CHANGES WROUGHT BY
THE WAR.
FRENCH ASSAULT
TAHURE.
AT
THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF LONDON,
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GENERAL JOFFRE'S OBJECT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 267H, Ivan,
The famous African battalion known What scenes at all the points where the cars stop for a few seconds to "take as "the Naughty Boys," which is com up er to "set down" What frantic posed of ex-prisoners, led the anul struggles at Tottenham Court-road, ut at Tabure, As usual, when a desperate Oxford-circus, opposite the "Piccadil enterprise was afoot, the men sprang for ward a few seconds after the artillery ly," at the corner of Arlington-street, fire ocasod. They found that the harbed and at Hyde Park-corner t Would-be entanglements had been broken down, passengers fight for place in the vehi but they met a cruel rifle and machine cles; and it is a fact that the most ob-gun-fire. Despite losses, however, the streperous of the strivers are young wo-line never faltered when once it was at men and girls Against them the poor grips with the foe. The Africans speedily finished off an entire German battalion. male has not an off-obanos, -
Thousands of the enemy were buried in the ruins of a village and in the trenches. The French artillery did not leave a square yard untouched.
WORK FOR THE TROOPS, THE, THREATENED PORT OF
SCHEME OF GENERAL CONTROL.
RIGA.
WHY IT IS OF SUCH IMPORTANCE.
A central organization, the formation of which was foreshadowed by the Army
Riga is one of the places which the Council recently, has now been completed to co-ordinate and regulate all voluntary Germans are determined to secure for work for the supply of comforts and themselves, and the Russians have al- luxuries for the troops. This step will be ready shown that they mean to defend cordially welcomed in view of the coming winter, by the varicus wartime associations the place if they can. and their thousands of workers who are sparing of time and energy and only desire that their efforts shall not be mis applied or wasted in consequence of over lapping,
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Director-General of Voluntary Organiza grain and other articles. It is not open tions; shows at a glance how country and throughout the year, as is Libau, but is, board and put him in what they evi-
city associations, with depots, will be affi- however, only closed for a comparatively dently deem his right position the
Von Heeringen immediately realisedliated to loent branches, which in turn will short period, much shorter than Pernau
[not to Speak gutter! As for politesse, it is a minus quantity. One can imagine that the pet- the seriousness of the disaster, and in be linked up with the depot in county, and Kronstadt,
At the cutbreak of war large quanti. ticoatod invaders are. imbued with the itiated a series of furious onslaughts town, or city, as the case may be. These Archangel. patriotic feeling that all the opposite which were carried out with massed larger depots, again, will be connected, Hex, octogenarians inchided, ought to be formations. These broke before a wither through the medium of the central organities of goods of all kinds were waiting in khaki, pounding or sniping the Hunsing French artillery and machine-gun zation at Scotland House, New Scotland for export on the quays of Riga, but export was then out of the question. in Picardy and Flanders. That is a fire, as did furious counter-attacks at
pots, and
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righteous sentiment up to a point, bus Navaris Farm. A desperate strupel Ford, 8. W., with the Army Ordnance De It may be taken for granted that for
there is a limit to it
UNDER THE COLONNADE,
Part of Piccadilly heing still up," care going westward now stop almost "high opposite Dover-street, known in society as Petticoat-lane; and thus it happens that the destitute (so to call them) find a refuge under the colonnade of the stately Ritz until the moment arrives for the attempted boarding of “No. 19," or, as the famous medico ("Gladstone's doctor") phrased it oracularly, its equivalent.
CHANGE IN HABITS,
The observant Londoner cannot fail to have acticed the amazing changes in our habits and customs since the August of last year. In these fourteen-venging on fifteen-months the social fabric has been boulererse. Nothing is as it was. Life is altogether new.
Jack's as good as his master,
And Jill is queat of the land; or very nearly so; and it was written that this would be so in the classic pages of Mage" fully twenty years ago. (Let no one say after this that Flaneurs do not verify "their quotations or are afraid, on occasion, to cite them.)
MIXED GRILLS.
