BOURLON WOOD.
A WELL-MANAGED RETREAT.
EHOM PHILIP GIBBS.]
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THE CONFERENCE OF
SCANDINAVIAN KINGS. TOASTING NEW TRIPLE UNION.
The Conference at Christiania, recent. opened by epeech by King Haaken, between the three Northern Kings was after which King Gustay addressed the King Christian Their Majesties latet left the conference, where the discussion continued until yo'clock assembly, speaking also in the name of
drawal, and with the Hindenburg tines, are a few gurce relating to the work Others, with a simple ingenuity At a gala banquet at the Royal Palace
the old Hindenburg front and support lines, behind us. It is a proof of the wonderful secrecy with which these
The total distance covered by the
are * These
plans were caried out that there was only Patrols was over 170,000 miles of which After the amazing examples of confi- and our own they are fortunate in
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A traveller, returned from Petrograd, has brought back, news of the superb gnorance which makes the supporters of Lenin a wonder for the wise. Some there aro, deeming themselves fit for the of government, who believe that Lloyd not worth the bones of nu
of a single Bolshevik
have George is British Colony and thus discovered that Annexatofoundly disap
policy they of We do not like Me Annexa, King Haakon in the course of his speech dás
they murmaar with all the pride of proposing a toast to King Gustav said tion,
mournful times for Europe, men to whom a great truth is revealed.
countries also come under baving been able to keep out of the war. one canity in Bourlon Wood during the 20,000 miles was covered by seaplanes and dent error it moves us little to hear that their shadow
Africa to be English counties. Th
their influence upon the routnal without little of know the ships, which were being attacked by
relations of our two countries. early brought seaplanes to their assistance in aspire to the governance of a time to save them by compelling the sub-
tunlity we could be sure that none of us Severn de su piro. Although for them Lloyd George were able to announce that in any oren marines to dive
they have no lingering doubt of their own competence. Their curiosity Has other."
They have risen The King of Sweden, replying to King never been tempted. above the necessity of knowledge. Their Haakon, said :—--- country is at war, and they have placed" Sire, I express to you nry sincele
by forde themselves by
it has not socmed of their duty to study the rudi have been the object, and also for the addressed to me. Both your Majesty and They know not where their the Norwegian people weh I experience in ments of politics or to unroll a map of cordial words which your Majesty has just of our latest issue at the following offices:
will doubtless under: T. B. TOLMAN. 911 URBIZTONDO, MANILA. live nor where. their enemies. stend the fcclings. did fumble the leaves of an atlas coming again to-day to his country
and
time our men were getting away. They 80,000 miles by air-ships. On seven occ the Phase Maximalist believes Canada These unfortunate days, have not been boxes and crates of quality merchandise in ports the world over. For mandarines, ran, 8.0 5. dgnals, which plained inst. of history, and scography he sings el seu fete, al Government more than fifteen years we have exported to consumers and merchants
time our men were going Augustegi
regret that cal reasons we may we could not you hold that binck force
men
or high ground which dominates the IDs were convoyed during the month is a place and Annoxation is a manould allow itself to he used against them nearly every corner of the globe.
aircraft, and in no single instance has n submarine dare attack a ship while under aircraft escort.
northern approaches to Cambrai and for which our men fought with fine valour, so that always those dim glad will be haunted by the heroic memorica of the The number of submarines attacked
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the undergrowth, rooting out nests of
ha to the method of attack,
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So they drive their the reach of the destroyer's depth charges. ground around the forest and getting But when a seaplane sights a
struction a submarine
beyond the village of Fontaine Notre the same distance he lies to the ut of respon not long escape of the events of 1905. The dissolution of
Dame Cambrai would have been a cusly tack at anything from 80 to 100 files an by the possession for the enemy; and we might tak prize of the year's fighting.
That was not to be. It was not within the Expectations of our first plan of at Anck November, though sucess on that day may have raised great hopes in tom mind. That we have abandoned Bourlon Wood will be a disappointment to mapmakers, who find it good to draw new lines of advance.
