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Wake up, Jimmy Wake up! Stand President Wilson's diplomatic victory in the controversy between the United States
Blowly the meaning of the words dawned and Germany on the sinking of the
A scation of trench which I have visited on mo It seemed hours age that someone Lusitania was so sane announced than Germany put forward another plea to allow has been the starting point of the finest and had shakes me roughly, and now there was her submarines to continue their piracy Crispest cutting-out expedition [a trench no one shout, and the dug-out" was in She presented a Meinrandum to the repre.id] in the war. Exactly how it was ne absolute dress. I looked as my watch sentatives of the neutral Powers at Berlincomplished and how various the results it was just after six. Quickly sipping aff in complaint of the perfectly legitimate and were it is not necessary to say, but I am a pair of sandbags, which I had pulled over long-practised right of our merchantmen allowed to give some of the more human my legs the night before, I orawled out to carry gurs for defence against attack,
most dashing and well-into the trench. A thin drizzle had made This argument used to justify a threatened and attack, in which the Germans everything sling and sticky. In many places there were six inches of wafer at the outbreak of submarine warfare is that Brislost in the proportion of some 60 to 1.
foot of the trench; and everywhere there tab merchant versiols have been armed to
mud I was wearing a sheepskin coat, was a thick layer of greasy, evil-smelling large scarf, and a Balaclava helmet; but for all than I was bitterly cold, a
In the front line everything was hurry and bustle. officer on duty for the company had gone A few minutes before the along, waking the other officers and warn
attack Gorman submarines, and have done
In the circumstance Germany declares that she will treat all armed inorchatmen a belligerent ships-that is attack them at sight, and warns neatrals, she did before the attack on the Lusitania, not to
ail in them.
Germany has thus raised again the whole question of submarine warfare as affecting
neutrals. A
TEXT OF THE MEMORANDUM.
detail of this
The night was, pitch-dark when two parties of British soldiers slipped over the parapets. As they left they shook hands with their general, who gave them God speel and saw them dance off with the gaiety of schoolboys," They were hilari ous at the prospect. They had stood in trenches off and on for two months doing the journeyman and not exciting work of war. At last they were slipped from the krash on a venture really worth a journey
to France.
“Right. Then send out Lance Corporal
Thompson and two mon, from No. 3 Section, I shall warn the men not to fire at thes Hurry up as it'll be light soon
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Mr. Walter Long has been telling an American journalist-Mr. F. A. Wray, of to New York Tribune-how the war is The President of the Local Government affooting life in Englands he sees it. Board sees. old boundary lines disappear ing: noither socially, politically, nor indus. triaily will the country be the same after the war.
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the N.C.Os, of each platoon. And new commands. I walked along to my right the latter were turning out their respective tion, where I found the men busy getting The men were selected men, all athletes on their equipment, In a few seconds every- According to a Berlin telegram, the Ger- Most of them could kill a man with their into the darkness ahead I went slowly who would not be seen smoking anything or experts in some game or occupation one was standing on the firing-step, lookingly takes a penny omnibus. Another man man Government on Feb. 10th handed o Memorandus to the diplomatic representat, if they had no weapon," as an admires down my platoon. On the way I was join but expensive egars now walks the streets tives of the neutral Powers at Berlin con said. But the eagerness was wore remarked by my platoon sergeant,
smoking a pipe." cerning the treatment of armed merchantable than the muscle. The fight they were
"Did you hear them shells about two sels. The Memorandum sayA { ---
spoiling for had come at last. Though the o'clock, er? Some big stuff landed just in Already before the outbreak of the pre- detail of the attack was planned, some wise front of our parapet. wang war the British Government, gavo Eng. and characteristic individual liberty was Yes, I heard it, but could not make fish shipowners an opportunity to equip given. Each man was permitted-was, in-out where it was going Any damage to their merchant vessia with guns. The deed, asked to carry the instrument or the wirel Government was willing to placs at the weapon that he preferred Bony chose thag "I can't say, sir,
I've been trying to disposal of shipowner guns, afficient am of Richard Cour de Lion some of Her-see, but It's rather difficult from the munition, and the personnel necessary for cules. One man put in a special plea for a trench." drilling gun crews. British shipowners 2b. hammer. It seems that in his trade rodily complied with the suggestion of the ho had been used to wielding a 2lb, ham Admiralty
Soon after the outbreak of wir Gomaner, and he fele that in the night time in war German strange, trench it would feel familiar. ruisers established the fact that British Bould come up nerly," as they say of a liners were armed, The British Govern ericket bat. So his request was granted, ment, so far as its own inerchant vessels end the efficacy of his choice was, I under-for a front-line trench in about the warra-blown in for a distance of some yards. A ABAKAN... were concerned, was of opinion, that such stand, well proved before the dawn, ships maintained the character of pescefal
