SCOTS ON THE ANCRE
SAVAGE FIGHTS IN "Y" RAVINE JOY "THE TIMES” GRECIAL DURRESPONDENT
Their particular part of the lino in the fighting on the Ancro was just above that taken by the Naval Division and included Beaumont-Hamel itself and the famous "Y" ravine.
The ravine, is a most formidable place, a great gosh in the earth some 700 or 800 yards in total length. It is shaped like a great" Ylying on its side, the prongs or top of the letter projecting down to the German front line and the stem running back into the hinterland connecting with the read through the
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CHAPTER XXII.
[BY D. THOMAS CURTIN.)
I propose to-day to give an account of one of Germany's most carefully hidden secrets-the state of affairs in Alsace Lorraine.
the Alsatians.
The Prussian authorities deliberately retain with the colours Alsatians and Lorrainers unfit for military service, and wounded men are not allowed to return to their homes.
In the little circle to which I was in- troduced in Strassburg I talked with one Borrowing woman, who said that her son, obviously in an advanced state of tuber protests. culosis, had been called up in spite of
Ho died within three weeks. Another young man, suffering from hemorrhage of the lungs, was called up. He was forced to stand for punishment for all one winter's day in the mow. less than two months a merciful death in a military hospital released him from the
It will have been observed by enceful lost provinces of France is chiefly noted students of the war that new, from these
by its absence. I found it difficult to ob-Prussian clutch. tain admission to these provinces. Strassburg can be visited only with diff culty, oven by travelling Germans,
would like to inform the public of some Before giving my experiences there I
few days. I cannot indicate the source, news that has reached me during the last but it gives the state of affairs in Berlin up to November 14th.
In
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THE RED CROSS ZVERYWHERE. The town of Strassburg is a vast hos- pital. I do not think I have ever scen so many Red Cross flags before. waved from the Imperial Palace, the Public Library, the large and excellent hotels, and private residences. military hospitals, the school houses, Orangerie is thronged with convalescent wounded, and when bunger directed my stops to the extensive Park Restaurant I found it, too, converted into a hospital. Even the large concert room was crowded with cots.
The
up had swarmed over the German lines TEN MONTHS IN GERMANY. porilous work at Verdun was forced upon and into the dip of the hill where Bogu were in possession of the sito of the mont-Hamel lay and before midday we
mouths, at least, of all the subterrancan village there is no village and the hiding places with which it is underlaid. BRITISH Headquarters, Nov. 22nd. To-day I have to tell the tale of the ably get broken up, and it becomes in In such a place all units of troops inevit- great ighting qualities of Scottish troop. truth even more than General Joffre has Yesterday it was the Royal Naval Divi called it, une guerre de Capitaines: it lon; to-morrow it may be English county becum a true soldier's fight, where every regiments, Londoners, Irishmen, or men man is almost on his own and the from overses. They are all the same. But the Germans rover did particularly extraordinary incidente tako place. like the Scots, and now that they largely penetrated far back through the German At one spot Scots outonant had owe to them the loss of Beaumont-Hamel lines, stopping burrows as he went and they probably like them less than ever dropping men to hold the bits of trenches, The Scots, on the other hand, are feeling When he reached his last trench line bonnie.
he had only two men left; and these he posted in the trench while he investigated dug-uts. In one dug out he found a battalion commander-a Uhlan and his staff, and called on them to surrender, which they did. On some pretext they went into an inner chamber of the deg out, and he went with them. By this time it had dawned on the Germans that their captor was alone, so they turned to him and said that instead of being his prisoners, it looked to them that he must call himself theirs. He was forced to agree, Happily, there was a dip which goes from Beaumont-Hamel, man below with a periscope, and, while the north, to the Anore, At its the German officers were still enjoying the western end-the forked end projecting way in which they had turned the tables down to the front-the chaam is 30ft, and on their captor, he announced that the more in depth, with sides so precipitoue Scots were all round them up above and that in spots they actually overhang. that it was useless to resist. So. Down below, from this 30ft. level, the the lieutenant, "I think I'll be the gaoler said Germans had burrowed into the sides of again and you can be the prisoners." the earth and dug their laims to a lower And once rebre they surrendered, and level still. Not only were they imper-be marched them out in triumph. vions to any kind of shellfire, but the At another place a man of the Signals steepness of the sides of the nullah pro- Corps was running telephone lines up tested oven the entrances, which were (as they do while fighting is going on), traversed so as to be unreachable. Some and he had just reached his goal in n of the great caves here hollowed out are captured German trench when he was hit big enough to shelter a battalion and a and collapsed at the mouth of a dug-out. half of men in absolute security.
