1 f

i

f

1 . ,

»

l . ' ' , , 1

I . . . - ~ li _ _ _ -¢r~;,.~-_.,.-.rw --~=._..v,_.-..v....»..& .....I,_.--..s;...,- ~\_,-1-_,.-.;....,, __ _ I _ ,_,_,,_,, __ _ _ , , , _ _ ,_ _I

.

»

1

JULY 31.1915_ _ _ _ _ rHEcnARLo'1'rs'rowN GUARDIAN _ PAGE PIFTFFN

~ /

TllLES TOLD BY

MEN

'Y Y ' .»_»¢¢o4-'»ana¢v~UlUose- |

tancously ill the urill and jaw. The tercst the relativesalld friends of lilo un 4 pain was terrible. but as I lay on the' 5th Royal Scotsno learn _of the part landing placc tl'eiiellcs, in spite of a ground I tried to shout for joy I was our gallant men have taken in this he

il fairly turnt-1| tile '|`llrlts ug the

avy fire. . . . We had only two

. infected with the fever of our suc- their first action. The Colonel saysc, 'casualties ourselves. hut it was a mar-

L cess for I knew th th siti ‘ ril 25th, I l we did not get luore. They had

, at e po on was Sunday, Ap tllere was a bg ve

won. Then I lost consciousness, and bombardment slid the landing. 'We to I woke up in the field hospital. _formed the reserve with the rest of all

’ D “I want to 80 back. Tell the boys the brigade aild without Ioss.’ to

at home you feel you’re doing some- "Unfortunately the battalioil has turning out, as tlley are all dug ill. thing out here, and after the first since suffered heavily, particularly in

feeling of 'funk' is over you look on the officers, up to May 12 there being board. A ship comes down the Straits

` lt as your own little war, and are as 9 killed and 11 wounded Luckily, in

I

hang oil by the skin of their teeth the first night, alid just managed .stick it. Now tliey'lI take a lot of

We have our little exciteinents oil

the early morning, and chucks L

AN M. P.8 EXPERIENCE these fi,-st (sw minutes a,.emva|uab1e_ keen as mustard." most of the wounds are slight, and few projecsiles known as ‘Whispering

the majority of those wounded are Nellies" at us, about 12 in. in size.

= s tl . k l ,

An English M. P. who is lighting in wen i., the shadow of ailmfd 'ffxg A sEi=iGEANT's l-islioisivl nscit in the firing unc. 'rne colonel 'rite Majestic get one iniiy close to

Gallipoli Peninsula, writes home: clear the top or thhls t ' r sow on 10 suyr- 'The Turks are he

“At dusk I went to get orders from .vapor the sky presentedgaxt dl:a.:.o:_ The following account of the at-I splendid fighters, with all the latest ed

|We went hi her an hi he

r the other morlling. We have start- iirlng back of late. Going ashore

.fha cglgnsl, ghd they were: 'You are _grey apnea,-ance which is the prémde lfwk On Sunday. Mhy 9. lS l.8kBn from I dodges, and the snipers, who seem for the past few days was quite a

_tqatay all night and cover a possible retreat! An easy job. as our soldiers

"do`n’t.retreat, they go on. After din-

ner, the lieuteant and I walked up to _the fl-ling line. The road is strewn with corpses in wonderfully dramatic attitudes, great big Turks, with picks, shovels, and rifles scattered round them. When it was quite dark we walked home. One of the officers shot

enant McLaren was serving on a bat

of a brilliant moon. Formally flve th minutes we anxiously searched the - sky-line. Then a distinct flash was “' seen far above us and seawards. It “tl -was followed by another flash after a ac short interval. There was nothing m more. It was far, too far, away, but lm we were certain it was a. “Zep." Up W we went and steered straight for the 5” region of the flash. m

eleven Turks _with his maxim. They] As the moon came up we got in a W came up to the wire by niglii: twenty line beyond the areas of the flash and _C yards- away. The corpses were count- the eastern horizoh..and as we cleared t' ed in the morning. Another officer ii. bank of mist at a great height the ca comes along the road late, sees a loutline of the Zeppelin showed up with d Turk in front of him, thinks he's a 'unmistakable clearness. Up to this gh sniper, leaps on him with a revolver, 'time he had not suspected attack, for h flnds to llls disgust that the Turk is 'his course was regular and his nose B s, corpse, and some days old at that." ,level. But we knew he would soon ?

