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I around it, which is all ridge and hole and
· desolation. - Nor do shells bursting angurul -you as you go help you to heats your
whereabouts.
At all events, this runner failed to see the tech when he vague to , passed on The weather continues bad for operater the holes and ridges where it was tious on my Scale." The rain is not wippused to be. and travelled on. At last continuous, but spells of clear sunshine he came to a visible trenell and Nokia alternate with showers, some of which to be the one which he was looking for:
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, have been almost tropics in their ebar-Hurrying up, he was about to go over the
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actor. A intervals in the last three day a great deal of moisture mist have fallen and, though the earth was so dry fromno the long drought that is can absorb great des! without becoming water-soaked, the mud in the wrenches rather impedes
movement.
found to "full of Germans; and put only parapes when, as he peered over," he
full, but too full. It was crowded, an trench would be except imaudiately before an attack was to be launched from and of the Germans had their bayonets fixed, and were evidently just roudy for a start,
t
every attack of curs which gets home proditicos tbs sampleat However strong fermapy may ret be, however long the road which renuina, to be travelled, "every day of this fighting throws into strenger rehat the differeges in quality between the individual German and the individual. British Aghting minn,— Times, "
VISITORS AT THE HOTELS,
RONGKONG HỠTIL.. Mr. E. Anderson Mr & Mrs. H. Hunter
Mr A. GʻInsausti DrE, Androw Mrs A. I Androw Mr W. D. Jones Mr J.M. Armstrong Mr E. M. Joseph Mr R. L. Adkinson MisrK. Rayner Mt and Mrs F. T. Mes F. Kailler &
ir Mary Bain Miss H. Va
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Keim MJ.Hring Me Kemp Mr W. Barker Mrs Kickpatrick Mr and Mrs H. 4. Dr A.T. Knoderer Baxter sind ohud. Capt. B. Larsson. Mrs. E. R. Belilios. · Col. W. Lassiter Br C D. J. Bell & Mrs C Laurit
Air & Mrs Bargman
In spite of these conditions we hare Apparently the runter was unnoticed made small gains here and there, notably As all events, he managed to slig aner Dec 17 in the country north of Baxentiu-le-Petit, as fast as possible, got back to our Dec. 24 and hatwoman Delville Wood and Ginchy trench, phich the time he succeeded in
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Prisoners also continue to come in, partly anding, and he gave the news that the Jan." T
from the new bits of trench captured, but counterattack which was to be expected chistly being stragglers who had taken was about to be delivered is great Jan 28 Feb 11 refuge in shell holes and inainted positions strength from such and such stretch and 3 children Mr.H, D.
in the ground exptured in our vicit of trench. It took a very short time for Hr Mrs H.C. Beath Mr G. Lind Feb, 19
Mr&T. Betting advances, especially in the Thiepval communication to reach one heavy with
Mr. S. Longfield Mar. 11
Macdonald Mr T. H. which opened immediately or the enemy E. A Betts
Bettingen Major D. Mar. 18 sector.
Dr G. W. Mackenn The oficial communique has told you trench, and imply smothered the ground MeT. Gordon Bist Mrs D Mac of the failure of the Prussian Consht loin front of it.
Melt.de Hirbeck crunter-attack which they attempted
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The ecemy got out, as" had beauḥar-
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to make against the Wiltshires and Wor- ranged for them, and tried to char
B
Mahony Bosworth Dr&Mrs. Marriott
Mrs B. F. Mamowe cestershires, alter these troops had made They mes the fire of our me they Capt B. Branch Air W. Mannheimer their very successful push of the 24th started, and the first wave broke ntterly MAL
towards Thiepval. It now appears that and failed altogether, to ecme on A4 Marisa Misson
the experience was about an humiliating as any which the Guards can ever have
had to submit ko..
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In my dispatch at the time I described
the turrific character of our bombardimens which preceded the attack. By the time that our mod get to the enemy's trenches, sometimes, there is not-and was net in this case much of the trenches left.