As he did so a German officer came up from the depths bolow, and "Bignals could see that there were more behind. Ea pulled himself together and called on the first man to surrender. The German promptly did so,
With what strength he had left the Scotsman then telephoned back over the line which he had just laid and explained the situation. Then he stood guard over the German in the door- way, keeping the others blocked behind, until help came up.
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Besides all this, the careful German had duga tunnel back from the forward end of the ravine to his own fourth line in the rear. We did not know that until later; but there seems to be no doubt that, until even that fourth line was in cur hands, reinforcements were coming into the ravine while we were besieging it. Altogether it was almost as formid able a position for defence as can be imagined.
A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.
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SPOILS IN THE RAVINE.
Our attack was delivered at 6 o'clock are only, fotsam on a great sea of gallan But such scraps of individual feats in the morning, while it was yet dark; try. Wonderful tales are told of the and the darkness, while it rendered it pluck of the runners who tried to take very difficult for our men to keep touch and direction, doubtless on the other hand messages back from the neighbourhood of contributed to make the attack
tho ravine while that stronghold was surprise. I have spoken already of the garrison could snipe anyone who moved still in German occupation and its admirable quality of our preliminary on No Man's Land. Equally wonderful artillery bombardment; and to-day the are the stories of the ingfroid of the Scotsmen could not speak in too high men of all ranks. In the ravine was torms of our guns. There was only one found a huge ration store, with immense spot on all the front which they attacker quantities of tinned meat and other at which the elaborate wire défences were things, and in the dugouts of officers not swept out of being, not only before were cigars and such alluring trifles. the front trench, but before each succes There are, reliable accounts of soldiers aive line beyond, While the abysmal shelters of the ravine were little damaged who went about their later work, even all the ordinary trenches and positions bayonet fighting, with big German were battered to piecos, so that one of digare in their mouths. our chief inconveniences was, and still is, that we cannot find the mouths of dug outs, But if it is an inconvenience to us, it must be something considerably more to any of the enemy who have remained inside,
Most of them
Disappointment is felt in official eireles at the failure to bring about "a separate prace with Russia. This was con fidently looked forward to, as was the fail of Verdun. Bussia has stood firm. against incase pressure and promises. situation has reached an acute intensity, Since you left Germany the food
long communication. The keen eagerness which could only be explained in a very of the thrust into Roumania indicates the condition of the German larder,
The glorious old sandstone Cathedral, with its gorgeous façade and lace-like the nave and a wireless apparatus was spire, had a Red Cross flag waving over
hackwards and forwards on the uncom installed on the spire. Sentries paced ploted tower, which dominates the region to the Vosges..
in the munition factories, and an increas
More and more sugar is being used The whole object of Prussia is to eliminate every French influence in the ing quantity of milk for the manufac two provinces. The use of the French sives. The infant age limit for milk has is strictly forbidden. To print, sell, offer ture of glycerine used for making exple-language, whether in speech or writing, been reduced to four years in many dis for sale, or purchase anything printed tricts. There is a growing dissatisfac in French is to commit a crime, Detee- tion among mothers in consequence. It tives are everywhere on the alert to dis is urged that infants and invalids should cover violations of the law. All French he provided with milk in priority to trade numes have been changed to their munition factories. The richer Germans, German equivalents. For example, the the Army, the Navy, and the aristocracy. sign Guillaume Hondée, Pailleur, has are not suffering. The chief burden of the shortage is falling upon the middle.
come down, and if the tradeaman wished classes, for the poor are being more and Kondee, Schneider, must go up. He may to continue in his business. Wilhelm more supplied by the communal kitchens. have a quantity of valuable business forms Coroa is still coming in large quantities. for letter heads in French-even if they but it is not allowed to be sold pura. contain only one French word they must It is now heavily adulterated with flour be destroyed. or starch.
tians are even worse, but the authorities "In Austria and Hungary the condi- ver
that the situation is now at its lowest possible level of stringency. ysterious promises are made of impor- tant changes, which are understood to mean the introduction of the supplies to be gathered in Roumania.
ed by the heaviest losses in that sector "The retreat from Verdun, accompani- since the spring, has aggravated dissatis faction, and even Hindenburg is being criticized. The censorship is more rigid than a month ago, and numbers of pre- ventive arrests are being made. The been relieved by the introduction of a labour question in North Germany has number of Belgian and French workers.
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The above is probably the only uncen sored news that has come out of Germany for many days, and I can vouch for the accuracy of my informant.
A NIGHT IN THE OPEN.
a day or two in Badea formulating my plans, and then resolved to try to stroll into Strassburg one evening.
