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FLYBIUM FÖR. UDXLS,
CAPTURE OF LANGE MARCK.
· BLOOD BATH ** FOR GERMEN
BOYS
WORK OF THE FLYING MEN,
So many are the stories told of over staffing in Government departments specially those crested during and for purposes of the war, that their very number and suggestion of Incredibility Medical Department,
tonda to frustrate their acceptance. A TT HEREBY NOTIFIED that
Mr Philip Gibba wrote from? head; Share, Coal and General Produce ISEALED TENDERS, in duplicate very casual acquaintance with one of
which should be clearly marked "Tender these places does much, however, #2, quarters on August 16: This morning for Bledical Department Contract will establish a belief in their veracity. For our troope made a general advance be received at the Colonial Secretary' the circumstance that most impressen beyond the line of our recent attacka Office until Noon of SATURDAY the 27th Deluber, 1917, for the supply of the visitor as he passes along the maze and gained about 1.500 yards of xround forated Waters; Bedding and Clothing; of corridors is the interminable proces on a wide froot, which, according to Boers, Spirits, Wines, de. Spirit of Wine; sion of clerks, mostly girls, proceeding latest reports, includes the village of Chemicals, Drugs, Surgical Instruments, Eckwards, and forwarda on seemingly Langemarck, sad goes southward in the and Sundries; Faraiture, ete: Milk, aimless minions, judging from their region of Glencore Copse and Polygon olej Provisions; Sundries; and Washing:
Wood. On the left of our troopa the (Schedules Nos. 1 to 10) required locally cheery insouciance. by
this
Department for the period of
French went forward also, and struck out into the swampy neck of ground f
intervi a certain official. With very quile, surrounded on three sides by deep little difficulty I found my man, but foods. On the right of our attack the was referred by him to a department in fighting has been most violent, and the another building. In conformity to the enemy has made, strong, and repeated bidding of an attendant, I filled apa form counter-attacks over all the high ground stating my business and the name of the Ufficial I wished to see. A tiny girl which drops down to Glencorsa. Wood messenger was called, and instructed to from the Nun's Wood to Esanebeek. take me to Koom- The young lady is losses have been high, for although tripped along a corridor, with two of the weather is still storms, making the three tarnings, to lift, and another
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shot us up to the second ground bad for oor men, there is light Boor. We emerged in another corridor ; | for our flying men and artillery obser", but instead of taking me to Room- N AUDITION will be held on the my conductress took me to anther room
vers, and at various parts of the Frons stage of the Theatre Royal an where
his assembly of troops have been half-dozen
atbor girl WEDNESDAY, 24th instant at. 4 P.M.
messengers were assembled, some stand signalled quickly, so that our guns have to which those ladies and gentlemening, soms sitting on chalra, and most of smashed up his formations and caused and children who have already expressed of them chattering, and handed me over
"great plaughter." their desire to assist, as well as others to them. Apparently the jurisdiction of who wish to join, are invited.
conductress No.1 ended at the cond Vocalists are requested to bring their Boor, and she retired with a clear con music.
science should trouble thereafter befal Parents and relations can not be admitted.
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BOYS KILLED IN GEEAP NUMBIES. The Germans used to call the battles of the Semme the blood bath." Their diaries and their letters revealed the horror they had of the shambles into which they were driven. In the early days of this year they made a strategic
ly by weak troops and scattered machina gun emplacements, and concentrating their best troops behind for counter
lessen the tide of casualties.
was referred back to the adults for fisttacke in order to save man-power and
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sound system of defence, but it is the policy of an army ighting a ratrest and giving up ground at the highest pontor attack to quits, the same line possible cost, never
getting back by
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but wet mad that made their cold bath, and they had to use their rifles to keep themselves front sinking deep and men on little islands of more solid ground. had to haul out their comrades. All this
German gunners would be able to do meant loss of tire, so that our barrage would sweep ahini of them and the
dirty work.
