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WAR DEMONSTRATION INGEN ALEXEIEFF'S POWERS DESOLATION OF THE SOMME
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PETROGRAD, April 2nd.
I returned this morning with the Mine
M.PL ROUGHLY HANDLED. The Chinese newspapers-give varying necours Da war demonstration in Lex ing which took place on May 10th, while The HOUSE OF resentives Wite sitting. in 18 stated that a couple of chouler of War and Marine from General (some of the papers my 3000) carizem, carrying the national jag surround a Headquarters. The other Ministers had the house, unu forced a aut of irgular receded M. Gutchkoff. His trip has pid, pampares upon the members/us Fallimen ny refusing to take the bron eminently successful. The results of were 0.84n. mixed with the crowd, the conferences held at Headquarters will were builders and gendarmes in civilian clothes,About ten members who rezubed be discussed by the Council of Ministers to accept the pamphlets were assaulted here, and it is likely that M. Gutchkoff olareu inat they are delegations from will afterwards hold a final consultation
und seriously injured. The rioters a
of a village, the site where village Miraumont, Each one is but the husk
absurdity of a grain of corn which had Was Carlyle somewhere sponks of the already been ground and bolted trying to individualize itself by a special nar
Thore rative. So with these villages. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, April 2nd. Today I have covered by motor-car or is nothing to be said of one which does not apply to all Some, of course, ware un foot a wide range of country in the tready beaten to nothingness as a mere the struggle which went on for their possession; but the saddest sight is of Bapaume area, through one continuous accident of the war, by shell are during Among other things we climbed the those where the blackened walls still wilderness of utter desolation. on a landscape which surely can have until they were systematically burned Butte de Warkencourt and looked out stand of the cattages which were intact no parallel in the world The Butte by the Germans when they fled. I have volcanons and war; but no form of ruin itself, as we used to see it through een ruins of many towns wiped out by trical tumulue of grech, scivuth-sided glasses last summer, was then a symie fire and cyclone and earthquake and wore un, we saw the green change to the villages which the Germans have and tempting to the eye. As the battle is so dreadful and repellant as this of brown as our guns broke through the gutted with the minutest auvagery.
In all of them there is peculiar three socities who had formed themselves with General Alexeieff..................... into a compact bouy to make a certain The position at present remains as out- demanu upon the couse which was suplined in my messages, but, for the sake of turf; and then while spots began to
making it quite clear, it may briefly be appear in the brown itself, showing pathos in the wreckage of the churches. posed that day to debate on the stated that General Alexereff, as Chief of we had shattered the outer crust so that The little remnants of the church at pictoy, The three societies are Society of Politicians, Scholars and Staff and Acting Generalissime becomes the inner limestone peered through. Now Miraumont are sad beyond description. Merents the Association of the Five Famines Citizens, and the Town Loine the permanent head of all the Armes and it is all white. Nor is it any longer Close beside what is left of the church ervices connected with the operations at gymmetrical and smooth and tempting is a graveyard. At the farthest end of munity of Pezing Luch delegation the front The sent independent inspes but it is henten and battered out of shape it there still stand a row of old French nominated two representatives to be pietorships hitherto held by the Grand Dukes till it looks like some huge lump of dough graves with their crosses in some cases scht as the debate, but their admissin are completely subordinated, so far as the kneaded by clumsy fingers. The whole intact, but there are no French graves to the House was refused by the Speaker, front is concerned, to General Alexciell surface is so ploughed and sifted that in all the rest of the tiny cemetery. Mr. Lang untung, on the ground tou All military and naval services, except nowhere is there a yard of stable fooling Whatever may have been there has been house was not holding general those at the front are united under the bat it is all crumbled up, like a plum removed, and the place is now full of tombs of former French occupants of session. The demonstrators then declared control of the Provisional Government in pudding mixture before it is boiled, and German soldiers graves. In some cases
climb that the members must arrive at the person of the Minister of War and your feet slide and slither in it as you bld stones, plainly belonging to the favourable decision on the war question Marine Except in the actual conduct of
On the top of the dreadful pile stands the graveyard, now stand cover Ger- military operations Headquarters becomes
now, a monument to the officers, non man sepulchres, with new names carved that day, and that if they did not do so
