THE BATTLE OF FESTUBERT.
A STORY OF BRAVE DEEDS. 336 VALUE OF YOUNG OFFICERS. [BY PORS BUTHAN IN "THE TIMES."
days later, we took the place we found the Guards lying on the field of honour with swathes of the enemy's dead-around them. The history of war can show no more noble ending.
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Mr. G. I S. Broomball write as follows to the Economist of the effects of the prohibition of the use of rodke in Russia-
On the Monday overing a further advance was made by pur right." It was a night of black darkness, where a man could not sex toft, before him. The heaviest fighting fel British BeanQUARTERS, May 20th."
to the 4th Camerous-men from Skye and
Believing that the recent nkase prohibit Faders just now is full of stage trans formations. The children so the key. One the Outer skils and the Inverness-shireing the use of vodka and other forms of foto will find them in a pleasant oli glens he had a higher proportion of Gaelic alcohol in Russia, was probably merely of church, sitting with sole self-control speaker than probably any battalion in the the nature of a counsel of perfection under the tutelage of the priest, and the Service. Their advance began at 7.30 pm, directed at the masses and not reality, I this are besttting your car, clamouring and presently they found themselves faced wrote to an English friend long resident with impish persistence for convenies. One a deep ditch, which could not be jumped in South Russia, and have received his hey you meet weary and dusty men return. Some swan It, some got over on planks left reply, which I think will be found of It will be ing from the trenches after a heavy fight by the Germans, and all the while they were interest by all your readers.
i so two days later you find the same men heavily shelled from some houses on their seen that the prohibition is very much of sighed and share and goxi-humours, left. Une company lost direction altogether, a reality, and aftecis both rich and poor taking their case among the lush Flemish another company on the right was virtually alike. The letter is dated March 5th, menflows. And there is, of course, the pro- wiped out, losing all its officers, but one Nicolaieff, South Russia and reads as founder transformation of which I have company struggled on and took the furthest follows :---
which is the result of back German communication trench. It wa airly written and hiring private from Sedgemoor over again, where the appeainner the mere fact whom I asked the way nuwered in the of an unexpeclesi stream threw out a whole farailiar accents of Oxford, 1 met two men, fresh from the last Ypres battle and full of intelligent professional interest, who told me they had been London shopwalkers.
movement.
As regards the vodka prohibition, I consider it as one of the most remarkable things which has taken place in modern social and economic history. The pro- hibition is really a root and branch one not only as regards vodka and other spirits, but also in most parts as regards wine, which is the ordinary beverage of It is not possible the better paid classes. to procure vodka by any means, the enle being absolutely prohibited. It has ab- solutely disappeared from the tables of the rich, and cannot be obtained even our
I do not any reptitiously by the poor there may not still be a little left in odd holes and corners which is being secretly sold, but this is a negligible quantity. It is exceedingly difficult to obtain oven wine on a doctor's order, the doctor being ex of the company pulled up the cover ceedingly careful about giving a permit ings of the ditches which ran across for their patients. Even beer is prohibit. the trench and crawled down themed by local option in a great many places,
About 9 p.m. the advanced company was in a desperate position, with both its Blanks in the air and no bonibs. About midnight But the change seems to me most marked two platoons were moved up in support, but in the Scots. The kilt as worn to-day has no machine guns could get across the stream, always to my eyes a formal and modern look, and the Germans from left and right were less of Rob Roy than of the Prince orbing the trench, while their innsins and suggestive Consort But watch this company of Camer-rifle fire watered all the hinterland. ons returningfrom a route march. The famous red tartans of Quatre Bras are stained and the men air, the me faced, the bonnet, n Daunty lase a long loping stride. They might be their 17th century forbears, slipping on a moonlight night through the Lochaber Passes. Here is a battalion from the Borders, The ordinary Borderer in peace time looks like anybody else, but these men seem sud- dely to have remembered their ancestry, turous eye of the old Debatable Land.
in the small tours seeing that the position was hopeless, the commanding officer ordered It was no light task, for the a retirement. parapet behind was high, there were no communication trenches (since the trench was itself a communication trench), and the whole zone was swept by bre. Some
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THE FESTUBERT EPISODE."
with his men and got them away in safety. Many of the Camerons were deerstalkers, skilled in finding cover, and this may account for the comparative success of one of the most difficult withdrawals that ever fell to the lot of British soldiers.
