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THE WAR.
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Franco-Belgian Front
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGRNOT,]
BRITISH FRONT.
STATIONS BOMBED.
General.
(THROUGH BEUTEK'E AGENOT.]
GERMAN NAVY MINISTER'S SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURE.
DEPUTIES DENY PROPOSALS WERE REVOLUTIONARY.
AMSTERDAM, October 18th. The three Deputies denied that, their LONDON, October 10th.. proposals were revolutionary. They de Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reclared they had a perfect right to speak ports In aviation we did much work on
to the sailors regarding their conditions. Tuesday on the battle front, despite a The Conservatives exhorted that the strong gale and thick clouds, and our threg Deputies be tried for high-treason, artillery were thus enabled to deal with There should be no parliamentary im the enemy's new gun positions and other unity in such a catego suitable targets. Tonch was kept with Dr. Michaelis admitted that sorae our infantry all day long, and the ailors" had. committed regrettable enemy's troops were harrassed at every crimes. They possessed tickets binding opportunity by machine-gun fire. A ton themselves to support the Independent of bombs was dropped in the day time on Socialists' principles and had carried on Staden and two tons at night-time on) a propaganda aboard the warships Roulers, Courtrai, Menin and Ledgehem Finally he declared the Independent Socialists were now outside the palo to stations. We obtained a direct bit at
which the German offeind might belong. hostile train, and we caused a number of explosions. Four German machines were brought down daid two were driven down, Two of our machines are missing,
NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION.
SOCIALISTS STATEMENTS.
CANADIANS AT LENS,
AN EPIC OF HEROISM,
A senior officer of a battalion on the fank of bis vas a different type of man- a very tall; strong-featured man of middle age, like on English squire of the old [FROM PHILIP GIDOS. 1
style, with a fins smiling light in his.. To the south of Lens there is a slag eyes, in spite of all he had been through, heap overgrown with weeds called the and with a vivid way of specct that Green Crassier. It is clearly visible across would not come fast enough to my the Souchez River beyond a broken bridge, splendid things about his men, to describe and I have often seen it from the lower the marvellous way in which they had slopes of Vimy. It was the scene of great fought, in frightful conditions, to praise fighting yesterday (August 23rd), for in first one and then another for the things. the morning the Canadians, who are show they had done when things were at their ing an indomitable spirit after ten days worst. He had been addressing some of the survivors of this battle when I came of most furious attacks and counter upon him, and I saw the march away, attacks, launched an assault upon it and straightening themselves up before this. seized the position. Later in the day theleased with them. He thanked them for officer of theirs, and proud because he was enemy came back in strength and, after une thing above all, and that was for the violent efforts, succeeded in thrusting the gallant way in which, after all their Canadians off the crest of this old mound their dead and wounded, so that not one fighting, they had gone out to fetch In western side. It is another incident in be taken prisoner, and the dead were of cinders, though they still cling to the wounded man lay out there to die or to the long series of fierce and bloody en-brought back for burial. He said a word, Routers which since the battle of Viny, too, for Heine, as they call him. Ond on April 9th, have surrounded the city Germans had not sniped; or machine- of Lens and given to its streets and sub gunned the stretcher-bearers, but had arbs a sinister but historio fame. The sent their own men out on the same Canadians have fought here with astound. mission, too. That was after the battle, ing resolution. They have hurled them and there was a surrendering while the selves against fortress positions, and by fighting was on. sheer courage have smashed their W213 through streets entangled with quick-set
This officer's story was us wonderful as anything have heard in this war. And
Heri Baase was called to order for hedges of steal, through houses alive with the man himself was, wonderful, for he describing the previons speaker as a scoundrel because the latter had said that ] Machine-gun fire. through trenches dug bad had no sleep for six days and nights. the Independent Socialists were prufting 1 between concrete forts, through tunnels and had suffered the fearfal strain of his under red brick rains, sometimes to responsibility for many men's lives; yet Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig immunity from arrest." He continued:ong to be touched by shell-fire, and now, when I met him straight from all
ports In the course of the day hostile
No-one dare suggest that ground existed through walls loop holed for rifle fire, and that, he was bright-eyed and his mind attacks on our new positions in the neigh for any criminal prosecution. It was hiding machine-gun emplacements desig was as clear as i bell, and the emotion bourhood of the Ypres Staden railway grave injustice towards the accuseded to enfilade, the Canadian' line of that surged through him was well-con- Through the cites of Strolled. He described the things I havo
led to local fighting without effecting sailors that we have not been called as advance.
