Series 03: John Brady Nash letters, January 1914-December 1915 - Page 464
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record? Thrashing the Russians on one flank, while on two other sides he prevents the Allies from advancing, if he can but give the Bear a little more pummelling he will have but little small trouble in downing the other opponents during what will be left of the summer of 1915. It is not comforting to have to admit this, but every day adds to the self evident fact that both by land and sea the German is winning all along the line, if one but accepts the few yards of trenches that the official wires claim for the French. Do you notice how grudgingly the Gallic press acknowledge the actions of the British troops, but for whose assistance the protection the German eagles had months since been floating from domes of Paris and the whole country but a German province. In their illustrated journals the British officers, as high up as Marshall French are depicted as second rate drilled men, it makes me almost angry to look at the pictures.
[Field Marshal Sir John Denton Pinkstone French (1852-1925), Earl of Ypres.]
The submarines of the enemy also pursue their active work unchecked, in the cables of this date they are reported as being in the Irish Sea and off the fishing village of Youghal in the county Cork, a place where I have been many times in the long ago.
At Galipoli our people are at a stand still, while the war ships of our side shelter behind the booms across the Lemnos harbour. Looks as if Admiral Percy Scott was right when he wrote soon before the war began that the future of fighting by sea belonged to the under water craft and not to the big ships, if a whole fleet of big ships are afraid to venture forth when a few submarines are believed to be in the neighbourhood, they certify to the correctness of Scotts representations, he was attacked somewhat unmercifully for his ideas, but such experience is not uncommon with those who have promolgated new ideas pregnant with correct observation and true in every essential.
[Admiral Sir Percy Moreton Scott (1853-1924), officer in the Royal Navy and a pioneer of modern naval gunnery.]
A heavy day in front of me tomorrow, therefore must I soon to bed, after, in a few sentences, having commenced a letter to Buddie.
Good night. Good night. Good night.
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Caggie. Joseph. Kitty.
4-7-15. 8-40 P.M. The months wax on and we are on the down grade of the year, as you may note from the date. By phone I have been advised that there is a letter and a parcel at Gezeirah for me, I have sent Jerome for them and if the former be from you it will be answered tonight, as I like you have my letters posted on Monday that there may be no possibility of their being late for the weekly mail. There was a big mail from Australia yesterday, and hope has been with me that letters might come from you, I still look for them, and expect not to be disappointed, it will not be your