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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19TH 1976.
2,000
PRISONERS THIRD BATTLE FOR YPRES Lles in the ground to not coalesce and
BRITISH FOR POLAND,
On the 18th at 11.95.-Pressure bss in- creared slightly in all districts, except over Formers, Luzon, Porues and Cochin China GERMAN RETALIATORY MEASURE, where it has decimated slightly.
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A White Paper (Cd. 8200) has been issued coutaining Correspondence pe A feble arti ege'one lies kotween the Borina
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The whorn depression has moved eas' wardile United States Ambassador, and a Nate Ferbole from the German Govern ment in regard to the employment of prisoners of war,
it in now cutral to the nei th of Berned,
Hongkong rainfall for ze notes ending a 10 am. to-day, 000 incb. Total since 1st January, 6241 luches against an average of 4579 Lichen.
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In a memorandum dated April 4 Sir Edward Grey announced: ---
HEROIC STAND OF THE CANADIANS.
t.c
none where every sort of structure on the earth's surface is not a shapeless Jump of ruin, you will have some idea of what
1.
THE RUSSIAN RIDE TO THE TIGRIS.
the latest type of artillery bombardment DARING ADVANCE THROUGH THE
menus.
DEFENCE OF MAPLE COPSE.
It is quite certain that the Germans had no idea that any human bring could have lived through their artillery attack. not charging, but with full kit and in When the infantry advanced they came, regular formation, as if to grupy un- They paid for it. T's ceerd in at least two places - in Sanctuary Wood next day, win our en pashed through in the counter;, attack, they found the ground envered with German dead, and the deferes and successful holding of the position at Maple Cope was one of the first in cidents of this or any other fight.
It is how posible, from the murratives of those who were engaged in it, furnish a description of the early stages the pressalient, of the fighting on which began on June 2nd (Says The Times special correspondent at British Headquarters). The enemy opphed his at tack on about 3,000 yards of our frontonanted ground. line running from slightly south of Hooge to north of Hill co, and, in spite of the counter-attacks, most gallantly pressed, of the Canadians on June 3rd, have he remains in possession of the greater part of the ground which was lost the previous day. Four days later the Gor mans atneked our positions at and north
There was a position here held by "C" of Hooge, and captured the front line trenches which ran through what remains of that such-fright for village. Our Company of a certain battalion. To the front line, therefore, now runs behind troops in reserve, no less than to the the village of Huge, so that this extreme enemy, it seemed that the whole place point of the Ypres salient has been flat-must be obliterated, and that one of came from it as the German infantry tened in, and what was its outermost the defenders could survive. angle is now in German hands.
attack began, and an effort was made to send up wither company to help, or rather, to take the ruined place over;-
**His Majesty's Government decided to transfer a number of Ger- man combatant prisoners of war from internment camps in the United King dom to France, in order that they may be available for employment in the intter country. The first batch will be dis. patched to Rouen on April 3, and, will consist of 20 prisoners. They will be employed on work at the port. A second afch will be sent to Havre, at a later date for similar employment.
These are the only German prisoners of war who are being sent out of the United Kingdom for the present. They will be engaged under British supervi- xion in clearing cargo ships of gods, other than munitions of war, in order to relieve the congestion of the ports, or on other work which does not include the handling in any way of munitions of
war.
A further memorandum, dated April 27. announced that...
No shots
All that we are now concerned with is the original' attack of June 2nd. What ever its future developments may be, it
From the other side the Germans enmo on to take possession, carrying bonibs in has already grown to be mych the big- gest engagement that there has been on the British front since Loos, and for the case, any shred of resistance remained, Canadians, who were almost exclusively There was a shred. The defenders wait concerned, it has been the heaviest fighted in silence until the enemy was almost ing that they have done in the whole war. It has throughout boen of the most sanguinary character,
MOUNTAINS,
Mr. Edmund Candier, writing from
June 5th the Front, Mesopotamia, un saysThe officers of the Cossacks who. Persia to join up with Sir Percy Lake's rode from General Baratoff's for in forecs in Mesopotamia were lately in- vited to Barn to meet Sir Percy Lake and were gorated with the Military Cross by order of the King
The Cossacks' ride across country was a fino and daring achievement, an ex
our Allies Irdness, trene test of
22 mountainous territory, mobility, and resource. Their route took
lun acros which has been a familiar landmark on... the plains where we have been fighting The country for the last few months. traversed was rough and precipitous, and the track often difficult for mules. They forces were likely to be encountered at crusse passes over 8,000ft high. Enemy. any monent, as these hills are infested with warlike tribes, whose attitude at the best might be described as deridedly doubtful.
