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One can search these Armiles through ant and eye story everywhere. -- Not all often the part it an attack which looks the theops have equal opportunities, and in advice to bo perhaps the faimplest turns out by some mischanet, such as the existence of unsuspected defences or the impossibility of keeping directiva in the most formidable. And the behaviour the chans and darkurss of battle, to be
of the enemy troops is always a known quantity in advance for e- times less than rabbits, Se that the in- modice fortress of any operation is ro times the Germans arò tigers, and some
accesary measure of the behaviour of our men'engaged, and sometimes, as in the of the Ulsteruión and Newfdhod-|
This is what our New Armies have than the magnificent way in which, they dens in the course of the year. Of course, their desperate anlient this year at Bulle broke the German front and held on to they have won much ground, hundred.court, or their irresistible advanes on vülages, and endless strongholds and the right of the Meunes attack. redoubts. Bus geography is immaterial, The tuak sed them was got the wlaning af sares, but the breaking of the German Artios, which, with 40 years of prepara. tion, had thought themselves invincible -Gebots-and-bind-proposed to overrun all Eumps After nearly, two years of deferer, it constitute themselves dictators of the is now a year since we definitely assures world. Without préparation and averse the offensive on this front, and it may
from war, the peoples of the British be well to survey the rest of the year Empire," inspired by their cause and by and entrust the conditions then and now virtue of the stof that is in them, hase us they appear to us here in the tel.
made themselves into a power whicte first A year ago we were thrilling to the first held at bay, then mado best against, and triumphs of our New Armies. We had now is wearing down the strength at doubts it can now the confused-of Germany, and of thy, mauz in which the "Ariiess not
not netive mistrust, but they have done it, it is impossible to suficient misgivings, to tinge on hopes.speak in adequate phrases. For two ran we had held
our heads high against Germánny, conscious all the "while that shy and vastly larger armies, much more of all the supplies and equip. ment that go to the making of victory, and immensely more "training and pres paration for war. For the Erst time a
I was at a certain Headquarters here.landers on the Andre, failure may be in a dugo during the Battle of Arrus
more glorious than was victory, one day 47 noon, wheu already twu heavy German counter-attacks against positions we had won the night before had been scattered and thrown back that morning. A third attack was then year ago wo mostred our hall-gown officer and staff we awaited the news. It developing. and with the commanding Strength and untried troops against the perterred Terņu military machings We heading into the dig-out. "It's yvær cat in the form of an officer hurrying
father and mothers who have loND NOLIN, It may be that inany people at lume,
wives who have lost husbands er bruchers and sisters who gum, feel that their loved ones were" sacrificed " uselessly ** became, they did not fall in some glarís
soldiers have fallen cut here they have ous chars the fame of which has ring argund the world. Wherever İscitish
tallen ghriously, It may have been only in one small affair about a nameless
Flid is not with tear, or anything approach-J sir." he saint, ** My Ged; the men are post, or in the attempt to take a trench
ing four, but with disquiettale, and the result of the year luas leen to banish all disquietude..
The ofensive which we seized we inve Fell. We haul Wen our new men pove themselves, not were but hoplreds of
splendid!
VALUE OF MESKMPLY BRAINING, These were the men of English county regiment. And again soon, afterwards I heard of how in futile Kiertuam confer
Bow
TAT
Torgotten-
vad unálgutifiable *somewhere rest of" Monchy," perhaps, west of Balleenart or in the #ghting about Oppy," or before Lens.!! It has been in places such as thèse, where fighting has been stemnest and progress
most low, that the real work of break-.
tinu, superior of the tiernan soldiery, attacks in another part of the battlefet the German strength has been doned We have seen the enemy recoiling the enemy lud cure on in atmost solid shattered tran position after pestion "formation against a trench held by the which he failed to hold against us, and Blankshirre,
It was [yielding mucrssive defenes which he had finstances'in this summer's fighung which otte of those kirse! chosen and fortified with all his kave shown pre-equinently, the next of care and ingenuity, the doubts have fing-class musketry training. Tha Bank-
victories us that of Messines. to less than in such sudden; sweeping
death here has been a glorious one, and Every
hostly believe that in every single case the more the details were known the prender, and more justly, would those left behind be of his who was lest.
