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THE WAR.
(Continued from Page 5.) Branco-Belgian Front,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY,) BRITISH FRONT. ENEMY ATTACK HEAVILY ALL DAY.
A FAMOUS DETECTIVE. EX-SUPERINTENDENT MELVILLE.
An unconfrmod report states that the Jong, whose fire, however, was unchecked. Germans this morning reached the cret Towards morning the enemy fire was in of Mont Kemmel, but later reports indi- tensified, reaching a degree of violence cats that it is improbable that the Allies by seven o'clock, not experienced since By the death of Mr. William Melville, have lost any high ground.
the morning of 21st March. An infantry there has passed away a detective officer BRILLIANT COUNTER-ATTACK attack was launched at 7:30 on an eight of whom any police force of any country mile front between Bretonneux and might well be proud. For many years he was. superintendent of the "Special" or Senerat Wood on the south bank of the Luce
· Criminal political branch of the The heaviest fighting on a purely Investigation Department at New Scot French front raged around Hongard
curves in a Barrowland Yard, and on his retiremont from where our line salient. By mid-afternoon the enciny the Metropolitan Police in December, fought his way into the village, captur
1908, after thirty-one years service, ho ing the woods northward thereof, the French retook Hill 98 overlooking left behind him a record of good work
LONDON, April 26th. Renter's Correspondent at British Headquarters, telegraphing to-day, stated-Yesterday's brilliant counter- attack was by the Australians, who passed LONDON, April 20th.
through sturdy British troops who were Fició Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-containing four times their own num- ports-French and British positions
Mr. Melville was a type of the straight, up-to-date detective, employing modern methods and never afraid to adopt any new idea that would help him in the
boot, cut for comfort. and from the north of Bailleul to the cast of hers, and restored the situation in our the village The hill appears to be still which it would be difficult to surpass.
Wytschnete have been heavily attacked at favour ab Villers-Bretonneux. But the ours. The Germans have retaken Hill!
weight of yesterday's attack was between 63 southward of the Luco and overlook ing the Avre valley and the junction of made for hard wear..
day. The fighting, has been of great
Wytschnete and Meteren, the heaviest the Avro and Luce, and have fought up to the village of Hailles, thereby nd These will last as long severity on the whole of this front, partire being directed against the French.vancing a mills. Their assaults on Hill and look as well, as any cularly in the neghbourhood of Dranou
I hear the French are counterattacking 52 were repulsed after very severe fight- boot that was made before te Kemmel and Vierstraat In the
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The fighting continues.
South of the Somme successful Austra lian and English counter attacks last night regained positions in and around Villers-Bretonneux. We advanced the
line to within a short, distance of the
former front. We took over 500 prison: cre The village is now in our hands.
The enemy; omninved at least four divisions in yesterday morning's attacks on this front-Primmers state that the objectives included Carby village and the Cachy-Fonillos road; but the objec. tives were not reached anywhere. The numbers of dead found in the recaptured positions show that the enemy's losses Were very heavy,
AERIAL OPERATIONS.
venting supplies coming up. Our long- range guns are particularly active on tho enemy's back areas, where they are doing great execution among heavy columns of transport moving among the Gheluvelt road.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.].
A CORRECTION.
LONDON, April 26th. A Bouter's telegram dated February 10th regarding the Hon
Bertrand Russell has been erroneously represented as applying to Colonel the Hon. Bertrand Russell, son of the late Lord Russell of Killowen. This latter statement was which not contained in the telegram, related to the Hon. Bertrand Russell, son of the late Lord Amberley.
Lord Russell of Killowen's son hing been wounded three times in action and has been awarded the Distinguished Ser vice Order.
successful carrying out of his work. He always recognised the power and useful- ness of the Press in criminal investiga. tion and he was never given away by any journalist. When he retired from the
Yard his services to the State did. not cease they continued on most con- Balential matters until almost the day of his death It would probably surprise some people to discover that their whole history during the course of the present. war had been investigated by this officer. Probably nobody in or out of the police force possessed such an intimate know ledge of the underworld" life of Lon-
tion
As the famous chief of the Special Branch, and it was no doubt this feet which led to his action as cicerone to the Tsar of Bussie when he came over here for a few weeks before his marriage. of Mr. intimately The Tsar, under the able guidance Melville made himself Requainted with every phase of the [The above refers to the following criminal life of the worst areas of Lon- Daily Press) + message as reproduced in the Hongkongdon, both East and West. Night after night, in company with his expert guide, le threaded his way in and out of the of thecriminal unsavoury haunts fraternity
the political particularly criminals of the Anarchist type, never once did he suffer any bodily harm. Mr. Melville's department in the early
ATTEMPT TO IMPAIR ANGLO. AMERICAN RELATIONS.
