BRITAIN'S GREAT EFFORT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 142, 15 June 1917, Page 2

BRITAIN'S GREAT EFFORT.

I wish you could see the British' front now," writes a Stanley Bay soldier, "you would marvel with mc: at England having prepared and got the I thing working in 2_ years. Nearly all ! of us are new hamis at the game, and the manner in which the thousands of guns and the millions of men are han-! died is wonderful. Railways have been j laid everywhere behind our lines, and ■■ traffic fills all the roads. Practically no Englishman ever handled such an enor- j mous army, and after our tin-pot army of 100.000 men, with comparatively no artillery, the way things are run now is a great credit to those in chargo. Good-; ness knows, they make mistakes, but they are minor ones, and on the whole the thing is splendidly managed. With all Fritz's preparation and organisation '■. I do not think he ia ahead of us now, except in the civil population business, i Fie certainly v lighting for all he is worth. Even oui battalion of only 1,000 i men moving about requires a little management. We have to go by certain routes, arrive at billets, or camps, or j trenches at a certain time, relieve a I certain battalion and take over their! instructions, our stores are in a new, place, tucker has to come up to the new camp, there is work to be done in new section of trenches, etc., and it all has to go on just the same as though we had never moved, and there must be absolutely no delay. So with two or three millions of men and a dozen different branches of them, you can see that it is a mighty big job." j