subordinate to the Minister of they would not be permitted to quit tho Birtually Marine. The closest touch andommissioned officers, and men of the on them. In the raiddle is a massive
and House. Any of them attempting to
set upon and roughly co-ordination have thas been stablished Drum Light Infantry who fell in the and pompous memorial to 150 German handled the House woltid between front and rearsal attack on the Butte on November 5th, soldiers who fell here in 1914 Un
The members were
bors were filled with indigna The Government have
leave
to
to 9 pm, bands belonging to the
wont of
reckon
Headguar
BEAUMONT HAMEL
itizens" "delegations were still loitering ters M. Kerensky, who represents the pronched from the direction of Le Surmpossible to say that one place. were closed and no reliable news workmen's and soldier INTOLERABLE GERMAN POSIga bata
in front of the House the gates of which regards what the members were doing
tion and the speaker telephoned to the with possible interference or opposition 1914 Dulce et decurum est pro netrin doubtedly old graves must have been Cubin-t, demanding the attendance at the From the committee of workmen and sol mori. It is a noble site for a monu- removed to make way for it. House of the Premier and the unisere diers delegates in Petrograd.They are ment; and the Durhams deserve it. The latest grave in the place is Eng of the interior and of Justice to explain animated by a leaven of mistrust against When the present wooden cress is relish, neatly made and well tended, the why troops were participating in the all the commanders who enjoyed the con placed by permanent marble or granite, grave of Major Francis A. Lupton, of the Teile or who were attached there should be grouped around it also the West Yorks, who died on February and asking for the fidence demonstration
wo were in possession of Miraumont; They opposed the appoint memorials to all the other troops who 19th, 1917. That was, of course, before dempath of troops and polies, to pretect to this quite. appena pipes in the desperate. fighting bans the members.
The Premier but although numb. o
but view over a wide range of country and Lupton, on the night in question, went acquiescence, restore order, the Premiere General Evert; and insisted on the ap Standing beside the cross, one has a but from the lines before it, Major. broops and constabulary
pointment of General Let Bitherto ap ste only too clearly how completely out on a reconnaissance and never re......... being himseh their views have not prevailed engaged at the Cabinet, sent only Minis Gaperal Lechiteky remains on the south the machine-guns in the Butte, and the surned. It was not until the village fell
Jong gully by which it had to be ap- shil given reverent burial. tors Fan Yuan-lien and Chang Yo-feng to attend the sitting of the House gern front, where his knowledge and a larger guns behind it, dominated the into our hands that the body was found
perience are more immediately required.
During his brief sojourn at
But most wonderful of all is the view is really more utterly obliterated than moderate action of the
the retention of of the foreground and the middle- dia, all the others, for there are no degrees phatically supported
and there can be au tance of the picture. Over the whole in nothingress. But one could walk doubt that
Hix, eight, or 10 fort across. There is and Windy Corner, round past Point Ku Chung-hsin, Minister of Agri-will not heed the clamour of the extrem can reach is the stamp of a great shell, from north to south, by Suicide Corner
Condered DIS ista. culture and Commerce, -
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DISCIPLINE IMPROVING Oe yard of the ground; nothing 8 to the X Ravine, and never resignation the same evening, stating EAR STOPPLES.
strength of Beaumont Hamel lay always chumed by the terrible iron footprints, place where a village had been. The cause of the demonstration outside Par
The tendency towards greater moders but the expanse of mud plashed and guess that one was passing through the liament was unfathomable; but R2" "such actions were contrary to the principles tion among the 4,000 delegates now com
ee steadily developing. They have taken in which lie half-submerged or flirting be relieved of his office stern measures against the incendiary all the debris of equipment and other creuse of the hills above the Ancre valley which has been supressed by hor.id leavings of the battlefield and its labyrinthine underground de It is indescribable, however, and in fences, not in anything above the surface eting held on May anda, the Cabinet meeting
From my 10th, four measures were proposed by the their ordersonál observation of theconceivable until one has seen it and of the ground. I have been wandering
Minister of demeanour of WATCmple of the and at Mohiloff I am able to contrm tab
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The police failed 10 General A Provisional Government surface of the country as far as the eye through the whole of Beaumont Hamel,
of constitutional government, he would posing the committee surely and each full of the dreadful brown liquid in the position which it held in the
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PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
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(1) Following the United States of America, a war council
should be established.
