Another potent reminder of the need for men is to
be found in " Eyewitness's " contribution to Friday's papers. After a passage describing in generous, but, we are convinced, not too generous, terms the courage and soldierly qualities of Germany's new levies, he proceeds as follows: "This war is going to be one of exhaustion ; and after the regular armies of the belligerents have done their work, it will be upon the measures taken to prepare and utilize the raw material of the manhood of the countries concerned that final success will depend. This implies trained men—hundreds of thousands of trained and disciplined men."
We naturally find great satisfaction in so powerful a confirma- tion of the views which we have endeavoured to keep before our readers since the beginning of the war. More men, and only more men, can prevent a prolongation of the war, which may ruin us as a nation almost as certainly as defeat in the field.
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