15 MAY 1915, Page 2

The lesson is clear. We wish to Heaven that it

could be learned quickly. We wish that we could bear much more talk of high explosives than of aliens. We wish that the Government would array the strength of the nation so that we can amass the only means to go forward quickly. As the Times Military Correspondent says, the quality of the German troops has deteriorated so that we can deal easily enough with them in the open. But it is evident that there is only one way of driving them from galleried and honeycombed and heavily wired positions. This is an artillery war, and nothing else.