Ho Their guide was untrustworthy. roused their suspicions by constant at- tempts to mislead them, and eventually rope he fmd to point the way with a round his neck, Severtheless, they met with no actual opposition during the within bombing distance, and then, so whole journey, other than a few stray
shots at long range.
For transport They travelled light. deadly was the fire that at the first vol ley the enemy dropped their bombs and fed. A second time they came on, and they had less than one pack animal for These carried ammunition, The place 10 men.
tent for officers. again were driven back. thereafter was battered by artillery and cooking pals, and a drenched with rifle fire; but when night Otherwise beyond a few simple 28 The they stood up in, and they lived on tha full C Company was still in possessaries they had no other kit than what Fodder. and she from the villagers. Sion and the ground is cars now,
and fuel were always obtainable. For point throughout the day was among
country, purchasing barley, flour, rice, ambulance they had only ane assistant: those killed towards the end.
surgeon, provided with medical wallets, but none of these Cossacks fell sick
They are a hard lot. Their last march, was one of 30 miles, during which five-of on the parched desert, and they reached
How suddenly the attack began iş shown by the fact that. General Mercer and General Williams, who are among the ***Seven hundred and fifty German missing, had gour inte the front trenches because it was a clear and quiet morn prisoners were dispatched to Bouen on the 8th inst., 700 to Harre on the 28th, ing slutable for observation. When ing whilst a further party of 600 will be dissen by our men, General Mercury captain who had led the defence at this patched to the latter place on May 6 for ng badly from shock, and was quite Staff and guarding troops accompanied deaf, as a result of shells bursting near the party on each occasion. The treat him, but he was, so far as is known, ment of a camp" in France will be untouched. precisely similar to that which obtains in England."
General Williams, with
HOW THE CANADIANS RAN." More hopeless, but even more splen whom was Colonel Usher, had been didly dramatic, were some of the scenes slightly weanded in the head. Both benzeted along the trenches. After the
OBLITERATING ARTILLERY FARE.
Upon receipt of the news of these steps, taken shelter in a well-protected dug-out long bombardment the enemy heralded their horses died of thirst or exhaustion the Germans on May 10 replied, that the known as The Tube," and they appear his infantry attack by blowing up some military authorities had ordered:- to have been there when the Germans mines, besides the wreckage they wrought i camp after nightfall. Yet, after a din-
"The transfer of 2,000 English pri-cane into the trench. soners of war from the German camps. LG the parts of Russian territory in the ormation of the German troops. Thest prisoners will be put to work under the same conditions as those that obtain in the case of the prisoners transferred from England to France'
To this Sir Edward Grey, having in the meantime arranged for inspections by representatives of the United States Ambassador in Paris of the depôts in France to which the Cerman prisoners had been sent, wrote in reply, on May
Sir E. Grey will therefore be greatly obliged if the United States Arabassador Berlin can be requested to be good
The ride of the Cossacks establishing direct contact between the Russian forea in Persia and the British force on the
both sides of the frontier, whe draw their Tigris has impressed the tribesmen on own conclusions.
ARMY PENSION CHANGES
were singing and dancing' all night, in our positions at that particular pointner which was given in their honour, also caused considerable loss of life. The and did not turn in till one o'clock in actual advance of the infantry from the the morning. The narratises of all the battalions in trenches was preceded and partially concealed. by smoke barrage. To the the front line tranties agree as to the snědenness with which the bombardment dazed and broken remnants of the men in began over the whole area attacked, anel
Of visible until he was close at hand. the terrible, and, so far as this front our trenches, then, the enemy was not is concerned, the unprecedented severity ne battalion few of the men who res with which it continued, without interrup mained had any rifles left that were fit tion, for over four long hours before the for us even if the men had been fit to
The weapon
use them. But when they saw the. infantry attack was mad which the Germans are now chiefly using enemy coming and close at hand they gun climbed from the trenches to meet thei is the 5-9, but every other sort was employed, including heavy howitzers, and, some blind and deaf and staggering, naval guns, and trench mortars. with
they charged inagnificently but pitfully ALLOWANCE FOR MEN DISCHARGED OWING TO high explosive, shrapnel and lachry to their death with no weapons but broken ville bats, bits of entrenching
An Army Order was issued by the War matory shells.