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wider view of it than one does though not through all their ramifi depths which were so full of dead reports sent you from the when walking on the level, this same cations, for there are some of the lower front. Soldiers kr General utter and sickening ruin spreads over Germans (their comrades having for so
than During our
EN PARASEMASA are more
panctilious All this region mile after mile To Bong failed to bury them that the task:
A general consorate at Peking kuu
ever in saluting officers.
Head Office of Transport Affairs their sok men unanimously ex- they could not hold them 1 There are no other course 1 ut to bury them in quick-
among
branch censorates in the provinces.
since halts st Orsha and Vitebsk the troups and that the Germans left their positions for us was impossible) that there was no be created.
ort Affairs inhabitants came to greet M. Gutchkoff, here for any other reasone than that should be stablished at Shanghai, 1*
The soldiers tore off their fences only this endless core of mud charnel house below with sandbags and One spot there 18, also, which the (4) In the provinces, offices to attend pressed the firmest determination to con positions left, no trenches and he de lime and block up the entrances to the to preparatory matters in connexion are the war.
silver medals and handed that to the and she on which by day and night th
the moment came when our bayonets uninitiated approach with a certain with the way should be established Minister as a humble and heartfelt con- our gans kept stamping, stamping, until
tribution to the war fund ***During the best days after the Revolu arrived And one cannot wonder that amount of caution; for hers, far under TREMENDOUS TRIUMPHtion there was a noticeable kndency the Germans who still lived in such a ground, the Germans had laid one of the older run in the Army to replace hastened gladly to give thamarives their familiar booby-trip mines, THE STRATEGIC RETREAT OF turn to their villages. I recorded a simi- up. Let there be no possible mistake though not of the wid-and-wire type, lar phenomenon in Petrograd Wild about it, now or at any future time; but with electrical connections to be the Germans fled from all this front operated either from a distance or by THE GERMAN ARMY,
rumours had gone forth that there was
the connections have all been neatly ent.. The strategio retreat" of the invi-to be a division of lands. Stupid people here because to continue was intolerable. some expected, clumsiness on our part. cible German army which, to its wrath believed them, Cases of desertion were The strategy was the strategy of utter Anyhow, it was never exploded. But and amusement, finds itself steadily not unfrequent, but the men are now re defent forced further and further from him turning of their own accord, taking nd Bapaume itself is a heart-breaking and the visitor can go and look at the
vantage of the Government's amnesty all who report for duty before April 14th right, and one to fill one with new rage nicely piled cases which contain explo the town for one bouse which was un In future all men who leave their posts at the German brutality. I spent, persives enough to have sent half Beaumont ment of lande
destroyed, and did not find it Thero will be deprived of any share in the allot haps, an hour conscientiously searching Hamel into the air.
THE GRAND DUKE'S DEPARTURE is not one. And it mus The departure of the Grand Duke this was no general conflagration, but Nicholas which preceded our visit by some the wilful, deliberate, and systematic days, was characterized hy much dignity burning of each individual structure.
order the
of on the part of the former Generalissimo. We know how it was done, because the He listened in silence to the One thing, however, stands out clear Provisional Government relieving him of refugees from various villages have told cut like a cameo against the background his post, and he quietly replied that his und 10 September, 1914, I was in of doubt, namely, that once more it was only wish was to retire from the Army Termonde a few days after its first burn dividual on his estates in the Crimea and completed the destruction of the place, The methods followed there were pre- the Germans who took the strategic and to liv henceforth as a private in-ng and before the second outrage which ecisely the same as those followed here, initiative, once more it is Hindenburg who forces events into a fresh channel in the Caucasus. This wish was ame
diately complied with
pregnable and unassailable" positions in the west continues to bewilder the Get man people, despite the valiant efforts of the German Press to explain it away The for this direction: ingenious in
It is rather too soon to enter into del tails about the favourable results of the shortening of our front or about the ex cellent strategic position we have thereby acquired,
to
gave
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
ABBAULT-AT-ARMS.
In connection with this event, which will take place at Volunteer Headquar torg on Saturday next, May 19th, the following Orders are issued
ring-side, at 7,30 pm be in position
aberp O.C. No. Company will detail 10 Con- to Musketry-Sergeant Fisher at the tables for duty. They will report
The Band will attend
no members of the
once again it in the German army that him a respectful forewell except that one does not know whether by 7.55 pm sharp.
The Grand Duke
Mikhathe combustible used then-petrol and Other than the above ist, unless de
Police Reserve will
tailed by Staff Inspector Wildin... May 18th is cancelled.