PLACE OF HORROR
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44 not a glimmering sense were to state that I was already oblivious!! Lenin, unrecognised
the the Union founded by Charles XIV.. have gained that town as, the crowninghour, so that the submarine has only consequences of his folly. But that he John (Marshal Bernadotte), the famous catalogue, illustrating thousands of articles of American manufacture at
what myself are descended in direct line, in to fall round her. It is not suggested reins go long prompts us to ask, what a from whom both your Majesty and that destroyers have been superseded by there is about politics that those who flicted upon the idea of union in our money-saving prices. In it we explain full details of our favourable the eeaplanes as the enemy of submarinos, take it up as a business arrogantly deem penitisula a deep wound, towards the On the contrary, the two very often work that no preparation and no train on not healing of which I for my part ardently shipping arrangements and low carload rates to the Orient.
without sitting together, and their co-operation usually necessary for the task. A man cannot desire to contribute,
make a pair of búote
cobbler. That is why, Sire I have come to spells disaster for the boat patiently at the feet of a master
In addition to our large freight shipments, we export more than A seaplane rectly sighted a German The same man, humble in learning a this city to day in order to say to your subinaring on the surface, flow directly handicraft, wib assume the infinitely Majesty and the people, formerly united over her before she had a chance to dive, complicated control of a great State with with my own, that we constitute a now five hundred Parcel Post packages every day. and dropped bomb on her tail, which no better furniture in his mind than a union of a kind different from the old one upon was seen to make a hole in the deck, confused mass of futilities, which he nevertheless a union founded
shutual understanding and community of To our men who had to hold it the Immediately afterwards the seaplane protus calls deals.
sentiments, which will attain, I am pleas. relief a pilot saw. withdrawal was a deed the shelling of Purn a bhrough the mist three mare
ed to hope, a character of vitality more and place a trial order. We absolutely guarantee safe delivery that forest I shuddered in spirit at the lowed by three German destroyers and And yet there is no loftier, no more lasting than that which existed formerly sinister aspect of it that big black belt escorted by two German seaplanes.
guns who would essay it should serve a be so is that, above all in the present of trees on the ridge above Graincourt six vesses fired their anti-aircraft guns difficult enterprise than government He The first essential to ensure that it may and Annoux, and all the copy silent Planes did not uttals, the Germans humble apprenticeship, should ndek his titult conditions from the point of they could head with attack, because
and should then sp-view of external politics, we stand faith- Annex, grim, so still, so There was never a sign of life within it. not get through the barrage put up by prosch the duty which he has imposed fully side by side in
impandinavian rees seemed more motionles than the fire of their own destroyers and sub upon himself with fear and trembling.
which the three Those
of other ' woods
and backer below
bomb on the wounded subamrine of his country that he should not waste Kingdoms have proclaimed in the pro
good friend and a forest where in olden days lonely saw her sink amidst a pool ef oil, in a
the person of good would have crossed themselves as which fragments of her fonted, and then a thought upon his own gain. If at the sent wardr knight
proper time be should force thes Vent through, the ricar expecting retired from an unequal content, at the Prouid nouns the responsibility of relation, King Christian of Denmark, 1 The Empire," aco the certain proof and aure pledge of to meet witch women and evil creatures same time sending a wireless message, as office with diffidence.
a Chince philosopher is a diving the adhesion and aproval which he gives were to be found
garding
The
A DIVINE UTENSIL.