Before entering the trenches Lieut- 'hear the noise of our engine so we H

kept as clear as ossi '

-_ p ble until we had W

_ tle.ship..He tells ofa novel capture. -assumed sufflcientheight. But we un- I

“After lunch a Turk came down to the der-estimated the "Zep’s" ears. He shore and began to wash his shirt in heard us and began to “search|ight" e the sea. The captain sent the cutter in .us-a process which gives him no 5, with one of our midshipmen to fetch qualms over his own territory. The m hlm.The Turk showed the boat where flicks of light from the great gas-bag rl

to land, stepped on board, and gener-_were even mor weird than the long

ally gave everybody the opinion he searching streamms from the ground. aervnm' got to me Parapet but was was fed up with the war. It was very They lit up huge tracks of clouds, and to funny seeing the middy with a big re- we saw with some discomfort tbht the W “ lentiy equipped, I think lie could give Air Machine Guns g very valuable information. t

“It was curious to see at any time As we crossed his stern at a fair W

at least 100 Australians," the writer _height he got on us with the Iigllt llnd G

" a perfect fusilude of machine gun bul- n

all around them, and the enemy not allele came scurrying Hrolllld us. As we

says, bathing with shrapnel falling

quarter of il lnlle away One of the

. _ i lit and

sights that rejoiced my heart wns the change the fire we were suddellly en- burning of Maidos. Thea, which |veloped ill tl blind cloud tllrougll which was alongside us, fired about six sal-'U01 ii rho 01' lnovnllsht Or ll trace of i voes by lyddlte across the Peninsula,lVlBll~‘lEll@SB" f0l1nll ll Why. We made 3

and the result has been il gigantic li

p - . due course 3

lar of black smoke and a reddish glow l'°\‘ the "Zell-" The Only indication of in the sky all night, tt was Bnnh n his position was the constant clicking t success that next day they lit Chanak Ol hlS lllllclllhe-811118 HS they fired Off w up, too. The 'rnrks are wasting s trc- _wildly in the nhove Of setting us with t

mendous lot of shells over us. It is all

_ - h asted only 0

a very wollderful adventure except for H few mllllllel When W6 th0\18hl W6 s the sad side and tile loss or one's lwere Over him we l°0sed off our pro w 1|-|ends_»' jectiles in it rather hopeless attempt s

CHASING A ZEPPELIN

The following description of a chase

in the air of a Zeppelin is written by an aeroplane observer in the field with the R0y_8.l..F‘lylug. Corps: _ - --

11.15 p. m.-"A 'Zeppelin is report-

ed at -*, travelling due west at ll p. m. Height estimated, 9,000."

11.35 p. ln.-“A Zeppelin passed-

-, at 11.10 p. m. travelling N .W. Height estimated 9,000.”

The above message supplied me

with enough _preliminary data to or- galllze the chase. In a few minutes the varying burr of different types of aero- planes could be heard along most of the British front.

It was pitch dark, and as we got

clear of tile aerodrome only the faint- est outline of a nearby forest was dis-

cernible. There were broken clouds.

about at low altitudes. As we climb- ed through these they gave us an un- canny moistness which bespoke gath- ering rain. In a flew minutes there was notlillillg to guide us except the ill- struments antl the tinlnle.

Going for height ill these conditions

is a tedious business. for there is noth- ing to do except to spscuiate nlore or less vaguely on one's drift and its re- lation to one's course. What a relief it is when one suddellly descrles the lights of a town and gradually with increasing height other towns swim into one's ken!

Searchlight:

A cloud in ffront suddenly blazes up

as though by magic. It is an enemy searchlight. He has information of our quest and casts his great streams of white light all over the upper at- mosphere. The shaft disappears.but a moment later finds us with a daz- zling flash. A sudden dive ilnd s rapid turn clear us of its course.. In about twenty seconds the "Arcllies" begin. The whole areo through which we have just passed is filled with shells. They burst in groups and processions. some throwing out a syrupy stream of “dead-dog flames," some bursting like huge rockets, almost mesmerising with their dazzling rays reflected from the background of leilfy cloudlets. But thetsearchlight cannot follow us. I-Ie fairly scans the sky, and suddenly picks up with another machine. This time he stays on, and “Arcliie" gets much better data for his work. I We are still going for height. taking

in large sweeps throtlgh which it would be impossible for hostile air- craft to elude us. Tile searclilight has lost_ the other machine alld plays on the base of a gathering cluod a thou- lllnd feet below us.

The Zeppe||n’s Ears

On the eastern llorizen there is a

gleam of new light as the moon strug- gles up. But well below tllat horizon someone is flashing out a signal ob- viously men t for aircrafft. It is tile first cluue ol) the “Zep." We are bear- ing towards it with all possible speed. Tile other machine has disappeared, probably following another clue.

Long before we are anywhere near

its position the signalling ceases. We now speculate on the probable direc- tion of the "Zep." In a few millutes it will be light enough to see. but

turned outwards to avoid his I

what we reckoned to be tl

a stray shot But even t is I

Their fate we shall never know. The

lllent. it was one oi' the uncertainties _of air warfare with which there can 'be ilo reckoning.

We continued our search until the

early gleam of sunrise found us out to sea. Tile clouds had thinned out into ,scattered ribs. Tile enemy aircraft had disappeared. Only the occasiollal puff of a bursting shell accompanied us ill otir lonely excursion. We went lhlhle 10 l‘@D0l‘I. “somewhere in lirallce."

