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MODERN BRITISH INFANTRY THE UNWARLIKE GERMAN.
A friend of ruine, writes a correspon dent of the Globe, with a gift of telling unpopular truths, said to me the other day The Germans are the most mili
trench system demands; the full power of the most unwarlike. And they are the The successful assault of a modern tary nation in Europe. Thoy, aro also where, for over terned. In a few documentary evidence ha conclusively every offensive weapon that human in mast military people because precisely
I am sitting on a hillside overlooking Murren the little Swiss village perched on a ledge of rock a mile above sea level
about 600 British soldiers have been
250 of them, and hundreds mota,
Posite Williant sunabine. It
thing dash in the
Mr. Landing,, the Secretary of State, for the USA anded, recently another chapter, to his amazing record of German Government crime and trenchery. With the aid of ave newspaper
columna
that member of the German all over world move home Legation at Bukarest before the parti genuity has evolved under the stimulus they are the most unwarlike
of snow moun
of Roumaniai in the war were Brisly the horrible story told by Mr. Less than a band of poisoners.
19
When the
took the soldiers quite a long time to And
out
that they could not throw a stere
brunnen valley, so clear is the air
of long continued war, applied, in exact Don't stand on your head, I vastating hail of preparatory bombard-"Oh, I'm not trying a cheap imitation. co-operation with each other The de retorted.
Wment and the torrible curtain of the bar of G. K. Chesterton," he answered. But.
rage that cuts off reinforcement or re- what I mean is this. The British, the
across the yawning chasm of the Laut with
Andrews, the American Chargé d'Affaires in Bukarest, searched the garden of the
the
TO BLIGHTY
Bwiss girl who sells littleasant-faced the stof Bukarest count for them ninu to man, all the than for the hope of gain. But they pre
•stan Piccadilly Park Latio, and attaché, Harz vor
Attaché
At
may
qualities cannot be warliko. At.
ecstasy of a day,
zigging furiously in German Logation they found buried shore tre from the defenders, the showers of French, the Italians are warlike in the the slopes above comes the mellow music box of discuse germs, which boze, the sent to traverso or annihilate them in their of their way to look for trouble; and pro of cowbells The village below trans formed by numerous signposts erected by
burrows the burst of fire from the rush the to live et peace with their neighbours, interned soldiers. Every lane and By
were the fonscriptions on
ed-forward Lewis guns that strike them they'll never refuse a fight, and Quite Secret.
down as they strive to rally to a nucleus, they are, far readier to fight for an
always cujoy a good scrup. Moreover, footpathi bears some familier
An idea name. The
Our For
Not to be roughly handled. chief street in Westbourne- grove
the rifle shot and bayonet thrust that ac- 20se are Ride.
one of the shops I notice a private
and Military
fer the affair to he indispensable and might alone confer suc-
Spontaneous. Long mildly flirting with
Bulgarian Legation at theresare yapa
But fourful as the Artillery bar preparation, especially preparation n. chalets Bukarest, M. Semurgieff
Fit Men h
Recrct, for a fight which they themselves age is, and cuckoo clocks in Edgware road."
Under the first envelope was another and do escape through it. A concealed will provoke, is absolutely alien to them. Not far away, at a place where three envelope of white paper and written on enemy machine-gun opening at the mo- Now, the German is quite different. mountain paths meet a Scotsman it in red pencil:
ment of crisis will only be kanckell out By nature he is timit, docile, lucking in Canadian, and one of the L. R. B. are Quite secret. Through T E. LA. by a chance hit. Unless the Artillery self-reliance, and at the bottom of his talking by a post bearing the the Royal Colonel and Military observation officers are exceptionally for heart very uncertain about himself and names **
tunate their batteries will scarcely be able his pretensions. A people with these Love Lane,
The name was Beratched out with ink to switch on to an unexpected target
but ex
examination revealed traces of
before the opportunity has passed Tile the same time,
are the ideal Out to the left is the Oval-former- the letters H T
flanks of the onrushing infantry may characteristics for a people which it is. ly the skating rink of the Hotel des (Hammerstein). In the inside of the guddenly assailed by 3 onery Wave issu-
desired to drill
drill on which it is desired. Alpes. On a matting wicket, a cricket box above a layer of cotton wool this typo To meet the sudden emergencies, to authority. Such a nation is more amen- from an unexpected place of shelter to impose unquestioning obedience to match between the men of the Biger and inclosed four small bottles for horses, supplement the hail of death so that able to blind discipline than one whose
in German was found th Alpentube Hotels has just finished and in a few minutes khak forms will be four for cattle. Utilisation as formerly there may be no escape from it, the members think for themselves, and it is swarming up! Piccadilly to
sce the und
Each phial suffices for two ofensive action in the machine gun for moulding wholesale into armies, and General has a comparatively new source therefore au ideally plastic material both Anal of
the Murren Cup. Marren is
head. If nossible be adminis-of great at Football After all, it is the otherwise into their fodder. We ask for The machine gun (by which is under war is natural, inevitable, and desirable,
tered
directly into the animals mouths, company attache
attached his. brigade.
