ALL LONDON IS SMILING TO-DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 3

ALL LONDON IS SMILING TO-DAY.

LONDON, July 20. Everyone is smiling. London, a.ftor weeks of grim, anxiety, suddenly sees the sun shining through the clouds. Men stop one another in the streets, shake and exchange congratulations. The txls ha« turned at last, they say. Even in tbe darkest hour there has never been any hesitation or wavering here; but the _»i*o«ving news -of Foch's counfcer-b'o-»v has brought an unmeasured' lightness of spirits. German papfcrs even a week ago were full of sneers and deprecation of the American effort. "The American army must be armed and equipped," writes von • Ardenne in 'the Berliner Tageblatt of July 8. Encrland had arsenals and gave her colonial armies tlie best outfits: America had none and must first build them. Her troops drilled without rifles, hei- officers have no military experience, even the i'6gula<rs never have conf_manded unit* more than 700 strong; the want of, transport is the chief hindrance to _-p#edv intervention. America's army of a'million needs four million tons ci transports. Did this 'exist, the submarines would soon put it down." People recently returned from Germany tell one even to-day the mass of the population still beliieves the American army in France is entirely a myth. Tlie news of how thc Americans fought wi'.l therefore, if permitted to circulate, come with more telling force.