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IMMENSE STRENGTH OF THE GERMAN DEFENCES IMPREGNABLE TO ANY "TROOPS. LESS HEROIC THAN QURS, Describing the opening of the recent Kreat British offensive in France, The The correspondent at the front says
OUR MEN MARCHING, UP.
NEW TACTICS.
GENERAL JOFFRE'S STRATEGY,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12TH, 1916.
MACHINE-GUNS THE GERMAN
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MARVELLOUS, THE WAY OUR CHAPS LAUGHED AT THAT
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Nobody can tell how much the Boche knew," said a major those right arm Lopingkom, 35, Third Sto y
sling and whose service jacket hung on that side in muddy bloodstained ingket Biost "It doesn't do to place too much wood....
If he trips. reliance on what prisoners say, didn't know when we were timed to move,
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SAVING THE INFANTRY. "THE TIMES" MILITARY CORRESPONDENT. The success of the preliminary attacks As we stood; in the shadow of some of the Allies on both sides of the Somme trees, 20 yards from a road, which led has caused the liveliest satisfaction in dirgely down to the trenches, detach-Paris, but every one recognizes that the ments of our troops could be seen swingency is strong, and his defences power country in half companies, ful and that his resistance is sure to be ing aeree
Long before desperate. The attack has beer in companies, and battalions. they came close one heard the steady roar patiently awaited in France, and there his
tramp- no harm in saying now that we were. of their feet--trump-fraing! tramp!- And always as they passed they ready to begin long ago, and that the whistled sofily in unison. Some whistled date selected for the first infantry at-
Tipperasy
soine Come back, my tack was fixed by General Joffre, who bad and some, best of all in to take all the circumstances into ac Bonny, to me. the place
and surroundings. La Marcount. The co-operation of the Angle seillaise.
French Allies has been shown to be par As we cut back along that road. for fect, while our Belgian friends in the behind the front, we saw more companies north have played a useful part by tak more battalions. On the tree-shaded road it was too dark to see them, save only asing over more of the line and by hammer vague. dark masses against the light backing the Germans with their guns during
One felt their the preliminary bombardment. › ground of the highway. presence and heard more than one saw them always the steady tramp trang), tramp-trump as they shouldered by; and they were always whistling. again a laugh broke out at some unheard joke, a completely areless laugh, as of a Bulay-maker. And, knowing what it was that they were going into, for the fiftieth time one marvelled at the way in which British manhood has proved itself in this most terrible of all wars.
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the front I was on, just north of kong Albert, he kept up a slow machine-gun fire during the last half hour of our in- Brewster, Elietoth
bombardment,
our Choongpin Chimen chir preceding tenso assault. That was when we had finished Fig+181 with his front lines, and were fattening Bown Park, Lock Ho ́el... his supports and communications. I was paing greatly impressed by that slow, searching Jew dab machine-gun Bre of his. He knows we're coming then, I thought, and, sure enough, when pur stoke clonds had gone forward and we rushed over our parapet he filled the air with rapid machine gun fre. His did the Boche priceless ser- machine-guns vice. It was these, and not his infantry, The theatre selected for the Anglo that enabled him to hold our men at all
And never in my life have I seen any- Now and French effort is more favourable than
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Horgkor, that to which Lord French was necessari-thing finer than the way our successive It is an agriculwaves of men marched singing and cheer- ly restricted last year. tural, not a mining, district, and there ing into that bath of lead. The inore 1b Sanday after Trinity, 13th AERE, 916. are none of those extensive villages and casualties they saw in front of them, the Holy Communion (7) In rour, Palm 24; agglomerations, such as are grouped louder they encered and saug, the harder Hymns, 159, 328, 154 and 551) Service, Palms fretch and round the mining centres further north, they pressed forward into it. I've talked Mertecke. Mative (11 m.) Rerdares,
They all any the Frial: Venite Tile which afforded the Germans such useful to dozens of officers. points of support. In Picardy, on the same, our job was never to urge men on Cooke: Te Drum, Tarle, Gas and Tarle (25th Evensong (5.45 p.m) Responses, Ferial; slightly undulating. The villages are prematave advance and exposure. Psalme, of the 23rd evening (1) Magnificato Somme, the ground is open and only but always to hold them back and check evening); Jubilate, Hayes, Hymn», 271 and 290. The small and contain only a few hundred in you can't beat 'em; you can killment (7th morning); Nano Dimits, Best
with machine-guns, and solid weight of erumping, You can't possibly beat 'em." there is a better field of fire for our guns
With us," said an officer of the Rife and more scope for employing superior Brigade, they, opened their machine forces. There is a fair field and gun fire exactly 10 minutes before we favour, and here we have elected to fight started. I heard the sharp clock, clack,
BT. ANDREW'S CHURCH. Kowloon 13th I have heard from onlookers, and have out our quarrel with the Germans and plainly through the roar of the big stuff.