Take your place, if you can find one, in any of the newer restaurants, the re putable once, of which there are, hap- pily, so many, and you may find your self next to Miranda and Marguerite of "the chorus," or the ballet, and faced by a fashionable modiste and her at tendaat nymph, or by a titled lady and her husband or eon. Bwells from clubland are not lacking at these resorts, where they find appetising fare
the Germans cannot be driven out of France at a single stroke. Neverthless, although alow, the business of extracting the Germans from their bombproof shelters, sometimes 30 feet deep, proceeds steadily. The very perfection of trenches often turns to the disadvantage of the defenders, as many have been caught In the recent at like rats in a trap. tacks the dash of the French infantry was so impetuous that the Germans had no time to get away from their dug outs.
The public are Dow realising that General Joffre does not intend to make a general cossauli, and, instead, he is. attecking selected points, thus digor- ganising the enemy's line, with the view of finally piercing it. General Joffre has brought up many hatteries of new heavy artillery, and has accumulated
ordered by the Director-General of Volunt ary Organizations.
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finding their way into the interior, but it would seem itapossible to get all into Lord Lieutenant, Lord Mayors, Lord safety, especially as there is a lack of Provosts and other officials to whom the labour, Practically all the timber, to circular letter has been sent, are requested the value of 10 to 15 millions of roubles. to take the necessary steps to assemble the has been left at Riga so far. Probably, individual workers and organizations in if it should prove impossible to hold the their areas into groups of sufficient size to city, the whole quantity will be set on admit of official. recognition, and, fire to prevent its falling into the hands where necessary, further to group these of the enemy. Netherlanders residing bodies into larger formations suitable to at Riga state that the Russians have local conditions. Official recognition placed barrels of petroleum amongst the will be granted by the War Office to all piles of timber,
Riga, however, possesses a flourishing organizations embraced by the scheme, and will carry the right to publish the words industry, which will stand the Germans Approved by the War Office." Such rein god stead if they capture the city. cognition will also entitle an association to The famous Provodnik robber works, free conveyance of its completed articles which are well known in this country from its loanl sa depot to the county or also, are only one instance out of many.
At Riga, the seat of the Governor of ARAKAN.... city depot of its aren, and thence to its Lithuania, more than one third of the encouragement and population are German, another third many millions of shells, while all his
Apart from the transports are speeding in order to en- sure a sufficient supply of ammunition. actual increase of output which may tare Letts, whilst the remaining third is TJISONDARI
Poles It has a municipal theatre, where Finally the French armies destined to expected to result from this latest step to composed of Russians, Lithuanians and attack have been cared of trench stale-wards mobilizing the national resources to performances are given exclusively in This the best advantage, the taste of wasted German, both plays and operas. ness by leave and steady drilling.
energy which has been so noticeable in the theatre, which included even Richard past should be stemmed. Instances have Wagner amongst its orchestra directora, been painfully familiar of articles-useful has reached a high degree of excellence. in themselves, but unnecessary at the mo- Even at the sittings of the Municipal ment made by cager hands which would Council German was, before the war, the have been better employed in obeying the official language. Riga has six German instructions of an organizing head rather papers as against four or five Lettish than the unguided dictates of a willing and two Russian papers. heart.
GERMANS ABJECT TERRON.
The majority of the prisoners taken by our troops state that abject terror made many Germans weep for relief when they were captured. Some were found chained to broken machine-guns. Tahure village is in ruins, but a vast labyrinth of under-cellars have been joined up with armoured cement com munication trenches honeycombed with galleries The German's massed their artillery in the redoubts and the French pushed their infantry attacks on both sides of the German position until they commanded the village and hill on three sides. The French artillery was able to saults: There is now only some wooded country between the French and the coveted Gerinan supply railway,
destination.
The War Office has granted recogni- tion to Queen Mary's Needlework Guild as a separate organization and her Majesty has further graciously approved of the sur gical branch of the guild (Central Depot, St. Marylebone War Hospital Supply De pôt, 2, Cavendish Square, London, W.) for surgical supplies.
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modish places.
Comely damsels minister to the "clients' wants, and are respectful
servile, Such a change ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE ASSAULT. without being ser and Austriana-yes, The Paris correspondent of the Daily very many of the latter surged betwixt Chronicle reperts: The capture of the the wind and your nobility, and supor Butte of Tahure is most important. The ciliously watched your exit if you had French took the village with compara failed to give them the lavish tiptive oase, and before nightfall, they
crossed the Dormoise. which they had been counting upon.
"LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND FRATERNITY."
