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VICTORIES OF 1917. ———
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· l'our fighting days in the British cam paign of 1917 stand out conspicuously "above the rest-namely, these of April 9th, June 7th, July 31st, and September 20th, These have all been days of grand attacks Shtended and destined to prove the superiority of the British over the German ams in batti All have been well plan Red, finely executed, and completely successful With heavy loss of men, mate rial, and moral, the German Armies in front of our gallant troops have been thrown out of the strongest positions ever created by the wit of man
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KIPLING
LARGEST CORN CROP IN AMERICA'S HISTORY.
A corn crop larger by more than $6,000,000 bushels than ever grown in
An Australian was once asked what the the farmers of the United States this the nation's history is the production of
defert was like. His answer was expres-berikan sive Yon got miles and miles dated November 8th). The Department year (says a message from Washington, sand," he said, Then miles and miles of Agriculture to-day, in its preliminary estimate of the crop, placed the quantity at 3,191,033,000 bushels. Conditions since the October forecast caused a reduction of about 19,700,000 bushels in the indicat ed output
of blooming sand, and then d--n all ! ” And so it must have seemed to those who, in the early days of driving the Turk back from the canal, had to cross that monotonous and seemingly unlimited stretch of country that lies cast of the This last battle of September 20th only Suez Canal. Different from the Libyan differs from the others in that it is Desert, which is all stony, it is just roll- continuation of the day of July 31st, and ing sand dunce covered to a slight extent the completion of the Commander's plan in places with a course, camel grass, and for that operation. Nothing but the hor very rarely are one's eyes soothed by the Tible weather of August and the early greennce of a Palm Grove, joyda pet of this month prevented it from dcing fought out to its logical and inevit
Our work on the western from being able consequences long ago In the sod accomplished reorganised and re-equip den Belds of Flanders an Army is de ped, we found ourselves one early morn
ing
to entrain on the Eastern
"pendent, and too much dependent, upon
ExpThe familiar green of they
the weather. This was always true, but it is particularly true now that we have turned the thoughts of many of systematized this now warfare and do not our little grey home in the West. But gormally send our infantty outside the not for us this time the string of palatial at both ends. Thus, unhappily, the
Potatoes algo are: & record crop, with total of 139,088,000 bustiels, but un- caused a reduction of 13,0,000 bushels. favourable weather Tatoo the "season" Tobacco production is a record. ****
The corn crop of 1817 is notable as occupying the largest acreage and produc ing the largest total crop on record," said a statement of the Department of Agriculture. The yield per acre, however, is not exceptional, owing to an unfavourable season, characterized by a late Spring, a cold Summer, which was also too dry over much of the corn belt, and early and damaging trosts, and freezes the season being thus shortened cover of our guns. The guns must be cars that roll out of Waterloo, rather the bountiful crop contains much curn flint. moved before one success can be followed useful freighter whose home is at Nine did not fully mature, probably in excess up by another, and given sodden ground, Elms In we bundle offers and men, of 20 per cent, although most of this the great weight of heavy guns, and the the only difference being that the former had reached the dough state, making it complete disappearance of all ordinary are allowed more room, and so the for useful for silos and early feeding,
The means of communication in the area betunate possessors of urop chairs can
potato crop, estimated mat them ont, while others wit tween contending armies, "fine weather is The time being car their 400,000,000 bushels, is the largest on next to indispensable before guns can be there was no necessity to spread an awn September and October, which cut down repord, notwithstanding an unfavourable successfully moved up
Any delay in the prosecution of uning of blankets to keep off the sun. A the actual production below the forests. attack once it has been launched warning whistle from the engine pre made carlier in the serion. The northern pares as for the jolt, and a good jolt it commercial sections were most seriously necessarily disadvantageous. During the is, as, punctual to the moment, our train affected by the unfavourable weather delays caused by the weather an enemy is pulls out
during October. The quality of the crop is slightly above average. The
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The buckwheat production of 16,828,000 bushels fell below early fore casts, although it is up to an average in total production compared with former yourse
The flaxseed crop, estimated at 9,019,000 bushels is very disappointing in its nutcome, being smaller than early forecasts, and much below an arrrago production.
