Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 42, 6 October 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

MIND AND MATTER. DOCTRINE OF THE MACHINE PUT TO SHAME. THE MAN BEHIND THE CUN. London, Ocober 5. The Times’ Pa ris correspondent declares that "Every Englishman holds the instinctive faith that more important than tl|e gun is tbc man behind it. Among many lessons taught in the battle of the Aisne, none is greater than that the machine, no matter how powerful, is insecure against man’s two hands. Every battle in the last issue is won by the bayonet. The British soldiers have put the doctrine of the machine to great shame. They have made charges which were impossible by the rules of the game, and wrested victory from the very teeth of defeat.” A soldier, describing a bayonet charge after an artillery duel, says; "With nerves a-jingle, and tempers on edge, the men rush at the foe. Cold steel at last! It is man to man. Suddenly the sound of loud and continuous laughter is heard from ai soldier who has passed the borders of restraint. It is no longer dull courage, but a blaze of anger .that sweeps along the ranks like fire, striking terror by its very native ferocity. The machines have no reply to such zeal of passion. DESIGNS ON LONDON. DECORATION AWAITING AVIA* TOR DROPPING EXPLOSIVES. (Received 9.55 a.m.) Amsterdam, October 5. A message from Berlin states that the Kaiser has promised to decorate the first Gorman aviator who drops explosives in London.