THE MACEDONIAN - FLY."-
A SALONIKA MESS AND THE MARMALADE.
THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND.
OFFICIAL COMMENT.
The following appreciation of the Battle es of Jutland Bank by a competent authority is issued by the Press Bureau and placed us the disposal of the Press THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND AND WHAT IT MEANS
It is well known that nearly all our great naval battles not even excepting. Trafalgar itself-have been the subject of controversy after the event. In many cases every aspect of the action became a matter of debate--the strategy, the tac ties, the conduct of subordinate com manders, the actual way in which it was fought, and the true estimate of its re sults.
The debate was not confined to the pub- Hic or the Press. As often as not opinion was divided both ns to the facts and the
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THE PRIVATE'S POINT OF VIEW,
The eye-witness of the attack of the Ulster Division at the commencement of the British offensive in France says:
Tam not an Ulsterman, but as I follow- the amazing attack of the Ulster Divi- sion on July 1st I felt that I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything. else in the world. A
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Advices received in Serbian circles at Salonike say that the weakening of the Austrian garrisons, in Serbia bus been followed by local insurrectionary move Guerilla bands have sprung up ments. in several places, notably in the neigh bourhood of Rudnik, north-west of
My position enabled me to watch the Kragujevata. Notices offering rewards for the capture of guerilla ch'efs appeared in which they had formed up, but
commenvunent of their attack from the * TJIKINI .. daily in the Belgrade newspapers..
These risings are strongly deprecated was being overwhelmed with shell fire, so which, long before, the hour of assault, by the Serbians at Salonika, who fear that the trees were stripped and the top that Austrian vengeance will be wreaked half of the wood ceased to be anything on many innocent rural communities.
hat a slope of hire stumps, with innumer- In Montenegro the insurgent movementable shell-hopes peppered in the chalk.. spreading and resulting in a serious situ- ation for the Austrian troops, both in that country and in Albanis, their sup plies of provisions and of ammunition being frequently intercepted and cap
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Trow & WARD PRICE] Réseille is when I get up is the Temark attributed to some general who had arong views about early rising. He could not have been so positive if he had been a general in the Salonika Army, for here réveille is when the flies get up. Thy take good care of that, and their punctuality in this respect, to say nothing of their dash, fun, and, deter. mination in following up an objective, is enough, vý make the Macedonian fly a simulating example to the young soldier. The time about 4 5 o'clock on these bright June mornings, when it is already brond daylight but not yet time to get a ought really to be the pleasantest of all the hours of rest. No sooner has the morning ou flooding in through the triangle of the tent-door, brought you to 'a'voluptuous state of conscious,, repose than the frst ts of the day, with start ing sadden mess, setiles on your face.
An instantaneous and only half-consci- outwitch ends him off again as abruptable 'ght to the enemy, to attempt any-TURKEY UNDER RENEGADE Iyas if it were just a mistake. A second Later, though, and huis -back-a brief buzz as he lands, then that maddening concentrated-tickle of his six feet
conclusions among officers who were preis stated in the same quarters to be sent and had the best means of knowing Many of the discussions were premature, but many continued long after all the available facts were known, and are even still alive.
It would be idle, therefore, so soon after the late battle in the North Sea, and at a time when so little of its detail can be disclosed without giving undesir
thing like a mal appreciation. All that can be done is to point out. certain as
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the wood, and, indeed, the losses were It looked as if nothing could live in heavy before they started, two companies of one battalion being sadly reduced in the assembly trenches. When I saw the men energe through the smoke and form up as if on parade I could hardly believe?
my eyes.
Then I saw them attack, beginning at suddenly let se as they charged over the a slow walk over no-man's-land, and then
two front lines. of the enemy's trenclics shouting No surrender, boys!"
The enemy's gunfire raked them from
enfiladed them on the right, but battu-.
ects of the battle which seem to detach themselves from the mass of half-disclosed ENVER PROTECTED BY GERMAN the left and machine-guns in a village His buzzes of delight now awake the detail, and which so far as can be judged other dies sleeping in the conical tentat prent, are l'kely to remain ats sali- top. They shake themselves, prece their ent features. wing and legs complacently at the pros pect of another day of persecution and come trooping down to join him The weary soldier with a sleepy math, pull ing the blanket over his head, fights in vain for that last half-hour of drowsy Bluinber.
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lim after battalion came out of the awful NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO. wood as steadily as I have seen them at The Old Turks, who regard the mem Ballykinler, Clandeboys, OT Shaire's Seen in its broadest aspect, it standsbers of the ruling cuterie as little shuri Castle, The enemy's third 'ne was out as a case of a tactical division of the of heretics, no longer restrain their in- taken, and still the wayes went on, get Fleet, which had the effect of bringing dgnation; and, although political disting thinner and thinner, but without an unwilling enemy to battle.
