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Show I GREAT BATTLES TO BEJODGHT British and Italian Armies Have Tremendous Reserves of Men for Action. By C. F. BERTEELI. . Paris, Nov. 10 (by mail). I have I been most careful to sound the feelings feel-ings of the masses on the war in three entente countries Britain, Italy and France and the conclusioin Is that they are ready to support their governments In another year of war; not cheerfully, of course, but with unimpaired un-impaired steadfastness 'of purpos"e. It Is a fact that for the great, majority of the women in Europe the war will not end a moment too soon. As to the economic aspect ot the situation, that Great Britain "is enjoying enjoy-ing prosperity is generally known. I recently bad an opportunity of discussing discus-sing Britain's condition with Lord Northcliffe. "It 1b quite useless for anyone to talk o peace In England "now," he said. "We shall carry the Job through, no matter how long it lasts." It is not generally known that. 'Italy also Is prospering under war conditions. condi-tions. Trade is very good and. there is work for every man not mobilized. In France, too, there has been a big business revival this year and during a period when a tremendous strain has been placed upon the whole resources re-sources of the country. A fact generally gener-ally recognized in the entente countries coun-tries is that their military power, will not reach its zenith until next year. This, of course, applies mostly to Britain in the sense that thai mim I will be able to deploy her greatest available number of troops then. It Is also true of France, Russia and Italy, in the sense that they will next year be able to bring an unprecedented unprecedent-ed number of guns and shells to the battlefields. Until now the British and Italian arm es have suffered least of all the armies of the big powers, and -both have tremendous resources in men, to, say nothing of Russia. But what is less generally recognized Is the magnificent mag-nificent condition of the- French fnyaftJe,r more than tw years of J?otld,Iet8t flhtlng aged in the IE2d? hf8tory' After the indescribable indescrib-able horrors of Verdun, followed by three months of Incessant hard fighting fight-ing on the Somme, one might nave looked for the battered- remnants of w? uthJs yeas warfare have as full TntTZ WhlA.aB fo"aidablo and finill U7ten France was sending the As might have been 'expected the Present equphnent is In evw-Sv i Perlor to that of last yelrisa whilst the artillery now employed is . immeasurably more powerful on the Sommo alone than was used on either part of tho western front earlier In tue war. - 00 |