What is happening unpleasantly for us in Rumania, and what
is happening pleasantly for the Allies on the Somme, make one incline to think that when the war is over we shall have to offer a salute to the great gun. One of our largest pieces of artillery must be placed in some conspicuous spot with a legend beneath it setting forth the glories of the new Queen of Battles, for such is the cannon of great calibre. In various senses it is true that this is a war of the spade, of the machine gun, and of the hand grenade ; but in the fullest sense of all it is the man behind the great gun who pushes every one else aside and writes up in letters of earthquake and eclipse —" I am Lord of All." Thank Heaven ! even if we have not as many great pieces of cannon as we could wish, at any rate we and our Allies have enough, or soon shall have, for the chief purpose in hand. We have hoisted the sign of the big shell, and in that sign we shall conquer.
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