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IN ARTOIS,
RIDGE
THE ACOURSED ”
GRIME WARFARE..
CATACOMBS BEHIND THE LINES.
ALLIES GUARDING 10,000 MILES OF TRENCHES.
BULLETS NEVER FOLLOW THEIR NOSES.
It is a well-known fact that a bullet ever goes straight to a mark, but flies
a curve on the order of the parabola. But most people think that the bullet itself
THE CENSOR'S VOICE.
Tis the voice of the Consor~~~
I heard him complain
Fidei defonsor! They're at it again! Here's a Latin quotation So far as I glean- With a marked exclamation— Now what can it mean?
That it means something ill
If it does'ng it will Is most painfully clear:
À long, bare sarp, the scrubby sides
In the section of the French lines that I of which are scored by gullies that lead
bove just been visting there are already, steoply down through scanty coppices to
on a front of just ever ten miles, 375 kilo-folows its nose, and that at first. (when the shellriven husks of shattered villages. Such is what the Gormans, with a finometres (or lightly over 23 miles) of the nose is pointed up) the bullet fellows it, and that when the bullet is coming aboios of epithet, call the "accursed "
trenches. To make certainty stili more sure ridge of Notre Dame de Lorette (writes hiöther 76 kilometres (or 46 miles) of other down on the other leg of the curve the
nose is pointed down,
For that's just why I'm here; the Tame special correspondent with the trenches are being dug, so that by the end of
This is a mistake, for the nose of a bullet. That's the reason I'm sitting French in Artois)..
the year there will be in that neighbourhood always maintains its own direction, no mat-Six hours a day 260 milos of trenches on ten miles of front,ter what, the bullet as a whole tries to do. Verbal hairs sweetly splitting- wrote Mr. A. Warner Allon, the special cor-
That is, if a gun be pointed slightly up the On excellent pay. respondent of the British Press with the bullet, when it strikes the target, will not French armies, last month.
enter it perpendicularly by the nose, and Elsewhere a certain division has 250 miles the holo made will be larger than the bullet of trenches to look after, while a certain is round, for the bullet of necessity must corps d'armee has 450 miles. Taking these hit in a certain degree fintwise. Of course, figures into consideration one will certainly the reason the bullet does this is because it be under the mark in estimating that there has a very rapid rotation given it by the front, so that between Switzerland and the turning over and over in the air. are 20 miles of treneles to every mile of rifles in the borrel, which keeps it also from North Bea the British and French armies
This ridge, og is now common knowledge. is only one of the several which go to make up the chalky plateau that stretches from Arras northward to the plain of Lens, but its height of 40ft, lifts this long, naked backbone of ground above the neigh bouring spurs
of the Artois massif, so that from its summit you can look down Lens to the north-east, the heights upon the factory chimneys of Lievin and that Tun past Souchez, Givenchy-en-Gobelle, up to Vimy to the south-east, und, almost due south, across the ridges of Mont St. Eloi, Neuville St. Vaast, and the Labyrinth to the distant but easily discernible ruins of Arras. One needs no military know ledge to grasp the importance of this position, and certainly no better starting- point could have been chosen for the three days' tour of the French front in Artois in which I was kindly invited this wock to participate.
A DISMAL GHASTLY SCENE,
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at east 10,000 miles of trenches to guard and keep in order.
CAIETY OF THE MEY,
There's no word that you write Which I can't read away :- I can spot it at sight With my basilisk eye: I've the kecuest of scent And my mind can recall What you mean when you meant Simply nothing at all.
Defensor fidei !. " Let's turn it right round! Hab he thinks I won't see Who tell by the sound Of a language I've seror By any chance heard What it is to be clever!-- The drift of each word 1.
You may write it in Latin Or write it in Greek, Though neither I'm pat in— My classics are weak- I can tell by instinct. Without learning I know,
Tis infallibly linked With same news for the foo
Another thing that will seem peculiar to most people is the action of gravity on a ballet. If a gun be fired exactly horizontal. ly the bullet will have to be pulled down The General commanding the division by gravity exactly sixteen feet during the <ationed in this section was kind enough to arst second, So if there were no sights guide me to some of the most interesting on a gun and it was levelled by means of points in the trenches over which he reigns a hand level and fired the bullet would hit supreme. As we went down towards the something exactly sixteen feet below the enemy he had a word or two for every man guna a distance away equal to the vek- personally, from the non-commissioned city of the bullet per second. officer in charge of a section to the rawest
No matter what the bullet's velocity, recruit who had just come up from Britany gravity will pull it down sixteen feet dur- or Savoy was relief dry, and there-hading the first second, or, if the bullet be been no time to organize fatigue parties to fired upward, gravity will take from its clean out the trenches, consequently we saw upward velocity thirty-two feet during the things at their worst. But neither mud nor first second rain could dump the gaiety of the men. The bullet itself keeps its axis always who were squatting in their shelters eating in the direction the axis bad when the their morning meal, In the soup good? "bullet issued from the gun. This is the Now this phrase of the pen asked the General as he passed. The men well-known gyroscopic principle made use That I've spotted by chance had risen and saluted, and some self-ap- of in the gyrascopic compass and the mono- Tells the number of men pointed spokesman would reply, Cu, rail car: that a rotating body will maintain We have fighting in France,
a gearral ¡ **
pita masia, of rotation in the same direction Or-what's really the same
unless a moment of forte be pred To & Censor of skill-
But what actually happens with the Thip the Ktrats michiamo modern high-powered tifle? Does it shoot a Among Tommies is 'Bill' | balleg that goes in sideways? Not as much as a diagram would indiente, but to a slight extent it may be stazed that the modern army ballet does do that very thing. Its velocity, however, is so enormous that the Larrel dosso have to be elevated through so large at anglo, and consequently the bul- let enters fairly on its nose, though not
quarely so, at all ordinary ranges
The saddest and most appalling effect of all this branch warfare to: which we have been condemned now for 12 months is the utter devastation of everything any where near the immediate Front When I made a pilgrimage along the battlefields of the Marne only a few days after the victory of the Allies was complete I was atrazed to see how quickly the traces of the struggle were being esced The villages on the whole, not been really badly knocked about, and the cottagers were already hard at work rebuilding their homey and repairing the demago to their fields and hedges. The trenches, as
"That's all right!" said the General; compared with those in which the armiesing the cook again today!"