nen-
the clouds or bue sky It was such armes. Our seaplane turned, dropped So intent should he be upon the serviceding the strict and 50rding and
Our knights and men-at-arms met things to where three of the chemy's destroyers Bay chich may not be roughly hand to the conviction which animates me re-
as bad ne that, and the enemy
ite
into the forest and soaked ali gases and undergrowth with poison Every bush. reeked with it, and all the sodden leaves of the autumn fall, so
tree trunks that the moistars on every bend of dew or rain on branches
and
MERCHANT SHIPS' GUARDIAN ANGEL
the
and twigs was a drop of poison, and the recurred and the torpedo has found its sausage seller was the being ableit 35 question of the safeguarding and
that is
new
as it was pursued
He. who meddles, maddied of the necessity for the countries Lenin
to lend each other mutual and his friends have the mere presence of the sexplane has and marred. And thus, since the begin support. Each of our thres nations is many times saved, a merchant ship when ning afe States been the playthings of small in itself, but together we constituto force which must be reckoned with when When Aristo- manubinene ha
horns and grody
said the phanes
only thing against the ti Marcover, when the tragedy has actually
to maintenance of our independence and pi 12 spoke universa
our right freely to dispose of our own way is he told the Sometimes. Cooroughly gassed men are to see the shipwrecked crews in their truth. When
to work and fight boats, to send wireless messages for quaist to
*** to mangle, mince, and firm will to labour in this spirt for the three und sleep in their gas masks they darence and to direct the rescuers to the carry his present practice into his sach other the hand in testimony of our not take them off to drink or cat, and right spot. It is the seaplanes and the mash
end hack, and jumble welfare and prosperity of have to be relieved in short shifts. When other aircraft which first sight the deadly things together," he accurately described peoples
King Christian In proposing a toast to
King Hankon said he le- our men left Bourlon Word there was mine, and so help the minesweepers in the art of governs it is puraged disas of Denmark, enough poison in the wood to last, for their task
in ancient Athens,
presence of His Majesty three or four days.
In a word, it is the naval aircraft trously to-day by Lenin and his friends garded the
proof that Denmark was ready to partici modern Russia, and managed. in On Tuesday night last, when our troops which has been, and is, saving the lives
And yet how vast a difference there is pate in their work for the common in- stole away in good, order and can not only of those who traverse the seas, between the Nihiliste of fifty years ago, terests of Scandinaviased his thanks silence they were wearing their gas masks but of every man, woman, and child in
Turgenev printed with
King Christian expressed
proposed by King as usual under their steel hats, so that s the British Isles, who would otherwise band, and the revolutionaries who are for the toast moonlight filtered through the tracery of be threatened with starvation. The
to him by the the branches and elanted through the tall strike at Coventry has already been involving the Russian Empire in ruin and for the friendly reception extended Haakon," he said. black pillars of
quiet trees our sol. Borious blow to the Empires a repetition, sketched wasting and diets must have looked horribly like men there or elsewhere, would be disaster
a strange exzles whom Turgency The words of people of Christiani. one will be appreciated in Denmark, where
desire bewitched into foul forms by w spirit in which cannot be contemplated, for the trees at
too little we all have the to allid under the
give our assist broke evil spell con
far-reaching
of the solidarity and too cause this wood. They both of Bourlon, that the one could proper's estimate thing about, men, and things; they mistaken cooperation of the Scandinavian people when,
their
The official statement issued in connec masks, these whed Without a constant stream Mr. Gladstone fecienc disputed province. they pulled off faced weary fellows of and breathed craft to replace the inevitable heavy mattered science they mattered tion, with the conference of Scandinavian Freely again.
The enemy shelled the wastage in machines, the struggle against
they mattered geography. They Monarchs stated that during the Confer wood very heavily again on Wednesday the German submarines will be prolong
ked with
And lowing Gothio architecture it all ended in smoke. What Turgenev
on that makes clear to us
the
revolution is that aries of his day were ineffectual, not be cause they had not troubled to learn, but because they pretended to have has tered all the sciences.
consequences
whom
were
sure
Haakon
, and flung more gas into it, seed, food will become dearer, and, dramatists an ease about the English ance agreement was confirmed on the fol
یا
ast
The points t
Gazette.
that wreaths of white vapour curled but not least, the lives of our sailors about those black trunks, but our men be needlessly lost-Westminster watched all that from a distance, and said, "Fritz can go on with it as long as he likes."
hen
around,
Was
THE WORSHIP OF WORDS.***
it
reason
agree
(1)-By of the harmony exist. ing between the three countries, however long the war may last and whatever form confidence between the three king- doms shall be maintained.
