THE BRITISH ARMY
By ED. L. KEEN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
LONDON, August 1. — Success in
modern warfare isn’t measured in
terms of real estate.
If it were, Great Britain and her
allies might point with considerable ■
pride to the acquisition in the last
two years of more than three times
the acreage of the German Empire.
The second anniversary of the war i
finds the Allies in possession of all the
former great Teutonic colonies excejn
German East Africa. Latest advices
indicates that this particular parcel
of land is about to fall into the bunds
of General Smuts and his Belgian and i
l*ortuge*se friemfcj—a mere matter of
some 384,OTP square miles, ir in itself
1T5.2PP square miles larger than
Germany.
But us Napoleon observed, the |
smashing of armies is the only thing
that matters. Germany’s armies are
today just as much unsmashed us [
they were two years ago. The out
posts may be regarded as negligible.
Of little more account, in their border
aspects, have been the misfortunes of
the Allies in Gallipoli. Mesopotamia,
and the Balkans.
The last year on the Western fro id
has been one of stale-mate. There
have been tremendous losses on both
sides, but the lines of the opposing
armies follow much the same course
as they did in August of HM5. Hath
ba> bitten a few slices out of t^c
ether’s territory; certain important
positions have been captured and
some of them have been recaptured
but »i.e requires a large-scale map
ami fairly good eye-sight to u **\
the changes. Both armies, their
losses recruited, remain unbroken.
Under the now style of intensive j
trench warfare which has been stead 1
ily developing on this front during fhe *
two years, the defences of each have |
apparently become impregnable. The
objective of the “big push” in these
latter days is not so much to bruuk
through to the Rhine, or to the Chan
nel ports, as it is to indict the great
est possible damage upon the other!
side.
“Attrition" has become the motto
on the Western front for both armies.
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(granted enough powerful guns, with
sufficient ammunition, eoneentrated
upon an one sector, either may at any
time clean up the intervening wire
entanglements, demolish the opposing
front line trenches and occupy their
ruins—only to find further progress
blocked by more intricate amt wore
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elaborate defences in the rear. Vpres,
Loos, Hooge. and even Verdun are no
longer of especial consequence in the
military sense. They are merely
geographical points—with much more
geography, even more strongly de
fended., spread out behind them.
Great Britain sull is paying the
penalty of inp repared ness; or if you
don’t like it that way, Germany still
is reaping the fruits of preparedness
That Sir Douglas Haig has failed
seriously to dent the enemy’s lines is
no greater reflection upon his military
skill than the failures of his predeces
sor. General French, were upon his.
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True, he has had more men, and, with
in recent months, thanks to the or
ganizing genius of Lloyd George,
more munitions—but he has hud a
longer line to cover. The British now
occupy trenches extending from the
Channel of Maricourt—with the ex
ception of a very small sector .held
by the Belgians—a total of more
than 100 miles, or nearly one fourth
of the entire Western front. Futher
more, he is maintaining heavy losses
more, he is maintaining heavy re
serves. subject to any call for help
from the French.
But Haig’s armies are suffering
from the same defect as those of his
predecessorj they are inadequately
officered, especially in the staff de
partment. In nearly every instance
since the war started, where the
British armies have met with reverses
or have failed to attain the immediate
object of their offensive, this has been
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directly traceable to inefficient co-or-i
dination of stall’ work. The reason rs
very simple: it has been a game of
amateurs against professionals. Eng-;
land lost many of her most capable;
and.promising officers in the early
days of the war. She has not only to.
fill their places, but to train others in |
sufficient numbers to supply an army;
that is now ten times the size of the
one she had on August 4, 11)14. Man-j
ifestly this period has been much too j
short wherein to compete with the
stall efficiency of a military* machine
of fjrly years’ standing.
But if Britain’s successes in the
field have not been vorely brilliant, no
one will dispute that her achievement
in recruiting, organizing, training and
euqipping an army of mo ye than live
million men since the war began—and
on the voluntary principle, too - das
been one of the marvels of military
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Adding to. this number those who
have b^en brought in under the re
cent conscription act—somewhat less
than a million—and those employed Tn
the munitions and naval ship-building
industries, the second anniversary ol
the war finds approximately eight
million men and women directly en
gaged in war work or in other words,
one person out of every six in the
United Kingdom.
This feat is all the more remark
able ^hen one considers that Britain
was not a military nation, in the sense
that the others were.
It was this deficiency of vision that
caused the British public to pile upo*
one man’s shoulders what eventually
proved too gigantic a burden for him
.—or any other man—to bear.
There is no discredit to the mem
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material he was superb. England’s
new army was properly labeled “Kit
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side of modern*warefore, he was lack
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: authority to commandeer the in
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