WORK OF VITAL SERVICES,
To-day I have seen many of the battalions who were engaged in the Festabert battle n fortnight ago. It is hard to know how to Lume the battles of this war, for often the
As it was, the battalion was reduced to battleshold is a whole countryside, or the whole half its strength. Its gallant comunanding length of a river. But in this case we are officer, Lieutenant Colonel Feiser, was killed dealing with a small front, and the action and 12 other officers. Some were drowned in way correctly he named after the point from which we started. In South Africa, looking the ditches. When the men returned they at the casualties and the numbers engaged, were mad from head to foor it would have been a major battle; but in this it ranks only as an episode, one link in the long drawn chain of the Allied attack The main details are simple. Late on the night of Saturday, May 15, we made pre parations for an advance against the huige
The kind of fighting we are now engage of the German lines which is between in, with its constant enfilading by isolated Neuve Chapelle and Givenchy. On Sunday enemy fortins, brings certain services into morning our right advanced more than a mile special prominence. The chief of these is ale The German trenches bore are curiously quater reconnaissance the need of heavy complicated, as we reached what was their artillery being taken for granted. Air recon main communication trench near the Rue naissance gives much, but cannot give every Ouvert. Our centre also advanced something; it cannot, for example, tell us the depth distance from La Quinque Rue, but our loft and nature of a stream, or what farms have was held up. That night, and on the been turned into fortresses. Yet, unless we Monday night following, we fought for the known such things, we shall court lisaster in communication trench, and endeavoured to any attack, especially if it is delivered in the disentangle par left from the network of darkness. Our scouts worked wonderfully, German fortina. The fighting is still going and special mention should be maile of a on, and it is well to be clear as to its exact Birmingham man, Sergeant Heath, of the
Warwicks. We have not only pushed the German front hack for a mile or so, but we have made that front assume the character of a string of bends. Each one of these beads is a fortress, which enfilades any further advance, so that it must be destroyed before a
teetotallers. It is indeed the nearest ap- proach to a miracle or Utopic that one can have in these days of liberty of the anbject to do what he likes.
EQUAL TO A REVOLUTION.
The result has been equal to a revolu tion. Drunkentiess, the curse of the Rus sian peasant and workman, has been absolutely stamped out. Workmen work regularly, and their wives and families The doings of Sergeant-Major Ross should reap the benefit, the increased expendi- not be forgotten. He, when his company hadture in food and clothing being remark- lost all its officcre, took command and able. All the food and clothing shops here are doing a full business, notwithstanding the war, and one hardly sees a poorly brought back the remnanta.
dressed person, and very few beggars, which were formerly legion in the vicinity of the Government vodka shops for retail The deposits in the Post Oher sale, Savings Banks have also considerably increased In the beginning, I was much concerned for the stability of Russian finance when the Government voluntarily gave up an income of about 20 millions of pounds sterling, fearing that it would gravely prejudice their possibility of carrying on the war for a long time. Affer seven months of war, and observation of the efficiency which has been gained in the civil and military ranks of the coun try, I really begin to think that even already in a practical financial sense the excellent results of the reform are repay- ing the loss of revenue. classes and peasants are deep in their blessings on the new last, more especially con matters. They froquel a boat of other the women, who felt the yoke of vodk nected forward movement is possible, That even enemy's ground before infantry to wives and children in a country where
mature
is what we are busy at just now; that is what tle: French are doing in the Arras district; that is the chief characteristic of the present phase of the war in the West. All these thrusts of the Allies, all and great, endan ger the enemy's lateral communications, so that he is less able to pass reserves quickly 10s threatenied part of his front.
BOME-THROWING EXPLOITS,
first, the right of our advance on
Then the preparatury work of the Royal Engineers is of vital importance. Few people realize the part they play in the preliminaries of an attack. They have to arrange for cover, communication,
The working
y reconnoître ground not only in the destitution it brought a husband is still allowed to inflict cor poral chastisement on his wife in certain cases.
advance. At Festubert the engineers worked hard this whole of Sunday afternoon and night, and without their skilled aid comprehensive attack is possible. They work all the time, let it be remembered, under the enemy's fire.
GERMANY.
Another vital service in this kind of war is THE RUBBER PROBLEM IN that of the signallers. Against a front fell in pockets any advance must keep in very close -It is right-that-people at home should have touch with battalion headquarters. This work to wait a little before they get a detailed was admirably performed. For example, on prize of £1,000 hus en offered by account of operations which am not yet con- the Hunday morning, three minutes after the cluded. But it is als right that the exploits Queen's reached their eltimate point, they had the German Government for a successful a line of communication established behind method of regenerating old rubber. We of battalions should be made known as soon as possible, for they are mighty aids to re-them. It is not an easy service. It takes a publish the intelligence, not with the ruiting in the different localities and they stout heart to go out, find where a line is objecs of cacouraging British inventors ar an invaluable incentive to the New boken, and mend it-all under leavy fire. to compete for the prize, for that, if not In this connection the work of Sergeant Cox, expressly barred by Statute, is clearly assistands to the enemy, but as showing of the Queen's, deserves to be put on reconl. May 10the most successful part stretcher-bearers.
Brilliant, too, was the work done by the the straita to which Germany is reduced
Private Williamson, of for lack of supplies of raw rubber. The battalions which carried out this attack
the Queen's, under machine-gun and shall held firmly to the trenches they had won
it
The German rubber reclaiming industry The country was dead flat and seamed with tire carried back wounded, and when water courses, and it was very difficult to seemed impossible for him to return he is a considerable one, and has doubtless hind the points indicated by our air recon refused to take cover and went back to the received a new forward impetus from the paissance. The enemy attempted to make firing line. Similar feats were performed by demand for is products caused by the a barrage of fire behind us, so that it was Corporal Tilson, of the Warwicks, and by war, but the utmost ingenuity of the re- perilous business to get up reserves of Corporal Coleman, of the Border Regiment,claimers cannot but fail to produce an in The latter, although the colonel's servant article which will fulfil all the require Our supports in Deen and munitions. the trenches had to sit still during hours and wxempt from this duty, brought back sements of the rubber manufacturers in the way raw rubber does. The £5,000 men of shelling the most difficult of duties fewer than 50 men.
