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Twelve awards of the Victoria Cross have recently been announced in supplement to the London Gazette. The list includes the names of four dead MEA
REV. WILLIAM ROBERT FOUNTAIN ADDISON,
Chaplain, 4th Class.
He carried a wounded man to the cover of a trench, and assisted several others to the same caver, after binding up thei: wounds under heavy rifle and machine gun fire. In addition to theso unaided efforts, by his splendid example and utter disregard of personal danger, he un couraged the stretcher-bearers to go for- ward under heavy fire and collect the wounded.
IND-LT. EDWARD FELIX BAXTER, Liver-
pool R.
Assisting in wire cutting close to the exomy, he held a bomb in his hand with the pin withdrawu ready to throw. Once the bomb fell, but ho instantly picked it up, unscrewed the plug, and took out the detonator, which he smothered, thereby preventing an alarm and saving many casualtios.
Later, he led a storming party with the greatest gallantry and was the first man into the trench, shooting the sentry with his revolver. He then assisted to bomb dug-outs, and finally climbed out of the trench and assisted the last man over the parapet. After this he was not be lost his life in his great devotion to soon again. There seeme no doubt that
duty.
CAPT. Enio N. FRANKLAND BELL, Innskg.
Fus
devotion to duty.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 117, 1916,
NEUTRALS. AND U-BOATS.
NOTICE BY THE ALLIES,
A memorandum of the atmost import ance regarding the treatment of sub- marines has been issued by the Allies to the Governments of certain neutral States. It states thatRUVANAN
A SNIPER'S NIGHT OUT.
"A KIND OF DUEL,"
UNDERGROUND AGITATION AMONG GERMAN WORKERS.
A TRADE UNION APPEAL. [DF WILFRID & BANDELL}
Some short time ago a translation ap He had cropt, before dawn, with a big pasty that had come straight fromed in the home papers of a bitter. Devonshire, his rifle, and enough car being circulated by underground means anti-war and revolutionary leaflet that is submarine vessels should be excluded tridges for the day to a littlefragment of among German working classes and even from the bencât of the rules hitherto re-wall that stoood inconspionously before among the troops This document was cognised by the law of nations regard the trenches and commanded, at almost but typical of many, for an iron sensor- ing the admission of vessels of war or an enfilading angle, the enemy's line and ship and severe repression have had the merchant vessels into neutral waters, a part of his own. The bit of wall, holed usual result of creating a yest secrot roadsteads, or ports and their sojourn and broken, had belonged to a garden; machinery of propaganda. How serious in them."
eyes, when darkness paled, one big, vel become is shown by the efforts that the a rose bush clung to it and offered to his this subterranean peace agitation, has vety, crimson bloom; but a few weeks ago authorities are now making to resist its a German gunder four miles away had spread. The police have even called in (2) It is impossible to identify them of shells in that sunny nook, and nobody Trade Unions, which has just issued this placed with admirable precision a couple to their help the General Federation of and to establish their national charac could call it a garden bow. With the ex appeal to the workers: ter, whether neutral or belligerent, conception of the flower, it looked more like batant or non-combatant, and to remove the capacity for harm inherent in the
The reasons for this are then set forth
(1)-There vessels can navigate and remain at sea submerged and can thus escape all control and observation."
nature of such vessels, “
In the case of merchant vessels of sur face type, by international law they may remain in a neutral part as long as they please, Surface warships, by the gen orally accepted usage, may remain 24 hours, and are liable to be interned if which is based on common sense and they stay longer, Under the Allies' rule,
excluded from neutral waters, whether experience, enemy submarines must he they be nominally submarine liners" or avowed war-submarines,
In two famous cases submarines have been
given harbourage Powers:
by neutral 35 at Cartagena in Spain, which claimed to have brought a and was permitted to take oil on board message from the Kaiser to King Alfonso, in the harbour; 9. The "liner submarine” Deutschland, which was allowed to
mitted to ship a cargo, dr
Wandsworth Corporation dust-heap. The rose interested bim, because just year ago, in a garden of the West-country he had picked one very like it before breakfast one morning, and set it on the table in a tiny vase, and his wife had pinned it in his button-hole he started on a journey,
plane, at an immense height, took the first Daylight came, and a French acro
moth. He watched until it vanished; sunbeams on its wings like some gold then, kneeling, pushed out a piece of loose stone ready for the muzzle of his rifle and peered over the landscape. He would' have to be careful, after his first shot. Something moved in the distance, just below the parapet of a trench, Aiming dust, and he saw an arm thrown up spas- steadily he fired. There was a fick of
modically.
