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Last night our troops corried out a HOW WOMEN ARE BELPING THE little enterprise in the neighbourhood of -- Official Report
An enterprise is just what the mean-
21st August-Singapore 18th August,ing of the word suggests. There is no General-Order.
certainty that it will be successful. There- fore to bring about the desired result nothing is left out of the calculations, if possible, to ensure success.
HINSANG, British str., 1,855, A O. Kennedy, 23rd August Sandakan 18th August, Timber-Jardine, Matheson & Co. HIZADO MARU, Japanese str., 1,428, Ito, 23rd August Tsingtau 17th August, Coal-Order.
regarded as one of the typical common or Here is an account of what may be garden" little enterprises" so frequently undertaken on the British front,
GREAT PUSH.
[BY ARLEE - COLF.]
If officials, employers, and workers keep at it with the same seat and assiduity as they lase hitherto employed our supplies will soon be overwhelming. Mr. Lloyd George.
"You're sure you're strong? I only A certain battalion, in rest for a few want women on this job are able to lift days behind the line, is selected to pro-eighteen-pound shells." vide, say, a hundred mun, and a party then.
All right, of bombers to make a raid on the enemy trenches.
take your form.”
GERMAN DOCTOR. HERO.
TOMMY AND A CAPTURED
MACHINE GUNNER.
Dewribing the capture of a German doctor at La Boiselle, Mr. Philip Gibbs in the Daily Chronicle," says:-A num ber of Germans were there in their dug- outs, the remnant of a battalion which had suffered frightful things under our gun-tire. They had a
German doctor there, a giant of a man with a great heart who had put his first-aid dressing station in the second line trench and at tended to the wounds of the men until our bombardment intensified so that no
HONGKONG, French str., 730, A. Mar- guerite, 28th August-Hoibow 25th August, General A. B. Marty, KANCHOW, British str., 1,220, Rees Lewis,
man could live there. He took the 28th August-Bangkok 22nd August,
wounded down to a dug-out-those who Rice and
had not been carried back-and stayed General Butterfield &
I sat in the office-the inner sanctum-there expecting death. But then as be Swire.
The point at which the enemy lines are Munition Workers at one of our biggest this morning, the shells ceased to scream of the Lady Superintendent of Female told me to-day at about eleven o'clock KAIJO MARU, Japanese str., 1,829, Mura to be entered is a small salient, in front munition factor'es. Fascinated, I watch-and
kami, 10th August-Swatow August, General. Osaka Shosen Kai evidence of our having worried the enemy into the building and up to the superin-tish troops. He went to the entrance of 15th of which five craters are already materialed the stream of girls and women pass sudden silence he heard the noise of Bri- rear above-ground, and after a sha. KINKOSAN MARU, Japanese str., 2,095,
in that particular section.
tendent's desk, and heard their answers his dug-out and said to some English Nakagawa, 19th August Milke 9th Enterprises, it may be remembered, to the brief questions which decided their soldiers who came up with fixed bay- August, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kai are undertaken with the general idea of fate as regarded that morning's batch of nets: My friends, I surrender," Bha
worrying the enemy, and reducing his engagements.
Afterwards he helped to tend our own KITANO MARU, Japanese str., 1,942, F. Lmoral.
under the fire of his own guns, which had wounded, and did very good work for un Cope, 20th August-Singapore 20th August, General-Nippon Vusen Kaisha..
now turned upon this position. KUMCHOW, British str., Martin, 18th August-Tjilijap 6th August, Sugar. -Order.
It is really only a mine which can otherwise impenetrable enmeshments of successfully break.
way through the
wire.
1
The firing of a mine was therefore to open the ball and utgive constructed wire through the cunningly entanglements behind which the Roche apparently felt secure,
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Never before since they began to work guise of Government employment, spread in the world at all has Ferne, in the
service to teaching, from dressmaking to for women so wide a net. From domestic"
eleswhere,
giving the names of all Erms with whom There is a strict rule as to these last they live worked previously-for obvi
ong reasons.
A CAPTURED MACHINE GUNNER.
There was another German to-day at
kept up a tire of dropping bullets upon our troops when we first made an assault upon this position. Aud today he was there still in his emplacement doing very deadly work, and though he was wounded still working his terrible little gun. in nine places when we found him he was Our men took him prisoner, and, in the English way, bore no grudge against machine guns were captured, and round. him, but sang his praises. Many other one of them all the team was laid out dead by one of our shells.
