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CAPTAIN MILES' LAST LETTER.
A BREEZY ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHTING.
Along came the old Maxim, its crew ordinary state of affairs. Steady firing is headed by a rubicund sergeant, and the going on always to our right and left, but gun was mounted, and I stood by with just here these chaps insist on a holiday glasses expecting to seo horrible slaughter, and are pottering about in full view at I waited until there wore a donon or from 70 yards to 120 yards range, and fifteen of om in a lump and tipped short of murdering a for-and it would "Falstaff" the wink to turn on the tap. bo regular inurder -1 cannot see how we can get them to retarn to business, Our Baag went one miserable round and the The hatred against England with which
We print bolow the last letter written confounded old Maxim jammed. It was guns, from far away in the background, Germany is ringing is one of the most interesting examples on record of alasien from the trenches by Captain Robert well enough aimed and down wont the rather unsportingly landed thres high- It should certainly com-Patrie Miles, of the Shropshire Light Germans into hiding. If we hadn't been explosive shells slap in their trench about supucation,
Within the Infantry, attached to the Irish Rifles, who so greetly and tried to bag the lot with ton colock The sent them down for ten mend itself to paychologists comparatively brief period that has was shot on December 30th as he stood the machine gun we might have bad a minutes or so, and then I'm dashed if a A dis couple of them didn't ecme over and com- elapsed since the outbreak of the war this giving orders in the trenches. This letter bit of fun at them ourselves.
plain about it--didn't seem to think it furious rage against England has com is filled with that wonderful optimism and
appointing episodo.
Wednesday. municated itself to every section of the
keen sense of humour which have made
was playing the game at all. I rather populace. It is not an artificial growth, the other letters written by Captain An alarm of an imponding attack fancy the powers-that-bo are not best but purely spontaneas. It is absolutely Miles the best from the front that have tizzled on about 8 o'clock last night and pleased at this state of affairs, but I do sincere, It is almost wholly unanimous. The feanings of an elderly pantaloon like yet appoured in the Daily Mail. His we turned in till 5.30 and slept like the not so how we can help it. We are to be Professes Kung Meyer are as characteris letter ends on Monday, December 28ths dead. I had a pile of straw about eight relieved this evening for our usual three Lie of the Anglophobia of the German in- with the words Back to the trenches inches deep in the corner of the kitchen- tiny rest. It will be Al to got a good solid tellectuals as Herr Ernst Lissauer's un- again to-morrow." Ho was shot two days a bed it for an Emperor. The only draw night's rest again, as one has not been able
back was kittens-as far as I could make to sleep much here owing to the cold. consciously humerous Hymn of Hate is later.
Monday, out in my bonused state there appeared of the feeling in literary circles.. The seeds of this hatred-anser Hass
to be dozens and dozens of kittens who gegen England," as the newspapers, exult- Ingly call il-were not planted by the
mostly wanted to roost on my face. (I've get a furry sort of board and they may Corman Government. Knowing int these seeds lay dermant, or rather, to be
have taken we for their mother.) I like
respectable plant, it has done and is doing
of them !!! As a matter of fact, when accurate, had already grown to quite a
kittens in moderation, but half a dozen
everything within its power to lead and
woke up there were only two, unless Friday (Christmas Day), nurture this rabid enmity which has now
swallowed some in my sleep. become the obsession of sixty-five million
We are having the most extraordinary સા's, The Gorman Government has not
Christmas Day inaginable. A sort of been very succesful hitherto in its con genial labour of defamation and slander
narranged and quite unauthorised but of the Alfies. Let us be frank, therefore,
perfectly anderstood and scrupulously TALES FROM THE TRENCHES. and admit that its endeavours to fan the
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The funny thing is, it only seems many have been crowded with complete
peace.
success!
NOT A NEW GROWTH.
Sunday.
A distinctly oventful day on the whole; you recollect wo were doing our rest curd when I last wrote. To start the day well we got shelled when standing to armis, as made up our minds that the Germans usual, in the sura wee hours, and we quite would latten out the little farm, which has always been used by the support tom: pany, for good and all at last. Why they have never done so is incomprehensible, as it lies at a cross road only some 406 yards behind the trenches--the obvious place for the supports and the obvious route for ratious to be brougat up, reliefs and water parties, etc., to march along Well, they started in the same old sweet way three Black Marias to turn us out of the buildings followed by shrapnel to catch us as we came out. As usual they
Another quiet day. We marched in during the day to the town of, where headquarters are, for the men to get baths An extraordinary and clean clothes, retroing when they passed ene her d strast between parties going in and
and eating-
Back to the Trenches again the road. Spent most of the day writing
to-morrow.
