"GREATEST BRITISH VICTORY."

Bruce Herald, Volume LII, Issue 23, 23 March 1916, Page 3

"GREATEST BRITISH VICTORY."

The 'Figaro' publishes an article by "Polybe" (M. Reinach) on "The Greatest British Victory." He says:— "Great Britain in the course of her long history has gained great battles over all peonies, but her greatest victory is that which she has just won over her traditions, her prejudices, her habits of mind, over herself. Those who know Great Britain know the full price of that victory. The Germans know Great Britain very well, they know her unshaken fidelity to right, to the swprn pledge, which, threw her into war on the day When the neutrality of Belgium was violated, they knew her implacable resolution to go to the end, to total victory, which, caused her yesterday to make such a fateful decision."

After expressing regret that Ireland is excluded from Great Britain's greatest effort, "Polybe" concludes: "Mr Asquith's part in this great act has been considerable. He has manoeuvred with a skill which more than one strategist, -more than one diplomat may envy. Lord Northclift'e has been the Iron Journalist, as Wellington was the Iron Duke. -Marshal Roberts will sleep more soundly in his tomb. But men, foresighted as they may have been, and determined and disdainful of honorable unpopularity as they may have been, are effaced. Britain has done the deed."—Reuter.