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Show GREAT CHANGE IN THE WAR SITUATION. Within the past two weeks, the war has turned in favor of the Germans. The driving of a wedge into tho aJli6 at Ypre and the defeat of the Russians Rus-sians east of Cracow arc two very important im-portant triumphs. The fighting at Ypros did not win much ground for the Germans, but it proved that instead of the allies having a preponderance of power sufficient suf-ficient to begin "the big drive," they aro fortunate in possessing strength sufficient to hold their own. The Ypres attack was made in advance ad-vance of the sledge hammer blows in Galicia and, if the truth were known, this maneuver, in our opinion, would be found to have been made in order to take the offensive spirit out of the British and FTench so that Ger man reserves safely could be withdrawn with-drawn from the west front and thrown into the Galician struggle By the time the Canadians, Belgians and French have recovered from the effects ef-fects of the smothering they experienced experi-enced from Dlxmude to HIM No. 60, the German veterans will be back again In the trenches of Flanders and northern France. The ability of the Germans to take the offensive in this manner we attribute at-tribute to England's failure to wake up to the fact that the existence of ihe British empire is at stake and Englishmen no longer can cling to home while the Scotch, Irish and (Olonials do their fighting. England must reapond to the last physically sound man, if England is to survive. If Englishmen prefer to stay at home, they are toying with fate In parliament the other day, a mem oer of the cabinet boasting that Great britain had 750,000 men on the con tincnt. Every close reader-of the" Ments of the war had thought Kitchener's Kitch-ener's army in France and Flanders would number at leaet 2,000,000 by jpring. Of a 200-mile front in the western theatre of war, only a small Ittle corner up in Flanders and northwestern north-western France is held by the Brush. Bru-sh. The Enalish have proved to be the -ery best fighters in all the long bat 1 front General French's maater-'ul maater-'ul retreat from Mona in the e-arly part or the war perhaps saved France; the holding of the Germans north of Ypres, when the Kaiser or dered hie Prussian Guards to go Through to Calais at all cost, was worthy of a peg' in the world's imperishable im-perishable history; the dash on Neuve Chtpelle vru brilliant, and the stub horn resistance to the overwhelming avalanche nf Teutons who poured down on St. .Tulien. when the pois onouB gasee. were emitted from the German trenches, makes glorious the name of Albion, but trith all this heroism, hero-ism, England falls short while her young men by the millions shirk and stay at home. Until England places 3, ooo.ooo soldiers of her own In the trenches. her full share of responsibility responsi-bility in the sustaining of a war hich is only in its first stages shall not be accepted. Our criticism, of course is based nn the news as given out after passing the censor. Tt may ho that Enclancl has more men in the field than is disclosed dis-closed and, for military purposes, the whole truth is not made public. oo |