. \ BATTLE EMOTIONS

A Lolldon Territorial describing his

experiences at the front write:

"We had gone into the trenclles

round Ypres only a few days before," Ile said, “alld my first experience of the realities of war was to lie patient- ly suffering all awful inactivity while tile artillery oil both sides belclled destruction on the men facing each other in the trenches. It was surpris- ing, however, Ilow little we suffered from the Germall shells, although at times one would burst ill the trenches, lturling showers of earth lllto the air alld wiping out the men round about.

"As dawil broke I felt an ullcon-

trollable desire to climb out of the trencll into the open, but I knew it was courting death, as I saw the next moment, Tile man nearest me raised his head above the parapet, and lu all instant was bagged bu s sniper. He rolled over with a stifled murmur, alld lay quite still, with his face bur- ied in the soft red earth. I turlied him over and spoke to him, but he was quite dead, with a hole in- his fore- head.

A LIFETIME IN AN HOUR.

"The men around me sllowed their

emotions in their faces. Some were excited and showed an almost exag- gerated enthuslasm for the work ill hand. They laughed and joked and kept looking impatiently ut their watches. Others, the majority - of whom I was one-were strangely si- lelit. I can lloilestly say I felt no actual fear, but I could not help re- membering that ill il short time our number would probably be reduced by half, and I was prepared for the worst, I wondered ifl should fall ill the open from the inferno of fire from the German machine guns or whether I should get a taste of hand-to-hand fighting.

“It was dark now and the enemy's

searchligllts begun to sweep our posi- tions. Two more minutes and we should leap from our trenches. The bombardment reached its height, and then, with a wild, vicious roar, which seemed to open the heavens, it ceased. The moment had arrived. The order was given, and we scrambled over the parapet. The enemy's machine guns began to spit fire among our rllnks, but no one wavered. _ If ws had felt ally fear it had now left us. Men fell on all hallds, but with a yell we rush- ed forward with bared stell towards the raised groulld.

THE FIRST KILL

“Our artillery had done its work

well, for we found the .wire defences almost completely blown away. We reached the enemym‘s front trenches. and I raised my bayonet as a big Bavarian made to tire at me. Then something within me made me hesi-` tate. and a comrade laid the man out just ill time. In the thick of the fight it had just dawned on me that I was about to take a human life for the

first time. and I had felt a momentary' repugnance. The next instant, how-_ ever, one of our men next to me felll in a heap and a bullet whizzed past my face. Then I knew what it was to ‘see red.' Wlith a yell I bayonetted the German who had shot the man 'and had soon accounted for three mo,-e_ The place was like a shambles. The German 'front line trenches were filled with a heap of corpses, and we were now attacking the rear trenches.

“'l‘ben suddenly I felt a pain in my

shoulder, but I rusiled on. I tried to

i i

_ 9 m rifle, but found I couldn't

.;.‘.-.4 1,v1~`,f'_1»'f_ ~

:llll the ilext moment I was hit simui:

r l r 1-. .n.»,.~.'.... ..--. -~ it - _ ~

ot any wounded men who moved

know. With his nine men he collect-

en across 300 yards of open with

kill four Germans myself but 400

ould not make up the the loss of my

itll bayonets fixed waiting for the

Writing to ills sister, who resides in

ervice saysz- I am at il. loss how to begin this let- er because during the last couple of

e .latter of all officer dated May 13: numberlsss, are good shots, Many business, too, what with the slirapliel We went into action on Sunday at tales of heroism were brought by the h 50 a. nl. A and D Companies led the wounded to me at the hospital whore coming over the ilill. The shrapiiel ack. We hllfl £0 Flin l'0l‘ 300 yi\l‘<lB I was lying, being woullded in the are the most unpleasant; they illake YOSS the 0DBn Bhfl Blvrhl the Ger- forearm oil April 28tll. Tile loss of such a beastly iioise before they In U`€nCh llflel' 010 8Uhll9l'B had these splendid fellows ougllt to make conle, whereas a bullet has golle when lllllilrilell \'0l` lllly lllllllllhl- WIS every man in Edinburg wish to aver- you hear lt.

ere taken in the flank by H Illllchlne age them. The bllitalian has covered

n section. and msn were .literally itself with inipcrlsnstils glory: 'r 0Wn ll0Wn_ B0lh~ my Bhlllilterhli "Should anyone wish to send out silorc, clearing up the place alld dig- ere killed, Tell minutes later Bi parcels to the battalion, I strongly re- ging dug-outs. Quite pleased about it. Omlhlny fried. hill they C0\ll¢l DOI <10 commend thenl, to include malted too. they are. They are supposed to