Unless large numbers of men were cni- ployed and even then heavy losses would have been sustained-it would have been almost hopeless to attempt to penetrate the hostile entrenchments without, being KWANGLER, Chinese str., 1,468, A. Paided by that wire entanglement-des-secretarii work, each calling is repre- La Boisselle, but his work, though grave,
Sangster, 19th August Shanghai 9th troyer-the mine.
sented among applicants, in addition to was not that of helping wounded men. August, General-Order.
the many who-before the war-as they I was one of those machine gunners who MAUSANG, British str., 1,644, J. H. Alcock, 27th August-Sandakan 22nd
will tell you engagingly, were just at home in addition, also, to the quota August, Timber-Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
of women coming straight from factories NICHIRO MARU, Japanese str., 1,024, Hibi, 24th August-Wakamatsu, 18th August, Coal.-Order. OTOWA MARU, Japanese str.. 877, K. Nomura, 27th August-Takao 24th August, General-Osaka Shosen Kai- sha PHUMPENH, British str., 1,065, N. G. Magin, 28th August-Saigon 24th August, Bice.-Order. PENANG, MARU, Japanese 'etr., 3,281, 8. The night was consequently dark, and Kushibiki, 17th August-Singapore it was but a slowly moving coil of tuen 11th August, General. Nippon who, in Indian file, wound their way Yosen Kaisha.
stealthily through the long, tortuous com- SATSUKI MARU, Japanese str., 1,300, T.munication trench to the front line..
Fanoto, 18th August-Dairen 6th This was to be their
into No Man's Landing off place and just as probably into the Great Unknown.""
The captain in command of the opera tions walked along the line of front trench where his men were gathered to assure himself that they were correctlying at all! marshalled for the coming attack. To. his section commanders he gave his final directions, and to each individual man a cheery word,
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August, Coal and General-Mitsui
Bussan Kaisha, SHINON, British str., 1,103. Sangster, 14th August-Saigon 10th August, Rica- Order. SHOW ASING, Chinese str., 1,236,S. Rams
land. 22nd August - Chefoo 17th August, General-Order. SINKIANG, British str., 1,616, Wm. Ben- son. 28th August-Shanghai 24th Angust, General. Butterfield & Swire. SZECHUEN, British str., 1,150, J. Peacock, 24th August-Swatow 23rd August, General Butterfeld & Swire. TAISANG, British str., 907, Matthews, 19th August-Hongay 16th August, Coal.
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The night sky on the date the enter prise took place was munus a mioon. Ân advantage.
The mine was to be sprung at 8 p... and then the captain was to give the order for the rush across. As the minutes caught up to the hour and the last minute of all broke itself up into seconds there were many strained but Reager faces staring over the parapet.
THE BOY WITH BLUE EYES, Lightly wounded men, first hit up there.
The munition worker, morcover, has a boy of eighteen or so, with blus eyes or helped by a comrade. One of them, one advantage over her fellows. While under his steel helmet, stopped me and we are gravely shaking our heads over showed in a bloody bandage round his the untrained" worker and the pos-hand, and said with an excited laugh: sible abuses of the Short Course," here They got me, all right. is a field of activity in which workers are with my Lewis when a bullet caught mo was serving actually to a great extent, preferred with-smack. Now, I'm off. And I've had out a distinctively munition train
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eighteen months of it." He went away grinning at his luck, because the bullet might lave chosmi another place.
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at which while learning her job during books and paper. I picked up one of One dug-out was littered with German the first week she is able to earn 125. Next them, and saw that it was
Advice ou continue to riso according to her ability mans. There was a tragic spirit in that week she will probably earn 189.,
and Sport." Here was sad sport for Ger- Munition wages are notoriously high, eered into other German dug-outs, and
little room, and we went out quickly. and one cannot imagine causes of con plaint frequent.
saw how splendidly built they were, so I saw machines abri- Suddenly there was a rumbling, drum cating bullets manipulated with a skill deep and so strongly timbered that not which results in many thousand bullets stroyed them. They are great workers, being lubricated per day. The rate paid these Germans, and wonderful soldiers. is three-farthings per thousand, and Everywhere there lay about great num- talked to a worker who could make 39.bers of steel helmets, some of them with per work on this simple job alone.
like boom I
Au eruption of grey clay-olods showed in ghostly chanks against the ill-lit sky. tremble whether they wished or not. An earth tremor which made one's knees
For a dumb instant-silence. Then with anilen thuds the great clay- clods dropped to earth,
It was now the moment of all the mo Dients,
Come on, the Little Potters 1"
even our bombardment had utterly de-
tinker.
TALL, STRONG MEN.