ground;
TOTAL CAPTURES,
Л
The enemy did not make further counter then have been saved from death. (Shouts to the north and west of Lens. they have sirects and houses or Lend which makes any material change in the situation witnesses, because the unhappy men would Laurent, St. Theodore, and St. Emilic-attempted to describe before- the fortified | attacks, and our troops on the battlefront of judicial murder.") Not even tho par fought past high sing heaps and pit heads. it one great fortress, turinelled from end activity organised the captured positions.ents land been informed of their son having | along, railway emankments, and down to end with exits into comrefe furts two despite the great dißculties of the bean excented; they learned it from a sailor sunken roads, until they have broken vards thick in ceruent, in the ruined on leave: (Great disturbance from the Left. route through frightful defences to the cottages. On the morning of our attack The entire aflair is now brought forward Western streets of the inner city. -
Every day, and sometimes inany times the enemy was expecting it, and within in the Reichstag only to divert attention, from the fact that the Government has swarms of Germans coming up out intensity. So there were the Canadians day, they have been counter-attacked by a minute and a half of our beringe pub
down Kis own barrage, with Tuesday's prisoners hitherto reported suffered a heavy deleat." total 2,08. of whom 29 are officers, and
their tunnels, and between these attacks betwrun two wall of high explosives, arick Subsequently, Herr Dittman said, "The they have been under terrific gunfire from it was between that inferio that they include 400 tuken by the French.
We captured a few field-guas and the memory of the German workers."
unhappy sailors will live as martyre in a wide semi-circle of heavy batteries. In
In the course of the debate in the fought like this through the streets of towards the enemy's line, and in greater number of machine-guns and trench-
the early days of the war the French fought in the great death struggle For the Canadians had already advanced mortars.
Reichstag Dr. Michaelis admitted the Vermelles, smashing their way from one imbers-three times as great-he had Socialist statement that sentences aggrewall to another, from one house advanced to one and the two forces met. kating two hundred years hard labour, another, and over trenthes dug across the on the barren stretch of earth crossed by besides death sentences, had been passed | streets. That fighting in Vserelles stands!
TACTICAL RESULT OF MAJOR
D IMPORTANCE,
terrifie
Reuter's Correspondent with British sailors for carrying on Socialist pro- as one of the most frightful episodes of twisted trenches, which for n time had Headquarters, in the evening reports ganda in the Navy Dr. Michaelis the war, and when I first went there 1ern No Man's Land, Although our achievements yesterday were justified the sentences, on the ground that stood aghast at the relics of this bloody not quite as complete as might have it was accessary to maintain discipline, struggle. But Vermelles is hardly more been hoped, they amount to a great vic- The Socialist Herr Vogther warned the than a village, and the mining district of tory, and the tactical result is of major Chancellor that hundreds of thousands of Lens, with all its suburbs, covers several importance. The Home Divisions and the men and women, including men at the square miles of ground, so that the Australians have again covered them- Front, wore behind the Socialist party task. Six German divisions have attacked Canadians have had a longer and a herder selves with glory, while the gallant New and the Chancellor's policy was bound to them in turn, and have been shattered foundlanders' achievements were superb fails The Lancashire Territorial Division re
the 4th Guards Division, the 11th Reserve, against them. These are the 7th and 8th, ceived its baptism of fire, and it was their in his attempt to outlaw a certain party, the 20th, and the fat Guards Reserve task to advance over the most exposed and Dr. Michaelis would fail also. He Division. In addition to these six divi- Bodden ground of the whole battlefront added that the Government had come to sions, sonte portions, at any rate, of the without any tangible guide to their objecthe end of its tether and was trying to 185th Division and of the 38th Reserve tives. After passing through Reutel with unite the other parties in its support by slight opposition they encountered the waving the Red Flag, suppor enemy in force in the cemetery flanking Krupp's organ the Rhenisch Weat the right hand of Zwaenboek road. The fürliche Zelung, urges the criminal pro onemy in camoufuged "trenches covered seention of Socialist Deputies. with muddied brushwood, with concealed | 20
Herr Raas said that Bismarck failed
rifle and machine-gnu platforms, offered a FURTHER DISCLOSURES OF stubborn fight.
GERMAN PLOTTING."