for being mapressed with the idea that only game for the soldier; and, though other cricket and hockey are played in the a small report about successca obtained stood the Vickers or the Maxim) is no and that war pays. The result is a morning, it is at four. o'clock thatshind. there...... and in case of good results the longor a purely
weapon to rein military nation, but not a warlike people... of men turn out to watch the cup presence for one day of M.K" would be forca the fire of a battalion as it was in And that is modern, Germany RAL tics and league matches; and ories or required. regarded as a form of Artillery, after clusion that my paradoxica) Triend was the early days of the war, Neither is On thinking it over, I came to the con- 2. The Palace! Play
damni
oviit and the denco was witnessed by the
Whiting Andrews, the American Charge gained in independent companies of an of the darkness of that extraordinary valuable building erected last June phiols had been removed from the Gergy and art functions of both verpially, and actually, a waiter.nd
co-operating with people. For
the German. 16 pro~ three then are inspecting their potatoman Consulate to the German Legation on and supplementing the patch, and wondering whether the the eve of Roumania's declaration of war, and performing tasks that could with can you imagine a less warlike career? after the American Chargé d'Affaires had difficulty be carried out by either of these The German also excels in all commercial can be dug
leave the hut en ask
asked take charge of the German
pursuits in which a certain amount of several are writing hom
Legation and
who receives cringing is an aid to success. And it is days, perhaps before this letter renthes
among
his orders to attack a certain length of just in these branches of trade where tho you, I shall be here again for in &cipated in the diabolical plot
military and
he enemy's line consults not only the Englismaa dots not particularly shine, officials, parti
commanding the Machine Becke competitor. the cheerful post
by the little stat
Worner von Higinbaden, Counselor, wearing the notice
to decide who should German Legation Rudolph Kruger Commission to go and the must stay was held more Chancellor of the Legation and Colonel, than a fortnight ago. Only those post Those were assisted by Constantin Kostuff -von Hammerstein, Military Attaché. who have been seriously ill have been chosen. Oh the dalagaio; of the Bulgarian railways in
before
Roumanin, and Colonel Samargieff, Bul mission. Dozens of speculative that Come Forian military udland, Sa
Lovely 1 Now the. P Eiger 1 drown the cowbells.
hut
excavation of this
to
Just above the "l'Affaires ut Bukarest. The boxes and independent corps, it is a link between riddle the psychology of the German.
or thr
Po have a duke of Defore they
that
a ftw
ALLE 1gade Comm
dars they will pass for the last time health of Roumeniz sainst the chiefs of his battalions but also the ex- where he is liable to be outbidden by a
wounded
excitement the
made. Men apparently well found them- selves v very donkiful about their health; and in the end many who thought they would stay found themselves passed, and home who hoped to
16 in all settled now go hâvo to slay. But
A THAR FLEST EXPEDITIONARY Some of
ary
were
AUSTRALIAN LABOUR
TROUBLES.
part officer
Gun Company of the Brigade
disordered assault ere it can con- and CHARA
no
DAN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION..
At the risk of being myself accused of the points from which he apprehends officer to suggest. There is a line of people can never be truly warlake day danger, states his requirements The paradox-mongering, let me hazard the manner of execution is left for the M.Gassertion that a thoroughly militaristic trotch and his off-shoote in front, some traism as it exists in Germany to day hundreds of yards behind that line is demands such unquestioning and untazel another on the enemy's left rone is ligent obedience, such slavish adoration wood, on his right flank is a ravine. of the uniform, such submission to From rear trench, flanking wood or bureaucracy, that
Cannot live in the ravine the counter-attack may surge out stie atmosphere as that love of liberty solidate itself in the
on How nation new position.