LONDON, February 11th The Hon. Bertrand Russell has been sentenced to three mon the imprisonment calculated to prejudice. Anglo-American relations.
Russell described the Amerian Army as strike-breakers.]
and
THE TRENCH HEAVILY |_ |__ / -ATTACKED. * During the last two nights the enemy bus attacked the French around Dranoutre in strength. Six battalions gened a ten porary advantage, but were driven back by counter attacks by
This moming a much heavier assault was delivered by four or six divisions over a front seven miles long on the ling from Meteren Bailleul Wytschiete
An Alpini Corps of the 11th Bavarians rians and 117th Divisions, consisting of mouD- tain troops, were engaged with Jaeger regiments in support and an entirely fresh division, the 56th, was identified in the attack which overlapped on our front the right link of the French on Disconnected reports indictate that the them through the defensive line in places. and possibly some German parties pro- gressed towards the crest of Mont Ken mel, but I am told this afternoon that the French hold both Kemmel village and hill; ad it seems that the danger to this important strategic key position has been averted. The Germans appreciate the importance of Kommel so fully that | WOMAN'S "GREAT CHANGE bitter and prolonged fighting in this zone LONDON, April 26this anticipated Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ro. ports After severe fighting all day long on the Bailleul-Hollebeke front against a greatly superior force the Allied troops were compelled to give ground and the enemy gained a footing on Kemmel Hill Fighting in the neighbourhood of Dranoutre Kemmel
Despite the mists Yesterday our av ballrush tactics of enemy masses carried at Bow Street for ablishing statements days dealt almost exclusively with the
for attacked troops in the neighborhod of Villers-Bretonneux from a low height We brought down three machines. Two of ours are missing. Our night-fliers dropped five-and-a-half tons of hombs on Estaires Armentieres and Roulers and also the railway stations at Courtral and Thourout. All the machines returned
ALLIED TROOPS GIVE GROUND.
The latest report from Villers-Breton ceux is that the Germans are believed to have been practically all mopped ap there, and export we will fully hold it by sunset. Thus, the enemy has suffered another defeat which canks only to the tremendous repulse be encounted and Vierstraatin, Flanders on April 19th and, on a sma lor senfe, is reminiscent of his reverse ut Arran
continhes; Advent
We carried out a minor operation, at night-tine westward of. Merville and prisonered 500
Hostile artillery is active from Lys to Givenchy.
We cleared out porta south eastward of Villers-Bretonneux. The enemy go
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GERMAN REPORT.
(Continued on page 7.):
BUT IS IT?
the
Irish-American political offenders, and subsequently with the Anarchists. His grent proficiency as a linguist, an atlain- ment he bad acquired abroad while keeping an eye on the ports, was of utmost service to him in London when he was called upon to watch the doings. of the horde of foreign criminals who arrived after being driven out of their own countries. One of his most, import, ant duties was that of shadowing members of our own Royal family and those of foreign countries when visiting. these shores He accompanied Queen Victoria and King Edward when they Kaiser, the King of Italy, and other the
when in Lon foreign travelled on the Continent, and attended.
Royal
It in suid that women are having their great chance in this time of war. They They are carrying on the business of the occupy positions undreamed of in peace nation in unaccustomed ways, filling with
monopolised - by men
War has done. Melville na dazzling publicity those spheres so long more for the progress of women than any agitation for the vote? ig
of
had a number of narrow escapes from death or injury at the hands of the desperate criminals he was success ful in arresting. Probably one of his teinark you hear in ovary club, k
Is this progross real or a cheating narrowest shaves was when he scared the Meunier, who had killed several people imitation? 11 you come to analyse the the Cafe Very, in Paris, with a basub quality of woman's work to day you find Melville recognised him at Victoria, and,. that
iven to the though unarmed, he at once seized the great chance" is
aried criminal. His activities in secur. ing the detection of Anarchist crimes are The rest of it, is manual labour. bands, but not to the brains
The national call is not for women to organise big Government departments, too many to be detailed, but the arrest.
of business
ess of Meunier was not the only exciting ond adjust delicate matters
in the raid on the coup between England and bor Allies, do pro- of bone was particularly proud of
goul to the his
headquarters of the Autonomie pagunda work, or giva
Club
when Melvilla re-
LONDON, April 20th: A wireless German official message says-A strong French counter-attack against the height of Vleugelhoek failed heavily na pa kata
We attacked the British and French THE GERMAN OBJECTIVES.
near, and southward of, Villers-Breton LONDON, April 20th. neux. Our infantry, supported by tanks, A special Reuter message says that the broke through the enemy machine-gu progress of the battle shows that the nests and we captured Hangard War Office. The call to women is the call striking in two directions simultaneously, north-westward of Castel their immediate objectives being the The enemy's reserves violently counter- Channel and Amiens. They have received attacked all day long, failing sangain severe repulso in the southern carily, Bitter fighting lasted all night thanks to the magnificent counter-park long We captured 3,000 prisoners and carried out by the Australiaus supported took four guns. by English regiments including shire Northamptons, and NO LARGE MASSES OF AUSTRIANS Yorkshires. It was the English g ments, of which many were young troops recently from England, that gallantly
Ho
us followed on the Grenach
Germans are continuing their plan of We advanced our lines on the heights to scrub floors till the fields, copy docu- Park bomb dy of Bourdain, who
of gas-
ON FRONT.