At
eral Federation of Trade Unions," it is The Central Commities of the Gen-
the innumerable clandestine attempts that declared, condemns most emphatically
are being made by irresponsible members of trade unions to spread in factories, workshops, and other places frequented by workmen, leaflets, which a Tostering divisions among the workers and utterly wrong ideas. The workmen lose the rights which they have won by a of Germany cannot, and do not, wish to
the donisin of the protection of labour, hard struggle of many years' duration in workmen's insurance, factory legislation, equality before the law, and the like.
UNSPEAKABLE MISERY.'
But they will be forced to abandon all these things if the criminal plans of the above mentioned members are realised Then all the achievements of the civilis and the German nation has to surrender itself to the mercy of its present enemies. ing labour of numberless years will be misery for the workers and the whole Ger-
main in United States waters and per any other suspicious movement, and then sanihilated at a stroke, and unspeakablo
THUS SPAKE-HINDENBURG.
An hour passed by before he perceived his two rapid shots betrayed his position. well, and he smiled. His day, the lonely A bullet pinged viciously against the day of the sniper, was beginning. He tried the dear old trick of lifting his cap slowly, on a twig, into view, it fell at his feet with a ragged hole through
This is
man people will be the result.
that the workmen of Germany will servo The Central Committee is convinced their cause best and their future and that of the German people if they con tinue, as they have hitherto done, to go hand-in-hand with the rest of the nation and present a resolute will for an un- flinching prosecution of the war, which has been forced upon the German Empire,. until a peace is secured that will guar anter Germany free intercourse with the world and will include conditions that will make peace permanent."
The disingenuousness of this appeal,
in its statement that the rights of the says the Daily Chronicle, which is evi- dently dietated by the authorities, lies German workers stand to be affected by the issue of the war But the mere fact of the appeal is the significant thing.
When our front line was hung up by machine-gun fire he erept forward and ahot the machine gunner. Later, on threo occasions when our bombing parties were unable to advance he went forward The Berliner Tageblatt's military cor alone and threw trench mortar bombs respondent's interview with Hindenburg among the enemy. When he had no more is now available in its full text. Most of bombs available he stood on the parapet,
it is merely the usual eulogy of the nathe peak. under intense fire, and used a rifle with tional hero. The new Chief of the Gen-
"That settles it," he said. grant coolness and effect on the enemy. eral Staff had just come from the Som je
kind of duel" Pulling out his held Finally he was killed rallying and refront."Hats off to our Grenadiers in organising infantry parties which had the West!" was the Brst of his staccato glasses, very cautiously, holding them in lost their officers. All this was outside remarks. Then followed some talk, not one hand, he moved inch by inch until the scope of his normal duties with his given verbatim, about the difficulty of one lens coincided with the aperture in battery. He gave his life in his supreme the problems facing us," but with the the wall. It is not wise at a sniping post neual expression of confidence, One to use glasses as freely as if you were in book maxims, Where there is a will, somebody lurked behind a group of blunt can, if one must, began a series of copy the stalls of a theatre. He guessed that there is a way. All one has to do is to tree stumps that verged on the No Man's and the way. One must decide which way Land five hundred yards or so down the to go and then pursue it to the end with line. And that the somebody was an UX- consistency and energy.". After this ad-cellent marksman. Also, that the newa mirable but not exactly illuminating was going round; for five minutes after, preamble, the famous Field-Marshal pro-as he still gazed attentively, a sputter ceeded after the manner of Captain sounded from the distance and a powdery Cuttio's friend Jack Bunsby. When cloud ascended from the desiccated mor the rain is pouring down on us so that our motors can hardly move in the mud, tar of the poor little wall. it is usually raining, too, among our enemies. Then came a fash of inspiration. Who says History goes like that?" and Hindenburg drew & atraight line with his finger in the air.
Mostly it goes just so 1 and he drew machine gun. He handled his rifle lova an undulating curve-meaning by all this ugly and took a pot shot at the middle that there are ups and downs even in war.tree stump, half expecting a flag top- At the inquest his son-in-law, an Edin There was more symbolic gesture as the pear, as at the butts, and signal his score.burgh clerk, said that the old man served Field-Marshal said: "We are all right Nothing happened.
before Sebastopol, receiving a medal and clasp
LT. ANGUS BUCHANAN, S. Wales Borderers During an attack an offleer was lying oat in the open severely wounded about 180 yards from cover. Two men weet to his assistance, and one of them was hit at once. Capt. Buchanan, on seeing this, immediately went out and with the help of the other man, carried the wounded officer to cover under heavy machine gun fire. He then returned and brought in the wounded man, again under heavy fire. 2ND-LT. EDGAR KINGHORN MYLES, Welsh
R.
