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Show THE DAY OF TRIAL. Tbe crucial period for the coalition guvurn merit in Great Britain would appear to have arrived. Greater misfortunes mis-fortunes undoubtedly could beset the Anquith cabinet than those which now threaten its downfall, but there is misfortune mis-fortune enough and to spare as it is. The rebellion in Ireland, the surrender surren-der of General Townshend at Kut-el-Amara, the incapacity of the troops in France for any major movement, the necessity of transporting Russians to the western theater of conflict and the hopeless disagreements over conscription conscrip-tion are sufficient to discourage the British people with the management of tho war. They cannot even look with the old contentment upon the operations of the navy, for only the other day the Germans raided the coast, sank a submarine sub-marine and perhaps several other warships war-ships and escaped practically unscathed. Tho only bright spot on the British horizon in the last few months has been the capture of Sir Roger Casement and the destruction of his ship bearing 20,-000 20,-000 rifles to the Irish rebels. The surrender of General Townshend and the poor showing made by the relief expedition under new commanders will cause particular irritation because the lack of success in Turkish Asia will be compared with the grand dukVs victorious victo-rious progress in tbe same theater of war. It will begin to percolate among the British people that something is rotten with the army, U is not in the personnel, per-sonnel, nor perhaps even in the officers. Tho most likely supposition is fhat the army is riot being fnirmlird adequately with guns and ammunition. Whether tflis is due to labor troubles"? to the success suc-cess of Zeppelin raids in destroying factories or to other causes is a secret locked in tbe breasts of the higher government gov-ernment officials. v It was hinted a few duys ago that Lloyd-George, minister of munitions, contemplated resigning, and tho public was kssnred that if he did he would reveal some terrible blunders made in tbe manufacturing of ammunition. ammu-nition. In the minor scenes of conflict the KnclUh have been successful. The re bollinu in South Africa was brilliantly put down; the German forces in West Africa were killed or captured and the enMre region occupied by British troops; tii' Teutons were driven out of Ka-mrmii Ka-mrmii and are now being crushed in Km M Africa. In the main zones of conflict, con-flict, however, the British fighting has been more or less of a failure. In Tracce the English have held their own, but rhe lang-promised offensive has not materialized. And yot back of all these seeming failures there has been a success which the English people are less likely to appreciate than are the Russians and Trench. It has been customary tn de-pt'ribe de-pt'ribe the Dardanelles operations as a friebtful fiasco, but they made possible tbe grand duke's victories ami helped fo render an invasion of "Egypt impossible. impos-sible. The British forces to Frauoc have saved that country from destruction destruc-tion and the forces in Mesopotamia, al'hough they have not won a notable triumph, have aided in wearing down the Turks to such a degree that tho Russians have been able to take Armenia Ar-menia and to menace all of Anatolia. If the Russians succeed in their campaign, cam-paign, it is only a question ot time until tho Turks must withdraw from Hut el-Amara and Bagdad. In Fngla.nd, however, the discontented discontent-ed will not. be able to view the entire field of war with impartial and discriminating dis-criminating vision. They will he vaded to r a g ' 1 as they confine their ga e to the i-oivs:il blunders incident to and almost inevitable in the raising of a giya-Dtic army in a short time. |