without or thorough the artillery bombardment which make the average German so useful "The very qualities A LESSON FOR EXTREMISTS. and the barrage, deep e of these men left. England over
dag-outs may have a soldier from the cannon fodder stand- three years ago in that first Expedition. The miters in several districts have The Brigade M.G. Co. Commander con- the real sense of that word
afforded protection unt-outs may
has passed. point make him anything but warlike in Force of fadeless memory; and after agreed to return on the Government's sults with the M.G. Co. Commanders on The Boche is, however, bellicost, which a few days of fighting in August, 1814, terms. This should mean the conclusion
Wounded
arranges that the comis quite a different thing.fie 15 always And taken m They spent
prisoners,
ers of the strike of seamen and the other Pany on two years in German prison remaining strikers. It is now possible under enflnde Are, the company on the ready for a quarrel, as against 'a ngatų
shall tako the wood wamps, subjected to all kind of neglect (says the forming Post Sydney Corrosions of four gune Careful absurdly exalted sense of dignity, due to
and i tretament and a little over a
left shall goarch the ravine His own partly because of his touchiness and trasferred
pondent) to estimate some of the reste disposed to be able to fire over the heads and also to the consciousness that his You go were
of the strike from the labour standpoint of the attacking troops and to create arrogance is without a stable foundation. his being a parrens among the nations, happened to be in Murren, when first batch arrived from Germany mists has disappeared (2) the privileges, ly striking in deep, continuously linked
i had been Rvery man
that seriously wounded of several Unions under the Arbitration zones between the
mere fact ho is always proclaim between the rear- trench and the
über or dangerous one had to be Act have been removed by de-registration;: objective way he is at
the proves that in his heart of 1 from the little funicular train, cd en stroichiers and lifted to bed, binding: (4) the Government has estab end reiterated crashes of the flight of Nations, like men, which are convinced of
(3) the preference for Unionists is not The zero hour comes
least uncertain whether were wearing fags and lowers lished the principle of the supremacy of arriving sholls from the frantically work their own superiority beyond possibility Nearly all
Alles i reallyüber rivon to them so they passed through the management in public utility serad batteries in the rear. Simultaneously of doubt do not waste time by proclaim Switzerland; and when each carriage vices; (5) the general strike has proved from the cunning emplacements of load arrived in the station it was greeted unsuccessful, rolunteer labour is machine guns behind the attacking ing the fact from the housetops. They by as hearty s cheer in the little crowd of always acccesible in all industries; (0) troops issus the sleet of bullets falling tase it for granted, and expect others to English, French and Swiss could set up if the Government-stand, firm the general in a beaten zone a few hundred yards do the same
community will support any measures, behind the objective.com Minute after Furthermore, the Boche bellicose, as chaotic noise, and the result of his lamentably restricted up towards their sense of humour, which makes him so
ench
and interned there, NUEVA (1) The tyrannical influence of the extre barrage of thousands of bullets ceaseless The Deutschland Deutsiblandt
I can see a great difference in the despite isoonvenience, to secure the main minute is filled
the
Deutschland
health of these men, in the year that hey, tenance of law and order, GENREDAY the infantry per their heads the touchy and so afraid of ridicule that he
bassed since I as them arrive. In the The commercial commanity is much pochine gun, huleta crack viciously as is quarrelsome by a natural consequence. clear mountain Air so free from all relived at the result which should they pase. It is a disconcerting sound. And for picking a quarrel and inventing germs, open wounds have healed, rick provides considerable stimulous to bus the infantry have been warned that opportunities for one, the Germen has no men have become well, and nerves Australian industry and place Australian their own guna trained in the awful experiences of war labour of a asper and improved basis. they do not hrsitat Overhead and equal. I venture to say that you will not and prison have regained their old tone.
will be very di
BITIVO London.
men when
Not that it has been all bear and skittles in Switzerland. They have still been prisoners - and however beautiful Murren may be for a week in
summer
LAUGHING AT DYING MEN IN OPEN BOAT
They
Or A month of ski-ing and skating of the trading schooner Jane Williamson, infantry in thereselves into accept it on any termSched
winter, it is very cramped for longed way
does a tiny perched ledge perpendicularly above
No BAITOW MON
thousands of feet below
only
Wounded
ready
On the other
ercep to find these characteristics amongst the within 60 yards of the eruptive smother most warlike nations of the past. of the barrage. The allotted fraction of Consider all, the peace kites which have time has elapsed. A brief check, and the been floated since last December, and tho barrage has lifted increased its range attitude of the British and German peo The machine gun barrage has lifted also,
ples towards them. The Bocho wants The two survivors of the crew of bullets are now falling 100 yards fur-peace badly, so badly that the mass of the
ther
on, still in one deadly zone The
Geroan nation is the first which was shelled and eank by a sub-trench and into 85 marine, told their sto
hand-to-band story at the inquest with such at Pearance on three of the victims
hand, each fresh peace Survivors as dare fight, For a number of minutes, previously by the enemy has afifiened British resist. kipper Robert Kesron and Seamen John decided upon, the machine-gun barrage unce and increased our determination to decently level padi, provide much variety toe ED was killed in the schooner steadily on the same belt. Then continue fighting until Germany is benten...