Another lesson of the war in its presentioned could certainly be put to no more in war. Happily, the rain on the Monday and the marshy ground to aime extent phase is the value of young officers, "All the profitable ate than the nequisition of a nullified the effect of the cannonade. Shelle battalions engaged on our right at Festubert, process resulting in the complete regenera except the Teritorials, had been fighting
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Bombing played a large part in
for it was the only way to clear the trenches. of Ypres, where they had desperate losses. is required of the process is not stated in
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The chief exploits of our recent lighting All have had to be constantly renewed by the account which has reached us, but drafts, and the officers are a young entry. It probably the nearest approximation to have heen amongst the grenade in Major sounds a risky arrangement, but it works new rubber will obtain the prize sup For example, Company Sergeant-
posing that it shows a sufficient advance Barter, of the Welsh Fusiliers, went out on perfectly.
These young men are popular, keen, and upon the previous best. In the peculiar the right of the attack on the 16th with
It might conceivably be circumstances of the case the factor of the seven men. He cleared with bombs and highly competent. occupied 500 yards of German trenches, cut 11 different if we were fighting the old-fashioned cost of the process is not obviously the all that it would be in. mines, and captured 102 prisoners, including kind of manoeuvre battle, but in this war the important one
There is an exploit which it young officer has abundantly justified him-ordinary times, and it is at all events would be hard to parallel. Not less gallant self. Perhaps the explanation is that the possible that processes may be brought Private Hardy, of the Queen's, who whole conditions are so novel that every man into use that will fail to yielle profit was badly wounded the left arm (lie has to learn them from the begiming, and once peade is restored. A deduction that was left-handed man), but continued the officer of half a year's service has as much
being made is that the object is yet far from throwing bombs with his right till he was relevant experience as a veteran with a dozen may be drawn from the fact of the offer shot dead. There was also Second Lieutenant erals, while he has the extra assets of youth being attained; in the present state of Hassell, of the South Staffords, who bad and optimism. charge of a grenadier company, and went back himself under a deadly tire to get more
Was
bombs.
A Territorial battalion, the 8th Royal Scots, was brought into the firing line after the first hour, and kept its place to the end in the thickest of the fighting. Its beroic command ing officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Brook, was Killed by shell on the third day of the battle, as were Lieutenant-Colonel Gabbett, of the Welsh Fusiliers, and Lieutenant-Colonel Bot. tonky, of the Queen's
OPTIMISM OF THE ARMY,
affairs here in much more than £5,000 to be made by a comparatively succesful process, and reclaimers must adready be doing their vary best. Beyond advertis ing the fact of the Government's desire for an improved reclaim" the offer does
Copper and rubber are usually coupled in Prest comments as materials of which the Germans are running short, and many conjectures are made as to the precise affect the scarcity of each will have on the We are disposed
The impression left upon me after visiting many battalions at the front is one of strenu- ous opticism and unshaken confidence. Some of the men are very weary; many are rightly and properly homesick and fight all the better for having much to love, but all not therefore do very much. even the remnants three-days out of a desperto battle are optimistic. It is the right kind of optimism, too, the kind which is more merciless than any pessimism, for it knows the difficulties far better than critics In the centre the attack was pushed in from at home, but is perfectly resolved upon duration of the war. the Rue du Bois on the Sunday morning. It victory. Our countrymen have rarely say orrselves to believe that the shornge of ndronted past the Rue de Caillaux, and then passion for fighting for its own sake, but they rubber will be felt the most, although its was held up for a time by machine gun fire have a passion for linishing a job, and on that use is in connection with equipment rather on the flank. Reinforcements enabled the they will never weaken.
than with shells, etc. Of both materials Lot me record another impression, the attack to proceed, and brilliant work was
there are certainly large stocks in the acas by the Lombers of the Grenadier Guards. most vivid of all. Flanders is no longer a used form within Germany, but whereas
It seems far more one's In this part of the battle a company of the foreign country Scots Guarris, with two officers, got, too far own land than England, from which most of rubber goods are almost invariably com one's friends are absent. Here you realize pounded and go through the process of ahead and were cut off. The remnants of two Canadian battains, it will be remembered, that you are living, not with a British Army, vulcanization, making it difficult to obtain remained in St. Julien in the Second Battle but with the British nation, with all that is even a partial regeneration, large quan- of Ypres, and died to a man. Even so was best in all the ranks of our manhood. And tities of copper are to be found in the stand of the Scot Guards. For them, as such a nation! It is something to be humbly practically or entirely pure form, and for the steal circle around the King at Flod- and thankfully proud of, for it has found its are readily available whenever, those can-
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