THE WAR PULSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 225, 21 September 1915, Page 8

THE WAR PULSE.

FEELING IN DIFFEKENT PARTS. IMPRESSIONS OF AN AL'STRALIAN. Some interesting impressions of the conditions which prevail in various countries affected by the war wore given to a reporter by Mr. O. C. Beale, a well-known commercial man of Australia. When war broke out Mr. Boalo was between Vin'Kland an 1 Vancouver, outward bound. Travelling through America, ho reached England, and during the past year has male six trip-, a, r._-s tin- ( liannel for tbe purpose of vis.ting France. SAiUerland. and other European countries. "We may go down ,„i our kno.-s," said Mr. Heale, "and thiink G..d that we are lighting side by side with a nation like the French. They are displaying magnificent fortitude, iman, won.an. and child,[ and are light.ng heroically." The vi-itor thought that we perhaps had no adequate y; conception of what the French wee do- ' ing. Until the recent lengthening of the ,{j Ur.tish line, our Allies of the west were j holding eighteen nineteenths of the lino against the Germans, an 1 wherever one ..out in Franco one found evidences of tin- magnificent spirit of the nation The Fre'irh were nio-t appreciative of the part played by Great .Britain, and a;i English man could lie _ii."o"TT. the most .or lie! ~f welcome* .11 any part of tho In England, si,:,! Mr Heale. it was evilent th it the natioi had* settle 1 down to il* j,,':,. and that the pc qde -,f Great Britain could do little nitre than they , wore doing. Every where one -aw cvi j donees of the greatest military activity. | Hid, so far a* one could judge, the work j of the arson.i!s was in every way ,-atw factors". There was a keen sense ..! appreciation in Engl, ml a- t. the work of the Colonial tr.„,ps in Gnllipoli Without doubt ihc bond* of Empire would bo w.-l 1-1 more soun Uy than over after the tormina'.iun uf this long and ne-arving war. Asked a- to his impressions of feeling ,n America, Mr Heale .tated with.cat 1 the sligiite«t reservation that, in the ■viii it wa. distinctly fa vol ra bio to the \liie-. In the coarse of Ins travels be *. nil bad opportunities of getting into '' touch with th- be-i informed circles.. While this feeling of sympathy in the ,1.! if the Alii-* plainly existed, he li-lieved that the predominant wish of Vmericans wa. f./r 11 compromise in re s'.nd to the --r.-.it conflict. This, ruti.ought. sprang from philanthropic motives and a genuine desire for peace, )n the whole, the p dirv of President V\ii-i.n seemed to be fnvr.ll.ably viewed Mr Beale said bo de-iiod to rorrect an Impression which seemed to !»' erroneously held out hero to the effect that lie Amen,-an newspaper obtained fuller information as to the prog Toss of the ••ar. 'lin.s wis not so. The British ha 1 outre.! cables, and the American* received no more news than was avail ible for transmission from London. He would be ,1 hold man who would ittempt to state the probable duration if tbe war. said Mr Beale, but he colli ■ay I.'at the preparations far and wide udieatod a lengthy struggle. "Why." added the visitor. "I saw on the slopes of l.ntish Columbia gi.-at stacks of tmi her that arc to bo u-ed for building Rrili'b aeroplanes." In his own m,nd be I was d-iuhtful il tlio Germans would far.. a third winter.