Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-11


coal and oil, 15Q,000,000 tens 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
500 men out of 100000 have been
lost at sea through enemy action.
1t is difficult. in limited space. to-
convey a fair picture of Britain's
work in other zelda. In heavy guns
alone she manufactured during the
third year of the war twenty-seven
times as many az In the first year and
two hundred and twenty times as
much ammunition. In August last
the expenditure of rifle ammunition
per week was siXty-five times greater
than the average weekly expenditure
during the first ? n months of the
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 so national arsenals,
5,046 government controlled fac
tories, all working day and night on
munitions were established In Oc-
tobeT, 1917, about 100000 men
and 100000 womeN were engaged in
munition work. In July, 1917, the
number of women employed in gov
eminent work of all kinds stood at
1,065,000. Four months later, &C
cording to the Board Of Trade La
Dor Gazette" the number had risen
to 100000. Altogether about g.
100000 British Women launched into
work for their country in her need ;
many of them never did any sort of
work before.
Statistics Of a different sort prove
why "Kultur. ill-omened institution,
could not have been allowed to be
imposed upon democracy The sta
tistics cover the period between 1897
and 1907 They show an enormous
increase of crimes of violence in
Germany.
"KulturH should be known by its
/ results; such they are.
Spectacular achievements of Bri.
| tain's army are many; so many that
/ those who, from the beginning, have
| been close to the war refuse even tC
| 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 ExpeditionaTy Force, com
| posed of 10000 men, 400 guns anC
/ 1 5, 900 horses. from southampton tc
/ BOlogne and Dieppe in two nights
those Of August ~ and 13, 1914
I and across France, so that the frs
clash with the Huns TOOK place Oh
+ August %,
/ He mentions, likewise, the retrea
OF the British Army from Mons as in
tensely dramatic
There were eighty thousand sol
dieTs," he said, well trained; picl
Of our boys They had fought TO
three days and three nights with NJ
i rest; sleeping as they walked; drop
/ ping to their knees, stumbling up
T. right and pressing forward again
Il Seven hundred thousand German
were hurled against them; German
/ crawling over the rolling plains lik
i a plague Of gray-green l6custs. The
I killed them as one exterminate
) swarms of pests, many at time
/ shooting from the nip when the
were close. 1t was like stepping o.
4 locusts, crunching dozens of ther
/ under ones feet, they said Hun
poured over the plains, swarmin
J endlessly, with our boys staying theI
as they came.
r Of the men who have given thei
lives for Britain. Mr., Tracy speak
3 thus:
What grieves ne most Profound
Is the knowledge that Britain has los
, the flower Of her manhood Yet the
: are at once our tribute and our ir
spiration,
1--WE who arc left must be NOR
resolute, more knightly, NOR
grandly indifferent to loss or suffer
ing. The blood Of our dead Ia th
seed Of race which shall transcsn
in power and greatness the wildef
dream ever dreamed by enthusiasts
=, an-GermEps, But I cannot bin
, my ey-os to the immediate gaps in on
ranks. Our nnivoreitios are .enpt,
: Oxford and Cambridge gave eigf
! thousand of their under graduates I
the army IN the first year of the wa
' Thaaa young men were the futur
J rulers OF the British nmpire, Tn
ia part Of the prioo aeced of us fe
! choosing TO support Right as agaiu'
! Might"