But the story is not all told. This boy when for three years we had been demoralised by our frightful|
A regimental commander, a full colonel, as taken here, and that is a rare bird to catch, sa in most cases German, officers of that rank are well behind the line. He was dejected and nerveslaken, and spoke freely of the greus lease of his
Division who had been holding Lange- march and they have suffered most
The bout of lunch-time was approach Hon. Sec. Hongkong Amateuring, and for a few moments, I was enter-retreat, under the guidance of Hinden. tained by discus-ion amongst the as-burg, with the one object of escaping $207 sembled ladies as to who should see me an | From our intense artillery fire, but their my jobmay; some resolutely declining methods of defence hare been entirely as they were shortly to face the orden changed by holding the front lines light.
refreshment. At last one took pity on me, and accompanied me along the corridor to Room Having made my innywicy, with unsatisfactory
build ing I had visited, I left the room and pondered how best to find the street with out making undue call upon the time of the bevy of messengers, not one of whom, by the WAJ, WAY DOSE to be seen. Eapy. Loga
staircase, I boldly descended it, not knomiar where it might lead. Great heavens!
the foot I was in the vestibule where I had entered. So s
Kill at diary pace up the lift, handing from this walking along corridors, shooting one messenger to another, was merely s
attacks have [2900 part of official ceremony, unnecessary, Lens yesterday the counter,
superfinous, wasteful of time, and sense to be added. Successive waves advanced lessly irritating Had my firet cicerone and wore broken up land these inds of CAPTURED COLONEL'S DESPONDENCY... been told to take me up the staircase, I the younger classes, some of them boys
On, the left of Langemarck the men! should have been at my destination in a of 17 in the 19 class, who marched
were delayed by these bogs in the shrod of time. But there comes in the shoulder to shoulder, according to the right they were able to push up with wisdom of oficialdom. She had nothing old tradition, were destroyed in great great dificulty, but still to get on and to do with the second floor: ber function numbers. It is blood bath again, worse work.up to the village. The enemy ran was to see me safely off the ground-floor, than the Somme, worse than any sacrifice as soon as they saw that ons men were: and pass me on to others, like package of man in the history of the world. I near. There were some spasmodic burata. No longer does one wonder how we suppose these words of mine convey of machine gun fire, but the defence was manage to spend £3,000,000 a day on nothing to people who read them. How feeble, and here, anyhow, the enemy the war.
been talking in
superlatives with gun fre tedious, distressing ceremony
had
out
the facts, but without understands.
as minds occupied so loug, that when I got back
are nunbed to the original building all the "Yeads" by colossal figures 1. But out here, see had gone out to lunch. I was told that ing the fame of our shell-fre night the "head" I wished to see would be after night stretching away around & YOUNG MAN with experience as back at 2.15. At 9.15 1 called again great horizon, and bearing from near required by Shipping Firm. Stato
arrived, nor at 2.46. Then I
was told of great guns, and watching the starlit previous experience and salary required that he might be in at three. In a sky, as I watched it last night from quiet
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moment 1 asked of a messenger cornfalds, all red and restless with wink verely, having lost large numbers of Co "CHINA "Matt" Office again a girl-if the officials came back ing lights leaping up in tongues and men in the previous attacks other when they liked, and she, with excessive spreading lengthwise in s milen glars, prisonera came from the 214th Division, Hongkong, August 1, 1917.
CALCOUT, replied, "I think they do." one does realise little the monstrous holding the line north of the Starlen During this delay my
eyes were still scale of all this and the destruction that Railway--the railway to the ground further opened. Young lady clerks pro is being done to masses of men in the above Bixschoote menaded the corridors quite leisurely hiding places of the woods and trenches. The regiment which perhaps suffered some with papers in their bands,
~ENIKY'A RIXIRTIS ANY LOSSES.