WASHINGTON, October 11th,
The work of the stretcher-bearers was beyond praise. The wounded were carried across 600 yards of fire.swept ground. Secretary Lansing has made further the bearers often sinking, waist deep.. Que reviations of Count Bernstorffa activi division lost a third of its stretcher ties and publishes three telegrams between bearers in the last two offensives around the ex-Ambassador and Berlin during Poelcapelle, where fighting was very 1910.
feree. It is stated that the troops pene The Best from Dr. Zimmerman res trated Passchendale village, and evenquested on behalf of the General Staff want beyond, but had to retire when nur energetic action as regards the proposed own barrage drew back upon the village destruction of the Canadian Pacific The capture of Strude Honse redoubt by Railway." the Guards was the outstanding event. The second telegram from Germany for The place was surrounded with uncut warded names supplied by Roger Case wire and vomited intense machine gunment of silable persons to carry on fire, but the Guards with a roar leapt sabotage in the United States nad forward and bombed their way into the Canada, especially at munition works. heart of the redoubt and took prisoner all The third telegram From Count Bern the survivors,
storff to Berlin related to a pro-German Yesterday the Guards alone captured campaign designed to secure in Congress six officers and 400 men. Their own ada majority for the proposed embargo on vance was preceded by a Stokes' mortor taunitions for the Allies, bombardment of such fierceness that when
it lifted and before the battle had really begun the Germans Streamed over "kamerading."
The weather cleared this afternoon, and the visibility was excellent. Prophets foretell an Easterly wind and a dry spell, which all are praying for
FRENCH FRONT.
VIOLENT ENEMY ATTACK:
PARIS, October 11th.
RUSSIAN FFAIRS
RAILWAY STRIKË ENDED.
PETROGRAD, October 11th.. The railway strike is ended.
ITALIAN SHIPPING.
ROME, October 11th.
The arrivals for the week were 50%, and
Were
While the battalion on the left was heavily engaged fighting with rides and bombs until their ammunition gave out and then with bayonets and but, the imitation on the right was, working outskirts of Lens They came up at southward and eastward to the northern against the fortress hues from which The Canadians in all parties tried to machine-gun and rifle fire poured out. mirround these places but many swept down. Some of them rushed dose to the walls of one house, which was a bastion of the northern defences of Lens, and were so close that the machine-guns, through slits in the walls, could not fre at them. They even established a post behind it and beyond it, quite isolated from the rest of their men, but clinging to their post all day. The enemy dropped bomba apon them through the loopholes The Canadians themselves have been and sandbagged windows, Gred rifle hard pressed at times, but have endured Grenades at them, and tried to get the exhaustion of a great struggle with machine-guns at them, but there were amazing strength of spirit, grimly and always a few men left to hold the fiercely resolved to hold their gains, unless until at last, when the line withdrew advanced positions, as it has sometimes dians forced their wag, was a big arsenal. overwhelmed by numbers, in their near here, into which a party of Cana- elsewhere, they were recalled. One house happened to them. But it is no wonder te cellars were crammed with shells and that some of the men whom I met coming
Division have been engaged. The total German strength used at Lens must well exceed fifty battalions, and the German losses may perhaps be estimated at between 12,000 to 15,000 men.:
AMAZING, ENDURANCE,
GREAT COUNTER-ATTACKS..
like men who had suffered to the last limit were dead bodies, and the stench of out of that city of blood and death looked Piled boxes of bombs. In other cellars. of mental and bodily resistance Their corruption mingled with the stale vapour faces were haggard and drawn. Their of gas. Down in one of these vaults a syon were heavy. Their skin was gray as young Canadian soldier stayed with his burat ash. Some of them walked like officer, who was badly wounded, and drunken men, drunk with sheer fatigue,
could not leave him, but waited untit and as soon as they had reached their night, when he carried the officer back journey's end some of them sat under the
to safety. svalls of a mining village with their chalky helmicts tilted back, drugged by the need of sleep, but too tired even for that. They Before that night same there were great were men of the battalions who three days German counter-attacks. Masses of men No Man's Land, a stretch of barren they had slung around them, advanced ago came face to face with the enemy in carrying nothing but stick-bombs, which
the cratered earth between St. Emilic and the down
communication trenches northern streets of Long, and fought him and flung the things at the Canadians there until many dead lay strewn on both of the left battalion, who were fighting sides, and their ammunition was exhaust out in the open and in another com- ed. An officer of one of these battalions munication trench with the right batte came out of a miner's cottage to talk to lion. The enemy walked over the piled me. He was a very young man with corpses of his own dead before he could thin, clean shaven face, which gave him a boyish look. He was too weary to stand straight and too weary to talk more than a few jerky words. He leaned up against the wall of the miner's cottage, and passed
a hand over his face and eyes, and said
picked up Heine's bombs and used those
drive back the Canadiana, but by repeated storming parties he did at last force them to give way and retreat down the trench to gain the support of their to the rescue, and for a long time comrades of the other battalion, which had not been so hard pressed. These came The fight
the German grenndiers at bay
held
was ferce and savagn on both sides,
the sailings 407. Of the sinkings two wers" I'm darned tired. It was the of above and two below 1,500 tons, and one a fight. We fought to a finish, and when A communiqué states:There was no sailing vessel and two vessels were un- we had no more boobs of our own wet last, weakened by their losses and infantry action in Belgium, our troops successfully attacked. consolidating the positions won. Over 400 prisoners were taken since yesterday.