Such a cassions are absolutely prohibited and
hes'tation.. method of forcing un action is drastic that all the misfortunes of Turkey are espionage aberinds, they openly declare
THE FIFTH ÉNEMY LINE. The flies have discovered that drawing and necessarily attended with risk, but due to renegade Jews and Germans (says these men, who would not be stopped. The enemy's fourth line fell before up the blacket has thrown his feet out, for great ends great risks must be taken, the Times correspondent in the Bukarest) There sema ed the fifth line. Re- and they start a diabolical tickle-dance and in this case the risk was far less upon his toes. He twists and wriggles,great than that which St. Vincent accept rent of plots among the Old Turks, who and Division, who could not withhold As might be expected, rumours are cur-presentatives of the neighbouring Corps tugs the blanket this way and that, wares fet off Cadiz, and that division gave us
lumsy hands ineffectually through the the battle of the Nile, the most complete the Young Turks and their Austrian and buaian beings could get to it until the are reported to be conspiring to massacre their praise at what they had seen, surd empty air. The excruciating titillation and least debated of British victories. German protectors. skips from one part of his body to Then the two portions of St. Vincent's nunther, and his temper is already one of Fleet were divided strategically with no black fury before he is properly awake. prospect of tactical concentration for the Réveille comes as a relief in such circum- battle.
BULUCES.
In the present case there was only an But it is culs the comparatively slow-appearance of division. The Battle Fleet witheil flies that choose tents for their was to the north, and the Battle Cruiser aren of operations; the wideawake once, Fleet to the south, but they formed in as you find when you go across to break-fact on Fleet under a single command, fast, are all in the mess, aid the result asting in combination,
They were is that your first impression of the break-actually carrying out, as they had been fact talle is that it is not set for & meal in the habit of doing periodically, a com- at all, but for a conjurer's entertainment.bined sweep of the North Sea, and Ad No food is visible. Instead, there are miral Beatty's fleet was in effect the ob- umber of objects completely hidden servation or advanced squadron, The under thick shrouds of gauze and several large dins“ turned upside down, like the measure of the risk, should he have the hollow blick boses from beneath which fortune to find the enemy at sea, was the glasses of water are made to vanish by length of the period which must
parties,
sarily slaps before the Commnuder-in- says the mess-waiter, Chief would be able to join the battle approaching the mysteriously ristediit was a risk that would be the battle
the tap of a wand at children's.
Butter,
board
One has a fascinateți feeling that mainly by the skill with which Admiral he may suddenly produce it from one of Beatty could entice the enemy northward the pockets of your tanie or offer instead without being overwhelmed by superior a whiits rabbit or bowl of goldfish drawn | force.
out of the folds of green gauze. As he In the light of this outstanding feu- pulls away the reil, however, you see ature the action will be judged, and the dish of half-melted butter, into which handling of the Battle Cruiser Fleet, and Hies spring with suicidal eagerness. You the splendid group of four battleships snatch a dripning spoonfal, the wailer that was attached to it, appraised. vigorously chases the surviving flies out again, and the butter vanishes once more beneath its shroud,
THE GOLDEN HULE,
flanks of the Ulster Division were clear- The prevailing uneasiness is increased ed. This was recognized, and the attack by the circumstance that German and on the last German line was counter- Austrian officers and functionaries aremanded. The order arrived too late; or beginning to send their families away, perhaps the Ulsterinen, mindful that it This ominious symptom may be partly was the anniversary of the Boyne, would attributable to an outbreak of cholera at not be denied, but pressed on. Stambul, owing to which quarantine bas been proclaimed here.
I could see only a small portion of this advance, but I could watch ourinen denuded of its Turkish garrison, which fire by a miracle, and I saw parties of Constantinople is almost completely work forward, seeming to escape the shell has been replaced by Austrian and Ger-them, now much reduced indeed, enter man troops, in whom, however, the the fifth line of the enemy's trenchesour Young Turks repuse more confidence than final objective. It could not be held, as in Moslem soldiers.
Anatoli and two Austrian divisions Two German divisions latterly left for have arrived. Austrian artillery is now installed on the heights of Tebamlidja, abové Skutari, eigin of To
Enver and Talast are practically main tained in power by the foreign contin- gents, of which the Austrian is estimated. at 60,000 men
18th Regiment of Bulgarian Infantry r
The journal verul states that the volted on the Greek frontier. The 45th Regiment was sent against the mutineers
and 3 sanguinary confiet ensued.