Cassidy Bud John Deacon of work or recreation, once the novelty and when the remaining five got into a And behind its slect the attack presses the heroes of Thermopylae and Agincourt
again it lifts for another hundred yards, Can any sane person doubt that the true has worn off. When the slush of spring boat it was struck by a shell One man on Bo that the tempest of bullets falle in informa the man In khaki, and not
warlike spirit, the spirit which i animated antanir render the few paths all but was killed and the skipper and and a impassable, it is no Blyalum for sick, sed man vere mortally wounded. The Ger- then lif
another
fierce shower for its remorseless period, machine-drilled opponent in Geld grey, comfortable though the
themana beckoned to the survivors to stage Leap by leap it reaches the
hifts and passes onward to another who rejoices in the opportunity to hotels may be an
proach them and ther laughed at them. aner by which the restorance of exchange the fring line for the prisoners
trench But the pince will be full of memories to the dying men. The skipper died in descends on the crowded earthway, Bills Some dim inkling of the truth seems
They never offered the slightes, assistance the enemy must arrive. The storm age those who will never and it again, hospital his body Here some have courted and married; a for burial
y being
prone mon who no longer move to have penetrated the pachydermous few have died Thore have debates in the YM.CA. hut, great
~The coroner described the conduct
though the bullets continue to strike mentality of the Boche: No German will the submarine crew as diabolical, and burstar the catch parties of the enemy contemptible order From the uncon Then it ocases hails again in short to day relieve his feelings by gibes of the the jury unanimously returned a verdict risking a dash of Wilful and Diabolical Murder
towards
their desperately,
of the enemy Press up straggling comrades,
the turmoil of the to-day
to the Now far behind the
**the enemyush The regarded as fighting
the machine gunners crouch Kaiser's recent speechee alone leave is beside their weapons, an officer to every with no possibility of doubt on that score leg was taken prisoner two
Kung: by the Germans, and finally transferred.
Keenly he watches the battle The Boche perceives that the most fasol field, the smoke-hung waste of tumbled of his many fatal miscalculations was the am very curious,” said he, “ Lee what sort of people the English at home walk with a curi płown earth wh
figures einerge, run, assumption that a country which, detesta really are, and how they will treet one suddenly, under
air eisure or fall war instead of glorifying it cannot ba The other remark was much more
Potsdam never made a more sthetic It was made by
the experienc
blunder, which is not, however, spatan movement such a surprising mistake, since three confused level of the years ago it would have been wade by my machine gun firing most Englishmen.
A swift and the whiff of dust
on the des Alpes football
have been held at which
ladies, soldier has partner the Valets has been stopper
que solamnity. The
i etc.
maderambles ove
th
plenieted down There has been which
I forget who hole place blue. Some management mechant railway falling
hus beer
make
Dec Bla
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had just an arm and an eye Do the whiff of dust on
the professional England feel that it was a
It is on for us to have been taken pr from a shell-hole. be asked. What do they think rapid hamaler
The he
#
ECIOUS Roche himself, Britain 19
the people of England will show settles to reappear no more of dust hat they think by giving them gather itself on the fringes of the Aght sights link into a sheet of
to of the left company aring with combined: counter-attack in bazi
beginning to reception as they will never Grey figures mass in the wood, the rear the far trench is one incessan and one of which they can write trench, the
hAlong
The
als who have not passed the signal goes
king ravine.An 8.0.5. mames--that have scarcely coale mist wait for the next ing its peril
rom the infantry realis, melt, disappear, become isolated
hen the achine-guns that run and fallen For these soldiers, burst out in the full fury of their appel from their indling powers From the company on
suffering right the wood in deluged with
ered that heartfelt bulleta. Up the ravine the ones of fire
who have done
exile enter
Continued as foot of next column.)
Far abend the protection detachment have consolidated en lire of Haroups of imp prisoners nro
and stumbling to the rest shells begin to fall on the viñera position