est corner of France, Away on the right braken r.fe and song stains of blood show- How the gap, which exceeded a hundred we could hear an incessant bombardmented that the occupants of that sector had not merchant vousels as long as they carried yards, wat crossed, how the wires were cut, going on. "Probably the French down all escaped, their arms only for purposes of defence, how the German sentries-one of there suf- South" said the commander of No In accordance therewith the British Amfering to his peri) from a backing cough platoon, as we met at the ends of our re basador at Washington, in a letter dated were tricked, and how the trench was entorpective sectors As the light grew the August 23, 1914. gave the American Goyed, may be left to the imagination, All was Huds started to snipe with commendable erament fur-reaching assurances that Bri tish merchant vessels had never been armed done as arranged. Early on Monday morn- perseverance, and bullets kept whistling for purposes of attack, but solely for de of the front German trench, a deep, well-
ing the two parties entered, each its part over almost incessantly, face, and that therefore, they would never made trench. More than this--it was very stand down," and everyone was free, ex- A few arinutes later word came along to firo unless they had been attacked first On the other hand, for armed vessels under
strongly heldIt seemed full of men. other flags the British Government brought down end standing to attention, man crawl-the trenches or trying to detect the least Apart from sentries walking up and for the day sentries staring through their periscopes at the barren waste be ween: forward the principle that they should be treated as war vessels.
ed out from dugouts in their sleeping movement behind the low sandbag parapet Rear,, cloaked with blankets and in their some two hundred yards in front of them, lockinged feet. As soon as the alarm was The worst hout of the twenty-four was given all sorts and kinds of coloured lights over, and the more fortunate majority were were set up by the enemy, and rifle, and free to soep, Unluckily however I was machine guns rattled out along the line, now on duty until nine o'clock. - But nothing made any difference to the Perhaps the quieter time of the whole men in those crowded reaches of the trench day in the trenches is the period from where the hand-to-hand fighting took place stand-down" until about nine o'clock. and each man was plying his favourite tool. and I therefore found myself with little to Das officer, after using up all the dips of do. The rain had stopped, and there was cartridges which he had taken for his re-igns of a fine day. The niping was no volver, noized a German rifle rushed on longer troublesome, and even the distant group of men hehind A traverse and shelling had died down. At about eight the bayoneted three. He himsel escaped soot buzz of an aeroplane, growing louder and free. All the bombs were spent in a few louder, sounded overhead, Suddenly the minutes, some thrown into the trench, some German anti-aircraft, guns opened fire. All along it, some into dug cats. A short and round the aeroplane, Ettle more than a sharp time-limit had been set to this ven- speck in the sky, white puffs of smoke ture.
showed where the shrapnel were bursting. Soop the heavens became speckled with a baadred. little clouds, as the gallant avia tor, regardless of the shells sailed up and Is worth an age without a name. down the enemy lines: At length, satisfied The crowded hour" within the trench with his reconnaissance, the pilot turned was limited. At the due moment the men round and made all speed for the acro cleared for home. Immediately the Ger- | drame, bare handed a mans lit a great flare and the neighbour-A-dull rumble miles behind the German bood became as light ay n town street. But trenches, followed immediately by a shriek the machine gun, had been blown up and
The German Government does not doubt that merchant vessels by being equipped with guns acquire a warlike character whether the gus serve for defeno, only er also for attack. The German Government considers any warlike activity on the part of the enemy merchant vessels to be con trary to international law, though it takes into consideration also the contrary con ception by treating the crews of such vessels nos as pirates but as belligerents: Some neutral Powers concurred in the British view, while others were of the opposite opinion, and held the armed merchant vesels of belligerents to be subject to the neutrality law which are in foroo as re gards war vessels,
In the course of the war the arming of British merchant vessels, was carried out
on a more general scale. From the reports of the Gorman naval forces numerous cases havo become known of British merchant vessels not only offering prmed resistanc to Gorman war vessels, but even of attack ing them without hesitation under the ro peated use of false colours,
ALLEGED SECRET ADMIRALTY ORDERS. A list of such alleged cases, which, as is sserted, comprises only a part of the at tacks made by merchant vessels, is append ed to the Memorandum and is alleged to prove that the attitude of British merchant vousule has been imitated by the merchant warive of Great Britain's "Allies. Nine been cases, Baid to have occurred between April 11, 1915, and January 17, 1916, are contained in the list...
