ANOTHER WINTER CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2527, 30 July 1915, Page 5

ANOTHER WINTER CAMPAIGN

FRENCHMEN PHILOSOPHIC

("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, July 28. "The Times" correspondent at Paris says that at the beginning of the war all Frenchmen expected that, whatever the result of the struggle, it would be speedily attained. They now accept the prospect of another winter campaign. "In the early months, easy credence was given to reports regarding the enemy's food scarcity, financial chaos, and military demoralisation; now such stories rarely appear in the French Press. .The war has : proved a greater instmment of democracy, than the French Revolution. It is difficult to discussithe frame of .mind of the different classes, of society when N all are levelled by the ordeal of battle. Morally they are one to : day. The French Army is tlio French nation."- . .

"READY!" THE WATCHWORD FOR GRAND FLEET. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. July 28, 10 p.m.) London, July 28. The Archbishop of York, giving his experiences of a ten .days' Visit to ihe Grand Fleet at sea, said that it seemed; to him as if there was one word written on every. ship, and on every part of her, and on every man within her. That word was "Ready." He had bean deeply impressed with the splendid spirit of comradeship and unity which was building up the Fleet. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" .Services.) ,(Rec. July 29, 8.15 p.m.) London, July 29. The Archbishop of York thus describes the "silent vigil of ships in the Northern seas," _ longing to meet tli&_ German ships';—" The indelible impression left on; the. heart and mind," he says, "is that the Grand Fleet is' a world apart, with its own lifo' and task, and its wonderful incommunicable spirit. A share of its life for a . short time enables one to realise thp sacrifice which its' officers and men are making for the country.. Fdr a. year the fleet has endured; tlio strain of immediate readiness for battle, roaming ceaselessly in the Northern and Western seas. . ..

"For the sailors', leave is. almost impossible—many have not had fortyeight hours, though'often within,sight of their homes. A few, to the envy' of their' comrades, had their- day on the Doggerbank, in Heligoland Bight, and in the Dardanelles. It is impossible to describe the strain of waiting,.yet despite all they are cheerful and splendidly lit in body and spirit. , , "The organisation of the great'fleot, mobilised for war, is something which cannot bo realised unless it is seen. Amongst the superiors in the command I did not hear the slightest criticism. There is not a breath of jealousy, which justified the boast of the Vice-Admiral: 'AYe aro all one great band of brothers.' "Added to the influence of this great tradition is the personality of Sir John Jellicoe. He assuredly is the right maiv in the right place, and offioers and men I give theii' most absolute trust iand loyalty to the man who holds the first | control of every part of the great fighting engine."