Office Jast month as follows:---- tools, and in some cases their fistu. do not know where in way you will look for a more tragical or more thrilling It is of such men that the German opisode.
her of prisoners taken was small because the enchay ran away. The mason why few prisoners were taken was because the Canadians fought to the last with a pride of spirit which the Germans do bare not know, against guns and rifles and
rilles and
enough to inform the German Govern- In a position such as this, at the angle bents that his Majesty's Government of a salient, the pince attacked can be assume that the arrangements in regard to the internment and inspection of the subjected to a concentrated fire from ail risoners of war transferred irons the sides, but, quite apart from this local condition, the immense weight of artil- United Kingdom and Germany respeclery now used, in proportion to their unique foully says that the num tively to French and Russiari territory will be strictly reciprocal, and to take size, in all attacks on this front has given the requisite steps to ascertain at, as the fighting of the last few weeks a new early a date as may be possible the dis- character. Artillery fire is not now used tricts, to which British prisoners are to merely to demoralize the enemy or break sent, the work on which it is proposed up formations. It is used to annihilate, that they shall be employed, and whe her to obliterate every form of defensive
homus, with broken atisfactory facilities will be afforded to work, and make life itself impossible on
I hands. embers of his Excellency's staff to visit every yard of the ground attacked. the working camps when desirable. will not labour the point for the benefit
The story of the death of Colonel A. E. Shaw will illustrate how the Canadian Sir E. Grey ventures to express the of the makers of munitions at home.
After the horrors hope that it may be found possible to What 1 desire now is to make it thor
Colonel Shaw arrange for an inspection of the British oughly understood that this is the Mounted Rifles rau. prisoners very shortly after their arrival general rule, the formula, of all attacks of the long bombardment, when the in- at their destination, and he would sag nowadays, and that, in this particular fantry attack
battalion at a certain place amid a gest for Mr. Gerard's consideration that case, it was this kind of fire which the nagel to rally a small party of his it might prove of great advantage if one Canadians had to stand and take hour of the doctors now attached to his Ex-ufter hour, without any possibility of jumble of ruined arthwork of what had There is no one been trench parapet and dug-outs, ellency's staff could be delegated towing rifle in reply. reside for this purpose at some place in shades of a difference of opinion as to Here they fought, as well as ever men Russian territory under German occa the fact that no hours ou earth could fought, till only a few survived and the pation so long as British prisoners of have behaved with greater steadiness or lonel himself was killed. With these war are interned in that territory."
more admirable gallantry than they did. last a major tried to retire and two
sot brine. It is not desirable to mention ragi- ments or brigades by name or to indivi- dualize battalions by their true numbers, There is the tale of a captain who,
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GALLANTRY OF OFFICERS AND MEN.
DISEASE.
A European soldier discharged in further service on account of disense not consequence of the present war as unit for directly and wholly due to war service, but aggravated by it, may be granted & pension equal to four-fifths of the pen- sion, including allowances for children, which would have been awarded to him under Articles 1 to 3 of Our Warrant of the 21st day of May, 1915, if his dis- to war service. ability had been due directly and wholly
"If more favourable to him than pension under the above article, he inay be granted instead a pension, under the terris of Article 1,162 of Our Warran of the lat December, 1914, for the Pay tive Pay of Our Army, but only the addi Appointment, Promotion,, and Non-effe
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The rates of pension provided in thi count in assessing the amount
as from 1st March, 1915, or date of di charge if later, in all cases of soldie disabled throughout the present war fro its commencement."
Our Warrant, including the reduce allowances for children, may be grante
yond saying that the troops engaged fuding himself in command of a rem- trenches were all gone. The fragment
f rheumatism, the greatest eremy to the included units of the Princess Patricia'snant, some slightly wounded, all dazed his company was told to fall back, b
peace of man,
You can do it.