The men clambered up the sharp chalk slope, despite a brisk fire from ina chine-gung and riffes and in the face of concealed wire entanglements,
Finally
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The Lettish population includes chiefly So- labourers. These people, who are cialists almost without an exception, bave reached a far higher degree of education than the Russian labourers, They are fond of reading and study and world. Although they dislike Russia, thus give many self-made mon to the
the German element. Their ideal is a Letish republice.
The Russian part of the population Red Cross and the Order of St. John of is largely composed of officials and la Jerusalem and the Central Council of War bodiers. They also have their municipal Hospital Supply Depots and Work Guilds theatre. It is a remarkable fact that are the only authorized bodies for providno Baltic German or Lett would take it ing standardized patterns for hospital ser-into his head to visit this theatre, and that no Russian would think of attend- vices.
Whereas it is not intended in any waying the other. to interfere with the work of the existing Riga numbers some 400,000 inhabit organizations above mentioned, it is hoped ants, who for the greater part have left Perhaps the greatest change of all ob-
through the Central Offee to supplement the city, Self evidently it was almost servable since last autumn is to be found
and extend the great work already accom- exclusively the German element which in the attitude towards each other of
tion with hospital services. They have cordially welcome the invaders and tho, classes" and the "masses." the motor bus in which you may happen mit 300ft. high. The Butte of Tahure volunteered to oo-operate with the Central assist them in every way. Thus Riga is to be a penny or three-halfpenny rider commands the valleys and, lower hits from Sloane-street to Piccadilly circus for some distance on either side. Whe Organization in order to secure the best of the utmost value as a point of support results with a minimum of expenditure for a possible winter campaign, the more passes one or other of the clubs--the ther or not the French Artillery both in money and labour which is so essen- so as it has spacious modern barracks
and hospitals. Cavalry," the Juniby Constitutional, mands the Bazan-court-Challeranco rail- or the Naval and Military gallant way is not clear, as there is a wooded tial in existing circumstances,
Further it should be noted that the War officer, a captain or & colonci, boards" hillside between; but it is certain that the vehicle and planks down his the railway is threatened. The next Office has no desire to interfere with the penny as if to the manner horn German line to the northward means a patriotic efforts of those who have at the 75's WORK LIKE MACHINE GUNS.
request of commanding officers done so Could you, in the early summer of 14, retreat of 10 miles
much to provide comforts for individual
A correspondent at British Headquar have imagined Staff officers and others
corps with which they are personally cer- of the military diete composedly seating
nected, and it is the wish of the Army ters describes the German failure on 8th themselves in a "common bus" side by
Council that this particular branch of October, and a considerable portion of side with the vulgar herd,"
voluntary effort should not be disturbed. the German casualties as due to the 75's, used to be called 1
British accounted for a huge number. They hope, however, that the efforts of the which worked like machine-guns. The workers after they have completed the re- An account supplied by the Comman quirements of the particular corps will beder of the battalion at the chalk pit devoted to co-operation with their county North of Hill 70 is probably typical of the whole engagement. The attack was branches under the central organization.
preceded by over five hours bombard-. ment. Then the Germans came over the crest of the ridge 120 yards distant, shoulder to shoulder in four waves, The affording a magnificent target.. Battalion opened fire and the attack was checked. The Artillery reopened on the FILEPHONE No, 112 Germans, lying down or crawling back to their lines, and also gradually asserted its superiority over the Gorman Artil lery, which ceased fire.
BARONET as they
AFTER-WAR PROBLEMS.
STATE SOCIALISM LIKELY TO CONTINUE.
course.
"JOHN BULL."
BUDDEN DEATH OF SIR OSWALD)
MOSLEY.
The death, suddenly, was announced last month at the age of 67, of Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart, of Abingworth, Thake ham.
SUSPECTS ARRESTED ON SIBERIAN TRAIN, GERMAN SPIES OR ESCAPED
OFFICERST
Speaking at the London School of
Sir Oswald was the modern personifier- Economics on the social situation at the tion of the old-fashioned John Bull close of the war, Mr. J. A. Hobson said country squiro, who till recently figured in the really Christmassy Christmas that we must expect a period of consid-annuals in their sporting pink. He not
HARBIN, November 18. erable domestic trouble if economic events only looked but dressed and acted the were allowed to take their unhindered part, being at the same time one of the wire from Tsitsihar states that on the most despotic of feudalists and the night of the 15th while a southward bound kindest of landlords.