then I suppose I shall not find you kick- now life, were the flimsicat constructions:
No. 11,4
O. 11, GAGE STREET, from 1st January, hastily scratched up to shelter a bem- A burst of laughter grooted this reference ponary position, and the shellholes were to an incident which bed for a few brief both much smaller in size and fewer maments broken the fraternity of the owing to the greater proportion of shraptreaches.
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ANNOYING THE ENEMY.
After looking at the Boche tronches from an observation post two or three hundred yards distant, we gradually worked our way down to the advanced lines, There I was shown some ingenious new appliances for annoying the enemy, but for obvious reasons. these cannot at present be described. Even tually we reached a spot where the word went round that there must be no talking, How pear we were to the Germans was shown by sentries on the parapets watching intently for ang movement in the German lines.
Or that Zeppelins dropped Twenty bombs in a street- That Yon Tirpitz is copped That we have got a fleet- Or-ye gods ! why did this Never strike me before? It may hint that there is Such a thing as a Wur
R.G.G.-Times of India.
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But it is six months now since the French, under General Foch, began their first great offensive to force a passage through to the plain of the Scheldt and to all the flat country towards Douai
The same may be said of the bigger guns, and Valenciennes, and, in spite of the
They have riffing in then, and so give Bo I see behind each indisputable success which they gained
rotation and gyroscopic action to the pre-Written word of poer fools they made during our capture of Loss,
jectiles. But a mortar does not. A mortar Some impossible breach the whole countryside over which we
shoots something almost straight up in the Of impossible rules, walked in stil a charnel house. The had
air and lets it fall down. As the mortar is Then my pencil comes out---- weather of the past week did something to
too short-barrelled to be rifled, the top of Tis the bluest of blue- beaghton the impression, for the heavy
the projectile would hit a target a long dis And I scratch the staff out- rains and in places beaten down the sides
tance away, but for shot almost straight | As I do, Sir, for you! of the old trenches almost as effectively "Now," said the General; " we will stir up in the air to fall right down, of course, as gunfire, and we had to squelch our up the Germans a little. It is lunch time, the bottom of the projectile would strike why eithox Boross the stark, sodden hill and they will be excessively annoyed." first. The mortar projectiles are generally gides or along hall-bited in trenches in
We went to a shelter which protected around, so that it will not matter how they which we floundered amidst weather-rotted
new and simple appliance for throwing high | strike. sandbags, streams of rainwater and explosive into the enemy's lines. A shell The reason a bullet cannot be made so morasses of mud that almost sucked the filled with a very comfortable quantity of that it will always enter a target squarely boots off our feet.
The rain, however, was not responsible melinito left the shelter, Then, second on its nose is that for every range a dif- for everything, and the occasional whistle or two later, when it had reached its mark, ferently shaped bullet would have to be of a shell over our heads, followed by a there came a big explosion. It was follow-manufactured. Also the bullet should be symmetrical, so that the air will exert no- muddy explosion, coupled with the pre-ed by a second shell.