ental Venite, read in the phrases of an official report, to give them as ruuch battle as they want. They timed it well, and there's no doubt August, 8th Sunday of Trinity. Morning the aazing story of the advance at one
The tactics, hitherto followed have been in my mind but that, if Master Bochen 11 Be Dr.
13th Morning); Perlms, Alternative- partion of the front of battalions of the those which I ventured to recommend in had had no machine-guns, he would have Chaste: Te Deum, 8, Jude, Benedictus, Bainh); East Lancashires and York and Lancas an article on the Western Front publish stood no chance at all. The machine-gus Hymns, 7, 684 (last verse in anison), 278 tres. Out front line had been bombarded ed in The Times on January 20th. It is were the feature of the day, and that's 4th and last verzes in 12in ). National Tour or less heavily during the night a methodical attack which makes full use why such a huge proportion of our casual Anthem, Evening Prayer, at 6. Respontes, As the lar of the attack approached the of modern artillery and does not impose ties are of the slightest and least serious Fostal; Fealm, 69, ster 1 and 12 Barnby, Look at mea neat, clean Eale verses 13 and 22 Tarte, es fa and 30 Tarlo, enemy put a tremendous rruge on our front line and 50 yards before and behind upon the infantry a number of distant sort.
objectives until each position won has through this forearm. In a week from verass 3 and Tors From 70, Bawes, Aternative Obant; Nagsiliest, Farnby Nano it with heavy explosive shells,
Dimitti, Menk; Hymns, 34 ure 173), 163 SA time the whole of No Man's Landeen consolidated and secured and the now I'd fire a course of musketry for a
Yes, it's mostly arms and legs, and and 19. Verpar Hyun National Anthim. was drenched with shrapnel fire and with guns made ready to support the next ad wager."
They wouldn't be 'Blighties” at all in norinal times.
ever to justice to the gallantry which our No je, neither mine nor another's, can men have shown in this battle.
story, when told in fall, will be magnificent and terrible, for our losses have inevitably been very heavy.
"
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE MEN.
green bill, Gounod: Hymns 909 and 550. B-Psalm 69, verses 1,2,7,8, 13, 14, 24, 26 30, 35 and 36 in unison: Psalm 70 varzen 5 and 6 (Tarle), 155
storm of machinegun and rifle fireyance. In these tactics the artillery plays clean punctures," said another officer. Holy Commurion at 8» m...
from the enemy's front lines
It should be stated that there is no doubt that the German machine gun men as well as their infantry, behaved with Observers describe how, great, bravery. under our artillery fire, the enemy's front] line was so battered that it seemed to change shape momentarily, But in their deep, almost impenetrable, emplacements,
leading role, and the infantry suffers less loss than in the old style attacks, but the task of the infantry still a heavy on and we must expect a good many set backe before we gain our ends.
EVERYTHING HAS GONE WELL.
ST. PETER'S CA), Yak Point. Sun day, 13th Angustan. Morning Prayer and Bermon. Preacher, K. W. T. Feather.
tobe
quite agree," said an elderly cap tain: the Hun machine-guns were their enly salvation; but wasn't it marvellous
UNION CRUEOF, Kennedy Rand. Sunday the way our chaps laughed at that fire!
