SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 5

SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES

RIVAL ARMIES COMPARED.

ALLIES' MEN UNDOUBTEDLY BET-

TER FIGHTERS.,

BUT GERMAN MACHINE MORE

EFFICIENT.

HIGH EXPLOSIVES OUR FIRST

NECESSITY.

MILES CAN BE TAKEN WITH.

WALKING STICKS

IF SUFFICIENT ARTILLERY FRE-

PARATION IS MADE,

Times—Sydney Sitn gpK'jiA^. '"Uklbs.

(Received May 27, 8.30 a.m.)

LONDON, May 26. The 4 Times correspondent at the British headquarters says that what strikes an observer with the British army in the field is its uniformity—-it is all of one quality, the best, it, is known the German.ranks are of j twenty grades, extending from veter- | ans of the. Guard to the rawest cannon fodder. Even'in crack corps like the 7th and 15th the German regiments are filled with questionable, material. Some \Britisli ibattalions and brigades have.long been famous; others are just winning their spurs, but it would he rash to say that the actual fighting value of one is higher than that of another; Never'in the history of Britain >aye \^hejre beeni sttciiVproo^of the: metaijtrf bur' iiation/ We are ihanifestly man to man'superior to our foes, and reports all tell, the same tale. When the German infantry attacks it is haltingly and' half-heartedly, like dazed or drugged men. All strategy and tactics of,, war depend to-day on one burning fact—that the enemy was 4j| amazingly powerful machine, and tf-ttess we can provide a machine equal il 'toower he will nullify the 6upeW.or ft^ing quality of bur men. Their machine consists of a great number of heavy guns and machine guns and an apparently unlimited supply of high explosives. The French recently at Artois made a great artillery concentration, with the result that they advanced untroubled for four miles. High explosives in sufficient quantities will annihilate the hostile high trenches, parapets, and entanglements.

An authority states that with sufficient artillery preparation troops "could take several miles of country with walking sticks. This is no time for scolding and criticism; we are all to blame except the soldiers in the field. Our business is now to redeem miscall culations and get a counter-machine without delay.