to exist in this part of the battle line-on
The dated December 20th last written by a our tight and left wo can hear them all. The following is extracted from a letter, member of the Hon. Artillery Company, ring away as cheerfully as ever. pose that this hatred of Eugland in Gerstarted on their favourite spot, about 100 thing started last night-a bitter cold who has been at the front since October,
It would be a radical mistake to sup
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it is true, date back to the old Germany unfortunate cow which we thought was though in the days of Bismarck England was unpopular in Germany, much as she was in most other Continental countries. It is, however, a feature of the German Volkspsychologie which has been develop of penes naturally checks the frank utter water parties (one has plenty of water in
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with white after, dusk when the Germans started shouting going out with some others to bring in a
Merry Christmas, Englishmen," to us. Of course, ur fellows shouted back, and prezently large numbers of both sides kad left their trenches unarmed, and met in land between the lines. Hore the art much, although we had to work hard sup ing parties at military funerals, motor trenches, but like Coleridge's ment-all on their own-came to be made
advance work, pickets and military poliéd, of the German people which the presenAncient Mariner," there is not a drop that we should not fire at each offer tillying guards for German prisoners, fr The British troops mostly came war has fauned to a furions flame has to drink), ration parties, sick and od after midnight to-night. There was during the past two decades been one of stragglere with mysterious sacks over their half moon and the ground was covered etc. Capt & Mis H. C. intense and consuming envy rather than shoulders it is a curious thing, by the with hour frost, and one could see dim there from England before going up to of pure haired. This envy of England is way that if you stop one of these men shapes wandering about or standing the front. They nearly all managed to Taylor
where it would have been death to have a busy time on the police work as mnek a symptom in the development of and ask him what he's got in the sack he round in groups, English and Germans, get tight." ete, so you can guess we had modern Germany as other marked fea-always says, water)..
shown a whisker an hour or so before.
On October 25th, we had the order in How on earth. none of the hier tares, such, as the growth of licentious-
Only one of their officers camo over whose move off to headquarters at St. Omer. Wo ness as demonstrated by the unhindered
English was about on a par with out were four days going up in the train and all it stands hit I cannot conceive, as the shells ag spread of night life
ed to be bursting right ever or a German-be couldn't talk French so we travelling all round the coast vid Havy them. Une shell smashed into a tree didn't get much forrarder. He brought a Boulogne, etc., in a carriage with full Companies party were walking under, dropping scrap of paper with A merry Christmas equipment. branches all among them. This elicited
to the brave English officers" written arrived within a couple of days at St. much applause, and then they ploded on it. The men, were all fraternising in Umer, and we all moved off as h along with their bundles, not hurrying the middle (we naturally did not allow Battalion on November 5th for Bailleal
The next few them too close to our line) and swopped in 40 motor omnibuses. Of course their paco in the least, shells came a bit more our way, some cigarettes and lies in the utmost good were all very excited and keen. From to Lealobes On the way to Leslobes, the bits coming on to the roof of the fellowship. Not a shot was fired all night, there we marched off to Estaire and thenco building, so we had to dissemble in the I had a rottes night myself, as my poor General French, who was passing in his
car, stopped and inspected us ditches once more needless to say, it was old big toe got frost-bitten again raining at the time and the ditches were
I took the opportunity of getting a close
At Leslobes we had trench digging to more or less full of water. The fun really view of their wire entanglements, and do, and formed reserves in, the support. PROSPECTS IN THE NEW WORLD."-
I am trenches when our fellows were attacking began then as the shells came fast and. Those were the days when the acquisi-furious.
not half so enthusiastic about charging at night. I do not mean to say they all upon my word I am sorry I did.
There is, to start with, tion of Kiaochau by the Germans after
casualties, our Company being under the Boxer expedition seemed to open up came at us, or, for that matter, near them as I was.
