March 29, 1917 
LAND & WATER 
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THURSDAY, MARCH 29. 1917 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Brothers in Arms. By Louis Raemaekers i 
The Western Armies. (Leader) 3 
A French Heavy Piece. (Special Photograph) 4 
The Western AlUance. By Hilaire Belloc 5 
Cartoon from Le Figaro. By Forain 8 
Tommy and Jacques. By Rene Puaux 9 
Rise of the Anglo-French Entente. By J. Holland 
Rose lo 
Devastation of War. (Special Photographs) n 
Welding Two Democracies. By Henry D. Davray 13 
La Part de I'Angleterre. Cartoon by Sem 14 
The Attack. By Centurion 15 
With the French Army. (Special Photographs) 16 
New German Line. By Hilaire Belloc 19 
Liaison of the Seas. By Arthur Pollen 22 
The Russian Situation. By L Shklovsky 24 
The Warrior's Soul, by Joseph Conrad. (Illus- 
trated by Dudley Hardy) 29 
Domestic Economy A} 
Motor Enterprise. By H. Massac Buist xi- 
Kit and Equipment xiii. 
THE WESTERN ARMIES 
ONE hundred years ago who in this country could 
have visualised the gigantic war now being 
waged on the Western Front. But at that 
period still more impossible would it have ap- 
peared for France and Britain to be fighting shoulder to 
shoulder in perfect comradeship. Dr. Holland Rose 
does well to remind us to-day of the famous rebuke of 
Pitt the younger that, " to suppose any nation can be 
unalterably the enemy of another is weak and foolish." 
The French and the British were clean fighters, and a 
strong sense of respect and a common love of freedom 
imderlay national animosity. One may recall the almost 
prophetic incident of the Duke of Wellington and his old 
enemy in Spain, Marshal Soult, driving together through 
the streets of London at the Coronation of Queen Victoria, 
three and twenty years after Waterloo. The good 
understanding that had come into being between those 
two world-famous military commanders, who had faced 
each other in many a hard-fought fight, has now 
spread to t,he two nations, and the enemy has found it 
impossible to rupture or weaken the confidence and good- 
will with which the neighbours are carrying on the war 
until it shall end in complete military victory. 
That these two countries were intended by Nature 
to live on good terms with each other seems to this 
generation fairly obvious. They are in so many respects 
complementary one of the other. Since the old dynastic 
quarrels ended close on four hundred years ago, there 
has been no coveting of each other's territory, and it is 
unthinkable that either could have practised on the 
other the " peaceful penetration " methods of Germany. 
We have had our quarrels ; we have used hard words 
about each other, but we have never sneaked into the 
other's house, and under the guise of friendship played 
the part of burglar and assassin. That has been left 
to the Teuton, whose civilisation is neither Latin nor 
Anglo-Saxon, but rather simian. It is on the plane of 
ideas that France and England have reacted most 
closely on each other. As M. Davray, the distinguished 
French litterateur, points out on another page, we in the 
Great Rebellion sowed the seeds of the French Revolu- 
tion, and together we are reaping the harvest of these 
two great seed-times of liberty. We fight to-day for the 
freedom of Europe and of humanity. There is not a man 
in the ranks of either of the Western Armies who has any 
illusion on this point. 
From the beginning of the war there has existed an 
excellent understanding between the commanders in the 
fijld, and what in a sense is even more agreeable to con- 
template, between the armed men of Britain and the 
civilian peoples of France among whom they have been 
quartered. It has been said that the most successful 
ambassador this country has ever sent to France is 
Thomas Atkins, and there is truth in the sajdng. If 
he has behaved himself well, he has been treated kindly, 
and there has grown out of this happy intercourse new 
national knowledge and esteem. Never will it be said 
again, while the present generation lives, EngUsh folk do 
not understand the French, for there will not be a ioym, 
village or hamlet in these islands which will not hold at 
least one man who will consider himself competent out 
of his own experience in the Great War, to explain to his 
fellows the chief characteristics of the French people. 
This widening of horizons is the finest form of education, 
it does more to make for peace and goodwill upon earth 
than pious sermons or eloquent orations. 
As the influ.x of German barbarism is slowly turned 
backward through the invaded districts it leaves behind 
it so foul a scum, that one wonders whether the stench 
will ever be removed from human nostrils. There is no 
species of bestial mischief to which " Kultur " vnll not 
humble itself. Now behold an extraordinary paradox, 
which has been pointed out more than once : while a 
German never wearies of boasting his superiority over 
other nations there is no graver form of personal 
insult than to tell him he looks like a German. There 
seems almost divine irony in this circumstance, as though 
1: were Heaven's decree that for all his loud talk and 
blatant swagger, the Teuton may never in his heart 
deceive even himself that he is in comparison with fellow 
peoples other than contemptible. An Englishman 
rises an inch in his boots if a foreigner tells him : " I 
could see at a glance you were English," and a French- 
man is as quick to seize the compliment. But to tell a 
German he looks like a German was regarded by him 
as a sneer before the war. In the future it shall be as 
the mark upon Cain. 
We do not overlook the splendid work which the 
other Allies are doing in the cause of freedom. Russia 
has found time, though perhaps it were more accurate 
to say the occasion has been thrust upon her, to conduct 
an internal revolution for civil liberty, but that task 
accomplished, she promises to conduct the war with 
greater vigour than before. United Italy continues to 
press closely on the Austrians, and the Germanic Empires 
can look for no relief of pressure in that direction. Bel- 
gium still holds the field with her brave army, whose 
gallantry in staying the German onslaught in the first 
days of the war and winning precious hours by its daunt- 
less bravery, will never be forgotten. Serbia and Rou- 
mania, despite, their terrible experiences, still fight ener- 
getically ; for theenvelopment which the Germanic leaders 
have persistently attempted and persistently failed in, 
failed with them. The war proceeds actively on all the 
Fronts, but in this issue of Land & Water we have 
concerned ourselves almost entirely with the active 
alliance of France and Britain, who in the past centuries 
have fought against each other on sea and land, and in 
well-nigh every latitude, yet to-day, animated by the 
same spirit and inspired by identical ideals, are making 
equal sacrifices in order that the spiritual heritage they 
have received from their fathers shall not be filched 
from them by brutal Might, or the altars of hberty over- 
thrown and trampled under the foul feet of barbarians. 
