Show t 2 MEN AT T WAR SAYS EXPERT E r Gen ien Gen Sir William William Roberts Robertson Gives Graphic Facts Fact's About Pres S cut ent en Struggle DEATH T LL is IS API APPALLING British ti In France Fired Tons of Ammunition in Five i or Six SIc Weeks Weeks How How Transport Transportation n Difficulties v London Lo Gen Sir Hobert- Hobert 4 o son son In n a speech recently gavet gave ga n a graphIc graph graph- extraordinary c t lc Ie Impression of some of the Ute aspects of or the present war It has become merely trite to observe that lint the war has now overshadoWed over oyer- shadowed shado ed every ever other o Interest St In ILI the thC world but hut the extent to which it has done this Is sugg s suggested In Inn n n a. most most way by some fIgures which General Robertson employed emp In the armies of all nil the belli belU belligerents he be said there are nov now men which excludes the great greit gre t civilian armies behind the front j In th the Fran Fran- Prussian co war ivar the total of oJ all nIl casualties casual casual- ties tics was less than u while In this war Avar the killed aW e can be county count count- y ed oed eu by b the million thc past five f ye or six si sr weeks weel s swe we ve have han I suppose said Goner ertson tons of ammunition nm which has h s had to fe be I moved by road rail ran and s sea st n fr from the factories In England to to th the g guns in France and man handled probably not less than half a n dozen times Great Transportation tation Task Two hundred hUndle l thousand tons of ammunition am- am means menus rather more than 16 carloads as ns measured by the i iture S ture lure freight cars ars commonly lc loading about twelve helve tons that are us used in England General General Robertson didn't suggest st but any an railroad manager with whom one talks will promptly mal make e good the tile omission that the mere meie 1 trans trans- S p of this one Item of war supplies sup sup- plies Piles at nf ata a time when freight cars have been sent to France by y the tile thou thousand thousandS S constitutes a terrific drain on the country's country's coun- coun try try's s capacity to move things To transport ammunition Is a n particularly par par- delicate e and dangerous dangerousness business busl- busl ness and It Is only because of o splendid organization and anI high efficiency an among S railroad employees employee that there l have bave been heen so very few accidents and r no real disasters as Incidents to this his service ser General Robertson i ia paid S a Q special tribute to the th men en who 1 have haveS S organized and carried on this bra branch of war work S Comparing the scale and scope of the present war with former struggles General u l Robertson was particularly In- In cresting t and Impressive He observed that hat the greatest peculiarity of the present war is In the colossal numb numbers of men employed at the front A- A As n a matter matter flatter of fact he omitted omitted to emphasize SIze Ize his figures by observing that i ireat the great reat proportion of the civil population population tion on immediately engaged in work for forthe forthe I the c support of the army Is quite as 1 impressive im- im I a n peculiarity of this struggle S A Warfare W of Machinery It is a warfare of machinery a and m mechanisms many ninny many of them new ai and heretofore almost untried These ha have 1 required to be produced to be test tested and id to have have- great bodies of m mc mei S trained for using them S Comparing the tile present present- war with that at of 1870 between Germany at and andS S S France q ance General Robertson observed observe S that t In the 1870 war armies wei were counted by the hundred thousand an anthe and andS at the battle of Gravelotte where th the S he heaviest losses were Incurred the t total total to- to tal casualties were only about S n on on both sides while for the whole war r the total casualties of both sides side were e less than half a n million 5 In Inthe the present war the th killed alone alon can enn be lie counted by the million while whileS the total number of men engaged S amounts to nearly In fact th this s war roar Is not as ns in the past a war wai merely ely of opposing armies but a W war wai l' l lf of f nations lations and there Is not today ai a n aman nI I man i oc ot woman In the empire who Is I inot not doing something either to help or orto to tji hinder r the winning winning- of the war A Amun mun man of gr great at distinction told me methe me the ther oUter r day that he lie estimated d the weight of purely purel military effort at at only 25 2 per pel cent of the whole the my remaining 75 7 S per cent being strictly rl speaking of ol n a nonmilitary nature and made up of of S many elements elements agrIculture agriculture fo etc I