Then C Cblnlnlny. but i-hey WBF9 nlilk tabloids and tllirst quencllers. be a good many Gernlans about who lleil bHCl¢- l Wlll D0! S0 ln¢0 n10l`0 They are small in bulk, alld can eas- try the salne old confidence tricks that Glhll IIDW. bill. BOIIIB ‘lily l CMI fell ily be carried in tile pocket, and prov- they do ill France. 'l‘lle other night Ou what that time WHS llke lylhg ed invaluable to the Colonel, wllo had a BFG ln the Geffllflh Dl1l`1iDf>l» They to drop his pack ulld spend twenty- .said tllat reiliiorcf-meiits were coming

four hours in tile open before finding

nd We could see li. 8-nfl yet 1l0 ll0lh Ilia way to the British lines." not to siloot. I-Iowever, our men were E. We came back at 8.30 p. nl. doubtful about it, alld telephoned to One Ol' Illy Sergeants did the most BQHDER SOLDlER'S 'THRILLING lleadquarters. All untrue! Allyllow, onderful piece of work of- any man- - ----~----~---ExPE|=i|EN(;E3_ they waited until the enemy came, and

tl Wounded. dll!! l-hem ln. llllfl lheh A Border soldier in the Nortlluin- ed the ellenly that they stopped slid ot some more and slowly got back berlalld Fusilicrs writes: I had a got lost, whereon those who escaped lfh hlhe Wh0l€ llllfl tell W0“llded thrilling experience at Ypres. A bullet being silot were finished of with tile

eiletrated b water

p y -bottle, tl. piece oi' b

fle fire Solng On all the lllne- My sllrapnel tore my coat pocket away, boy for the latter.

and a bullet went tllrougli my back

illed half’ an h0Lll‘ later- l nlllnllghll on my back alld squashed my canteen R

flat. It was rather too near to be pleasant. We can still hear the rattle of gulls I am the only sergeant left

n urftil they fell. and those few who out nf ten, and have been promoted to front gives an rwwullt Of a charge ot there save the finest account of C_Q_.ivi__s_ 1 have more work tn dn carried out ily his reglillsnt Reint- h€lnS9lV9B D08Bllll9» “Nil llleh lay and have to look aflerllle rutiolls and l

other tlllll .s for the e

~ . s' . onlpaiiy. You* f

Brmnnh und lhe end. DU! llley ilhfefl need not send ally lllolley oilt here,

DI 001119- as tllere is no place to spelld it. u

-*- It is like a tlreunl. We can hardly cllarge, nlld botll had on previous oc-

PLENTY OF BONES realize what we have seen and gone casioil been wounded. One of them

through. I ani sure it will ilot be'craweld buck to our line in the early

iollg till we are back llonle victorious. ll

he Stockbridge district of Edinburgh, .B soldier ln»tlle Motor Machine Gun |N ~|-HE D‘ARDENE|_|_ES_ h

An Australian officer, describing the landing at the Six Beaches ill Galli- s

urttting overhead alld the bulliats

They have ttlken a fair number of urks prisoners. They work on the

mall came up in our uliiforln alld

up oil the left, and therefore we were

withheld the fire, which so surpris-

ayonets. Tile Australian is a great

ISKING LIFE T0 SEARCH FOR A

BROTHER.

A Glasgow man wriiillg from the

ng some of the incitiellts of tile rliarge, lie sllid:--

One ease ill particular nppenitid to s. Two hrolllers took pilrt in file

lornillg. lie had been wouiidetl lightly, hilt when llc lleard that his rotlier had not conlc ill lie went a- way agnill to look for lllnl. Neither returned ni. tllai. iillle, but we lcurlictl ubsetiueiltly tllut they come in later

| I

'lllt-rc iliuy be soliio doubt about tioll was posted ili l"l'aiice ull classes

tile Iailtl. There can be no question of tallied to the tri-color. Gustave Herve her services upoll the water. Her loss- tried to enlist. Labor became a marvel es have been heavy botll in ships and of efilclellcy and patriotism. Anti- mell, but not iiicolnmellsurate with the illilitarlsts boosted it, eonsiderilig it advantages gailied for her allies as against what they are against-mill- well as herself by renlaliling mistress tarism. Socialists became cabinet of tile seas. Beside bottling up the Ger- members. one now lioldillg li position man Grand Fleet-the one outstandrlsinlilar to that of Lloyd George, Mill- ing aellievement of the entire war- ister of Muilitiuns., ill England. ,England speedily swept the German it was the “sacred unioll," one of mercantile marine fronl the oceails,de- I~‘rance's greatest uccolllplishmelits. stroyed von Spee's rovillg squadron. Instead ofa revolt in the rullks, the gput out of business the German coln~ troops dried the tears of wives.sweet- mcrce raiders, alld provided safe con- hearts alld mothers with laughter and 'I/Oy 110! Only 10 her 0Wn ll‘00Ds alld welll tlleir way to war sillgiilg.

ltlleir supplies across tile channel. but I ~l

Ito millions of dollars' worth of arnls AS SEEN IN GERMANV

i I

more recent molltlls liticquatel to ro

anti alnmunition for both her allies and herself across the Atlantic. Ger- .lnany's war of attrition. conducted by back upon her acconlplislillletlts of the lnleails of sublnurllies. can never ov- first year of tile war with satisfaction. erculuc tllese results. And it is llol de- 'l‘lie Gcrnlalis believe tile events of iruclnls from the praise due Adnliral inc past twelve niontns navc demon- S .