The Memorandum then tries to explain the attitude of the armed British merchant vessels by publishing alleged secret direc tions issued by the British Admiralty, stated to have been seized on board Bri tish steamers by German vessels, and con tinnes: the
Theso directions regulate in detail the rules for artillery attacks by British merchantmen on German submarines. They contain exact regulations regarding the treatment and control of British gun crew on board merchantmen, who, for instance, when in neutral ports, are not allowed to wear their uniforms which make them out as belonging to the British Navy.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life
part of the interval was dead ground. The marauders escaped from the trench and made for home with such lucky speed that not a onn was touched, One group must be excepted. They were conducting German prisoners and one of our wounded. Tho passage took more time and during the German prisoners were killed and two of our men wounded. Immediately after the men's return our artillery had turned on to the German trench where the fighting had been, and soon the enemy's artillery began a purely fruitless reprisal,
How many Germans were killed cannot ́be known for certain. Men returning from such a passionate fight can scarcely count cooly; but come individual tales are known, and all left with the impression that they abandoned a trench filled with dead Cer- tainly the official estimate is careful and modest, Of the prisoners taken some, as I have said, were killed by the fire of their own men.-Daily Mail.
Above all, it can be perceived from this that these armed vessels are not to wait any worlike action by German submarines,ing but are to attack them at once. The great
cep stress is laid upon keeping secret these ordera, which do not only apply to the naval war zone around Great Britain, but are unlimited as regards the sphore of activity, and this is obviously done in order to hide the attitude of merchantmen which is contrary to international laws, and in fall contradiction to British assurances to the enemy and neutrals
It is now proved that armod British ner.. chantmen have an official order treacher ously to attack German submarines whore ver they meet them, thng meang meroitasa'y to wage war against them, As British sea rules have been adopted by Great Britain's Allies without hesitation, this proof must she be regarded as established as regards armed merchantmen of other belligerent States.
their persons or properties to armed orchanting of Powers at war with the German Empire,
AN IMMEMORIAL RIGHT.
overhead, was the first warning of the early morning hate." I heard the shell pass well overhead, and, looking back over the parades, I saw a huge cloud of debris rising into the air son half-mile to our rear. Then came the report, a pa
Their target was evidently the already battered chimney of a distillery; but their first shot hud fallen short Another shell followed after a few seconds ard the fourth attempt hit the poor old chimney fair and square, They were using very heavy guns, so that I was not surprised when the cloud of earth and brickdust had subsided to see only a stump remained. After the shells come hurrying over one after the other, and an area some hundred of yards round was thoroughly searched. A very noisy and expensive preceeding..
A WASH AND BREAKFAST, At nine o'clock I was relieved, so I went back to my "dug-out," and sent my ser vant with an empty biscuit tin to a mine close by where water could be got. After as thorough a wash as circumstances allow ed I went round to the company com mander's "dug-out, which we used as a mess, Here I found the servants getting
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" Sponge's Sporting Tour." long book, full of humour or incident, which you can read in driblets, is the great- est comfort at the front, About three o'clock the Huns began to send over rifle grenades, probably to silence some snipers on our right. The groundes boầng in- effective, they tried their trench martars. Now the ordinary trench mortar bomb is quite useless against a "dug-ont," so no- body minded much, except the sentries, who were unable to take abelter, Boon, however, a terrific explosion just over the parapes annguaced the fratrum-jor, a huge trench mortar bomb containing any- thing over a hundred pounds of gun- powder. This was the las, straw and wo promptly telephoned for artillery support. Within seven minutes we were left in penou while British she is were shrieking and whilst ng on rhad,
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After supper we had a consultation about the work for the night, and each offi- cer was allotted his two hours of duty. I had from four to six. Then the company ran over the work for each platoon
" You will provide the listening post to- night, Jamas one N.C.O., and five men, They should be out at half-port six. You'll also have to repair your wire according to that report; we can't leave it any longer." I went ent and saw my platoon sergeant. "You've got the listening post told off, Sergeant We'ch?*
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Then we shall want a working party to mend the wire, four men and a langs comporal. Telj off som, lance-corporal who TELEPHONE NO. SIF understands wire entanglements. The re maining men available will be for draining and bricking the floor of Shaftesbury Avenue,' that's the trench running from the front line to Oxford-street. They can work in one hour shifts The men who went down for the rations need not work to-night.