18th - August. Morning Bervico at 11. I've seen them pay far more heed to a sharp shower of rain. Oh, they re the solymas 2014 be0 and 255; Paxim 191. Evening Service at 6. Hymis, 130, 189, 20 many machine-guns survived. in some their missions, ail counter-attacks have of the earth. I've not heard of one single and 261. Preacher, Rev. 7. H. Curen
case of shirking. They went into it as And eases the German gunners were seen to
though it was a football serum. begad, they came out the other side in bring their machine gaus oul before their
Many interesting novelties have been the same spirit, even a lot who'd got parapets, into No Man's Land, thus get
in front of our burrage and also introduced, such as the massacre of
pipped. ting
what I don't understrend, said a our men as they Drachen observation balloons, by which being able to enflade bur
the Germans are deprived of some of young subaltern, a second lieutenant who
Meanwhile, everything has gone well Our troops have successfully carried out been repulsed and large numbers of pri souers have been taken.
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FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.”-
Luder he hurricane of fire our front the reyes There is also the reconnoits was ir couinand of three companies by Sure Signs of line trench practically disappeared. The ing raid, used to establish beyond doubt 10 o'clock or the Saturday morning.
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air of No Man's, Land was a fen of Arius the result of artillery preparation. The how the devil they erould bring all those
projectiles of every kind; and into it our Flying Corps has been as active as ever, machine guns into action after the pound- inn--the East Lancashires and the York while the cavaly in this country have ing our heavies gave em." xhd Lanes-vent without one falter, with out a single man hesitating or turning more chance of bearing a hand, and, in short, all the means of modern war can Bome not only reached the Gerbe profitably employed. back. man front line, but actually fought their
The point which has not been made way over four successive tiers of trenches. What is known is that no men could pos-clear is the character of the attack at sibly have borne themselves more splen points other than those selected for the
·INCIDENTS IN RECENT FIGHTING. Wounded officers at Southampton have inain efforts My preference is all for some interesting stories to tell of the re- didly
The point of the German line which the tactics of General Brus loff, who at ceat fighting on the Western front. Said ran down to the valley of the Ancre below tacked alt along his line, throwing his one There's no sort of doubt they're Beaumont flamel, the village (no more weight on certain points, and thus pre-clever, but I think our day's come now, than a heap of rubble now) lying inventing the Austrians from concentratCompare the push with last year's stunts. What a sur touch there was fold of the hills above, was probably asing against the main attacks.
When this is not done, superior numin it! Everybody had his job, and knew strong a position us is to be found on all this Western front.
bers do not exert their full influencs, and it. We are so much better off in every Back on the high ground behind the there is a risk that the enemy may, ac way. My belief is they can't stop s enemy has massed an immense amount of artillery of guns ranging from 77min to cumulate all his reserves against the and as for men well, their Prussian 150mm, in size. At one point is a mass main attacks and make their success more Guard are good, I admit, but even there of machine gun positions, dug into the problematical. We shall doubtless soon our chaps are obviously their superiors. round their best. But our best can beat; grom behind. Above this point are see that we are only at the initial period I don't say our average can run rings Against this front of preparations, and that these and other their hest; and what's more, our average other machine-guns.
is infinitely superior to their average our men charged, under a fire that cannot matters have been fully considered...
I saw a badly wounded lance-corposal of be described or imagined, without one It was
the Dorsets, His left arm was helpless, men faltering or turning back.
1 saw him from the shell-Lole I rolled into when I was pipped. He swung his arm-t big, fair chap, like a Viking- rifle, with bayonet fixed, in his right and he bailed up five fully armed Borhes beside my shell-hote. He roared at 'em like a bull, Drep them rifles, you — The German trenches are, as always, he shouted, Merry Mercy Kamerade. more elaborate than ours. Here they are they said. They dropped their rifles, and deeper and wider. They are therefore that Jance-corporal marched the five back more open to a shell bursting directly to our line, handed 'em over, and above; but, when under fire, the German came back and helped me." soldiers keep as much as possible in
as splendid as any action of human was magnificent. They went forward as
bravery could be.