0

BERLIN. July 26.--Germany looks

turtlce and his men for their wonder slrateil to the wnrld that tlic 'rentoiis ful work ill huntius down and detest- are the nilglltlest rat-c or all history. ilig voll Spee off the Falkland Islands N to Say lhatlt wus<`hur<:hill who made stood the coinlliliutioii of world pow- illis feat possible. ers which Germany lllls kept at bay

There has been u good deal of erit~ sin

lClSlll 01' lhe l3l”lllHh nllyy UHUHUBU ear- mans, alld no other country has ever ly ill the war it failed to catch the sn German East Coast rnlders, aild ill tn

other country could have with-

ee last August. declare tile Ger-

dceply stirrred the inlagiilation of e world.

y D '

it-ct llierellulit slloppiilg against sub in

, . , ' | marine attacks. But it should be borne lm in lllllid that the one big job ot' the 'Fc

Adnliralty is to see that tile Grand on

f ' y

the Gernlail fleet when it comes otlt hi

The year did not pass without its np

Adllliralty scandal-an ugly blot oil all bel

olllcrwisc creditable page. In il pique close of the ilrst year of thc war

Gelinany has shown up tile world in l its little-ness, and all its boastings false greallless Only the Gi-rllluils cillselves have withstood the test of

ter picked Balfour as ills successor, blood and iron, for only the Germnils

ave gained vittorles dllrlilg tile past

more than he did Churchill anti refuil- fateful twelve months Gt-rlnany bc

uvcs sllc lid-i tllllilgl-ti tilt whole fu

had been willing to overlook its tenlp- init- tollrse of lilstorv (iernlnll

uellti upon ilit- futule oi livili/ation

beeallle iiisubordillafion. So l"iiilit>l' t'tli giileintitillli in tonic will be ar

yoliii the iililui-llie oi :luv other na oil Gtlindliv will not dollliliate the

Cliilrrllill, the llliln who defeated the world bv her itrnlrtl nilgllt ilut by her

Gt-rnlun fleet lltlftlrtl it could lift ilu- virtues wiliill have given to hor

reatel t.lp.liii\. for orguiii/.ltioll and istiplllio ill.lii all tile rest of Europe

of his ginger. ills job is “(‘lliiileellol' etinlllilll-il po~\si»s~ics

Wilt-il the (ieimiills look bark to la-it ugust .ind rtrall tilt tllrenls ti.\i

Admiral Lord I-‘isllcr d eserted his post :ls First Sea Lord. ltatller tllan disrupt ni tile navy-as he feared-Cliurclllll of agreed to step out. The Prime Minis- tb

but Fisher didll’t like Balfour any ll

ed lo serve under liilll. What Asquitli Ii

ei‘nilit~ltt, lit- ¢:oultiii’t i'orglvt-_ when it fi

was replaced by Aillllirtll Sli' lieltry lie Jaeksoll. ii

clior. ii-i still ill the ellbliiet. The nn- g tion couuldil’t aifortl to lose a nlall ti

of the Duchy of lnliictistt-r," which llus in do with tilt: collotetioll of rents oi' A

Germany has won ber place in the ii I`llt- (rerlnaii Eilipire has ildded llinlit chapters to the lllstory f utoilir nllglit begun under thc lloll /ollorns ui' tile i\iilg<lonl of Plussitl

Fleet is kept intact and read to ilieet 'rho ltslsci lilnlsi-lf line eariled or

nlseli' tile title of Viilltuni the Great

in H h0<ly-lf ll EVN' 0065- wllitli posterity surely will bestow

oil lllln These .irc the donililaiit icfs of the Geinlan people at tili-

clouds had baffled us at the last mo-

B.

t I

reds fl ill about

“A BRAVE SOLDIER AND A GOOD

cut through my pocket, broke my taken “_

lollhlalh Pell- “ull llllbedded “Bell l" Sonic of our llnili. went too ful' ri dnmhel' Illece ‘lf lllll'“ll"@l Shell Wlllch (ine simply could not stop tlleln. 'l‘liev gun ngninst q,.r\,m Qu Augu.,¢ mai i wus carrying ill my pocket. I was Sm-,_,,.,,d |H,u,_. ,. 1-or _,__ __i___lm not Sun ` ' ` '

lilliliflfilll ‘l0Wll- but Uhllllurell- port thenl, f~ild'nlaiiy los* toucll ill the n lhlill 3 Very llovel exllerlellce the blllsliviood ull.l were cut up lint l t

Other day- l Wlls ll’-lsslllgn Shop when Y--t-I 'nat to tio what they tlid lllilt t ll l5'lllCh Shell hurl” ll' lt- I “'“5'5° dav was possible onlv for veterans or ll

L9-heh lil"-‘W9-l'9B hh"-l I “Pull “"°““d raw tloops. Ollly perffetzt tilseiplille or lllie ll 10D hllfl helnfe I wuld “mke “ perfect troulzlge coulfi ltav_- brought

ruli for it the wall collapsed on top . . ' _.