able to withuraw his shattered troops and
We then proceed to make ourselves com- guns, to repair them, and within a fortable for the journey that lies before minimum period of three weeks to send us. The wise campaigner will always his regiments back into the line and to have something on him to read, so books reorganize his reserves. In this parti and cular case of the battle of July 31st the tus old newspapers soon appear from various haversacke, and are shared main objective of our troops was com-round by all. The permanent way is pletely exposed by that day's fighting, not the essence of smoothness, but as an end the Gerauns ever since nave piled up engineering proposition it is a marvel defences, and accumulated troopa to arrest lous accomplishment, as, although the British advance on the Mienza road balasted with sand it successfully stands Hindenburg and his chief henchmen have the strain of the heavy freight trains car visited the scene of strife and everything ring supplies to the front; and even The tobacco crop of 1,183,£75,000 possible has been done to prevent l'iela at home you do not see larger or more pound, is the largest on record. Marshal Sir Douglas Haig from achiev- heavily loaded trucks. With no cuttings places, provided with every defensive and he line stretches away to its out. Perhaps some unit is now enriched ing his purpose. A maze of strong and not many deviations to escape
goal, and the slowness of an by some rare find of antiques; perhaps offensive apparatus known to man, was
pull is compensated by the down not! I think not, decidedly not. created, and in rear there was an unward run, when the train
At any rate we shall never know, as I to show am sure nobody will ever go back to producing a
usually large number of divisions held in king charge the engine-driverrently counter-attacks of more than ordinary terilans on the 64thority, momen look. reserve and obviously retained for that he is really in
violence.
All the more credit is due to com. mandors and troops for not only vereum, ing all these super-defences in a few hours, but for holding all the gains of flu 20th in the face of powerful and reiter ated counter-attucks delivered with the greatest determination by fresh reserves, Neither serious check nor fault is dis coverable in the conduct of this masterly
jolt sufficient to shake out your back teeth. It is all in the day's work, and there are more ways of travelling than in a Pullman car
Hali-past five one
one evening found the brigade fallen in full marching order, and, punctually to time, we set out on the first stage of that match which was to bring us to the battle line once more. Nor North of the camp we: struck the rond, that monument of on Boinebody
on
a great WALK
the
The increasing heit, with its becom panying glare, begins to make reading lirich, and eyelids, drop and, one by one;
part Pleasant to we drop on into a fitful slumber, but from hy a good spring, it stretches when the word is passed that we are over from the cann] to the front, but t taking some
Pof
one catch his foot, Greetings are exchang of holes, in this war that nothing can safely be ed, for we recognise many of the riders, were one of those who felt result, we
fell, so we omitted in the mounting of a grand at and until a fold of the ground shuts
Hence them
frequently down out from our sight, wo gaze
line the tack, and tant if there be any want of admiring, but envious eyes, at the the old hunting ory "Ware Hole"
comes skill or science, whether in staff work or ang squadrons, for we cannot forget that
A few days march brought us to the the direction or science, whether in staff we too were once mounted, and the hope old boundary line of Palestine; work or the direction of any arm, it is that we might get our horses back has wide semi-circle; a line on the ground
and were spread out in detached parts in a sure to exact a terrible punishment never completely died. When, on the other hand, generalship,
above the station falling to our parti- staff science, and the conduct of all.
There was no halt for lunch, so, at cular lot. Our dug-outs were sunk in arms in battle approach perfection, mid-day, the contente of the luncheon high
over miles of green cultivated then, and then only, do we read of such basket (or rather box) were duly ex to look over and very pleasent it was glorious victories as those of Arras, Vimy amined and tested. Then followed a land, reminding one very much of our
at Messines, and Menin Rond pipe, and a return to elumber while own
own downs home yo. ay. It was close on four o'clock
coay.
A stay of a few days was nude unfor- General Pétain has rightly commended when the roar of the surf told us, we gettable by à Khanssen which came on in very wart terms the Commander and were approaching the end of our journey and, as digging parties had to be formed the Staff of the Second French Army, and wall up to time our train ran into all day, the men's endurance was tested We also have a Second Army Commander a collection of
sidinge. Detraining did
the utmost. We left at 1.30 and Staff of whom we are proud. We not take lonog, for when a man carries
Khamseen still blowing. After saw them at work at Messines when they his belongings on his back he never has a morning's digging great was bur round looking for his luge relief der the trees of Khan Yunus, showed themselves the equals of those of to go
when we arrived at our new posi our other Armies, and here cast of Ypres Our orders were quickly given us, and Khan Yunus, they tell me, was the home they are in their own domain. It is perhaps true that the Germans east of away we marched over some of the of Delilah. From what we saw there heaviest sand we have met (and cur are at present no fatal beauties whicit Ypres have put up against us a more knowledge of sand is considerably exten are at all likely ever to make a man turn perfected defence than the history of this sive). Across a Wadi, lined by palm bis head towards them much less tura war has even shown, or than future bis- trees, their feathery tops waving to the sea it for him. We suppose the bread tory will disclose. The defeat of breazas and up through some fg orchards died out our British Armies to the desire most we went, and out into the open plain, un deeply felt in Gernuan breasts, and as the far side of which we found our Hindenburg has known nothing but de camping ground. Tents were
thero
wait ait feat in the West since he assumed coming for us, and soon the only sound to deep. The motive power is supplied by runnd, we can be sure that all the best be heard was that of the mallet striking a little oil engine that saw its origin in paraphernalia of German militarism has the pegs, which were well sunk to the our own country. We told the E.E. been arrayed against us. In four hours ground, and when sand had been niled | Corporal that if she got out of order all was tumbled into the dust or mud, and on the curtain we felt, wo were all secure could easily produce some of the boys rückwärts was once more the German against storm. In exploring, round next who helped to make her Overlooking battle-cryink
we found some fragments of the well is a mosque which, it is said,
Bouil
attack. It has been proved many times one hastilyanty Regiments, every heavily-leden infantryman must beware.
