were the future
rulers Of the British Empire. This
is part of the price asked of Us for
choosing to support Right rs against
Might"