BRITAIN'S PART

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 14

BRITAIN'S PART

A LITTLE LIST OF THINGS DONE, j Here are some of the things Britain is i doing : — . • 1. Holding the seat for the ships of her allies as well as for her ovrn. 2. Protecting the coasts of her allies as well as her own. 3. Struggling, in co-operation with the French, to smash the Turks and win the Balkans for the allied cause. 4. Rendering great aid to French and Belgian troops in resisting the terrible onslaughts of the Germans on the allied left wing in the west. 5. Making loans and supplying munitions to nearly all her partners in the ■war. 6. Pursuing a financial policy in SouthEastern Europe likely to promote the cause of the nationalities. 7. Putting into the field more than ten times as many men as she ever promised. 8. Guarding her own soil and people against an invasion, which, if it came— and it is believed to be far from impossible — doubtless would bo the most savage, the most unsparing, ever known. With how many men? Well, with enough. To hear 'some people talk, one would suppose that upon Britain were laid the duty of defending every land but her own. Britain's wealth and sea power and military power are the one sure safeguard against the triumph of Germany's unparalleled war machine. Without Britain's help France and Russia certainly musthave been crushed. Without Britain's whole-hearted participation in the war, who -will Bay that Italy would have venttrred to challenge the mighty and merciless Germanic coalition ? With Britain out of the struggle, would there 'have been any hope of the Balkan States daring to move? "Arid Britain — never forget it — was not compelled to go to the aid of France. Come what might, the most that ever Britain promised France were six divisions — 120,000 men. She was not in .honour bound to send a single soldier more." — Chicago Daily News.