JOINED The Band Practice ordered for Friday,
Momted Police Trooper 485 Kew, On leaving the Colony P. 85 Leon Chi
Kood
controls the whole position on the western front. Once more the Entente's orch, Prince Peter of Oldenburg, and sticks of lyddite--were used bere, plans of attack have been spoilt past all the Grand Duke Boris were still at Squads of men, under non-commis Mobileff yesterday, where they are wind sioned officers, went through the town street by street. Everything portable remedy.
and of any possible use or value was re- Those attacks, of course, will be ating up their personal affairs,
moved and taken away on the road to tempted all the same, but the General
Germans. Each individual house was Staff of our enemies will find themselves
then separately fired, and when it was brought to a halt against un entirely new
ONLY ONE ENEMY, ENGLAND:
well started the men went on to the and formidable rampart, of obstruction.
anext. There was nothing haphazard, but On conviction by a Magistrate-Pc. 185
(Ed.) F. O. JENKIN. This is a tremendous triumph for Ger
The Kolsche Zeitung publishes
D.S.P (R)- man prescience and German generalship
The Turks secured a similar tre report of public meeting held at all was as German in its thoroughness as mendous triumph in Mesopotamis: Cologne by the Rhenish brauch of the in its gross brutality, ang They took the strategic initiative and Independent Committee for a German From many places the refugees tell the fed pell-mell from Kut and from Pesce The chief speaker was Herr Fuhr- same story-namely, that the soldiers the well-known National Liberal detested the job on which they were Bagdad Like Hindenburg, they forced man events into a fresh channel," and comleider. Fuhrmann began by expressing engaged. They had to go into and strip
DISMISSED.
10th May, 1917.
pelled the British troops to run-after his thanks to the British for having, by houses in which they had lived and NECESSITY FOR A STRONG PRESS.
them
AS A PRIVATE.
brutal frankness," opened the ever been kindly treated, if as enemies, for
see that the who now
many Germans,
against England. The perhaps, the greater part of two years. In the House of Commons recently, Mr. They all asked the if fight is really MR. BRYAN ABES TO BE ENROLLED was Agnitat England, was indeed inevit mies and to take out into the street the Mis castion had been mailed to the man-
able. Since the appointment of Hinden burk and Ludendorff the German nation Mr Bryan, former Secretary of State, has known that sentimentality and parti recently sent this message to Presidentality for England would have no influence upon the decisions in the domain of Wilson:
Believing it to be the duty of each military and naval activity. At the same citizen to bear his part of the burdent of war and his share of its
of
home which they knew, while the women ner in which the German Government has The same things one hears from many paper and a conservation of journalistic folk wept, and then they had to put the supported the German Press in a variety building to the torch of ways, including a full urovision places, and the same truths appear in man-power sufficient to ensure the con good words of the German officers. It unimpaired efficiency whether
Majesty's Government recognised to the Pres in from official orders, who did the looting
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against the exaggerated eye was the individual German officers, apart the necessity for a strong. hereby tender my services Perils Fuhrmann warned his hearers many lights. But never does one hear tinuation of the German newspapers with ernment, Please corol The assetamise 1200 rega
Assign me to lower
by
to the
B Pfleger, of all things of real value from the this country and whether he would take already working under difflties in Ties and man-power, whenever I am needed. A
respect of paper supplies anywork Tat 1
doruntil called to Bavarian, a member of the Reichster and better houses, and it was the officers steps to ensure that the British Press, That I can hone the Red of the Bavarian Diet, who also dedared who took away the girls as servants." the colours tha
contribute to the comfort of that though Germany has in this Many of girls wore in their early should not be further impaired in ca Столя с
in the hospital; and, through many opponents, she has only one enemy boens, and were of gentle families, ing out its national, work
no detailed information to the first Young Men's Christian Association, England CE 75
art of the anestion but they are fully sid Pfleger, would the daughters of persons of the upper Ron Law: The Government har
decide the fate of the German Empi middle class and of means,
No les terrible than Bapans are the alive to the advantage of giving facilitie Bryan, with the rank of Colone, and be expressed his confidence the GS OF VILLAGES commanded a regiment of Nebraska any would be able to obtain a large leaser places, such as Bihucourt, Achietto the Press so far as antional needs
le-Grand and le-Petit, L Sara, and permi nteers during the Spanish-American indemnity in order to restore her finan cial
war
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