16 OCTOBER 1915, Page 2

One General in an Order to a division of the

Now Army declared that their conduct In the assault on the German lines was beyond all praise, and added that no words could express the valde to their country of their gallantry and self-sacrifice. They shoveed the highest qualities of the soldier. Again, we are told that a Regular officer, well tried in war, "who had never been much of an enthusiast where K.,'.8 armies were concerned," now gives vent to the opinion that there cover

were infantry to excel them in the British Army. We may add that the General whose words we have quoted above is no smoother or flatterer, but a hard-bitten soldier who means what he says. If there bad been any scintilla of truth in the preposterous rumours, we should not, of course, have ventured to deal with them. Since, however, they were not even the half-truths which are worse than lies, we feel justified in treating them with the contempt they merit. The new is worthy of the old. What more can be said of it P