Show British Still Called Best Fighters on Earth By Frank Harris Famous Irish Publicist Editor and Author I have hl always re regarded the British as a great fighting nation Almost everything they have won in the world has been won by fighting Their whole history I IB is one long long- contest for the supremacy of the seas seaR That was the reason the they fought tous-ht tho the Spaniards and destroyed the Armada Armada- A genera Jenera- tion or so later we wo find rind them fighting Protestant Holland Just as ns bitterly as thc they lOIl fought ht Catholic Spain with pre pro the thc same object by little they beat heat Holland as completely as s the they had bad beaten Spain and then they entered into a years years' conflict with Franco and although much fewer in number th they gradually s wore down tho the French beat them and secured the tho mastery of ot the seas and with It world worldwide wide dominion colonies of the greatest greatest greatest great great- est value moro than half halt the tho temperate temper temper- ate zone all by fighting In tho the last half century they have havo won the greater part of ot tho health healthy central districts of ot Africa the new continent Is theirs to colonl colonize e. e A combative race Is the En English Eng Eng- lish and made tenfold more combative by victory after victory riches piled on riches won as a a. reward for fighting They have havo only really been beaten once and that was by tho Yankees Yankees- b by their own stock transplanted d Into New England The rhe reason for this Is II simple In the last glacial period the tho soil was all nU scraped off ott New England b by glaciers gl Tho The strata of ot earth were thin and poor and the tho climate was one of or th the most mOlt severe In the world world- de desperately cold In winter and nod very hot in hi summer The New ew England settlers set Bet tIers wore were fanatics of ot belief rebels men of ot Independence and courage The They were subjected to a cruel struggle gle Kle for existence b by an unfriendly climate cli- cli mate mato and an ungenerous soil Boll Only the strongest survived and these New En Englanders landers or Yankees arc are the best st fighters rH on earth The They beat the English Eng Eng- lish Ush and freed themselves from Eng Eng- lI lish h domination Without at attributing supernatural qualities to the tho English It Is easy tl to understand nd how they the have won the tho long struggle Kle for tor the he hegemony of t the tho ocean Placed on an Island off art the western coast lt of or Europe on the road rond to all the new lands landl It jt was a n. matter of ot life lItA nail ami death to n the English h to win the time mastery of ot the seas It was waa not a t matter r of ot life and death for France Franca It was a a. matt matter r of or life and death for France to keep her position on the continent She ought ney never r to ha have embarked on a L struggle with England for tor tho the supremacy of ot the 8 seas But nut she did embark on it and was beaten baten and lost her position on tho continent to boot And now Germany German is embarking on Ul the same struggle thanks to the emperor emperor emperor em em- and her commercial classes and It looks look as If It Germany were doomed I to be bo beaten in the struggle It n Is a matter of ot life and death for tor G Germany to keep the lordship of ot the continent nt she had no business to embark em em- bark hark on a 3 struggle with England for forthe tho the supremacy of or tho the seas that Is Ie a u. aside aside side issue for tor Germany German while it Is a a. avital L LYHal vital matter to England Now Not wh why in this conflict has lies not England shown h her r fighting power on onland onland onland land The Tho answer is lit tho the censorship England's weakness has always alwa's been that she she- has bas not believed sufficiently In Sn genius does doe not trust lI lice Her r arm army according to the accounts of or her own people Is always alway weakest In officers officers cers cers of or ability weaker ability weaker even than other ther armies and armies and all armies are arc weak In this respect for tor the tho basic Idea of or oran an ann army Is founded on discipline and subservience and genius Is always insubordinate In- In subordinate and rebellious In a story tol once I found the tho artistic i symbol for It It- It Put potatoes In a cart and transport I them over oyer a road If It th the road rOld Is lon long enough and rough enough the big potatoes po potatoes po- po I will come to the top and the little ones will go JO to time the bottom The road has been long enough and hard enough In Franco France for the tho big I British potatoes to come to the tho top I and the little ones to go o to the bottom but the thc censorship has prevented that In the civil war In the United Unite States we got rid of or twenty six generals be before before belore be- be fore lore wo we found Grant Tho The English lIsh have only got Jot rid of or orono ono one general Jeneral French practically for tor shooting his own men while advancing advancing In ing and French had alread already picked Haig HaJJ and Halg Haig Is still commander in chief Everyone Everone who knows him knows that Half Halg is not a big man but ho i is j protected from all criticism h by the censorship If It ho he committed a fatal fault tomorrow some one of or his choosing would be put in his place Haig Half could only choose another Halg It Il takes genius to recognize genius If It you let loose war correspondents to tell the tho truth about the tho fl fighting on the Somme the they would find a captain of ot genius within three months someone someone some some- one to lead the English someone to do for them what neither nor norl l French rench could ever do It Is the censorship censorship cen cen- with Its hatred of ot uth h-uth truth and and love lovo of ot lies which keeps kEps the born English English Eng Eng- lish fighter at a low state of or efficiency In n the tho field Think of ot It The Tho censorship was w taken from the Russian despotism and adopted b by the tho En English army through the Incompetence of oC Kitchener In South Africa There was no danger that military secrets would leak out thero to be used by hy the tho enemy they could only leak out In th the tho English pa pa- pers pens miles away but the tho censorship censorship censor censor- ship was established so that Kitchener Kitchener Kitch Kitch- ener and French might go and anti return as heroes Till the get s-ct rid of the tho censor they will never nc beat the Germans If inthe in the field though I think It Is ridiculously ridiculously easy to prove that the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans are not such good fighters as asI I the English |