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The Germans-certainly with enormous forces and energy, certain sterling patriots saw in our inactivity yet another example of our I probably with immense losses- are forcing the pace of battle at Verdun; failure as a race. However, the British line still refrained from move I they are using great weight and every trick to bring the fight t o a success ment; so did the longer French line. The passivity began to impress iul issue. Yet, though this people, and in time it began I m atter 01 apparently tre to dawn on many that the I mendous importance to the stoic reticence in the West I Germans is going on, the was an affair of choice. I Allies, apart from the de The dawn of knowledge was fence of the fortress, a re helped by certain semi I seemingly unconcerned. official statements made by There have been, to be the French. sure, a number of local Indeed, it should rove I encounters-in the Cham been obvious from the be I pagne, in the Argonne, and ginning of Verdun that the on our own front, notably passivity of the Allies under at St. EIQi-but these great provocation was (and affairs have not been of is) part of a plan, and that m ajor weight. They h ave that plan signifies wisdom. never called for any great There rare two reasons for Iw virility, so that, even taking holding off attack. One is them into consideration, we because such an attack will ~ say that the men on the not pay; the other because great Western front have reticence will pay better. done nothing. Strength and weakness have It is an attitude worth less to do with the matter I considering, for it has some than these two reasons, be meaning. When the enemy cause it frequently happens first began his heavy pres that a weak army will gain I sure against the Verdun more by attacking than it line, it was thought that will by remaining quiet; some counter,-move from the threat is the thing that another part of the Allied counts (if our armies had • front was bound to take A LETTER WRITTEN BY THE KING WHEN HE WAS SIX YEARS OLD: A ROYAL MS. been weak in France and place to relieve that pres IN "LOVELY INK," SOLD FOR THE RED CROSS. Flanders we might have sure. That is the accepted At a Red Cross auction sale held recently at Slough, near Windsor, this letter written by King George when he was a Httle seen a number of attacks ~ boy was sold for £6. It was written at Windsor Castle, and was addressed to the Han. Miss Kerr. II Grandmamma" was, a number of small local practice of war. When no of course, Queen Victoria. I such counters were made, threats, that is, which would I there were some even among the onlookers (from a distance) who protested keep the Germans distracted). If we examine the circumstances, we will I against inaction. It was urged that it was the duty-particularly of the find that our reason for not attacking held good. Any dlstractm?, attack British-to make a largish demonst ration, and so draw off some of the we ma have made might have paid to a certam extent, but It would y [Collhllued overleaf, - WHERE A BRITISH ARMY IS AWAITING THE DAY OF BATTLE: OFFICERS IN A FIRE-TRENCH NEAR SALONIKA. Although no general action has been reported as yet from Salonika, there have been some outpost affairs Deiran. While I was visiting our first line of defences yesterday, the sound of the guns was distinctly and considerable artillery activity. "For the last four days," wrote Mr. G. J. Stevens recently, (j the audible. Apart from the necessity of attacking the enemy each time he descends from the heights fighting on the frontier has been confined to a daily exchange of cannonade betwee 1 the Allies' advanced with the object of raiding the villages lying in the plain, we also bombard the heights which he occupies, detachments a nd the Bulgars and Germans holding the heights in Greek territory south of in order to hinder fortification." -[Official Photograph. Crown Co pyright reserved. Snpplied by C.N.] 4 -THE ILLUSTRA TED WAR NEWS, APRIL 19, 1916.- [PART 89] not have paid to the extent we hope our next attack \vill pay. It is matter of scheming, and such an attack would not have found llS at fulJ becoming increasingly obvious, of course, that our next attack is likely to strength, but still in the processes of preparation. Again, the weather con· be of importance-may even be what we call the ,. big Spring Offensive." ditions were against large offensives. Less apparent in the high and firmer We know this not merely because our hopes have set in that direc hills of the Mellse, tion, but because the matter has been discussed largely both by the state of the unofficial critics and prophesied by officially ir:spired statements. soil along most of We also know that we have been building up our armies, our the Allied line for munition supplies, and our energies for something momentous bade ext ensi ve through a year and more of steady labour. Now the effort that 1110Veillents. Par is to be made is to be a big effort, and, because it is to be so, ticularly in the low we must have all the conditions with us-and this is an explana lying terrain occu tion of our quietness. If we had attacked, even to relieve Verdun, pied by the British the conditions would not have been entirely in our favoul. In did the soil forbid the first place, such a movement at such a time would make it one great movement. dictated to us by Germany. Germany would have forced us to Here the flat lands, play to her hand. Germany was ready for counter-strokes-was the terrible clay probably anxious surface-soil, and the for them. Apart accumulations of from the fact that moisture not only she would have made the man made us move (EU vring of armed before the time men difficult, but schedule of pre it made the move paration, she would MULE SECTION, OBVIOUSLY ON GOOD TERMS ment of transport, have made us move WITH THEIR ANIMALS: FRENCH TROOPS LEAVING and especially the to a time-schedule TOULON FOR SALONIKA. movement of guns, of her own-that Busy scenes have been witnessed on the quays at Toulon on a scale neces is, since she must and Marseilles, whence numerous French troops, it is said, sary for assault, have lately embarked for the campaign in the Balkans. The take Russia into fact that so many troops can be spared for this purpose is most impracticable. all her calculations, a good augury of the "'situation in France. Unless an assault she hoped to make French W", Office OjfiC/:al Photos. : ':s sI< el' by Newspaper Illus. is supported by a us fight all along sustained advance the line at a time of field and heavy guns, that assault would have but the smallest when she could penetrative value. Until the ground was hard enough to bear employ the great continuous and heavy traffic m guns, vvaggons, and the rest, it est number of her was no good attempting a thrust. troops in the West.