of me. At the sanle time a piece 0; ,hm nre_ d igilékggz hg¥’§l_n w5£‘l§"'(§_"3“;'l_ea(;‘_)_ tri'g`li(ie Telnelrlt;/(pli1y9flH€VPI‘y pcssiillc tual declarations between Britain and

_ ey il nlaciilc una ill the

D0Bll€ dslfge ‘ll £19 Jlillggl-_ ofllixglleipgz bush, the gunners with illlllitls and and Austria. Ilelgium and Germany. C0V@l`€ mm _ ed _ bricks and faces stained green, and with bouglls M Hl0h I WHS W” Stl' eel’ h” and made and whole bushes tied about theln. t llme- l E01 0“_ *mme age the sh?" Dugouts everywhere wiili sllipers, against Ilelgiulll. Japan against Ger- lllV9 hllo the lolgetlvlére had beén ’I‘urks and Germans, most ot' llicnl nl , ,

had bllfil- tt() 59;] r l ere only two with food for several days, and ally- against Turkey, and' Italy against Hllycllle “T - “ls euvlin injuries “_ thing up to 2,000 rounds, and deadly YOUUS W°me“nw :img ver curious straigllt their shooting was. We killed

glet 552196118 walleelilmed c0l;_sidermg one ill an Australian uniform with fi ll: force of the expiositln, for when §;gl:'é_?_€d°“hriBm§2c'1{mengnc“tl°’;ligdg E’

I hail aigg°l§h“l`°“"d tn“;l° llaollllgesalggfs would fire till our men wgiveehye yalfbtg

eve W 6 S"°“ off. and tn it f t twelve other houses wrecked. That wa to enh a§m °" qu" er- hal'

was one b0mb_ yet there are hund_ s o mue . ley tried to play the

serve trench on Saturday. ll/lily 15- ln

o’clock. Tile following morning the

end of 45 minutes t e enemy H 0 C

Then the guns having done their work t

they lengthened their range to allow I the British first line to advance. Ger- t

eeks I have been livillg in tl sort of pon’ says___W(, were anxious before t rancc, or ratlter goliig tllrougll a sort 'it began in my battalion' We knew f hell. Still, through it all I am still some of the nm, were ,L bn raw' M life. and We llllye Ullly l0Bl l'0\ll` melh we drew ill to tile beach the enenl

Ollllllefl- OIIB Chill! llflll hlS I`_lll(f :Jl'0k° opened on us slirupnel, nlacllille galil;

lil Bl ll l 'l l

ll W l le W ll 9 l0 Carl' e t 9" and rifle fire. It was worse as we got his back; another Char sol his bell out or tile boats, out we wt-nt tllrnngn '~'\1l Oh' by flying Shell. llllfl Whfl Uhlll‘ witll it. The men never paused to fire -lured~ one Clml’ 1 "mst mention; he IUSI- llfefl hill/0ll€lS and up tile rocks have begun This week sces a year WHS l00klnE lhl‘0Ugh hlll glasses when and hillsides, There were two llleli |- `

a bullet hit alid knocked them to pie- ~ .

left alive ill one bout .ls she tollclied

CGS- Yet he Wlls Ulllhllll`ed~ Out they junlpel and trai lt i

I hlllfe lleell hll mY5elf» but 3°me` they welll, 'l‘lie('1‘urkssllollgell gslevte Q

h0W the l>l€C€S WCW always Bpellll came tllrougll the wires. Tl tl

le" Oli le H

zzisillfgilflxuglg n€X\`- rlill-ie lllldilr the -“lllnlfl llre. tllro-, the Austrian illiiilliltulll to Serbia was

ugll scrub, lull of snipcrs, till we had

i .en up the shore and the clliis ulltler

stretcher game oil us. Our men were

Y 5 ' preparing to met a counter atack est victory ill this year-old war was

when dowli came a lot of fellows with stetchers, the leader sboutillg. "Make

MAN." way for stretcher party, but there was

solnetlling funny about this accent, sire to lloilor the heroes of the great

The circumstances under which and we thought some of the bearers

Colonel Alexander Brook, Haddlngl-Uh- l00l¢ell £00 dark. so we sllot them ing statues of Sir John French, Sir commanding tlie 1-8 Royal Scots (Ter- down alld found we had bagged a

rltorials) was killed are now related. dozen of tlielll with a nlaclllne gurl J

Tile battalion was marched to s re. illld three boxes of ammullition. and Admiral Jolln de llobeck. They

readiness for an advance at three PLUCKY NEW ZEALANDERS. I

artillery battle commenced, aiidthl fl? A press correspondent writes: verdict lil Kitchcner's favor would hc

h . I. n _ .. .

