SCENES IN THE GREAT WAR
living at home on shortened means, and of the risk taken of life being lost just when it is most precious and most sweet.
What was the motive-power that impelled the young manhood of Great Britain to this tremendous sacrifice? The thought of our country's danger? The danger to France? The danger to Belgium? The fact that a man named Palmerston had pledged his solemn word for them long years before they were born, or even the mothers who bore them were born, that they would go to their deaths rather than allow a great crime to be committed or England's oath be broken? I don't know. I do not believe anybody knows. But I am not ashamed of my tears when I remember it all, and sure I am that in those first critical days of the war the invisible powers of justice must have been fighting on our side.
THE PART PLAYED BY THE BRITISH NAVY
Perhaps the first of the flashes as of lightning
by which we have seen the drama of the past
365 days is that which shows us the part played
by the British Navy. What a part it has been!
Do we even yet recognize its importance? Have
our faithful and loyal Allies a full sense of its
tremendous effect on the fortunes of the cam-
