than two dozen having been conferred thus far; and it has been quietly
announced that no Victoria Crosses will be conferred for single acts of
bravery or where only one life is involved. It must be team work and
results affecting many.

For this reason also it has been decreed that the 33,000 Canadians in
training at Salisbury Plain shall not be put in the front until they
have learned discipline in place of the American initiative.

These Canadian boys receive their home pay of four shillings, or $1 per
day, while the English Tommy gets one quarter of this amount. The
Canadians are fine fellows, feeling their independence and anxious to
be on the firing line, but the War Office recognizes that soldierly
independence cannot be allowed in this war. It is not improbable that
the Canadian troops will eventually be dispersed that their strong
individual initiative may be thoroughly harnessed under the
organization before they are trusted in the trenches. They are not to
be permitted to go there to be shot at, but to use their splendid
physiques, fighting abilities, and patriotism--more British than the
English themselves--in strict organization.

This is not to be an audacious war on the part of the Allies. It is
first a defensive war in which the Germans are the heaviest losers. On
the part of the Germans it is an audacious war and its very audacity
has astounded the whole world. But Germany never meant to war against
the world collectively. That was the accident of her bad diplomacy.

The audaciousness of Prussian war conceptions began in the latter part
of the last century. They did not grow out of the war with the French
in 1870, for Bismarck's legacy to the German nation was a warning