think t he Is S 'S shipping Dipping diplomacy ac acy he probably not far wrong and when p po peo- Pie pIc ask me as they t ey sometimes do he hethe how the war Is getting on I 1 feel India Inclined S to t reply Why ask me Why not a ask yourself and the remainder of the 75 iSS per ir cent Allies Outnumber Enemy f S 5 General Robertson's figure of 2 24 S S as the number of men actual S engaged in the military operations Is probably based on as U-as as good Information ns as any In the tho World possesses rue British general staff knows I a all S S S about the armies of or the entente com coun- coun- coun I tries tIts n Un knovs WS all that 1 yb body d on oil outside out out- side ide T Berlin nn l Vienna knows about abou S. S those Ul th se of the of-the r the central powers S didn't He-didn't He suggest sug est how the lie numbers number I side S are ore now divided dl between the two sides but it Is very er certain that the entente S nations decidedly outweigh their ene enc 5 5 niles mies in mere numbers The powers powers on the tho other hand nd have th th'S S S great advantage of shorter shorter lines am and easier ellsler commutations With iW Russia comparatively Inactive It Is not at a all allS i certain crt ln that the weight of numbers i inow is isk S now very vcr decidedly In vor of k S tonte peoples But the weight of mach machinery ma ma- S. S S ch chinery nery is to their their advantage S In this connection there has been I some intimation In re recently of the possibility that Japan mij might be called upon fu Eli some somo fashion to 1 take a amore amore more active part In the struggle The first suggestion of this sort which come came from Russia was In III a n brief dispatch saying the government go had categorically denied persistent n rumors that Japan might be bo employed plo ed to bring pressure against Russia with the purpose pur- pur pos pose lose of convincing lI Russia that it would be c highly undesirable for Tor her t to repudiate re- re her obligations to her n nuch allies S Such uch ch a suggestion of course would woul be be mOst most unfortunate and the denial from froni Petrograd is unquestionably correct according to the e best aut autes u ties es s here hero S Worlds World's Greatest Gr Reserve But ut while the employment of J Japanese Japanese Japa- Japa nese esc force Olce as ns nn an argument with Russin Rus- Rus sin sla a Is quite unthinkable there has hus i been beena n a renewal of or the suggestion that Japans Japan's magnificent army might yet et require quire to be employed In some wa wae way wat In IntIle inthe tIle the e European field fiel It represents the greatest reserve of completely i ired pre pre- r arec red orce that ever evel st stood behInd hind an nn active military campaign In Inthe inthe the 3 world If It there were Only only orly me means of moving it Japan could readily and quickly put lUt or If necess necessary soldiers Into the field To Co move more any considerable pron a of such a force orce even Into the ne near near- lighting areas by b water water is isa a a ous s impossibility at this time I Ire nut But there re has been serious serIous' discussion I IUm Um im told tol at some sonic of the recent couf conferences confer confer- es among allied leaders of the n pos pos- lity of or bringing Japanese soldiers to Europe by way wn of the rian r nay Today loday this tills would necessitate nn an Immense expansion of ot the carrying capacity of or that route A very cry large part of it has no noi now been i tracked double ed and if It it it recognized by the end of this year tin that the war var is likely to continue seven sevens several y ars s the the further development of tonnage capacity might be found und feasible and even necessary S One e thing tIling is certain and th t is s th- th that on neither Oilier side Is there at present an any such prejudice as ns formerly existed against st introducing and Africans cans cans upon the European Europ an battlefields II The conception of this war W l' l as a war of the J whole hole world has been b en strengthened strength strength- I ened very gre greatly since the beginning beginnings of the s present year ear It is Is' looked upon by the e western w s ern powers now as every- every everybody's everybody's body's J war a war in which everybody has not only an Interest but a duty to perform m. m That conception has hns affected affect affect- ed the attitude of remote and detached peoples s to a n striking extent For Por example ex- ex I cx-I ample among tribes In Africa which I would not be presumed to know any any- anything anything any any- thing about what Is happening fn in EuIs Eu- Eu Europe Europe rope It Is said that there Is a very considerable conle con- con considerable le interest and a desire to help heln the western stern nations |