THE TIME FOR WORK. After that I sent out my listening post, and the working parties got busy. The night is the time for work in the trenches; hours of hard and most necessary work. Draining a communication trench is a simple enough job; but mending wire is a dangerous and, difficult task, when the enemy are alert. However, my party escaped notice, and returned unmolested.
Once ay enemy patrol was seen, and all our machine-guns and the German ones. the sentries near opened £re. Then both
took up the firing. The "no man's land " was hit by many pistol lights, and the work patrol seemed to have disappeared the Bri- ing party lay still and shivered. As tho
fish soon grased fire, and the enemy, seeing no targer, followed suit, Then all was ciont again,
In a few minutes we were all ready the captain and four subalterus (we and not The Times Naval Correspondent writes: dug-out" was quite large, with plenty The had a second captain for months). As early in the war as September 28,
of room for the table beds. These, together 1914, and subsequently, I have shown that merchant ships have been armed from time with two or three ammunition boxes com immemorial, and their right to rest cap-level the dug-out" was fairly shell-proof; pleted the Forniture, Well below the tronal titro had never been disputed, until the Germans began to make their numeroas
in fact nothing short of a direct hit from a efforts to undermine our power at sea. In very heavy shell could have harmed the the part, overy merchant ship went armed. occupants. It was, however, damp, and
and a Royal Proclamation of 1672 jstract always cold. The cooking was done by our 4 As 1 turned in at eleven fofolock a cor- ed them to assist and defend each other servants in the trench outside; and we had poral reported s casualty in his accron. against any enemy if attacked, to which a breakfast of bacon and eggs and tea, fol Stopped a stray ballet while on centry,” end they were to be well provided with lowed by a plentiful supply of bread and he said. Killed him outright. It seems to muskete, anual shot, hand granudes, marmalade I had been on the ge from Jave gone right through " 'ood." and ethor ammunition. I have before six o'clock, with only a cup of hot coffee. I gave instruction for the disposal of the pointed out that the historical evidence since last night's supper, so I was way body, and turned into my ́ ́ dug-out.” Or fa support of the practice is overwhelming, glad of my breakfast During the meal we the whole we had had a lucky day; only and it is inconceivable that the Brite discussed the doings of the night before... | Rive casunities in that company was quite (lovernment should make any concession in the usual breakfast topio in the trenches, good for that particular piece of trench,
At half-post nine I inspected the rifles of; In five bours I would be pu led out again my platoon, sang that each man was pre- to go on duty. But what did it matter t perly dressed and equipped and that the We had only two daya more, and then beck trenches were clean and tidy, or clean to billets. I turned over sleepily. A few. as they could be got, at least. Then, after minutes after there was a loud explosion, visiting a working party, which was maki and the ground gave a sight quiver † them ing a noy ammunition store, I turned in a burst of riffs and the crash of shells. for a short sleep
Someone having trouble with a mine. Thank goodness it is too far off for us to bare tortun pat I thought as I dozed off again - Daily Chrom ele, me
THE NEW POLICY, The Memorandum concludes:- In view of the aforesaid circumstances this direction des enty merchartmen carrying ng ang not After painting out that the Alied Gov- entitled to be regarded as peaceful merernments cannot be expected to suffer and chantmen. The Geroan naval forces, the Germans to profit by the contention therefore, after a short interval [when that the introduction of submarine, war ended on Mar. 1st.-Ed.] in the interest of fare has altered the relative status of an neutrals, will receive sa order to treas such ormed merchant ship, he urges vessels as belligerents The German Gov- Let the belligerente abide by the require orament notifies neutral Powers of this ments of international law, which prescriba state of affairs in order that they may be one method ualythat of detention, visit. able to warn their subjent, before entrustend search,
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