Both artilleries were active north of the Aisne.sk
After an intense bombardment the
enemy violently attacked on the right of
the Mense and north of the Chaume Wood.
The attack was maintained throughout the day. The enemy gained a footing at some points of our advanced elements, but our artillery prevented him from making progress.
Africa
(THROUGH AEUTER'S AGENCY.] SUCCESSES IN AFRICA.
LONDON, October 10th,
An East African official report states: The Inst remnant of the guerilla band in the north surrendered near Eyassi Lake.
The Belgians occupied Mahenge. The rearguard of the enemy's main force is retreating in the Mhemkaru Valloy, pressed by the British forces over difficult and waterless country towards Nyangam Lake Ledi Valley, where the. enemy remains in prepared positions at Miams.
FRENCH SHIPPING.
PARIS, October 11th. The arrivals for the week were 203 and the sailings 811. Of the sinkings three were above and two below 1,800 fans Eight vessels were unsuccessfully attacked,
the Canadians call their enemy Heine with failing stores of ammunition, these and not Fritz Heine was at least thres two battalions were given the order to times as strong as us, and we gave him retire to a trench further back, and the hell. It was hand-to-hand fighting-rifles, survivors of the most desperate action in bombs, bayonets, butt ends, any old way Canadian history withdrew, still fighting, of killing a man, and we killed a lot. But and established blocks in the communica he broke our left flank, and things were tion trenches down which the enemy was bloody in the centre. He had one of his bombing, so that they could not pass those strong points there, and swept us with points to the line upon which here on the machine-gun fire. My fellow's went north of Lens the Canadians had fallen straight for it, and a lot of them got back Southward there had been no with wiped out. But we got on top of it and drawal, and other battalions had forced through the wire, and held the trench their way forward a good distance, shut The Speaker has administered a sharp beyond until Heins came down with ting up that entrance to the city and rebuke to Miss ME. Waid Penrith, the swarms of bombs with intelige getting down into the deep tunnels, eve secretary of the Cumberland No-Conscrip. This young
officer was which there howled the unceasing fire of tion Fellowship, who sent him a resolu stricken by the loss of many of his men, the German heavies. Our own guns were The best crowd that any fellow could hard at work, and I have already told tioned passed at a meeting protesting command, and he had been through how the Prussians were destroyed in the and of Lons by 19-inch shell shrapnel.
THE SPEAKER AND OBJECTORS
against the "persecution of conscientious
and demanding their release from prison and penal conditions at shellfire and he had had no sleep for
I could write more, but I have written contrary to the principles of liberty and days and nights, and could not sleep now
for thinking of things. But he smiled enough. The Canadians never had fight- justice, and unnecessary in the interests grimly once or twice when he reckoned ing so hard as this, but the losses they have of the nation Acknowledging the re
up the enemy's losses. The remembrance inflicted upon the enemy, have made Long solution, Mr. Lowther's secretary says of the Geramn dead he had seen seemed a Prussian tomb, so that its tunnels are
We made death vaults. The heart of wine to his song u
the city is still he bes no sympathy whatever with men them who will make no sacrifices nor stir à hautle. finger to asist their country in its hour heavy on him, and bespoke it was still strong there, so that, like Thiépval, which of peril, but are content to see others fierceness about the enemy's loases and enclosed on three sides, Lens will not fall suffer and die for them, while they sit the things he had endured in a way which in a night. But as a dwelling-place for at home at ease, and profit from the would stare poor, simple souls who think German troops it is a city of abomination necessities of the country.
that war is a fine picturesque business, and dreadfulness-Daily Telegraph.
We The Speaker desires me to say that key was his summing up of the a fortress, and the new garrison is still
him, he
with
quiet held out for many weeks after it was