Nor feast remarkable has been the pets.
ICKSHAW, second hand. Reply, and today we are confident that shires a The wall of Germans engiingformance of some of the latest druits,
quoting price, to
the new-nable Armies, of ours are farki, just viidled down to their rides, and Every new lot that bomes along we re- Amager, inade of better men, and better when de broken-ways of the trackard with Something of the same docht.
Box No. 199... CCHINA MAIL' Once. Hongkong, August 9, 1917.
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In rite roarsie of the year these New Armies of our have' taken over,
70,000 prisoners, including 200 digers They have captured,
450 German gem, with more than 2,000 minde pieces like thisgus valid tryach nortąta,
This is the capture of a mighty uriny, un army of 10 whole German divisions s how constitutek, with all its equipment. These new Annies have had neainet them the whole military strength of the Ger.
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had ebbel, the ground was gres with Gernian dead. Sut even those splendid men of the silt Expeditionary Force could have been studier or more maddent of themselves on the new min" ose
the Midland counties. As for the Scotsnien. dend as
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I have seen their they lay bere Maruetz and at the south end of the Vimy Ridge, and hurd at first and brokenly from the men themselves the story
E those
incredible fire days from July 14th to 18th last year, ulien they took ongieval and [Jld of under Antinued lömbardment, and, with the Solith Africans, Puig buck the curry counterattack, made with troops out-nikkrbering them by ten to one.
civilian Armies in gemparison with the veterans who had gone before. Several times officers have confessani to me of misgivings,
fuforse as we regarded the first of nur
They look alt right," they have said, but then, you know, they enpnot have gón through it and be quite the s857g."
Misgivings have always been misified, and seemned Indieronsafter the event. There is surely some fire in the stuff of which all our puples are made, in that, whatever their antecesen?», put, ta the same test they mitigately work out the same:
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actually been drown against. The British there has hoy no single instanes have not fought him as its sch troops, or whether there are some divi-
in all this thing here this Serfsmen and as the Battle of Messines. We have things us Thiepval, as Beaumont Hamel, site happy as so far to have been
Juve not done all and more than all that learned to strike with a fist more heavily spared. Some who still look forward to
was asked of them. They say little and Hailed than the Gertoun lws ever knowa 11. meeting with shuddering but many takie tire whole grim business with
We had to learn, and to pro- ill-fated divisions have been thrown inextious careless ancnestness, but. vide ourselves with all the mechanical again and again and the total number
how they fight?
aide to warfare such as this. But the Early in the war the so ward exceeds the whole number of divi German dies dristened the kiltednity when we were feeble, and they never Germans had for two years their opportu sions in all the German military organiza. regiments the Devil Women, and tion, du, effect it is' the entire military frighteurd the enemy's report and frur German tide can to food fast summer. every mouth sizare then can only have night of Germany, which has passed of them, through the mill and has hasnt ground,
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and had hardly begun visibly to turn in
Ta at the war on the Western front the weeks of July or Angast a year ago, there has perhaps bena' nothing line forut it, Bowed no morn, and the ebb sher gallantry than the charge of the became plainly visible in the retreat Cistermen on the Andre last year, or which gan last winter, The ebh" is It is the New Armies, which in the suything more dashing than the behaviour slow, though sometimes faster than st Pure of the year have taken all three of the Seather Trists at Chiliomont and others, but, however show, it is certain ridges-namely, the Albert Ridge the morning, I went over the ground which uncertainties of
finely. On June 8th this year, in the and continuous. The misgivings Vimy lidge, and the Messines Ilidge the two had travelled over side by side Though the job be long or short, the a year ago are gone.
ani
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