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Show ENGLAND REQUIRES STRONGJOERSHIP A. S. Wadia, Author From India, Gives Views on the War Situation. To bring about a favorable conclusion of the present war Great Britain must change its present leaders; she must have extraordinary men at the head of her war department men. who can not only stave off defeat, but who can organize or-ganize great victories further, she must have munitions. This is how A. S. Wadia of Bombay, India, an author, epitomizes that nation na-tion 's chances in the great conflict. Mr. Wadia has been in the United States for eight weeks and will remain here four more. He is to study, as he puts it, "the philosophy of hustling.'' He arrived in Salt Lako yesterday for a brief visit. Mr. Wadia is the author of a book on the Zedroaster religion, another entitled en-titled "The Problems of India" and one named "Fate and Free will." Ho is of a race called Parsis, decendants of the ancient Persiaus, of whom there are about 80,000 in India. "Before I came to America I was told that there was nothing to learn here," said Mr. Wadia last night, "but that Is wrong. There Is much to learn. I came here to study the philosophy of hustling, and in that I am disappointed, but I have seen for myself the real American life and 1 have been much impressed. " New York, compared to London, is slow. I didn't find the hurry and scurry in your metropolis that I expected. ex-pected. To" be truthful, there is much more rush in London. One thing in New York, however, did surpass all my expectations. It was the skyscrapers. skyscrap-ers. Of course I had an idea of them from photographs, but photographs do not do them justice. "One of the chief objects of my visit to England, where I spent three months, was to see how that nation tackled the big prohlem which confronts it. In Eug-land Eug-land they take the war sort of carelessly. careless-ly. Tbey have underestimated the strength of their adversaries. "One thing Great Britain needs badly is munitions. Another thing she needs is officers. Great Britain's army is made up of splendid men and heroic officers, but it lacks leaders. That is why the army suffers. Great Britain must change the heads of its war department de-partment and place extraordinary men there, who can not only stave off de-featjbut de-featjbut organize victories. "When the! war broke out India literally sprang to arms. There was no hesitation and all internal troubles were forgotten. In August last year India sent 75,000 men to the front. At present pres-ent she has about 200,000 on the battle line. The new idea in India is that Tndia must stand by the empire. The idea of any revolt against Grat Britain is ridiculous." |