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second wase started, got a little farther Capt. L across No Man's Land, and then faltered and broks like its predecessor. And that was the end of the counterattack. The
Prussian, Guard had not caly failed in its attack, but it bad failed to get through our artillery fre and even approach gur trenches.
AN OFFICER'S EXPLOIT,
Madara Cateau MS. E. Chaprasz Me E. L. Chenet
Me IL Maxwell Bir T. C. Maxwell Miss M. McQu! MFD. Mc. Marray MB. K. Mehts Mr. Geo, Mallias
Brand Mrs H. A. M. Moute Mr. Chister hersenbir and Mrs. T. L
Chisholm Mr. S. H. Cohes Nowell
Croucher
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Mr G. & Culcough. Mr. Mrs WC Mr H. A. R. Conant, Newell As soon as car then are installed thequin. Of the original capture of the trenches
Mr R.J. Coombes Mr J. S. Nicolson Mr G. morever. the enemy takes his turn I have to-day heard of many details such Mr J. W. Courtney Miss, D. Phillips
Courtney Mr&Mrs J. Overton
Mr.R. Peters them with all the gine that he can ea as onlooker, from where I was sit-Curling Mrs & Phillipe mard and knocks the poor ruine aboutated, could not see. Perhaps the most Me. U. Daniel Capt. M. Pickmail still more. Our men, et course, turn to striking story was that of one of our W.B. Davenport Capt. A.R. Pilkington at once and repair and dig so that the officers, who practically ofrared out a Mr and Mrs E. F. Mr and Mrs. trebubus may give some shelter, but it stretch of the trench by himself. takes great steadiness and grit to hold on
It seems that in our advance there Mr E. 7. Daris Pitma
WJ.Pringio through the shell fire which is almost was a gap in cur line which left 50 yards Capt J. Dewar MPZELI certain to be the introduction to or so of the enemy trench nusailed. Miss R. Dickmann Miss A
Mr J. Dowar Mis
Rayner F.A. Reny Counter-attack."
Over such shell tóra,. Yidge-and-furrow | My F. A. Diekhoff Mr G.
Peid A HENNER'S ADVENTURES. ground, and under such fire as was going Mr W.
MMF. Reilly! E Douglas Mrs Doyle In this case the Wiltshires and Worces on, this might well happen. So this Miss M. E. Duffy Mr. G. J. Robinson.
Mr H. Remillard tershires stuck it splendidly. How stretch of some 30 yards of trench was Mr C: Dunn
Mr G. Roses ever disreputable the trench dught he, still occupied by Germans while all the Mr A. W. Eastman Mr J. Rosa they had won it and did not propose to rest on either side was in our hands. The Capt. I Ehrhardt Mr R Rouse let go. While they held on and deg for chicer in question, seeing what the sitan- MrJ. H. Evans Capt. W. Ruthen their lives, a runner was sent back with tion was, charged along the trench from Mr and Mrs PJ MEG. A Sarden
Falconer Mr H.chmidt 4 message to the rear. He got there, one and with a ride, fring as fast as he
Tewkes
Mr J. H. Scott". delivered his message
and started hard. He killed the three men in their W. H. Fillmorers. H. Beaver and again made his way through the bar link of french, immediately bature nge unscathed. But, so completely pushed in more, cartridges, and awung cbliterated was the trench in places that, round the angle of the traverse and began when he got back to it, he never noticed again. But the Germans had not a fight left in them, and along the whole stretch the surrendered to one máu, 2 lat
It is ways from the other officers BDG MY Goulbourn:: MrARE
of deeds like this. Mr. H., Gracey Mr. F. F. Taylor trench, which was never, perhaps, too men that you .. deey, has been smashed by a few direct The one immediately terned on being Mr and Mrs P. J. Mr RE. Thompson
Patt få rot Gray hits from heavy shells. it becomes more questioned assures you that which Mr and Ms W. A. SIFA or leas indistinguishable, from the earth It is a very glorious kind of rok,
Hannibal
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