We started back towards the rear, but disturbing influence on its distorted parts cautions enjoined upon us by the French officers detailed to act as our guides, before we had gone fifty yards there was a A bullet has a distinct curve like that. A mine-thrower was of a baseball due to its rotation, and this accounted in an unmistakable way for tremendous report. BEER ha ghastly surroundings. As we
slithered, rather than walked, up on down the slopes of the plateau, we came often upon the half-decomposed bodies and limbs of German corpses that had been forn from their burial places by sholj bursts. In all directions there were masses of twisted, rusty barbed wire. bro ken bayonets, smashed rifles, bombs But at this point the French artillery If the bullet be rotated in the direction many different kind, and sizes, fragments of shells varying from small splinters to bolond us had something to say. The post of the hands of a clock the curve will make occasional base of some huge war tion of the mine-throwers had been spotted, the bullet, go to the left of the exact point mite, battered and broken Pickelhaubon, and it seemed an admirable occasion to shutimed at. The effect is so small, however, "whizz-bangs" that had not exploded, them up for good. The result was what the that it does not have to be taken into so but with which, even after months ex- French call rafale, or perfect blizzard of count in the manufacture of rifles and posure, it was not advisable to be tee 75 shells. It only lasted about three minutes ammunition Star.g Jamiliar, smashed moss-ting-alf * the The 75s harked away with their ear-piero paraphernalia of the modern soldiering reports like a pack of hounds that had Jarabled together just as they had been suddenly gone mad. Then, as suddenly as Bung there by the explosion of those is it began, the noise stopped. visible Zorces that were still lurking on all sides of us,
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engaged in explaining to the French that curve is independent of the parabola given the Germans were muck annoyed at havby gravity. The smoother and more polish- ing their lunch interrupted. Our two ed a bullet is the less is this curve, But bombs galled forth two mines from the the action of the rifing in a gun barrel enemy, which shifted a quantity of earth putas little grooves in the bullet as it goes. but otherwise did no harm. The enemy through the barref These catch the air as then apparently returned to their meal, as the bullet rotates and causes the curve. there was silence.
epoken of..
THE EMDEN."
CARDS IN THE CATACOMBS.
Notwithstanding all efforts mada to The troops in this part of the world are
secure further relics from the German SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENTS.
particularly favoured, as in many cases they cruiser Emden there is little likelihood of Along slope after slope it was the same have enormous quarries to shelter in. These any more reaching Australia. According spectacle, and one began to realise what quarries, out in the solid rock, extend for to a statement made by the Minister good grounds our guities had for point hundreds of square yards beneath the sur for the Navy the visit of HM AS. Pro- ing with pride to the exploits of their face, and are proof against the biggest protector to the scene of the wreck at the end countrymen in carrying these positions.jectile that human wit has ever devised.
line of trenches along, From
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uf last year was fruitless. At the end of every
Tiny dickering lamps, which give scarce October, said the Minister, it was decided crest tops the Germang had a magnificently more light than a glow-worm, mark the to sond H.M.A.B. Protector to the Cocos field of fire for their riflemen and machine outline of its walls and columns. As a rule Islands to report as to the possibility of guns, and as soon as one line of trouches these Iamps are no more than a wick float salvaging the ship and to remove any gear had been carried the attacking forces found themselves confronted by a freshing in oil. But here and there the soldierstill on board that might be of any value spur, prepared with the same elaborate gather together round a candle or lamp, or interest. Commander P. Weir was given care, and guarded by similar positions on which makes things light enough for them other parallel ridges, when a terrifio es- Blading fire could be brought to bear What the French achieved in these cir- cumstances was absolutely stupendous
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to play cards, One catches glimpses of charge of the expedition and a skilled diver attached to it. This Protector left Fre them at the end of a long passage-bearded mantle early in November and reached the men, smoking hard, with their faces bent Cocos Islands on November 13th. If found intently upon their game. The play of light that the stern half of the Emden hai com. and shadow on their stained uniforms and
was still breaking over what remained of But it was, after all, in the shattered their uuded attitudes make a veritable pletely disappeared and a very heavy sea the wreckage cart up on the beach. It gave. village of the valleys that one saw Rembrat ricture. In the days of the versa best the terrific bature of the fighting in cutions the Catacombs must have looked evidence of terrific seas such as would quite these parts, If there are no longer is-ke these French quarries, and to make the count for the damage done to the wreck fantry struggles amidst the ruins of Insion complete one came across a chapel The Protector waited a week at the island Soucher.
and with an altar and its cross hewn in the solid Abain, St. Nazaire,
in hopes of getting a chance to board the Emden, but this was never for an instant No. 2 Co. (2) will drill at St. Joseph's Col. Carency, the troubles of these and other rock, unfortunate places are by no means over
possible Information was obtained from lego. yet Day after day the German shelis
local residents that no one had been near Scream into the rains, and the pounded
the wreck with the exception of a steamer No. brickwork is flung up into the sky in ciug drawings and pictures which the DRIVING PAIN.
Germans left behind 35 & memente of from Sydney with a party of kinemato whorls of dust and mud, Have you a pain anywhère in your is difficult to say which of all the therr conception of mura decoration. The graphists. It may now be considered a cer body?
places we saw produced the most power
was built here in the days of Charles de salving either the mains of the Emden Is it a little pain or a big pain? Does it ful impression upon the mind. Souvor he is anurob with a noble tower which ain that nothing more can be done towards Bourbon-Carency has been knocked into or any trophies from her, except such as torture a single nerve or does it grind and its famous sugar fact is left
charred smithereens, and, there is not an may be east ashore, plete ruin. Hardly one stone
upon the other. The bitterly other building that is not equally dishe
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As from February 20th, Pinjoon, etc! destroyed, are, perhaps, even the more plateau, the scene is already being laid LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM 1
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