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VoL. IV. Savorpay, JULY 24,1915, No.4

Of critics, within and without, the British Empire, since the
beginning of the preat war, has had more than enough; but a ecom-

plete answer to those who hold that the British are not doing their.
share i in the struggle against the Huns is given by’ the Chicago Daily :

News ina recent article, -which reads, in part, as follows:

“Here are some of the things Great Britain is doing:
“Holding the geas for the ships of her allies as well as her. own:
- protecting the coasts of her allies as well as her own; struggling, in.
€0-operation with the French, 10 smash the Turks and Win the
Balkans for the allied cause; rendering reat aid to the French and i:

Belgian troops in resisting the terrible onslaughts of the Germans :
on the Allied left wing in the west: making loans and supplying:

munitions to nearly all her partners i in the war: pursuing.a finaneial
‘policy in south-eastern Burope likely, to promote the cause of the

nationalities: putting into the field more than ten: times’ as many |:
men as: she ever: ‘promised; guarding her own soil and people ‘against |
an invasion, which; if it came—and it is believed: to be far From /.

. Impossible —doubtless would be the most Savape, the most unsparing
ever known. With how many men? Well, with enough,

the duty of defending every land but her own, ta
““Britain’s wealth and sea power and military “power are. th

one sure safeguard against the triumph of, Germany's s unparalleled : bot
war machine. ° Without Britain’ 3 help, France and Russia certainly. .

must have been: crushed.’ ‘Without: Britain’ 3 whole-hearted } par-

ticipation | in- the war, “who will say. that, Italy. would. have ventured ,

’ With! 2
~ Britain. out of the struggle, would: there have been any hope of the

to: chalienge i ine. mighty- and merciless. Germanic - coalition? _

~ Balkan: states daring to move?- =. 3 oe eos, Sa

“And Britain—never forget it—was nat tt compelled to-go to the

~ aldof Franca. ‘Come what might, the most that Britain promised
France was six divisions—120, 000 men. She was not in honor

- bound to-send a single soldier more, “She could have stayed out of] |

the war.

Germany had begged her to stay out of the War... ‘Diss

‘graced she might have heen—as Britons ‘think, must. have: bee if |.

sie had left Belgium and France and Europeas liberty, to: their].
~ doom. :
“Butshe could have done 40. Few. ation’ Are wit disgrace,
“without historical pages. they: fain ‘woul "ob i Britain was
not attacked. - France and. Russia, were ‘attacked. Bri tain might
have awaited the, onset—as America i is awaiting the onset: Britain
night have: ‘stood clear,.- ‘might | have hushanded’ her resources of
men’ and money. might swiftly have prepared, even “might” have
loomed over the stricken adversaries i in the end. and. ‘elaimed, the}
hegemony of Europe for herself.”
“Britain: ‘did not do 80, “She threw her thident into the seile;
She threw her: gold into the
“seale— and she i is: incalculably rich. “
““She threw into the halanée her i impressive. racial fecord, her
unrivalled ‘diplomatic skill. - She threw—is. throwing—will throw |;
into the balance the whole’ puissarice of ‘her: Empire.
“And all for what?
oy principle—-of. E berty of the individual, ‘against the despotism of the
State. be

which. the’ is. not, proud—may have done s some things to catise. her, |!

oS looking. back upon them with full light, to: wish-they hadi ‘never ‘been '
But in ‘this’ war: this ‘old and proud democracy { is: Unfolding |

. done...
_ and), applying” ‘a: material. -strength: “and a moral. splendor that
countless 3 ages after this conflict is sited will Il boat
amid the fest sories of of history. ae

n° olsehold |
make | from two “ani

“To hear | :
Some people talk, one would suppose that upon Britain | were laid Gee

Por the ‘principle—the . ‘fruits of the b

- “Britain, ‘one ‘can n believe, ‘may be the author of ‘ some acta: of} : .

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