(2) In conformity. with
revion and with the policy of the Countries
ob
mutus take the cordial relations and
the
The
utmost
their neutral
Powers, desire was reciprocally es during the present difficulties.
representatives will assemble
concussions of patrols were being resisted en strong servant of Germany. It is kept pressed to assist one another with mere
Ny
after the Conference to
Along other parts of our line of with several hundreds of yards in advance of drawal, round Graincourt and Anneux any infantry, utterly isolated, but sheep- and Castaing, and round the peninsula ing the enemy's lines as they advanced sande by the hend of the canal by Mar from Crevecoeur, and keeping back their But at one point the past, and the pre- coing, some hint must have been given to battalions by great slaughter. These the enemy of our intentions, because of guns were in their new positions by the sent meet in accord. The past worship-
the present adores the mere sound the top it in the full intention of ped, the explosions caused by
blowing Found many human targets, so that the of words. When the Maximalists should the Goveruments, each for itself
coming of dawn, and all next day they
their
rale by action, they are conserve in of his
Magoula and tunnels and the
outpost of men
men enemy's progress towards our parties bridges and locks by small
marked lines of
by
deadost justify who stayed on to the last moment, and line
let us to talk
not They do as to
perceive,
the 1 touched
their leader, 19 Lening of the fuses. Fires rose, terday aftemoon he was still in dyes bent to talk as the Nihilists were contentity towards all the making and
the night
eky ruddy for miles to our real line of defence, and still his hope, that these loud wound shaking the earth must have warn by our outposts that he had to send up that they have been at the pains to dis ed the enemy that we were preparing for reinforcements of infantry to press back cover the causes and purposes of the wor
are surely ignorant of the effect faciliate the exchange of merchandise in
manner to th Discussion also took place as
the pos inove. But the strength of our outpost these, brave little groups. At 3.30 in the 10 the success of their leader would the most affe
facilities in the upon Orival have upon the future of their countrysality of providing the relations Ja copse sooth-east And so, the blind followers of a traitor,
write "liberty upon their banners legislation dealing
tween foreigners and the subjects of the hiperplexed and anxious, and after of Graincourt Cur guns sighted them, they fully accept the chains
Scandinavian nations. Agreement was and opened are with such intensity after and
lso reached as to continuing preparatory getting their range, that a rough estimate slavery which treachery is forging numbers the German dead as 2,000 in that attempt. Meanwhile it is good news the the measures for safeguarding the com atta Washington Government, not content interests of neutral countries before In the same way three German batta
As at previous Conferences, the desir- lione advancing to attack from the dire with refusing to deal with the ineffable after the end of the war. All through Tuesday night our battion of Graincourt were utterly shattered Leain, has announced that it will ability of cooperation between the three
countenance & separate peace made with teries were moving back to their new and dispersed Round about the village cute he is not with us a countries was, on all sides again ex positions in that grey moonlit shadow of Anneux, which we abandoned at the world of the battlefield beyond the ruins same time as Bourlon Wood; the enemy against us, and if Lepit finds it worth pressed.
his while to make any sort of alliance
who
afternoon these men,
his of our renous Wood which is ing recon.
Patrols
as they
line and the
fought out, killed or scattered them,
ard wards when he sent larger forces forward, waves of storm troops avancing in the
great numbers of them were de stroyed by our artillery, re
GERMANS LOSE HEAVILY,
naissance in force,
a violent storm of
fire into this
"
for
als
of Harrincourt and the Flesquieres ridge, was so ignorant of our departure that he the Germans, then he will be guilty and the long winding trail of the Hin denburg Line. They wers the guns which and then attacked it with a considerable of an overs not of enmity to us and to not without its ueft. We have heard
up scerctly
force of infantry, as though it were fully our Allies. The situation is clear enough, grumblings of revolution in our own Sir Julian Beng's surprise at-
its ruïne. It was simi- themselves into it if they hat not in an undaturally perhaps, aroused certain
Fefore
for
Baezimbers after the great break larght near Moenvres by nervous aequisition of knowledge, and loudly stages of the revolution in Russia, hüve and then had galloped forward with remained le azainst emptiness which access of revolutionary zeal despised the murmurs of discontent. But the last
their
and then in those fur positions was
to that
through near the enemy's
s lines had men expecting blasts of machine gun fire professed that nothing was necessary for given a plain warning to the discontent-
a lure into a
daresay
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