Be engaged mail train was crossing Nanni Bridge the Soldiers dumped down again into civil expensive litigation to prove his family's life would not bring back habits of con- right to an aisle at the parish church at chief conductor noticed a passenger in Chinese attire looking out of the window tentment, discipline, and deference to Rolleston, Burbon-on-Trent, where tre
coach. He questioned those in authority. It had never been family seat is situated.
It was in the corridor of thut his family had the man swing to his suspicious attitude easy for civil society to reabsorb and contended assimilate discharged soldiers. Our been entitled to the exclusive use The latter refused to answer either in
72 seats since 1815.
Chinese or Russian. Thereupon the con- The problem would be particularly difficult, of
ductor removed the man's headgear, re venting the fact that he had light coloured hair, though his face was darkened. Gen darmes were called and the train was searched with the result that a further three passengers in Chinese dress were dis covered, all having fair hair. They re fused to speak and remained absolutely
The a
for those men would have been nourished matter was compromised by the issue of nct on the mere name of voluntary ser faculty allowing him 38 of the rests. vice, but would have imbibed habite of In this and other disputes his chief independent judgment, individual criti-antagonist was Canon Tyrwhitt, who, cism, and even of enhanced personal with the aid of the Board of Education, dignity from that consciousness of the won over the question of the village part they had played in saving the coun- school, but was worsted over the water try. He saw in such men centres of dis supply to the rectory, having to sink a economic circumstances and strong class
Sir, Oswald, wore a low government barred their path.A
and his father before him
wore on permanent enlargement of the Like them, also, he went on the grand economic functions of the State. Though tour" after leaving Eton, and when in some of the encroachments of the Gov 1890 he came into the family estates and ernment upon private enterprise, and a fortune of half million be brought some of the public control over capital to their administration a sound and The Public Prosecutor recently retorn- and labour exercised during the war practical knowledge of every side of hused from Tsitsihar where two Germans who would doubtless be revoked, it was bandry. In 1910 his action in supplying hitherto, have been residing in the Chinese pretty certain that what was under the village folk at Bolleston with loaves eity, on entering the tailway settlement atood by State Socialism would be found baked from stoneground Wholemeal to have made définite and, lasting ad attracted wide attention. He 991 were arrested. Two Russians there are vances in several directiona It could himself always had his bread baked in hardly be supposed that the public the good old way, and wished the regulation imposed upon cur railroad villagers to benefit from having the mos: Only last and our financial machinery would be nutritious form of bread. simply swept away, leaving these highly- May the baronet sued his own son and organised public services to the uncheck heir, Captain Oswald Mosley, for an ed control of private owners, ca that the account of the latter's stewardship at ather great, regulated trade would simply Rolleston Hall, but the matter was swing back into their former conditions. settled out of court.
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THE WOMAN OF MIDDLE AGE
Soon after reaching the age of forty almost every woman has reason to grow anxious about her health. Saya
This time of trial, with its attacks of faintness and palpitation, âts of terribe depression, violent headaches and back pains, needless fears and emotions, is rightly dreaded by the weaker sex, but, with proper care, no serious ill-effects will arise. At this turning point of life Dr. Williams Pink Pill, have given a helping hand to many thousands of dis-
content, even of political revolution, it well to get his water. dan med beave, mute. All four were arrested and detain tressed women who were fighting a hope- ed at Taiteihar. Two possessed tickets less battle against fickle health and wan-
for any d The best help
who any woman One inevitable legacy of the war. would / hat, because his father, the third baronet taken at Manchouli and two at Hailaring strength.
An investigation is proceeding. It is -
reached the fateful forties" is the mised that they are German spin, health-help given by Dr. Williams Pink Pille. They have a valuable strengthen- escaped Gorman officers.
ing effect, arising from the fact that they reinforce the blood supply, enriching and purifying it. In doing so they help to nourish the starved overtaxed nerves and give new strength to the vital organs. weaknesses are completely dispelled and By this naturar process all pains; and now being tried for espionage better, happier condition of health and
Owing to the numerous escapes of Ger- man officers and prisoners of war and also the activity of German agents in north Manchuria countless rumours are spread ing. The Russian authorities, however, are antiring in taking energetic steps to prevent outrages and to safeguard the Trans-Siberian Railway-Renter
spirits arises
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