As evidence of this you have but to con ider any one of the thousands of cures that have been effected by the use of
ght Infantry, the Canadian Mounted and deafened, and mostly without fleche refused. He had got his private h Rifles, the Royal Canadian Regiment,tive arms, ordered them to go back and,pital there, and one of the wounded p He vates was a pal from his own small toj and the Candian Infantry. The morthern when they protested, made them go.
in far Saskatchewan. So he stayed w end of the line attacked, just south of stayed till the last man was gone, und Hooge, was held by the Patricias, and the others, looking back, saw him empty his pal..
A SPLENDID STORY, AND ITS MORAL. here, in the Sanctuary Wood, was fight his revolver at the advancing enemy, then LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM
ing of the most desperate kind. Thefing it in the faces of the Germans and
It is all a dreadful story to have Many of those cured were told by their wood" now is a mere ghost of what himself leap after it. slaysicians that there was no hope. They
tell, but a splendid one. Long after issues of minor engagements in this had resigned themselves to lives of rack the name implies There is little green-
aro forgotten, and when everybody ing torture painfilled hours of woe and ery or shelter; nothing but a certain misery.
They had not thought relief mnant of ragged stumps and bits of To the south, occupy: possible. Then they heard of LITTLE'S splintered boles. ORIENTAL BALM With every ing the middle of the ground covered
ceased to care whether at any mom ground or a mile of trench, the mern of bow the Canadians fought aga application their pain grew less, their by the enemy's concentrated fure were but
we goined or lost a hundred yards
swellings went down, their joints talions of the Canadian Mounted Rifles straightened out they were free-free as Here the trenches are out on the flat in a gallantry and steadiness with which the hopeless odds near Hoogs will be rem region where the soil at a few feet below supports came up through the barrage, bered, and Canada and the Empire the furfuer becomes water, so that defen-going, through death with nothing but be proud, for generations to come. sive works of any depth, capable of re-death and the chance of helping a con- the men whose deeds I have menti sisting modern shell fire, are impraerade beyond, was magnificent beyond and of their no less gallant comra
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HELL OVER THE WHOLE 'LINE."
Of one battalion only one officer, of the machine-gua section, survived unwounded. The losses in the two supporting batta ions were less heavy than those of the from the first, and they say that the battalions which were in the front line
words.
Nor will. Canada or the Empire ever Nor does anyone claim that the officers get what every neutral in the w
men. should be told to-day-how the Ger behaved any better than the It was all hell-there is no other word Whenever the higher officers were killed called these man cowards.
In conclusion, there is one point for it over the whole line; hell minate the N.C.O. took command with promp by minute and hour after hour, and pottitude and couiness. Of a group of 20 must be recurred to. It is the eu only over the front line itself, but in stretcher-bearers with one part of the of guns, guns, guns. It must not be the region behind, where lay the place fores five were killed, and those ought rosed at home that the overwhel known as Maple Copsey Observatory, to have been killed 50 times. The sur character of the artillery Gro in Ridge, and Armagh Wood. Each one of these names will be written large in his viving oficers give, great praise to the battle of Hooga or Ypres, or wha tory The lines in front of these were signallers, who did their best to keep it comes to be called, was due to thị held then by a battalion of the Canadian communication going, and the mortality advantages inseparable from s Mounted Rifles, and other battalions among them was as heavy as among any and was exceptional. came up later to assist them through the barrage, and few things finer, it is said, were ever soen in war than the way in which they came.
other branch.
It would been exceptional last year. The every evidence that it will bo n hereafter.de
As for the innumerable gallant deeds done by men in the ranks, one deserves
It was by a private No standards by which we may h to be recorded,
Under the awful fore have measured our needs in
It is not easy to convey to one who has from Saskatchewan. not seen it, or the effects of it, what such artillery fire to which there was no reply and ammunition are now of any us A bombardment, as was concentrated hereing with rifles, ho had busied himself in just as from the beginning of its state implies. Most people in Eugland now caring for the wounded, and had band condition this wer has differed fr have some ides of a Zeppelin bomo. If aged one officer, two non-commissioned other wars, so, in the scope of the you can imagine Zeppelin bombs drop others, and two privates, and was look ground operations and in the st ping at a rate of scores to the minute ing after them as well as he could be-ous scale on which the artillery over every sore of a given area, con hinds forlorn bit of battered sandbag massed and used, the later phase 64.d.3tinuing unceasingly for hours, until be breastwork out to the open, for the war differs on less, widely fre
(Continued on next Column.) fore the end there is no spot where the
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