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Show GRIM DETERMINATION. While the Germans were celebrating the victory of Field Marshals von Maek-ensen Maek-ensen and von Ualkenhayn, the British admiralty, the ministry of munitions ami the army council agreed to release for military service all possible semiskilled semi-skilled and skilled men who are now engaged in the manufacl ure of muni-tions. muni-tions. This is the British answer to the capture of Bucharest. Instead of paving pav-ing the way for peace, the success of the Teutons in Rumania simply means that the war is about to enter upon its mosi sanguinary stage, and that G reat ' Britain will put every man in the field who can be mustered th ronghout the bugth and breadth of the empire, if Llovd George remains at the head of the ministry. The same effect is observable in Paris, where the news of the fall of the i Rumanian i-apital was received with sorrow sor-row and mortification, even though it had been regarded as inevitable for n.auv d'lys. There will be more r:i pid and ener-j-c-t i,- action in war matters in France as v. ell as Great j Britain. although it will not be ' mv.ary to overnirn the Erem-h gov- j , eminent to obt'iin the object de.-ired. Doi;ble-s th"ie is xiine dissatisfaction, but we note that the chamber of dejm-i ties, by a vote of :;(! to Bin, has passed a resolution expressing confidence in the government in its conduct of the war. The propriety as well as the right of the Germans to celebrate, however, cannot can-not be denied. They have taken Warsaw, War-saw, Belgrade and Bucharest and confined con-fined the war almost entirely to enemy territory. They have won practically all of the honors of the war. At the 1 same time none of the victories so far achieved has weakened the entente allies al-lies to such an extent as to render final success upon the part of the Teutons any nearer than it was immediately after their defeat on the Maine, when all hope of taking Paris and ending the war in short order was rudely shattered by the sudden appearance 'of an army upon which they had not counted. Nevertheless, they must be given full credit for great military prowess. |