He went out alone on several occa sivas in front of our advanced trenches, and under heavy rifle, fire and at great! personal risk, assisted wounded men lying in the open. On one occasion he carried in a wounded officer to a place of anfety under circumstances of great danger. Lr. T. O. LAWDER WILKINSON, N. Lanca,
During an attack, when a party of another unit were retiring without their machine-gun, he rushed forward and, with two of his men, got the gun into action and held up the enemy till they were relieved. Later, when the advance was checked during a bombing attack be forced his way forward and found four or five ten of different units atop red by a solid block of earth, over which the enemy was throwing bombs.
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With great pluck and promptness he mounted & machine gun on the top of the parapet and dispersed the enemy bombers. Subsequently he made two most gallant attempts to bring in wounded man, but was shot through the heart just before reaching the man. Throughout the day he set a magnificent example of courage and self-sacrifice, SERGT. CLAUDE CHARLES CASTLETON, Aus.
M.G.C.
CRIMEAN VETERAN'S SAD END.
"Machine gun," he said to himself. hail of bullets and swished through the Over there Not quite cricket.?! One of the brief A. WIDOW LOSES FOUR SONS IN
loophole and torn the sleeve of his coat. Flake. Any duffer can squirt with a
this time he drew a cross in the air, the in the north, south, east and west," and purpose of which was to indicate, says the correspondent, the points of the compass, And that is the whole of this remarkable interview, save that von Hindenburg is reported to have spoken about Belgium and Serbia, though the interview no doubt wisely omits what he had to say. But if it was of a piece with the rest, it can hardly have been worth recording.
INTELLECT OF THE CLERGY, BISHOP WELLDON ON A MARKED
DECLINE,
Bishop Taylor Smith, Chaplain to the Forces, speaking at the annual conference at Manchester of the Church of England Men's Society, said that among the things revealed by the war one thing stood out more then another, and that was the spiritual poverty of the Church
CUTTING THE DOSE,
THE WAR
Crimean veteran was found drowned William Kichard Littlejohns, aged 82, in the Thames near Temple Pier, E.C
The Coroner: I suppose a generous
he had the old-age pension of ds. country rewarded him handsomely?
The Witness: He got no pension, but
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ate most of his pasty and wondered if he The day wore on to afternoon. He
dared start a tiny fire to make tea. Lighting a fow dry sticks, and adding to said she kept & stationer's shop, and Mrs. Sajith, of Peterborough, a widow, them twig by twig, he managed to keep Littlejohns, her uncle, had lived with her the smoke down and to boil a cupful from for fourteen years. his water bottle in an old tin. He drank sons in the war and, having an invalid She had lost four his tea and sighed with satisfaction.
"That's better," he said. "But this is ed, it was felt he would have to go in daughter and the business having suffer- much too slow." Only a few shells had the workhouse, He left for London on passed overhead the whole morning; this September 18th, and after paying his fare N.B.-The Investment may be any multiple of 159. 63, up to £387 108. It was the game to send a shell or two would go to St. Pancras Infirmary. portion of the line seemed half-asleep. would have 12s. 6d. left. He said he
across just to show that the war was On the body were an empty puras and going on all right; but as to fightings postcard addressed to Mrs. Smith, there simply wasn't any.
stating, "God forgive me, No cash, Towards evening he saw the top of a ¦ Good-bye!!- German head dodging along a trench; it disappeared at his next shot. The ma chine-gun began its resentful protest again, and he sat with his back to the wall watching the bullets tear up the Half-way over, as he judged, he stop Bishop Welldon said ordinary working grass and earth on each side. But at a ped. He had lost his sense of direction; men did not think much of the clergy. queer motallic sound that rapidly swelled the sky had clouded and obscured the glow They thought the clergy were not to a roar his face looked troubled. tellectually competent to deal with their
that had shown him the east. He crept difficulties. There certainly had been in sive. And two hours to dark. Not sport-rocky" oven after a sip from his small "Shells," he thought. "High explo- on, hoping he was right, feeling very the last fifty years a marked intellectual i The thing burat with a heavy con- store of water. The silence was oppres decline in the clergy of the Church of cussion a quarter of a mile short. In sive. But presently it was broken by a England, and when that intellectual decline was associated with spiritual or five minutes came another-it fell beyond small sound, a small, gasping sound. Ho ecclesiastical assumption it was not very
him
listened.
Close by him something pleasing to his friends of the working
Nasty devils; getting the range." He moved the form of a man; and as it clusses.
peered upward and saw what he expected shuffled painfully nearer he saw that one to see an enemy 'plane circling high, arn was useless from the shoulder.. woolly puffs that denoted shrapnel from lish spotting for its battery, regardless of the **** Hullo!" he called, “Are you Eng- one of our "Archies." It dropped two smoke-balls and retired-just in time, trench. I am hit by your sniper. But No," came the answer. "I go to my by his platoon sergeant to get into touch for a friendly pilot was sailing up after I cannot farther go." with the company, and, finding himself it. The third shell followed, inevitably; So I did get you after all. Hers- cut off and almost surrounded by someit totssed the wall, but it was near enough have a pull at my water bottle, twenty of the enemy, attacked them with to send an uncomfortable tremor through which way are your trenches?" bombs, kuling and wounding many and the "garden," and a piece of flying stone scattering the remainder. joined a sergeant of his company and shipped by a pair of scissors. He crawled He then cut the rose off as neatly as if it had been helped him to fight the way back to the to the bush, picked up the flower, and *** Then you turn round and come with lines.