wers dotted pretty frody about about 20 feet of low wire to stumble On November 14th, we had our first but to young Germany a fair Geld of develop mont in the Far Last. I remember going the countryside. Somehow the irregular through, then (on reflection I had better shell-fire all day. While we were digging Mias Nolaze & 2 with a party of schoolboys to a lecture de way in which the shells were bursting: not go into details about this or the Censor trenches we took cover, but not before
White Hopes,"
We are attached to the 2nd livered under the auspices of the German" Jack Johnsons,"
are revolting. Anyway there are several injured, Navy League on Germany's future in shrapnel bursting up in the air, ill-timed will sit up and take notice), The details three of our men were killed and before That lecture mainly consisted of shrapnel bursting on impact, big shells rows of trenches, each of them swept from Army Corps, 3rd Division, 8th Brigade, China. a violent tirade against England. I re- and little shells of all descriptions, all the flanks by machine guns, and each with General Smith-Dorrien being in command
along in
happy go-lucky a horrid-looking sort of exaggerated of the 2nd Ariny and General Haldane of member listening in silent fury to the buzzing speaker's clumsy gibes at England's manner. gave one the impression that crinoline of barhed wire in front of it. the brigade. On November 20th General policy of grab and to the dreary clap either the German gunners were hopeless Charging that little lot under heavy fire Smith-Dorrien inspected us, and made a "Con speech saying he was sending us to the trap which used to be the stock-in-tradely tight," or else they are reduced to will be a very pleasant business. of the boulevard Chauvinists of former training their very last line, which would found the fellow that invented barbed front trenches and wishing us the best
appear to be aged gentlemen with shaky wire. At the best, one will tear one's only of luck The Boxer expedition which threw opon hands. Two shells burst in the ground pair of trousers, and at the worst one will the wide world to a large number of close together, one of them within five get hung up in it while they shoot you in Eglise and at a., on Noveraber 22nd, young Germans undoubtedly played a role yards of a ditch in which a section of men the ruore tender portions of your anatomy, relieved the Middlesex regiment in the So you see, we were, well in fanning this feeling against England, were squatting, and never touched a man. The only real consolation I got out of my which has always had its roots in jealousy We promptly dag up the bits all nice and trip was that their trenches seem to be educated up to it. We have been three days in and three days out of the trenches Neid- that cardinal failing of the Ger warm in order to get the fuse to find out muddier, if possible, than ours.
ever since; the weather has been awful. The young German soldiers what range they were firing at. We could disappointed to see such a cheery lot of We seem to be very popular with the and sailors fresh from the rather grey also from the grooves made by the shells fellows, as I had hoped to sco a collection regulare, and it seems to have surprised. surroundings of German university or commercial school were electrified to fod as they entered the ground, estimate fair of living skeletons half covered with rags them that we have managed to stick it.. themselves sent forth as the Kultury the direction of their batteries, so our animated toast-racks in uniforms. The It Las been hell" in the trenches some- have been gradually Runners, whose observer" was close by are distinetly bored with the war and do times, and we bearers of Imperial Germany. But us their enthusiasin waxed at the prospects us, were able to give them one or two for not seem to have been impressed by the decimated, and, I believe, out of the opened to them by the new world which themselves in return. The performance famous Hymn of Hate" that we read original 600 we have now about 150 unrolled itself before them, their envy lasted for an hour or more, and was with so much glee in the Daily Tail 1 About 100 have been killed and wounded, increased against the mighty Power repeated in a milder form at intervals fact one of them wanted to know what on and the rest have gone to hospital or whose well-ordered and contented Colonies throughout the day. I should judge that earth we were doing here fighting them, boca invalided home through frost bite, and Settlements met them from sea to sea, some seventy or eighty shells came along as he said, "We've got no quarrel with rheumatism, blistered feet, etc. I thought in the first forty minutes or so more or you." The funny thing is that while we should crack up long before now, but from Hanburg to Hongkong.
less in our neighbourhood
aro fraternising here, swooping bully beetam pleased to say I am quite all right.
The other night I formed one of a patrol. The car of Great Britain in Germany
A you can imagine, our day was afor bread, and "fags" for most execrable is the envy of the young German. It is rather unsettled one anyway, and the cigars (perhaps the gift of a box of these of three to occupy a ditch in front of our certain attack. We stayed there four hours in the bitter feeling with which the poos culminating point was reached when in is a symptom of hate), one can hear the treaches to give the alarm in onse of clerk regards the rich son of his employer, the early afternoon we were turned out dull booming of guns and a or the small tradesman the capitalist. to be in readiness to feinforce the firing amount of rifle fire going on in the saine the pouring rain and were continually Ambitious young Germana of good family, line as an attack by the Germans was old sweet way ou our right and left. fired on, but as it was so dark nothing Mr & Mrs E V coming to London in the rather straitened reported imminent. A miserable after Perhaps not so such as usual, but still a hit us. You can guess how glad I was.