Worst of
all was a battalion of the 282nd ithout Although the time was
which was broken to pieces in the Britiab early afternoon, messengers carryitig Experts are wrangling over the num-attack across the Steenber. To the traps laden with caps of- tes born of the German reserves. Fantastic right of the attack on Langemark the began to appear and disappear Agures are given of the millions of Ger- troops were successful, and in spite of Through the open door of a kitchen Imans still under arms. Well, there is concrete blockhouses and soins deadly saw the refreshing spectacle of table no exact data, and all we know with machine-gunning, wun all the ground covered with trays full of the steaming any certainty is that the enemy is still they had been asked to get. The men beverage, and I longed to participate. outwardly strong-strong at least in report that they saw large numbers of but no invitation came: I was not an defence. But the magnitude of his losses German dead, and that little groups of official, and had no right to be thirsty so
of to-day's fighting and the place in unofficial like myself appeared. He which it happened. It was in the autumn was of the type which before the war we of 1914, during, that first battle of Ypres styled "knuk #He imparted a message that the Germans attacked our Third
very soon a distant door opened. Brigade at Langemarck, where our Eng and there advanced towards him with lish troops made a great, and victorious baming face a good-looking damsel-an sassult today. Three years ago they oficial. Pleasant words passed, and were the German lads of the 1914 class
It was to the extreme right of the some that were manifestly tender, and who inarched up to our lines, link attack that, as I have said, the fighting when the lady tore herself away to bar arm is sy be the one wrong, be was most ferce, and the result uncertain. ardcous duties she carried with her most deadly ride fire in the
Some Irish were heavily engaged her pretty, box of chocolates War work cause those men of our old Army were working towards Polygon Wood and the what a beneficent and large-hearted the finest aneksmen. officialdom. Currespondent in "Daily Yesterday at Lens, or rather at Hill high around thereabouts. They had to advance over frightful" ground, and 70, they were boys of the 1819 class who Telegraph."
held the German lines and that fact is against the enemy in his greatest because he is determined to strength one great tragedy of German hores and defend then high slopes if he loses al! the great proof of her defent. She cZD else. not fill up the gaps in her ranks by lles.
The Irishmen fought over great and it is another sign of weakners that stretch of ground with the greatest gal she is lying,
English detachment," says Germany.lantry and in a most imperious spirit,
and they m
ide good head way belie they in trying to cross the Steenbeek River were faced by wares of fresh German were annihilated.. What is the truth The truth is exactly the opposite. Last of the infernal shell-fire.
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It is dificult to know exactly whaKEATINGS commeding the British Army, in which fold ghost wilson which has been wiped heavy fghting is happening, and many
out of all bus history, went across the they are serving has sent the following Steenbeck stream and lay there waiting battalions of the enemy and our own
men are involved message to Lieutenant-General Bird; for the bour of their ult, As. The firing men are doing active work wood regarding the Australian artillery know now from exptured orders & Ger over the enemy's lines and keeping com engaged in the battle of Ypres regiment was ordered to attack our stant contact with our artillery and lines at 3.43 this morning. Only 40 men want to tell you of the excellent work of that regiment were seen in along all this part of the battle front there is a storm Bre with great im apps by the Australian artillery in the it was those who were ranihilated. Qurbers of guns engaged on both sides. The recent fighting. They bara hd moeten went forward when there was light enemy. I am sure is prepared to lose strempous time, and have earned the enough. R admiration and praise of all Flease Immediately on the right in front of defensive pusithitis, and will buri op all thousands of men rather than lose these thank them for me. Ahern, was the tuin of an old estaminet is reserve to hold bese heights.
A British officer, who has been doing called Au Bon Gite, a sor into a fortified augnificent work in this battle toid emplacement and defended by machine soma of us the other day that be noticed runs. It was a nasty place, and our to the south of him certain batteries in men avoided it and swept both aides
| the plain on which the German artillery of it and beyond, so that
But the result of today's fighting maintain their fighting spirit after sxema to show that po Gerotan soldiers. prolonged ahelling from grout concentin-
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