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MAN DISCIPLINE GERMAN MASS ATTACKS.
-THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1915.
effectual fire the maximum density cap hardly be more than a nam per yard, ani any men in excess of that number are bel ter in support than in the firing-line.
The question of masses arises “when
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He did not believe any nation involved in the struggle appreciated to the full advance how terribly destructive modera instruments of warfare might be. A Russian general had told him that in Sir John Simon, M.P., the Home four hours the Germans fired as much high explosive shell against the fortress Secretary, speaking at 20 open-air recruiting meeting at Layton, said the of Przemysl as the experts of the Russian Cabinet had been reconstituted to show Army would have thought to be sufficient So recently the world that partisan considerations for a siege of six months. were set on one side. He admitted that as yesterday there was evidence in the if we did not do more in the future than papers that the Germans were greatly we had done in the past me should be concerned at the enormous consumption beaten, but it was because he knew that of munitions of war. The war was bound there was no encrifice tou great for the to last a long time, but it would not last country to unke that he was confident of long but that we were prepared to go on and to win. (Cheers.) That cou formed to the calculations of Lord Kitchener; but the German strategists, the German writers, and those terrible scientific people who had been studying war for years had designed a short war.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are ti Sir John Simon then alluded to the
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Whenever the conditions ad- mitted it was found best to reinforce by bringing up a complete section into the intervals between two sections already At the close of an address on the subject firing, and if reinforcement by doubling of modern training for war, delivered
the sections was inevitable, care was taken. recently to the officers of a Territorial
that the new and old section should belong infantry brigade, writes Spenser Wilkin
to the same company.
Aly impression is son in the Westminster, I was asked what
that an officer who has had the oppor- was to be thought of the German attacks in maas, and whether they implied a disunity to train his scolion leaders and their understudies will always be able to contril cipline which the British army ought to his unit, and that such control is hardly emulate.
The questious seemed to me attainable in any other way. Whether portant, but not altogether easy to
there are intervals between the men auswer satisfactorily. To begin with, what the intervals should be depends none of the accounts that I have seen have entirely on the nature of the action. For given a precise account of the German
Sir John Simon said he came there to As far as I can gather, the formations. German infantry has made its attacks in
consider how we stood after nearly 12 months of war. He did not mean that he successive line-I imagine, a line of we in single rank, with the men her
came there to tell them Cabinet secrets,
tirt the Cabinet Was except together as is practicable for movement specific point-say, a salient in the enemy'sted Cabinet, devoting itself with all Heross country, which woull be about a
position has to be carried, In that case its strength to the single purpose for man to every yard. Closer than that I
the precepts of Guibert apply to-day as doubt whether men can be packed for an' they did in the eighteenth century. The which it was called together. We entered into this war because Europe was advance without disorder and without force of a mass is only that of the mothreatened by 11. doniination to
A series of such in its front line, and the mass is always exercised over the liberties of all of us. jostling one another, lines following one another at a distance target for the enemy. The true mode of He did not hesitate in what direction our of twenty or thirty yards is quite can obtaining effect from numbers is by a con- duty lay, and, looking back now after 12 orivable, and would have the appearancetinous succession of efforts and the en months of war, we had more reason than from the position attacked, of a moving couragement of those in front due to their ever to say that we were right in going mass. I suppose it possible that the Ger knowledge that there are comrades coming into this struggle, and we were more m bare need a formation of this kind, up behind them,
For this purpose a suc- dotermined than ever to see this struggle though 1 have no evidence to how what cession of lines, each denso as the condi- through. We entered it a united people. the lista nges have been between the succes-
Lions permit, is appropriate.
and we were as united to-day as sive lines. I have, indeed, 'sern accounts
But no succession of numbers will pre-the war began. The Prime Minister at of mass formations in which tha men
vall against a line of infantry well postele uitbreak of war became, not the would be more closely packed, but they are
and dug in, provided the defenders have a leader of a party, but stood, then, as unintelligible. A French military corre-
clear field of fire for a few hundred yards he stood now, the embodiment of our spondent, writing in the Warning Post of July 6th, describes a German attack male in front of xhen, and are able to use their calm resolve and our fixed determination In such a case the attack must be 16. win by victory the object for which o June 30th in the Argonne. This prepared and accompanied by a bonbard we entered the war, writer says: "The attack was made in ment such as paralyses the defenders and assed columas, with six men to the enables the assailants to move up t
assaulting distance. Even then, when the artillery has to lift its fir, so as to permit show the world that all partisna a of the infantry, advancing, the defenders set on one side. Every patriotic man and personal considerations were completly will stil have the changes in their favou
woman in England felt that to use such unless they have been well shaken by the times to raise personal issues would be bombardment.