GALLANTRY OF THE FISTERNEN
steadily as if on parade, carried the Ger man front line, and, almost without a check, swept on beyond..
THE GERMAN TRENCHES.
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Above this point the Fister troops behaved in a way that will be remembered as long as history is read or written, It is said that the Royal Irish Fusiliers were first out of the trenches. The Royal Irish Rifles went through what was an absolute hell, went over the German parapets, and killed, the men in the machine-gun em- placements with their bayonets. The Inniskillings rushed and cleaned out cer tain positions in the enemy's lines which dugouts, which are here as always more I had been named respectively Inniskill-extensive, deeper, and better build the saw one better than
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THREE BOLDIERS QUARD 600 PRISONERS.
was getting back from a
When I said en
ing, Omagh," and "Strabane: It ours. The trenches immediately about officer of the Gordons. It was the said that they all went forward shout-Fricourt were not very seriously damaged finest thing I ever saw is my life. We'd ing No surrender and Remember by our bombardment, in contrast to other got the village then, so the fire behind points near here, as about Montauban, was nothing. That was six hours after the Boyne
They were subjected to a murderous where they were
in front had been cut ranks, marching in column of route cross fire from above the Ancre, and were The barbed wire Practically destroyed. I was wounded. 1 Raw 6CD. Boches ut al and blown to bits, except in certain spots, across the open, towards our rear. They fired at by machine-guns from three sides. Yet they went on, over the German first and all the ground around was, as I have were disarmed, of course, and what do And second lines. Sone came back with said, devastated beyond description. Bat you, think they had for escort? Three prisoners, one man, it is said, herding a the direct damage to the trenches then ragged Jocks-our battalion all blood ; and dir: and rags, with their rifles at party of 15 Germans across No Man's selves was comparatively slight.
Inside the trenches was every sort of the slope, doing sort of G.O.C.'s inspec- Land,
where they were so afraid of their own barrage that he had difficulty in human wreckage and remnant of equiption parade march, like pipers at the making them cross, which, however, he ment There were immense quantities of head of a battalion! That was good did with the most cheerfulness and suc unused cartridges, of unused hand gren- enough for me. I brought up the rear, ades and unused bombs; and anyone who and that's how I got to the dressing has a taste for those horrible relics known station, and had fay arm dressed. A NEW TRADITION,
assouvenirs "dead men's helmets and walked behind a 600-strong coluhan personal possessions can load himself Boches; but I couldn't equal the swagger
of those three Jocks in the lead. here with trophies.
TRAFED."
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England, according to the Berlia
Still there are regiments which I have not mentioned as being entitled to their full share in the glory which will rest on
+ STRENGTH OF ENEMY DEFENCES. all the troops which took part in this
What impresses one in all the places truly amazing fighting. The South Wales Borderers, the Border Regiment, and the which we have taken in these last few King's Own Seuttish Borderers all had days is the immense strength of the battalions in it, and each was worthy of German defences. Ons does not wonder the others and worthy of the traditions of that they believed them to be impreg- the British Army, Indeed. I believe Inable. They would be impregnable to any Lokalananiger, has reaped at any rate one am not exaggerating when I say that if troops less heroic than our men have advantage from the war. She has added the British Army had had no traditions shown themselves. Nor is it only the a new word to her vocabulary The before this month of July, 1916, achieve actual positions in the front-line trenches phrase" Gott strafe England
All the little exerted so tremendous an influence on ments of the troops engaged in the one which are so strong. day's fighting on this piece of the front villages and woods, each eminence and the imagination of the English people (to punish) has strafe into would alone be enough to establish it as hollow, in all this area between the first that the verb "strafen " the equal in gallantry of any army on and second lines has been converted into penetrated in the form
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