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LONDON, Aug. 26.—In reports of
the great battle of Picardy, being cir
culated in neutral countries today the
commonest misstatement is that the
new British armies don’t know how to
fight.
It is admitted that the old Expedi
tionary force was fine material, but
the new armies raised in the last two
years are described as undisciplined
and feeble in attack and irresolute in
defense; formidable only because of
their numbers which are vanishing
under German fire.
No item of the statement is true.
The casualties have not been out of
proportion to the ground gained. In
the attack of July 14th which carried
a large part of the German second
line the British losses were extraor
dinarily small. The individual fight
ing value of the British troops has
been equal to any in the campaign.
For example, a wood was taken by
the Germans with nine battalions; it
was recaptured by the British with
two. The British new army which
showed its merit at Loos last Septem
ber, has won great glory in every
phase of a Picardy battle.
The whole British force in one sense
is new. The famous old regiments of
the line have been renewed complete
ly since Mons, and their drafts are
drawn from the same source as the
men of the new battalions. The 9th
and 15th divisions (wholly new)
brought from Loos a reputation sec
ond to none in the army.
Take the great fight of July 14th
when from Pozieres to Delville Wood
the German second line was carried,
and the third line pierced. A disting
uished French soldier doubted the
possibility of success. An English
general offered to eat his hat if it did
not come off. When the French gen
eral heard of the result he said “C'est
bien. Le General X— ne mange pas
son chapeau.” (Roughly translated—
“You win. Don’t eat your hat.”)
In that attack a certain historic
British division advanced on the line
between Bazentin-le-Grand and Lon
gueval. In each of its three brigades
there were two battalians of the new
army and two of the old. The attack
was made by two brigades and the
general commanding put the four
new battalions in the first line.
The experiment proved the worth of i
the new army. To begin with they,
managed to cross the intervening I
ground ami get up to within 200 yards ^
of the enemy’s wire practically with-1
out casualties—a remarkable proof (
of discipline. When the intense Brit
ish bombardment ceased just at dawn
they attacked with superb vigor and!
devotion. In one place the German
wire had been imperfectly cut and
they had to make their way through
it under a deadly fire. But a little aft
er midday the work was do'ne. The
German second position was in their;
hands, as well as 602 unwounded men,
oG officers, including a battaliau com
mander; four howitzers, four field
guns, and fourteen machine guns, j
Such was the achievement of four bat
talians of the new army which had;
never before been in action.
The Germans were not weak in that
section. The misty weather had en
abled them to mass guns whose posi
tions could not be detected. They had
brought up some of their most famous
troops. The truth is that is idle to
talk of old and new’ armies. The Brit
ish army, old army, new army and
territorials; Home divisions and Colo
nial divisions have alike proved them
selves adequate for the task of war.
Today on the plateau between the
Ancre and the Somme it is no patch
work force that is engaged ,but the
flower of the manhood of the British
empire.
World War Will
Eliminate Time
Honored Custom
—
PARIS, August 3. (By Mail).—'The
war promises to end in France what
has constituted in the past the great
est obstacle to general marriage—
namely the “dot” that is exacted of
every girl who wants a husband.
So deeply is this custom implant
ed in French life that any girl whose
parents are not able to provide her
with a “dot” has such a small chance
of effecting a marriage as to render
it unworthy of either consideration
or hope. French women who have
come from families of modest means,
often have declared that the necessi
ty imposed on them from the earliest
moments of childhood to save every
penny in the hope of acquiring a
“dot” by the time they reach in.»r
riagable age really robbed the > of
all that goes to make up girlhaod i-n
the real sense'of the word..
While~it"ls generally conceded that
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this necessity of having a “dot” ha*
made the French woman the most ef
ficient home manager in the world
and also relieves her of “slavedom,”
yet it has greatly restricted mar
riage in France. It has entailed al
so the disadvantage of limiting every ■
girl’s choice to that particular class
in the social and intellectual scale
to which her “dot” will admit her.
Since the beginning of the present
war, an active propoganda has been
carried on in France to put marriage
on the American and English basis
—a basis purely of love on which the
husband also assumes the full re
sponsibility of providing for his wife
and children.
Were the hopes of these people to
establish “dotless” marriages in
France based solely on the success of
their propoganda, they probably
would not succeed. A mother who
consented to her son’s marriage to a
girl of modest “dot” has just with
drawn her consent saying:
“My boy has since won the Cross
of the Legion of H.onor and the Croix
da Guerre and he is therefore now
worth more.”
Fortunately for ihe propogandai i -
they have recently been able 10 es
tablish that they tan count upon a
certain great phenomenon that ba
boon repeatedly noticed in past war.
and that promises to settle the que.->
tion of dots in France regardless of
the tenacity of tradition and the am
bitions of mammas with marriugble
sons.
Statistics have esetablished that
following every great war there
comes a marked increase in the num
ber of male births over female. The
propogandaists for “dotless” mar
riages have therefore been doing a
little investigating and find ample
cause for rejoicing. In one of the
maternity hospitals in Paris in a
single day in May, there were 23
births of which 21 were boys. In an
other hospital on the same day there
were 17 births of which 16 were boys.
This has been established as being
about the average for Paris at pres
ent. The same investigation in the
rural districts are even more encour
aging.
While therefore the propogandaists
realize that immediately following
the close of hostilities, the dearth of
men, brought about through mili
tary and naval losses, will place the
groom very much at a premium, yet
they figure that by 1940 and 1950
they can count on such an abundance
of potential grooms and such a
dearth of potential brides as to place
the latter at a premium regardless of
“dots.” *
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