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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13793, 14 June 1915, Page 6

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LO-lfift.;, June 11. 'Hie Hoa. T. IvliickcnV/ie fcßinled fc"o~Tno BelgH.n llGMe'i Committee Canterbury's contri-utfon of £lO,QQ'); aud also.the Soutb3and school .children's subscription of £2GGO. Ti>e committee lias received £'2000 from Yves* Australia and £1000 from Northern Tasmania, Mr. H. G. Wells, the novelist, in a letter to the newspapers cays that modern war is essentially a struggle of invention, and perpotuaHy outwitting an

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opponent. Britishers now show great individual/courage, but there was an insufficient number of aviators and an inadequate supply of seaplanes. Wo should have produced an aeroplane capable of overtaking a Zeppelin and some counter-stroke to the submarine and Germany's improved torpedoes. The troops still want armoured protection during advances against machine guns. The exploits in the Dardanelles throughout had been unforeseeing and uninventive. We have been recruiting millions of infantry, while the Germans realised that for defensive purposes one well protected and skilled machine gunner was superior to a row of riflemen. We want, not politicians, but self-go-vernment and scientific, technically competent men to wage the war. Fifteen hundred children celebrated Empire Day at the Guildhall. Sir George Reid said that the British soldier who died in battle was a martyr because he was a volunteer. That martyr's blood would cement the people of the United- Kingdom to the Dominions as no prosperity could do.