Tile New Aealallders fougllt like

tm were knocked into matchwood. heroes. One of them told me how

hey were swept witll sltrapnel as the

aullclles towed them ill to su ort

nlan shells were btlrsting all around. Tile Terrltorials received orders to advance. Anotller regiment, it would appear, had been forced to retire, and with the shout. “Come On Royal SCOCH. Colonel Brook led his men forward. Not many yards out of the trench tile man carrying the tripod of the ma- chine guns was killed. On the Terri- toriais dashed. and successfully oc- cupied the enemy's first lille trench. Soon the Scotsman moved forward again to the next trencll. Further on the Territorlals had to dig themselves in; tlley stayed in these holes all nigllt. and the following day, being un- der shell flre for 17 llours, alld losilig a lot of men.

One of the enemy's gunners was

particularly successful in fllldiitg bis nlark. It was at this stage of the flgllt that Colonel Brook fell. He was lying

beside Major Gemsllli examining a t map when a sllrapnel burst over tllem. burying the Major. At the same time a f splinter hit Colonel Brook on the head, rendering him unconscious. f Four men volunteered`to carry their wounded officer to the ambulance, and t

.sounded in “il very foreign piit-ll,"

natioll wus at tile llitlrtler of multipla-

D

he Australians. and at the tinlep a chess enthusiast in tile bout worked out the last lllove of a problem on a pocket board till his colllrades begun to criticize this inhunlall detachment

grounded the chess player pocketed ills board and was into the water a-

ugll the flglit. So did an Australian who fell frolll top to bottom of a cliff over 100 feet iligll, apparently bulllp- ed half way, tlild was picked up with mild hernia but otllerwise none the worse.

judged from the remark made by one wllo came sliding dowll o stone siioot, with one lltlntl wiliie with the other

"Look out," they called, "tllert-.’s a mine below you." I

he ready answer.

They, too, bail their share of loss rom sllipers, but the “cease fire." l

lllled to t-litirln. Bitter as tilt-lr indig-

iolt of their wounded the could ilot l

. - fy

youlig stnteslllull oi' tllllltliiled mein li o Lord of the Adnlirolly ill the summer of lill-f. it will demonstrate illni other

from current events. As the bont iorlns of goverlllilrllt besides republic

a

niollg the first. He came safely tllro- because of Wiiisto.t tlllurcllill. 'l‘o his

foresigllt. iillllgiiinlioli anti nerve is il

t i tl \Villielill lwgliil senticriilg wtlr der-

The spirit of these men may lip lnrntlons ilirougll tllc clinllt‘olll~rir~s oi'

Europe.

nlosi. of his i-olleagllt-ll ill file (‘itbliiei

lie hugged ii precious range-illlticr. fl

fl

"Catch nic when I conle lip," cilille ln“0VP lhlli he WHS Wl‘nnl-I.

usscmbleil oil' the soulll elitist of Eng-

nlnlloeuvrcs followed their usual course :lull under all lhc rules tllc ficei slloilld linvl- been sclitioreil n week

lirougll tile Oxford and Buck’a lilies.

WHAT Eilllllh [Ill|M

The :tilllivcrstlries of t.hc great war

oiled ilround since the striving and anxious few days illlllltltllotely pl'ece<l- ng the unjusiinnble null totally ull- xpcctcd ollslaugllt of Germany oil lniost the rest oi' Europe. Oil July 23

preselitell. l~`roln tllut iluto oll,tlle llulls were holding the pistol at tile throat i` civilization. (ln July 25 war wus bc~

Germany tleclnretl wnr against ltussiil. nd the next day. witllollt ally tleclartt- ion of wllr, France was invaded lirough the neutral state of Luxelll- urg, anti Belgium was nieilaced. On August 3rd Belgium was invaded and war declared against France. Next day, August 4th, Britain and Germany eclared war against each otller. Mu-

Austrin, France and Austria, Russia

ontellegro against Germany anti Aus- ris, Serbia and Germany. Austria

any, the individual Triple Entcntc

Austria followed at intervals.

Tile following stories reviewing tile rst ysilr of the war, are written by bservers ill Europe, and will be con- iiiued throughout this week.

AS SEEN IN ENGLAND

LONDON,July 26 _-EngIand's great-

won before thc war started.

Forty or fifty years from now-the

Germans willing-when the British de-

war, they doubtless will erect inlpos-

Douglas Haig. Sir Ian Hamilton. Sir ohn Jcllicoe. Sir Frederick Sturdee

may even include Kitchener, although f ll popular vote were tliken at the present time, it is hardly likely tlic

untlllinlolls.

But if the English nation slloulil fail

to recognize ill this disfributioll oi' awllrds it certain blolld bluee eil

ntl lisping voice. wllo by tilt- fortunes l` politics lltippellcd to be file First

ro uiigruiciul. “liritanniil rules the waves" totlny

ue tll0~i`i1l:t ilial when the Will' Lord brew dowll his gnlllltlet, the llrilisll feet wils rcillly, l'lli;'lantl's collllllrillil f the seas wns assured before l{nI.sel'

Perllllps (‘llurellill kllcw. An_\'llow.

