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Show HARDEST BATTLES STILL J0 COME Allies Have Power to Crush Enemy Germans, So Far, By No Means Defeated. BRITISH NEED SUPPORT Men at Front Cannot Understand Under-stand Shortage of Shells After Eight Months' Time. London, April 21, 12 25 p. ni. Arthur Ar-thur Hamilton Lee, M P. who was British attache with the United States army during the Spanish-American war and who married MIgs Ruth Moore of Xew York Is serving as eolonel oo the continent. He haa written a letter home from the British Brit-ish headquarters in France in which he says: "The allies have it within their power, pow-er, but this does not mean that victory vic-tory is close at hand, or that the hardest hard-est fighting and the heaviest losses are not yet to eomp The vast German Ger-man armies oceupying and devastaf mg a great part of France and moei of Belgum are held in check, it la true, bur in no sense arc they dc- tcaipa. Men Eager to Fight. "Our men at the front are keen, skilled and determined and our victory at Nueve Chapelle has filled them 'llh enthusiasm and confidence. Their one desire now is to advance, but this they cannot do, without better bet-ter support from their mates and rulers ru-lers at home. They fully realize that the casualties already Incurred must be douhled and trebled before the victory vic-tory finally 1b won They cannot understand un-derstand why the greatest manufac curing country in the world should not. supply them with sufficient shells eight months after the outbreak of the war and they express themselves freely free-ly on this subject "In the meanwhile, we all must mak? up lost time, not counting the cost. Men and shells In an inrreas-ing inrreas-ing stream is the need of the hour." Colonel Lee retired from the array in 1900 but rejoined in 1914 ajid was appointed special service officer with the expeditionary force to tho continent. He was British militarv attache at Washington in 1899-1900 |