GERMAN FLEET BROKEN.
the Division had advanced into a nar row salient. The Corps on our right and the Ulsteraren were the target of the con left had been unable to advance, so that centrated hostile guns and machine-glas behind and on both flanks, though the enemy in front were vanquished and re-
front were treating, a
PRISONERS KILLED BY GERMAN FIRE, The order to retire was given, but some preferred to die on the ground they had the German two first lines, and occasion- won so hardly As I write they still hold ally batches of German prisoners are passed back over the deadly sune; over 500 have arrived, but the Ulstrymon took many more who did not survive the fire of their own German guns."
The Ulster Division has lost very heavi
ARMY NURSE AS “SOLDIER.” NOVEL POINT UNDER THE WILLS. ACT.
. When Admiral Beatty got contact with The most ticklish part of the meal. the German battle cruisers they were pro
Thus the fine combination had succeed hundreds of heroic acts that I witnesseil, My pen cannot describe adequately the though, is when it comes to helping your ceeding northward, and being inferior to ed, and the unwilling enemy had been nor how yesterday a relieving force was self to marmalute. This calls for the his force they turned to the southward, brought to action against the concon-organized of men who had already been closest co-operation between breakfaster The inference was they were either trying trated. British Fleet. They had fallen fighting for 36 hours, to carry ammuni and mess-waiter, since the most active to escape or bent on leading him into to the midst of the net which had been tion are water to the gallant garrison He reserve themselves entirely for at danger. When such a doubt occurs there drawn about them, but in the plan of the still holding on. tacks upon the marmalade. waiter twiteres off the tin conjuring box and that
As the is in the British tradition a golden rule, sweep there was inherent the inevitable
to attack the enemy in sight.imilation that the time left for completly, and in doing so has ancrificed itself yuu find underneath a smaller tj. of It was the rule that Nelson consecrated, Eng the business could but barely suffice for the Empire, The Ulster Volunteer. marmalade, whose gaping mouth is in- stantly almost blocked by greedily jout and it was good enough for Admiral There were hardly three hours of day Force, from whom the Division, was ing Has Fushing these aside with your Beatty. He engaged, and contiuned to light left, and as darkness approached made, has won a name which equals any upon you take what you want, usually gage as closely as he could till he found the action must be broken off unless a in history. Their devotion, which no burying one or two of the bolder flies at
the enemy's battle fleet coming north, needless change were to be given to the doubt has helped the advance alertbare, each spoontus, and you then have to carry Then he turned, but he did not break off enemy and his base, and there would leaves the gratitude of the British on a dort ct rearguard action with the the action. The enemy was in over
have been little hope of his escaping a de
Empire-Times, remainder until the pot is safely within | whelming, force, but, by the golden rule, cisive defeat but for the mist that robbed Its defences once more,
it was his duty to eling to them as long those who had prepared for the chunos, Menaschile other thies are attacking the as his teeth would hold They had spread and those who had seized it with so much marmalade on your plate, and as you a net for him, and it was for him to see skill and holdness, or the harvest they raise rack, jan-spread piece of bread to that they fell into the midst of it them-deserved.. your mouth you are obliged to protect itselves. It was n task that demanded some on its way by waving your right hand to courage. Yet he did not finch, but con- and fro over it in the air. The sight of tinued the fight to the northward, and It was a beaten and broken flect that i a whole mess eating bread and marmalade signalled the four Queen Elizabeths to escaped the trap; of a lot morning like this is remarkable.tarn 18 points.
It had lost many
Mr. Justice Bargravy Deane heard a They look like a party of would-be magi-
units, its gunnery had gone to picces, motion recently to prove as the will of Now was the heir of greatest risk, but and no one can blame its discretion if it cians making futile passes over their food he was well disposed for concentrating fairly ran for home and left the British within the meaning of snetica 11 of the a suldier un actual military service" in the hope of changing it into something the van of the enemy's line, and the Fleet oner mora in undisputed command Wills Act, 1837 (1 Vic, cap. 20), the will more appetising,
It is not to be supposed, however, that Commander-in-Chief was hurrying down of the North Sea.
of Ada Stanley, an Army nurse, who the dies have it all their own way. Most at full speed. For an hour and a half For that, in a word, was the result of died at Netley Hospital on December vigorous r
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aro practised upon the unequal battle raged ng Admiral them, and may be said that its own Peatty and Admiral Evan Thomas led the battle. What it was the enemy hoped 23rd, 1915.
to achieve we cannot tell. Whatever their The applicant, Misa Ada Louise Stan- high standards energy;
ingenuity, and the enemy on, before Admiral Hood could effort meant, it failed to shaks our holdley, a niece of the deceased, claimed to pertinacity are thoroughly maintained by appear with his Battle Cruiser Suadzon. the British Army in wafare with these Tho action was then at its hottest, but upon the sea, and that is what really be the executrix according to the tenor matters. We have fought many indeci of a soldier's will" contained in a let Admiral Hood, without a moment's hesi sive actions, but few in which the strate ser to her from Miss Ada Stanley, dated ever-present enemies.