Mitchelmore and
circumstances in which so many well-born noon we spent, too, waiting about in the certain amount. We neither of us know to get back to the trenches. I am living child
German families live, have cften display drizzle for some hours. Eventually we if our respective artifery behind will a charmed life, I think, as we had plenty our own trenches, but it is awful hard to Mr & Mr Moss and ea to me by their manner, rather thin went down to a new bit of tranch, recently respect our little arrangement and abstain of stray bullets whizzing round us from
their words, their irritation at the more dug and only half completed. We didn't from taking advantage of what must be affluent surroundings of the young met get settled in till rearly ten o'nlock. My very tempting mark, but hope for the hit anything in the dark.
new residence bore a most unpleasant best, as we are all mixed up in the middle. with whom they come into contact in Eng
The day of peace has given us a great land. Envy of British prosperity is very resemblance to a deep-sunk coffin with a marked in Press and public in Germany side entrance about the middle. This opportunity for bring down planks and The feeling may not always find concrete turned out a warmer type of dug-out than boards, straw, etc, for our shelters, and expression; it is there nevertheless.
most, but a trifle cramped, more parti- we have been able to make them much The young German's wrathful in-cularly as the designer is some six more habitable. We have also been able to potence to win for himself a position in inches shorter than myself, the result iar all the latest news-made in Germany the world coramensurate with that of being that I had to lie with my knees well as given out to our friends in front and sodden that it must have, burst under- modern Germany has brought forth a bent up, a most uncomfortable proceeding whole crop of "Imperial-minded? Ger- in these rheumaticky days. man novels. In these books, many of which have had enormous sales, you will
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On November 21st we went to Neuve
front line.
On December 2àd, we were visited by the King in soms mud huts where we were billetted-very plucky of him I Last Wednesday I had a close shave- thought, don't you?
Jack Johnson" landed yards in front of me, but the ground was so ground; anyway, I was only smothered with carth. The last trenches we were in were so near that the enemy kept on throwing hand granades at us, but did no damage. Our fellows collared ons German who walked into the trench with one in each hand; one burst in his head, and the poor chap was badly wounded.
I think the Germans are heartily sick öf it all, and their attacks, room to be They
The main items are:-
(1.) The Germans have taken: Moscow, (2)-Russian casualties in the retreat find very clearly marked the devouring Took stock, with the daylight, of our 34 million.
(3)General Joffre is dead. ambition, the bitter envy, and the pain- ful self-consciousness which are the lead new position. Our trench winds its
sloppy and sinuous course through (4)British Fleet is practically deb ing traits of young Germany, These are
(5.)--The Allies have sued for peace, the indeed the qualities which have combined regular bog. A dike intersects about the troyed. to make the German the most disliked centre, and in order to get from one' parti
to the ether you have to cross over on the terms of which have been agreed to and weaker and weaker. It is appalling how nation of the world,
most slippery log in existence. If you will be published in a fortnight. They they throw away their lives. I have only indicated the cources from take it slowly you get half a dozen bullets were all, I fancy, rather homesick and attack in close formation, but it is very which Garmany's hatred of England spring. It goes without saying that the at you while you balance, as it is in ful: were only too willing to believe this litth hard to take a trench, apparently, and their way. We have not had to attack determining factor of its present degree view of a part of the enemy's trench. If lot. We gave them a few copies of the our engineers put some big difficulties in yet and I sincerely hope we shall not of ferociousness is due to the realisation you take it fast you take a real good toss Daily Mail, ete, to encourage the of the fact that Germany's game to master into very deep mud. The German trenches
The pexec, which was supposed to ter- have to, although the regulars are doing a the world has been foiled and that Eng- are nearly 100 yards away here. With land is the name of the spoil-sport. glasses we could see a gang of them minate at midnight, still continues willy lot lately. The trenches are knee- digging a place, apparently for a machine willy. The beggars simply disregard all deep in mud, but we manage to drain gun. As they had only recently begun our warnings to get down from off their off our "dug-onto" and only stand in from the waist upwards, I arranged for parapet, so things are at a deadlock. We the water when we are on guard, which our Maxim to come along and amuse them can't shoot them in co'd blood-and if we works out at about two hours in six, bit. In the meantime, to inspire confid: Sre a shot over a man's head as a warning except when an alarm is given, and then false alarins or snipers prowling about; ence, I nursed" the place and wouldn't he simply turns round, waves his hand we all turn out. But they are usually let any of our fellows fire at them in this to us, and goes on with whatever he we stand for about half an hour, but doing. I cannot imagine & more extra-
nothing happear." particular spot.
In the pocket of a private killed not long ago was found only a field service postcard addressed to his wife. Every thing was crossed out except the words "I am quite well."
Saturday.