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Show T. P O'CONNOR AND THE CANADIAN IN WAR. Canadians are as deeply stirred by the war as the English themselves, and a copy of the Montreal Star, left - i (u nit? ouuiuani dliivv, Kie& tiviuenct of this great Interest in the conflict. Pages of the paper are given up to descriptions of the wur zone, the fighting fight-ing and detailed reports of the part played by the Canadian troops T P O'Connor, the Irish leader has a special cable message to the Star, undj&r date of February 26, which presents pre-sents a few sidelights on English public pub-lic opinion as to the progress of the war, from which these extracts are made: "Turning to a general view of the prjent position of the Allies' cam-paJivn. cam-paJivn. the depression canned by German Ger-man reports of a big defeat admin istered to the Russian In Fast Prussia Prus-sia has largely passed. The first announcements an-nouncements of their success were Kreatly exaggerated, as expected In many quarters This expectation bas bnt in Justified by subsequent Information, In-formation, although a big Russian Chech Is oalpable It In equally pal-imbie pal-imbie that von Hlndenburg, as after bis rirst Victory, Is unable to follow ibis second unc up Russia, behind strong arid growing army defenses, can defy a successful Gernxui Inva sion ?nd still pursue h-r campaign against Auslria The Russian cheok will undoubtedly postpone for some time a uucceesful occupation of Ger-rnau Ger-rnau territory and aJso may postpoii'.- for some time the mocessful occupation occupa-tion of German territory and may also lostpone the entrance of Roumania into the war on the side of the Allies. Al-lies. "Operations agalnst.vCoQstantinopIe attract a good deal (of attention Just now. although: It is J aa i yet . unkntown whether the assaolt-on' tlu DortiaJi-elles DortiaJi-elles forts Is merely threatening movement or the -' bog; toning of greater things and 'lue precursor of momentous consequence . which would , affect the whole course of the war It'lB dimly realized tttaUtf the movement Is sertotis and should be successful, all of the feartcan. countries, coun-tries, must come into j the comhlna tfontOf the Allies '' rr t he-rsjaj stance of Torkey' comes to an end, a seem highly . probable, tho million and mlLlions of bushels ot wheat stored in Russian .warehouse will be liberated lib-erated and : thetmportataon of arms and ammunition by tho Csar reft untrammelled. un-trammelled. With her hands thus freed, Russia could lauoon a new attack at-tack on Garmsny from a (Afferent du j 1 rection and with the possible co-op j fi-ation of the Balkan states This j would make Germans 's airead powei less position quite desperate." As to the delay in beginning a thoroughly thor-oughly aggressive ciinipalgn, T. P (Connor sas: "The opinion of those In England vho .ire well Informed is that no great adwince should be considered until General French i6 reinforced by a new great arm. and until good lather facilities render possible an effectie offensive. Above all, noth Ing should be done until the financial finan-cial and ammunition shortage and food pressure on Germany, and the pressure of Roumania and Russia on Austria, begin to break up the silo darity and strength of the two Germanic Ger-manic lowers. It is this wekonlng of the countries behind the German soldiers in the trenches which is nec-e nec-e - try to start the demoralization of Germany." English opinion Is divided as to the meaning of the German submarine attack at-tack on the merchant marine and the divergent vlows are presented as follows fol-lows : "There are two opposite theories regarding the food situation In the domains of the Kaiser. The first is that the scarcity has been exag-'i'-nited lot illplotiMth ptirpi . especially espe-cially In dispatches to America, seeking seek-ing to Justify the new German plmc and that the distribution of food by ihe German government Is p.irt of the wonderful military organization, and a result of the wonderful foresight fore-sight displayed by Germany In her forty years of preparation for this war The second and more generally entertained theory is that the action of Wllhelm's government in its latest proceedings Is an act of homi-cidal homi-cidal frenzy which united the whole j worm u conuemnation. This frenzy is explained by the fact tnat tbe coun try is already sorely beset, and that a final gigantic disaster seems Inevitable. In-evitable. This again Increases the loud popular demand heard through al England for tightening the pres sure on Germany's food supplies." The Standard leans to the side of thos who believe the scarcity of food In Germany has been exaggerated in onier to justify the submarine paper blockade. |