Those intimate friends who are accustomed to address him by is Wilhelm. his first name must bear in mind that it
Eloise was a milliner at the outbreak of the war. Today, if she desires to con- tinue her business, she is obliged to re- move the final "e and thus Germanize her name.
DIET MUZZLED.
ment, the Strassburg Diet, are absolutely muzzled. They have been compelled to
The very mambers of the local Parlia
promise not to criticize at any time, or in any way, the military control, otherwise their Parliament will be closed. do not even get the
They sugared Reichstag reports from Berlin, BE does the rest of Germany These are specially re-censor ed at Milhausen. In no part of the wAI zone is there so much ignorance about what is happening at the various Frents ay in these two lost provinces,
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The result of the persecution of the French-speaking portion of the popula tion has been a bootherang for Prussia The Alsatian-Germans, who never cared much for Prussia, are now bitterly hostile to her, and thus it is that all Alsatians, whether French or Germa who go into other parts of Germany are under the same police regulations as alien enemies.
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picked up a meal of German rations in between whiles, and some, who had found an ordnance store, were actually dia covered in process of putting on clean shirts. But he is incorrigible and incam- parable, the British soldier. There can
I was not to get into Strassburg with Behind this devastating fire the Scottish hardly be a moment in a fight so hot that troups broke over the German defences he will not stop to crack a solemn joke out trouble, Merely to enter the town without a check on all their front, except Scotsmen came back, after the fight was military pass.
or pick up "яouvenir."
When the for an hour's visit on business requires a To remain overnight a only immediately before the ends of the *Y ravine, Below this narrow point, over and they were relieved, there was special pass, only obtainable by great in on the south, they went forward, with scarcely a man who did not bring his fluence, is nected, and that is only grant the Naval Division keeping step on their quota of German helmets and goodnessed to Germans--not neutrals. I stayed right, across the first and second lines knows what else; and they were in the to the third.. This was very strongly gayest spirits, as if the work that they held, and here there was store fighting, had been on had been a holiday. but the Scotsmen had no intention of As a matter of fact it was very fine and being stopped, and when they went on it gallant Sghting, done with magnificent was to leave behind them a trench which determination and in perfect temper. - even now is full of "Germann dead.. The Spots, as a whole, took over 1,400 On the other, or north, side of the prisoners, and 54 machine-guns have ravine, our men broke over the first and already been gathered in, Doubtless many second lines almost as sesily; but from more are yet to he exhumed from where here on there was savage fighting, in all our guns have buried them. The German. sorts of scattered positions and among casualties were very, very heavy. They shell holes, before the third line was were heavy everywhere, but especially reached. It was reached, however, and heavy in the third trench line and back tramped past me on that four-mile road matist, who has just returned from Berlin frun both sides we attacked the ravine behind that, as well as in and around that led into Strassburg. I kept as close through Norway. Ho informs me that
with bombs. The first breach in it was
mule at a point just behind the fork of, the "Y," and down the precipitous sides
the ravine..
our man tumbled, bayonet in hand On RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP SUNK. both sides of them the chasm was full of German, and there was for a while as stubborn a struggle down there, bombing: and bayoneting and grappling hand-to hand, as the battle has seen.
RESULT OF INTERNAL EXPLOSION.
While it was still in progress, our men
The Russian Staff issued the following down in the ravias not only holding on November 23rd:-
At 6 o'clock in the morning of October
new frontal
I had thought out my project carefully. Unprovided with a sible to go to an hotel I must therefore it was impos- sleep in the open. I had good fortune. arising from the fact that a great troop movement was taking place, with conce- directly it was dark, I began my journey. quent confusion and crowding, and so,
On all sides from the surrounding girdle of forts the searchlights swept the sky, and columns of weary soldiers
to them as possible, with many other pedestrians. Presently the soldiers went ibeir way and I took mine.
WAR NEWS,
"ZUMST."
timea hears things, writes:-I have had "A correspondent of Truth, who some a talk with an eminent neutral diplo
von Tirpitz is preparing a big surpris for the unspeakable Englander, which Suddenly a soldier lurched from the (Zeppelin Unter - Maris - Schiff - Tank).
invention is known officially as Zumet shadows and accosted me. Following may invariable custom, I left him to do the
This amphibious engine of war will talking. There was no need to be alarm
start its career as a Tank, and will so ed; he was only a drunken straggler who
euz the British lines in Flanders. Са wanted to know whether any more troops the Channel as had got separated from his company and reaching the coast, it will dive and cross a submarine. But by were coming on.