th
the
han
tempora, aliae forming 11
In the centre of the town is a excellent water about 150 or more fect
We know of course, that the subser.hell close by what had was once a castle built by
been a
machine gun entrench-lon. It may be so the
vient German Press, taking its orders ment
ment whe from the nearest military authority, who The
adjacent
like stored on the ridize
VERANO were.
had for a long town
red hair robes of legal over the valley where the Wali Ghuzze
being most affectively
well Hora We had an example of
the
Turkish
Was
the
and
gives him the law It is not cap of ruins, the surrounding houses RATC BN are those fields of
question LOW
were
wis,
will in his turn be inspired by Luden time been the Headquarters of the Tur east of the town, in grassy fields dorft will talk once more of the elastic kish Army, and their old horse and cacti hodges, most of company hea German defence, will say that there in camel were only a quarter of a ter being able to and trees, the borde no break through, and will conclude, that mile away from rish was the cleanest here and we soon found ourselves digging only a quarter shadea for our dug-oute. A short stay it does not matter. It matters a great
town of El deal, or, at least, if we had prepared such we have met in Egypt; and we were shelter holes bebind the light ground tremendous positions as those from which much strugs by the fact that many of south-east of Cars. We had only to go the Germans have been four times driven Inhabitants
pic-| a hundred yards, look by sa this year with immerse loss of turesque they tooked with prisoners and guns, we should think that ed coloured robes of the
the runs, and see away in the distanes, the it mattered, for it would have proved natural
white minarets of Gaza showing whits amidst blended the palm Brustant
groves And again, on the right our inferiority. The implacable will of our - Commander-in-Chief in France.
excellent hand,
where lay the
the imposes itself upon the enemy and shooting of our guns, as the fort is
being untouched by our shells, wher Armies in our front be beaten, wondered at the
the fig orchards, one barle
onc barley-excellent barley most but only when they will be beaten, and
antil
the
explanation was fur bandmen cut and stacked lots of it. May
it be of the hardes the resistance the greater the shed by
by the sight of a large hard of it be I some use to somebody Probably
on their
will goats, most of them standing on
benefit L by it Lab us talk of strategy, again, when the hind legs to reach the all the b
leaves. When ourted troops process of eating the Germans down is thoes
on must alwayɛ, be
In the bar ey were quail, many quail, Gruse further advanced. The Germans in the ings there were none; an occasional fig noon in front of our Toy
russ there was nane pick so we must needs sally forth one after- field must first be made to acknowledge fost could hardly be called a meal; but warned everybody likely to misunder
after having their inferiority by constant hammering, the effect of their presence was to turn stand our proceedings What matter and strategy returns when this object has what should have been masses of that a Turkish aeroplane sailed high boen attained, and when all available
had process goes on in the West with constant avera Sorything in time.
send puffs of brought down in
bursting
hours rible because the Germans do not talk Funk Hole, when the
alled, and the mess provided with a welcome
addition to its usual menu, struck about it. Would peace be the dominant interest in Germany vere there a belief through it, one on her broke other move to a socne of greater
to find it filled with Tivoliness
ab a hive of dug outs made anywhere that the Germans could win | very fine, dry sand, finer than that out in the sides of various wadis, where They cannot win, and well they know side Whether it was a tomb or well- amidst the dust of their beds, kicked up it. But one can win s war and lose a head we do not know, as we got our by passing traffic, settling on all and peace, and here diplomacy steps in to orders to march before it could be cleared sundry, we rosline the old, old truth:- make or to mae the vintage of victory... (Continued at foot of nest Ca iman) Beatus ille qui prooul negotie, etc.
of whether German In going the bareness of the lower too. Many of our frig hus
defeat.
mystery
13m Nermal reserves
have been used up. This greenery into barren
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