Fortunately even flies must sleep, and tation, and in a manner that excited the gical result was so indisputable, few October 8th, 1915, in which Miss Ada at night they cease from troubling. But high admiration of all who were pri which more fully freed na of all fear of Stanley disposed of her estate. then, just when the flies go to sleep, the vileged to witness it, placed his ships in what the enemy's fleet could do. It is anosquito wakes; 'up,
Mr. W. O. Willis appeared for the ap ling ahead of Admiral Beatty'a squadron. No admiral ever crowned an all too short such standards that bistory judges plicant; and Mr. J. Harvey Murphy for career more devotedly or in a manner ctories, and by such standards the various next-of-kin.
country cherished the memory of the men more worthy of the name he bore.
that prepared and won them. Current opinion will always prefer the test of comparative losses. Let this be applied, and it will be found that the battle off Jutland will well hold its own against all but a few of our most famous vic tories-none of which we obtained on first attempt.
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Mr. Willis read a letter from the War Office which showed that Miss Ada Stan- ley received her orders to embark on October 5th, 115, three days before she wrote the letter which was now pro- pounded as a soldier's will."*.*.
ADMIRAL JELLICOE'S TASK. With his fine manoeuvre the risk was in measure reduced, but there still re- mained the more delicate work of the Grand Fleet effecting its junction and
Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane-As she The attention of the Minister of Muni entering the ill-defined action. With the
had received her orders to sail on Octo- tions has been drawn to the fact that per exact position of the enemy's feet
ber 5th and actually sailed on October sistent ramours, possibly of enemy origin, shrouded in smoke and in the gathering From another aspect it in clear the 10th, I think that that covers the ground, are in circulation as to the danger to the mist the danger of interference was very battle can rank beside any in our history and I am prepared to hold that her letter life of men and wonten employed at Na-great, and before the Commander-in-In the fringes of the fight, in the work, was a privileged will within section 11 of tional Filling Factories. These rumours Chief lny a task as difficult as any ad; that is, of cruisers, light cruisers, and the Wills Act, 1837. I do not quite know are most misleading, and are affecting miral could be called upon to perform. destroyers, officers and men had chances whether to regard her as a soldier or a the labour supply at the new factories. To the last moment he kept his Fleet in much ax their ancestors never knew, and sailor
Dr. Legge and Dr. Collis, his Majesty's steaming order so as to preserve up till they seized them with all the daring, the Mr. Murphy submitted that there was Medical Inspectors at Factories under the the end the utmost freedom of deploy-skill, and the devotion that the greatest a difficulty in regarding her as a sailor, Home Office, have authorized the issue of ment, but by what precise manoeuvres of their predecessors could have hoped as she was under contract with the War the following official contradiction of the deployment was carried out must for From the vigorous offensive against the Office and was not
9 when the sach rumours--
High explosives may cause.
cbvious reasons be left in a mist as deep enemy's cruisers, which cost Admiral Ar- letter was written skin as that which was hiding all that was buthnot his life, to the least conspicuous Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane.I do irritation; this, however, is not a danger most important for him to know. Suffice of the destroyer exploits, all was of the not think it very much matters. She to life and does not persist when the work it to say that the junction was effected same pattern. It is impossible to read was appointed by the War Offico to serve as discontinued or changed. T.N.Tith consummate judgment and dexterity.of what they did and what they failed to at sea. I shall treat her as a soldier the explosive which may cause illness, but So nicely was it timed that the deploy-do without feeling there is one thing at being on actual military service. out of the many thousands coming intement was barely completed, when at 8.15 least which the battle has given us and The learned Judge accordingly granted contact with it, the number seriously, fatally attacked has been limited to a fer pm the First Battle Squadron came into that is the assurance that the old spirit isolated caseR. Strict observance of the action with the enemy, who had by that is still alive and vigorous. It is able and precautions laid down and use of the or time turned to the eastward and was willing to do all the old Navy could do, fective means provided at National Fill- already attempting to avoid action. and the battle of Jutland as we now sug Factories should ensure safety.
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