BOLE-
vizors, and well desigued, so that they No worker in any department who is
come down to the nape of the neck and over twenty-one can be paid less than protected all the beaf.. Some of our sol- 20% per week of forty-eight hours, and diers were bringing them back as the little sugar-coated laxatives which
as overtime is worked as a natural thing, venir One man had ren dangling about cure Constipation, "liverishness," Bili-over the parapet. An Australian, though or over, according to quickness and capa-
It was the captain's shout his be sprang the wages rise to three and four pounds him, like the tin pots on a travelling ouses, Sick Headaches, foul-smelling serving in an English regiment, he wasty and the kind of work required.
born thirty-three years before in the Anti-There is a demand for educated women Describing 150 men captured at Fri this podes to lead just such un enterprise as
as overlookers, and they are well paid court, Mr. Gibbs says:---I saw them all for these more responsible duties.
to-day, and spoke with some of thems With that peculiar. discrimination Then, too, the workers in danger build-111th Regiments of the 14th Reserve
They which a real leader of wen shows in ad-
belonged to the 10th, 110th, and dreasing his followers at the crucial
ings score, for the wages are high in pro- Corps, and were mostly from Badon. moment, he hit upon the most inspiring portion. The women who have recently It would he absurd to talk of these fol- phrase he could have used.
earned the nickname of ""Canaries
lows as being under-sized or under-fed It was the footalil battle-cry" of theby reason of a complexion stain caused men. They were tall, strong, stout mer, famous regiment to which he and his by picric acid can have their pick of in the prime of life. Only a few were
en belonged,
boys from the moment when, work-wounded, and lay abunt in a dazed way. stained. but cheerful, they turn out of The others answered me cheerfully, and their shops at the end of their day. expressed their joy at having escaped But I expect it would strike other from our gun fire, which they described women as it struck me, that whether the as "schrecklich "terrible They hat work is better paid or not--whether it is had to food or drink since yesterday damaging to the complexion or notorning until their English guards gave there is a certain attraction in the scut-it to them. tered buildings of brick where "danger" operations on explosives go on night and
GLOOMY AND TIP:CULENT. day--an attraction which is lacking in officers stood a German lieutenant-colonel A little apart from all his fellow- safer quarters. What do we risk, we who was charged with having killed two
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It added almost a sense of gaiety to Englishwomen-except, as it were, by of our officers by bombing them after his clad Little Potters" dashed on towards while a great war thunders through the man of the worst Prussian type, he stood the otherwise sombre scene as the khaki-proxy--we who remain in personal safety surrender. A tall, gloomy, truculent their objective, through the lip of the rest of Europe! It would be something awaiting an inquiry, and could only hope newly torn-out crater which provided a spongy-like entrance to the
that he was not guilty of such a crime, German trench.,
of a relief to feel that one was bearing any kind of part in definite war risks as There was a vicious rattle of the enemy
well as helping to account for some Ger.) machine guns, as they insistently fung. Only a tiny part, indeed, for the out their streams of lead, from points to safeguards are such that short of actual the right and left of the newly born carelessness it is almost impossible to crater; the squeal of nur· (014-1
own shells, Cause a accident in the shops. which were more than strafing "the Fenemy's rear trenches;
Then came the booming burst of our heavy bombs, Hung from trench mortars farther down our lines.
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FOOD AND RECREATION.
We shuffled along in our danger goloshes over the wooden bridges connect ing these same shops, making humorous comments on the appearance of one an
TEETON COMFORT..
Our men who have explored the dug- outs of Mametz have discovered minig evidences of the Teuton's love of com fort. Their
underground dwellings simply are palatial, and the amount of food and drink found in them is pro- digious. I have seen the certifed inven by an officer holding the rank of cap- tory of one of these habitations occupied
twenty tins of corned beef, in addition His store of provender included
tain.
And the enemy's shooting-star-like" lights darted up in ever increasing num-other's feet in the enormous boat-like to sausages, potted meats, tinned salmon, bers towards the sulky sky.
The bombers led the attack, yet such to consider fitting shall I say to the several whole cheeses. He also had in euverings which the department seemed numerous kinds of biscuits, and (ENGLAND, 39. was the intense enthusiasm inspired by occasion. I stopped to look at a worker a cellar below his dug-out two casks of RED BOOK SO 12. LE CREUSET.co. A CURE
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the British trench, followed shortly by blast of whistles.
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A blazing light suddenly burst from administration an enormous amount of remark to me of an ex-cursery governess The Welfare Department has under its feel to have seen any slacking," was the bencficial work, social and individual, from Belgium, as we disposed of bar tea sean and unseen; cheerful luncheon huts to the tune of the canteen piano. run by the Y.M.C.A. and pleasant rest And beneath such material incentives. rooms For well-carned repose are pro- as piecework and overtime one felt as one vided. It is a long and strennous day left the buildings-with workers on the of twelve hours, with intervals of rather night shift streaming in and their tired more than one and a half hours for food comrades passing out towards hostels and and recreation. But the women seem to clubs-that there is a spirit in women
(Continued on next Column.)" munition werkers which does not lack.
It was the signal to return. Stolidly, with clay-clodden boots, the raiders retrace their way. They are fewer by some half-dozen than when they ser out, but those who have been wounded and still have life in them are carried back tenderly across the bullet-swept zone to the safety of their lines-Daily Mail.