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Savurpay, OCTOBER 2, 1915, No. 5 There | are some who think, and a few who say, that Great Britain is not doing her share in the great war; that she remains in security while her allies are doing the fighting, A very good answer to these erities is contained in the following article ftom the News Leader, of Richmond, Virginia: ‘A year ago Great Britain had the largest navy and the smallest standing army of any of the great European powers, Her total military establishment was 254, 000 white men, of whom 76,000 were stationed in India. Germany had more first line men on the French frontier when the war began than Great Britain had al! over the world. The total British foree immediately available for service on the continent was scarcely 12 per cent of the army Germany kept with the colors in times of the most profound peace. ordnance and her reserve of small arms was in proportion. Yet here is what she has done: - 1 She has bottled up the German navy in the Kiel Canal so securely that not a German vessel, other than a submarine, has ventured into the North Sea since January 24, when the Bluecher was sunk. 2, She has completely driven the German flag from the seas of the world. The only German merchantmen not now interned’ or tied up in home ports are those in the Baltic Sea, « 3. She has destroyed or forced into internjent every German man-of-war absent from home waters on the outbreak of the war, _ 4. She has’ raised. equipped. and put in the field more than 2, 000, 000 men, in addition to those available last August, All these ' troops are amply supplied with arms, uniforms, transport, ete, 5, She has multiplied the output of her arms factories more than twenty times, and she has increased by 700 per cent the aircralt available for her forces last August, 6. She is financing the Belgian and Serbian governments and has loaned large sums to Russia and to Italy. 7. She has seized in Africa, German colonial possessions ‘In the Orient, with the assistance of Japan, she has hauled down the German flag from every settlement, every island and every coaling station that owed allegiance to the Kaiser. 8. She landed in France a small force, approximately 110, 000 men, ata time when these reinforcements enabled General Joffre to form an army-that took von Kluck in flank on the Oureq. 9. In the battle of the Marne the British led the attack that drove back the German host from the approaches to Paris; in the battle of the Aisne they forced the crossings of the river and again enabled Joffre to inaugurate flanking tactics. 10, Transported tothe Yser, the British took the Yser-La Bassee line, and held. it against continuous attacks from October 16 to November 6, and again from November 10 to the end of December. These attacks were intended to open the road to Calais and were of the most vital importance to the Allies and ‘cost the Germens 200,000 men. 11. The British were entrusted by Genetal Joffre with the front where the Germans were strongest, and they have been. subjected to: more constant and unremitting attacks than ‘have been delivered by the Germans against: any of the western defences, _ 12, After rine months fighting on ‘the Ypres line, despite the’ fact’ that the. Germans have repeatedly hurled their best troops ‘against the front, the British lines are. today at ino point farther to “the westward, than’ when the Germans began their assault. Gn 18... The British have supplied "5 per cent of the men and ships : employed i in the operations against the Dardanelles, and they made . the landings which are ultimataly to open the way ‘to Constantinople: “14, In ‘addition, and until the. surrender: of the. last. 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