The experience of South intolerable-that to use such times to Africa proved that a
bombardment of forward personal ambitions or foment trenches with shrapnel may leave the de-personal controversies, would be disgust fenders almost unhurt, So the modern ing and would be fatal. If that restraint to bombard the trenches with high were imposed most willingly upon the plan explosive shell. The French artillery has political leaders, there was a correspond- carrical this to great perfection, and if the ing duty of restraint on the public at British artillery, when supplied with a large. It was a great deal easier ta. sufficiency of high explosive shells, can criticise than to fight in the trenches. rival the French in the organisation anıl direction of its fire the infantry attack will have the way prepared for it. It will be the more likely to sucreed if overcrowding is avoided and if the thin lines-ney denser than a man por yard-are led in groups of sections and fallow one another in fairly quick succession.
BRAND NOPE.“
To me the † intencer able, as I can imagine how six men can stand in a square metre, much less how they enn more if so packed.
I suppose that there ning be an error in the transla - tion, or a misprint.
The question of the formation in whie infantry should advanec to the attack ef a position was debated incessantly in the period between the war of 1870 and (intil the close of the last omiary.
War.
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THE NEW CABINET AND CRITICS. The Cabinet tad benu zveuxzituled tu
This war (ho continued) will not be won by criticising the past; it will be won, and it has got to be won, by reso lutely avoiding all sterile controversies, in order that we may address ourselves King, Ministers, Parliament, and people do justify the splendid heroism of our soldiers in the field. I do not care how much criticism there is, how strongly it is expressed, or what consequences may come from it, as long as the criticism īs held back until we have beaten the enemy
its trial, and its Democracy is Du opponent is despotism. Democracy is at death-grips with tyranny. It is up to us to show that the democratic basis is the best basis to carry a bation through a war. The organisation, skill, power, and preparation of the Germans can hardly
gotten that these are the fruits of It is by a demo- tyranny and despotism cracy showing that it is not only willing to enter into a way, but le carry through, and that reverses, instead of dejecting a democracy, stimulate it to further efforts, that we can justify the political faith that is common to every Englishman..
The
1866 the practice of most armies was based on the assumption that battalions woul advance with their companies in Blues of two tanks.
The experience of 1970 sati fied everyone that only dispersed order was practicable on the battlefield, and fra that time on the "firing line" wns thought of as a chain of skirmishers-that is, a line of men in single rack, who might be, at the densest, se close to one another as to be nearly touching and might be separated by interval as small as one pace or a
The question whether the German dis great is five or six paces. Supports might cipline is to be emulated by the British be in single rank with or without intervals admits, perhaps, of a dehnite answer. The or in small columns with arrow Ironts,
German theory is that the men should be This was the accepted doctrine, as regards
more afraid of their officers than of the formations, in all European armies during enemy. I think that in our Army, the the twenty years after the Franco-German men are not afraid of their officers, but de. There was a school in Gormany vols to them, and no one will wish to es- that wished for definite regulations, bu change that state of things for the Ger- the general staff held that it would be a town iden. But if the men are to face mistakes to fatter the uitiative of infantry danger in its worst form-the terribly org offers, and declined to lay down precising effect of a heavy prolonged bombard exaggerated, but it must not be for rules for the use if forma trois, Thanet by modern artillery-and are to at ollicers were to use their judgment aconitack in the conditions of the trench warfare ing to the local conditions of the fight. The in Flanders, it is evid nitly desirable that prevalent theory was that infantry must they should have a high discipline. always act on the same principles as thr It is too often forgotten that discipline "skirmishers " of the Napoleonic age. is simply the Roman word for learning, Dispersed order was inevitable, Th and that a disciplined regiment is one views of Scherff and his disciples, who which officers and men have learned their wanted a regular formation, were rejected work. If the teaching is simple an
THE EXAMPLE OF FRANCE. thorough, insisting on each lesson being by the Prussian authorities and found no
Let us look to France in order to set well learned in its lern, and perfecting the place in the revised Prussian drill-book f -1888. In that year. however, appeared small units before the attempt is made to how another great European democracy. an anonymous pamphlet entitled "A Mid exercise large bodies, the troops after a few understands the business of carrying A fortnight ago in the French sumer Night's Dream," soon afterwards months will have the steadiness and enhc-on a war. admitted to be from the pen of Generalsion that are implied in discipline and Chamber an attack was made or the there will be mutual ecofidence between alleged shortcomings of various depari Meckel, a Prussian offer who had been au instructor for the Japanese Army ranks. It has been for many years my firments of the French War Offics.
