THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1917

The Omineca Miner

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starvation blockade against Eng-
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soning on the belief that cer-|
many’s blockade is undertaken ||
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VoL. VI. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1917

” “The War First Party is the only party for Canada now,’’ cried
Ralph Connor towards the end of his address on the “The Last
Round’’ in St. James’ Methodist Church, Montreal,a few days ago.
“That party would get the votes of all the soldiers in the trenches.
Their mothers would all vote for it,-and all the women who have
sent their loved ones to the front would line up with that party. ‘I
dinna grudge my boy,’ was what a Winnipex mother said to me
when I had to tell her of the last moments of her boy at the front,

“The second thing for all true Canadians is to line up behind
the determination to abandon all parties which refuse to join this
one,’”? continued the speaker, in trying to drive home his feeling
that it is all important just now that the British Empire should

make an impressive display of strength and of a united and
unbreakable determination te carry on the war until the military
power of Germany is broken beyond repair,

“I went to the Somme by roads and hill-sides crowded’ with
British guns, British equipment and British soldiers, When I got
to the front line and- could see over to the German lines | saw a
strange and gladdening sight. In the Ypres salient we had always
kept our guns under cover. I have walked within ten feet of a biz
gun without detecting it. They were shot from hedges and cellars
and we had to do it hecause the preponderance of ar tillery wag not
with us. But there, on the Somme, our guns were in the open,
lining all the hilltops, and firing night and day without fear,
absolutely dominating the situation. The next thing I saw was
that over our heads were those strange humming birds that we love
to see when they have the proper bird tails. Those with fish tails
we do not eare for. I counted 27 of them winging their way
backwards and forwards over our lines and the German lines
without opposition. ‘There were 20 or 380. observation balloons
sailing entirely undisturbed. Far back of the German lines were
two solitary,little balloons and now and then emerging from a cloud
the nose of' a Fritz air-bird.” We hold the supremacy of the air as
far as the Somme is concerned.

“I saw our lads come back from a fight. They eame sauntering
along with trails of German prisoners, not, a8 you would expect,
with bayonets fixed, to make sure of the prisoners, but one little
corporal or sergeant, with his rifle swung over his shoulder, would
be shepherding a bunch of prisoners behind him, all glad to come,
Don’t think I am discounting the German fighter. ‘Those men are
great and mighty and splendid fichters, but they have this
misfortune: They -have stood up against the most terrible artillery
in the history of the world, the British artillery, It has smashed
their trenches out of existence, and made their dugouts sepulehera
for living men and dead. “When our men 0 across the Germans
come out. absolutely paralyzed, and are glad to surrender. .Not

men, we have discovered two things on the Somme: First, we
know we ean beat them; and second, they know we can beat them.
And that is why the peace flag floatgin the air today. That is why
we are at the beginning of what 1 think will be the last round,’’

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only in artillery and air serviee, but in the morale of the fighting |.

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cause the point of actual starva-
tion hasbeen reached in Geomany. |
Before surrendering uncondition-
ally to the Allies, however, after
the failure of this plan, Germany
will undoubtedly make a final,
supreme effort to wrest control
of the seas from the Entente.

utmost craftiness and, fighting’

on her own terms. will inflict, f
heavy losses. - If the conditions| if
precedent tosuch a battle present| ¥
themselves, the world may, look|/f
for the greatest and moat des-|i}
tructive naval battle i in history, it |
is declared. Germany’s failure :
with both her submarines and|i
her high seas fleet, it ig said, will|
mean that the Allies will be able|ii
to command absolute surrender |i
and to impose their terms on|{f
Germany and her allies,

If Germany were brought to
her knees by the British blockade |#
she would have to surrender her
vessels, ‘and this, naval experts
say she will never do, but will
prefer to have them sunk by. the
British in battle, after taking a
tol of British ships.

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