idii'f believe lliln. llc acted ill spite f tlleln. His resignation lily on tilt- illllc. in be taken tlp il' events slioultl

ldilrly in July ilio (iriillil lflcet limi

und for its iiiiilllill play ut war. Tilt-

loforc July 28, tile lilly Austria dc-

amid a fearful hail of shots they per- formed their task. Two of them how-

ever, were wounded. Colonel Brook was taken to Bethune Hospital, where

Gernlunsin disguise. Olle wnlked 1

callllly down to the bacli and ques- tioned woullded and whole alike till

t was noticed tllat his ulliforlu wts it

. Y -

but admire tile courage of some of the fflhrotl wilr uilnlnsi ScFlliil_ Tho n0Xl

place to Bethune Cemetery, was a very impressive one. The body was

conveyed on a gun carriage, the coflln being covered by the Union Jack and pipers playing “The Flowers of the Forest." The dead oillcer's horse and servants followed. The General. who was present, in a short address de- scribed Colonel Ilrook as a gentleman. a brave soldier, and s good man.

"TURKS ARE BPLENDID FIGHT- ERS.

Mrs. Wilson, wife of the officer com-

manding the 5th Royal Scots, writes:--

"Having received letters from Coi-

onel J. T. R. Wilson about the landing at the Dardenelles. I think it might in-

` 5

.- ._ . . » . » -. _ . .. ~. '- :.‘,.‘~“\~-'_ ..-

{_ Y _ i, A , V “ f Nu ` . f -. ‘ ‘ " . I ’ \. ~1 a ‘ ‘ l ' »f ll .. "l"“*l' ' ‘ "‘ ' ` "\.$‘~ls1` Y'*"

- .- ., .

_ , . . _ _ ~. ._ f _wr v _ 'l-; _ . ==' ,'~»"i»-lf=`"_- -‘»-. '!'~:h~.‘ ""“`

__. _ 1*; "‘§ “ - ; _ 1 _ #1-‘-~~==-~=~>~__»=_-1 ‘ _ .~.- J 1,;-' li" ,___;._. i ,--1 .__ .'_ _ _ -- - - ‘ -f~,~5*ll ,i_»_:'("»-f"t. ss- _ - » » ~ _ °

Ile died. The funeral, which took I

‘blentl,,‘ an incongrulty wilicll lcd to his appearance before n firing party.

Atqliotller point ill the Australas-

lalt lille appeared swarilly men crying

lny~illrt~e days bt-i`oi'e Gr-rlliully de- clared wnr against Russia, flvc dnys lleforc she declared wtir against idrnllec and nt-nrl_v it week before liltglnlld offlciillly cutercil the frny~ (‘hurcllill converted the prolonged nlfinot-ilvros ilito thc real thing. ()ll the night of July 29, tlicrr wits flaslloil

and "Salauin, Sahibs. we Pulljilbis." But the Allstralialls read their news-l papers tllid know the wiles of thai Iloche, anti the poor "Indians" met with a and ond. proving ull cxsmina-. tloll to be Gerlllnlls and Turks with self-blackened faces." '

A DARDENELLEB RUSE.

All officer oil one of the llrltisli melt- l

of-war ill the ilardellclles, describing .solne of ills t-xperielices up io May 2, says:

The Australians are a flue brigade,

illrolrgh newspaper offices of Lolldoit the brief llnnotlncenlont, “Tile Ilritis`ll fleet hits left Portland under scnlvil orders." Where It wont, the writer didil’t know then, llc ilidll‘i know now ~anil if he did. he wouidu't dare lcll. ll lsli't iiocessnry to know. The re- sults are sufilclenl, The main fleet kept together, with superior force ready to nlevt the Germans should they come out witllout notifying Grout Ilritllill of lliclr intention, with scouts illrowii olit toward the Gcrlniln 1-oat-if

thc lllonlent,

'l‘oinoi'l'ow-Tile Army.

.

AS SEEN IN FRANCE

the last twelve months is that sllc has folllld herself."

To appreciate ftliiy M. (‘_ruppi’s

words one has but to glance back at the Franco of the years just preceding the war; Frallce, tile antithesis ot` Ger- many wliere collectively is the nation- al passions; France, the nation of ill- dividual workers and thinkers wllerc ilo two people could he expected to agree on any subject.

In the Clialilber of Deputies there

are a score of more parties instead of two or three, as is tile case ill thc United States. Tile Dreyfus affair split the nation illto two hostile camps nlid each camp into others with varying opinions. Tile Caillaux case to sonic extent did the same thing.

All lllailner of pesslnistic talk was

heard on cafe terraces anti oven ill drawing rooms. A sud fate was in store i`or llle land. Surely tl revolu- tion wus coluing. Anotller restorntioli will-l oil the way, smile said. wllilc oth- ers alt-claretl n i-lceolld (‘_olllnlul\e could not be ilvl-l"t<»tI. Treason, it scclnctl. was oil ull sides und ill lligli pllures; alliilng political lelltlers. so if wns lllil- lllntotl, one was tis lliitl :ls tlnoihcr, or worse if this were possible. which il was not. The illeilfro gllvc tilt* impres- sion tliui even Frcllcll' lloille lift- wus rotten.