ARMCHAIR CRITICS.

Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 5

ARMCHAIR CRITICS.

!T> IHr EHITO

Sir,—ln a Japanese paper recently to hand I have rend a gecd a-it’c’e on pcssitristic nows taken by some vrou!d-be war experts in that country in respect to the German advance on the west front in March and Amil. Without any refirotiou on your own military expert, may I t-übmil ilm follcwiag extract from the article 'm--ntioued:: —• It may be a very intereating occupation for tho long evenings to go over a map wim a pair of compasses, and expound one’s views ac to v.imt should or rhcooM not be done by tho generals on enter eido. The man wjk> engages in this kind of parlor game, no doubt, has a plousant feriiug tibat. he is civh)g points to Foch and Haig, atu; That- if be were in command he would be able to imlruet them hi one or hvo little rnattrr-i. But at sw.h a time it is not the business of any man belonging to cue of the allied nations lo bo tailing hi this way. He must do his host to judge in-m the bread and sirnnie facto before ids eyes, End trust the evidence of those who can leally be assumed to know rather than the “ sprouts of his own biain.” . . . .And if ho finds the cvid<-.nce bewildering, and perhaps even conflicting with his views, bo would be bettor to kikpend Ifi® judgment and get on with his own busineua . with the best heart ho can muster. Lot tho shoemaker stick to his lam.—l am, etc., X.Y.Z. July a