Internal inflation it will emerge on our I had passed through two cordons of own shores and rise above us 48 an
him
their own, but slowly forcing the enemy 20th a fire broke out in the forward functionaries by the simple device of wix./Grmoured Zeppelin. As it is impregnable back on either hand, a Xattack was delivered from No Man's magazine of the Imperatritsa farining myself up with the crowd following both against aircraft and against special
Lang against the narrow bit of the front (22.500 tons) line still unbroken at the forward end followed at once, and the fire spread ones to the beautiful parks, the Orangerie, Count Zeppelin is determined to accom An internal explosion the soldiers, and I weaded my way at constables it can alight everywhere an
commandeer food or other supplies. of the "Y" The Germans at that end, rapidly and reached the petrol tanks. where I made inyself comfortable in a who had so far been pinching the Scots The officers and crew strove with the clump of bushes and watched the unceas pany the Zumst on its trial trip, but his against the other Germans beyond, now utmost bravery to localize the effect of ing dash of searchlights criss-cross, in the friends are doing their best to dissuade found themselves in turn attacked on
the explosion and to flood the magazine. sky till morning. two sides. As they turned to repel the The Commandor-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral frontal attack, the men in the ravine Koishak, went on board and took personal behind them surged forward. Meanwhile, control of the operations. Shortly after farther up the other parties of 7 o'clock, however, the vessel sank. our men had broken into the ravine, and The greater part of the crew have been thoro followed a spell of indescribable aayed. An officer, two first-class petty confusion. It was short, however. It officers, and 149 sailors are missing, and is the kind of gruelling which the Ger- 64 of the crew have since succumbed to mang have never get boon able to stand, the effects of burns. and, first singly, and then in blocks, they threw down their arma and surrendered
HOW 50 GREMANS WERE CAUGHT, **
well from two previous visits, and I had I know my way about Strassburg fairly a verbal introduction to a safe Social Democrat friend-not, I may say, a Frenchman.
THE IRON HAND,
war.
WAR CHARITIES.
A sum of £50,000,000 was subscribed to war charity in the first two years of the This sum includes the amounts The Germans have treated Alsace-Lor raised in the dominions and the colonies, raine ruthlessly since the outbreak of and includes £20,000,000 for the relief of The position of the ship, which lies in war. In no part of the Empire is the distress and the re-establishment of men shallow water, gives cause for hope that iron hand eo evident, In Strassburg she may be refloated and completely re
itself all signs of the French have dis returning to civil life, £6,000,000 for the paired in a few months. Her bridge at appeared. Readers who know the place forts, and £10,000,000 for the Allies, The sick and wounded, 20,00,000 for com Even after the mass had surrendered, present is only a yard below the level well will remark that they were vanish Prince of Wales' National Fund amounts there still remained the dug outs and the of the water.
ing before the war. Externally they have tunnel to be dealt with; and it was then that an enterprising Scots privato who Dreadnoughts of the Russian Black Sen spirit of the people are as before.
The Imperatritse Maria is one of the now gone altogether, but the hearts and to £6,000,000, of which three-fifths has bean spent, chiefly in meeting soldiers' had lived in Germany found his opporFleet. Her displacement is 22,500 tons, tunity. A German officer surrendered to and she carries twelve 12in, guns in four the Prussian Government determined alades £1,500,000, spent by the Young A Social-Democrat friend told me that layed payment. The Comforts Fund in- allowances, of which the War Office de
him; but the private was too canny to triple turrets, and twenty 4.7in, guns.
the beginning of the war that they would Men's Christian Assegnon, the Church take him back quietly and turn him over. She was launched at Nikolaieff in 1913, have no more Alsace Lorraine problem in Army, and the Salvation Army for the Instead, he led him along the ravine to and has been heard of, several times
the future. a suspected dug out, and bade the officer during the war. In April last, after the from these two provinces to the most training camps. Abroad £8,000,000 was They have, theerfore, sent the soldier entertainment of fighting me in the put his head into the entrance and ordor Breslau had bombarded the Russian dangerous places at the various fronts, collected for Belg z relict, of which the men inside--if Buy there were to coastal positions on the Caucasian front, One Alsace regiment was hurled again half has been spent by the neutral com- come out. The officer thundered his she chased the enemy ship, but the latter, and again at the old British Army on mission in Belgium. A sum of £3,000,000 order and out camo 50 tame Germans. owing to her superior speed (28 knots to the Yser in November, 1914, until at the ag spent on feeding, clothing, and
While this struggle for the ravine was the Imperatritsa's 21) made good her end of a week only three officers and six lodging Belgian going on, other Scottish troops higher escape,
refogeos in Great men were left alive. Some of the most Britain.
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