Mstuck it in his tunic.
me,
"he replied. "Hot tea with some- When be got back, hearing that his company officer and a scout were lying wall and brought it down about his cars, to eut
The fourth shell burst in front of the thing in it when we get there, and plenty out wounded, he went out and assisted all but about two feet of it, and he re So 1" exclaimed the German. to bring in the wounded officer, two ceived, as he imag ned, a nasty scratch, thank you." other men bringing in the scout. FinallyTwo feet of stone wall is quite a decent he himself captured and brought in as protection against rifle fire, but precious prisoners two of the enemy. His conduct little use against "H-E." An idea struck throughout was magnificent,
him NAIK BHARAMAD KHAN, Punjabis
hts that oth "I'll bet," he thought, "that other
when the order to charge was given, and meeting two of the enemy suddenly bayoneted them both. He was sont later
Castleton went out twice in face of intenso fire and each time brought in a wounded man on his back. He went out a third time and was bringing in o other wounded man when he was himself hit in the book and killed instantly. He set a splendid example of courage and
ulf-sacrifice. CPL. JOSEPH DAVIES, Royal Welsh
Fusiliera. Before an attack on the enemy in a wood he became separated with eight men from the rest of his company. When the enemy delivered their second counter attack his party were completely sur rounded, but he got them into a shell hole, and, by throwing bombs and open- ing rapid fire, routed them and bayoneted several. He set a magnificent example of pluck and determination. He has done other very gallant work, and was badly wounded in the second battle of Ypres.. CPL SYDNEY WILLIAM WARE, Seaforth H An order was given to withdraw to the cover of a communication trench. Ware, whose cool gallantry had been very marked during the advance, was one of the fow men remaining unwounded. He picked up a wounded man and carried him some 200 yards to cover, and then returned for others, moving to and fro under very heavy fire for more than two hours until he had brought in all the wounded and was completely exhausted,
JAMES
HENRY FLYNE, B.W. Borderers. Bering several wounded men lying out in front, he went out and bandaged them l under hesry fire, making several journeys. He went back for a stretcher and being unable to get one, carried on black a badly wounded man into he and his two belt-fillers held their was an inner." Two shells-friendly et. He then returned and, aided by ground with rifles till ordered to with ones screamed over his head, at intervals nother man, who was wounded during draw. With three men sent to assist him of five minutes, the act. carried in another badly be then brought back his gun, sumuni- wounded man. He was under continuous tion, and one severely wounded man unable to walk Finally, he himself re turned and removed all remaining armas and equipment except two shovels
e
ALBERT HILL, Royal Welsh Fusiliers When hig battalion had deployed under very heavy fire for an attack on the enemy in a wood he dashed forward (Continued at foot of next Cal)
But
Bo—-” said big opponent of the tree stamp, indicating the direction "Quite
near
Half an hour after the two reached the British live and fell over the parapet al, most into the arms of an astonished cor poral.
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** Party's gone out lonking for you, He beat off three counter-attacks and blighter is watching these cramps, If said the corporal. Our second shell worked his machine-gun single-handed so, I've got him." Lying at full length, curled up the battery that was potting at after all his men, except two belt-fillers, he saw plainly through the glasses the you. But who the blazes have you got had become casualties. For three hours head of his opponent, nothing the effect there
he held a gap under very heavy fire of the last shell, With a careful, sight, ** An honourable enemy, my son,” said while it was being made secure. When he fired and looked, There was no sign the sniper. "Look after him, and for his gun was knocked out by hostile fire of the other fellow. Without doubt, it Heaven's sake give se a drink.
bottle's empty.
My
The next day, bandaged and easy, he lay in a bright ward at the base hospital looking at a róm which the nurse had taken from his cost
Soon twilight was falling, sud as he waited for Welcome darkness, he suddenly felt faint. Burprised, he found that his And three days after a little lady re scratch as a serious affair; his rightceived that rose, flattened but fragrant, trouser-leg was stiff with blood. He start. I'm a letter, and kissed it. For the news Bus for his great gallantry and detered to craw) "home" across the pitted it brought was that the sniper, was com mination our line must have been pene earth, dragging his rifle." trated by the enemy
(Vontinued at foot of next Column,)
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