French Prime Minister, M. Viviani, Meckel gave his essay the title of Shake belief that the best training for infant the attack with these wise words:
the first stage of musketry speare's play sa ny to leave open the inter after
Who could say that, in an enterprisa: instruction, [ h]; -after hare been pratation that it was merely a jeu d'
so complicated as this, no errors had fiell constant Esprit, and to avoid the censure of the milimastered, consists
been made? Perhaps other men might by He appealed to a ex firing
sections. by platoons, have avoided them, But, however much tary authorities,
and by companies, and in sham fights in I may respect the eminent qualities of perience of 1970 as proving that the ays.
which the lessons of the field firing ar those who criticises us, I am not sure that tom of skirmishing led to the mixi up of units, to confusion and lisordered to applied. Firing-with-bullets at field tar- they would not have committed others. skulking on mogae. He proposed to sub- gets requires exactitude, and carries with The Government has done its best to unite stituto concentrated order for "dispersed it sense of reality which can never be given Parliament and the country in the com
His idea was that the ring-to firing with blank ammunition, while disorder."
mon task. It is not right that words of line should be composed of platoons exercists in which one side is pitted pessimisin and discouragement should be France will of used at the present time. in single rank, with intervals between against another form the best mode
There are those who platoons; that each platoon, if originally learning to apply the precepts of the text go on to the end. extended, should elesa as it advanced on looks, provided that they are carefully are fighting, and there are those who that if the line were rujuforced it should carried out, without hurry, and that the ought to give a good example at home be by fresh platoons coming up into the commanders of each side are loft at liberty and who should have confidence in the intervals. It was a system of close order
to make and ostry out their own plats splendid nation which has been fighting for 11 months, and would continue fight: By they means and by insisting on He relied on the power of in single rank, the officers to get their platoons forward thoroughness and exaétifado in whatever ing with every means that it had till
is attempted, I believe that British troons justice should retura to the earth." can attain to the most perfect discipline I suspect that the German infantry tay ties of to-day show the influence of without having to borrow the ideas or Aleckel's ideas. He though that tactics methods of the Prussian Army. The Ex- part of the soil of France by the were being softened by too much humanpeditionary Foree sent out last August was enemy, then we can imitate her compo turianism, and urged that the secret of suc- | perhaps the best example of what can be
sure and courage. Sterile controversy, cess in war was to be rucksichtslos-with-done ander British traditions, with British unworthy panic, cultivated hysteria all out consideration. There was to be
ideas, by British officers.
these are poisonous gases which serve only recklessness of lives when victory was thu
and confuse the judgment to asphyxiate
(Choers.) object. In 1888 1 sent a copy of Meckel's
and temper of the nation. essay to the late Sir Frederick Maurice, at
FOR Let us beware test by raking up the past that time editor of the United Service
we raise a dust which will prevent us from secang-clearly what is the object at "Magazine, who induced my friend the late-
which we are aiming. No man, least of Colonel Gawne to translate it, and gave
all a nun who shared Cabinet respon- the translation the title "A Summer Night's Dream," thereby missing the
sibilities, can wrap himself up in a sort point of a doubt whether the writer was in
of smug satisfaction, thinking I say jest or earnest. The translation was
nothing further need be done, widely read by the officers of the Army,
plainly that if we do not do more in the and helped to bring about that reaction in
future than we have done in the past, we are going to be beaten. favour of close order which caused some
For the 11 months ended May, 1915, just because we are not going to be beaten of the early disasters of the South African
and are going to win, and because it is War. Many offears thought that, except Denmark imported 1,047,005,4291b,
certain that there is no sacrifice that this in close order it would be impossible to get American cottonseed, oil cake and oil the men forward, They failed to realise cake meal, against 320,544,7471b. for the country will not willingly make, and that that skulking in masses is a phenomenon anus period in 1914. The total export there is nothing it can contribute in any mare characteristic of a conscript than or from the United States of this cotton by form which it will not throw into the a freewill army, and hardly noticed that product was only 1,455,811,498lb. in that scale-It is because of this that I am so period hence Denmark took over two completely confident of our ultimate suc Meckel's close order was merely a systema-
Not only cs in this tremendous and overwhelming tised and regulated form of moving with thirds of the total exports.
would this supply the normal needs of struggle. dense skirmishing lines.
Denmark, but after Germany, Austria, My teacher in the art of skirmishing and Turkey had obtained their normal
modern conditions was the applied to lata General Sir William Cameron, whs quota there would still remain a surplus inherited and kept alive the traditions of several hundred million pounds.
For the 11 months ended May the "That is just the sort of question I of the old Light Division. Cameron belt Netherlands imported from the United do not think it well to ask," replied that a single rank of men, whether with States 76,545,0011b, of cottonseed oil, the Home Secretary amid cheering "I or without interval they must never by against 26,741,51716. in 1914.
have only got one question, and that is
What about beating the enemy?" so close together as to jostle one another or It has been suggested that Gormany
John Bimon said Continuing, Sir interfere with each other's freedom of has been using cottonseed meal and cake movement and case in firing-controlled for human consumption, for it has great that in effecting a stock-taking at the end only when subdivided into fractions. He nutritive value. The oil would take the of 12 months of war it was as well to therefora taught us to handle our com- place of olive and other oils for lubri- begin with the debit side; but that did not complete the whole of the account. panies by sections, and to train our sec. esting and various other purposes.
under fire
COTTON
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If this is the spirit in which the deucracy of France endures trials even greater than ours and the occupation of
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