AMSTERDAM, April 26th. The North-Gerinan Gazette denies that
coguised in the
the infernal machine (which was to have blown up the Royal Observatory), that was killed by the premature explosion of
of a man supposed to be Peaceable tailor
who was a
held Villers against an intenssault large masses of Austrian troops have on trivial work I know of a young month he was created a member of the
shelling until overwhelmed by
by five divisions of infantry. The Gerbeen sent to the Western Front.
FRENCH FRONT.
LINE RESTORED.
ments, drive motor-cars, make munitions, or cook in camp kitchens. These are their importance is not to be minimised necessary things; they must by well done But if the war is to be won speedily and conclusively brains must ho mobilised as well as hands, and the brains of women
of Autonomic. Olub.onstant visitor to
Mr Melville received many tokens of must be used no less than the braing
of the value of his work. men,
hundreds of clever At the present tire
of the Victorian Order WES women whose services would be inevitable conferred on him in 1903, and only last to the nation if properly used are wasted
Order of the British Empire, while with an honours Franco Denmark, public school woman:
Portugal, Italy B.A. degree who applied for a post in a Government offices All that could be Spain, and other countries bestowed offered her was unskilled clerical work of decorations on him. 30 a week. Moreover, she was informed that the appointment could not in any circumstances be regarded as a stepping. stone to somthing better in the Civil Service. Adressing envelopes, in another instance, was declared to be the only opening for a woman of proved excep
onal organising ability. Why?
BUTTONS.
I am in the British Army.
I have more years of service than the
oldest soldier,
I am more heartily hated by any comrades.
than even the fun.
I am cursed more frequently than any-
thing else in the Army O full no purpose other than keeping Tommy busy when he is off parade.
PARIS. April 26th, A courtunique states: There is great reciprocal artillery fighting in the region of Hangard on both banks of the Avre. There was no infantry fighting
Germans in the Wouvre sector, after a furious hombardment, attacked the sector
Almost all the higher posts in what of Regnieville and gained a footing in mey broadly be called national service our advanced lines. They were promptly are reserved for men-many of them for ejected and our hues were rest There is still an extraordinary prejudice Hines restored. We auen who might be doing military work tank prisoners artillery duel on the
put our lives in the keep of the Mouse and in the Voss Weveheerfull the brains of a woman!" ing of women who drive our motor cars,
We but
help to control food or finance. We have exalted physical skill to such an extent that so regard the woman who releases a scavenger for the・・・ Army as a wonder of the war
There was an
Comme and then German aeroplanes and a
waste more of his time than anything
else in the Bervicemates
mans seized and established a per manent hold on the village, which was packed with machine guns. Hence it was necessary that the counter-attack should be a surprise. It was accordingly decided to make a night attack with bombs, bayonots and machine-guns without a artillery
preparation. The battle took hours of the most grim fighting, all the more gruesome because the guns had tera porarily become silent, us the combatants were inextricably mixed before the Ger mans were finally driven out and important position dominating Amiens restored to British hands. The en Will probably return to the assault
the assault of Villers this in & sharp and
salient formed by the confluence of
which Sinughter-house for almost equally important, hat it has changed hands so often that the enemy's bold may be considered precarious. It is
VIOLENT ARTILLERY STRUGGLE. possible, however, that a really big effen alve will develop south of Ypres, and the
PARIS, April 26th. I should like to know if members of the mention of heavy fighting to the north- cast Bailleul may
of
indiente such a A communiqué states-There was a Government have ever considered the
violent artillery atraggle south of the posibilitics of woman's brain as they I development. The position at Kemal Somme at night-time have considered the possibilities of her words of where the French hold eritical positions,
We carried out numerous raids, notably hands. If you ask for. is not to satisfactory. The mention of
U.8, or practical German armies, Vierstraat zooms, to suggest that the within the region of assigny, between action, I replyTake the vast field of I am not to be found in the business-like-
consequently drawal included a retirement from the Miette and the Aisne and towards Bezon. propaganda, alone Is there no room here for the imagination, fine intuition, lest positions of the Messines Ridge near aux and Eparges. Wytschnete.
DIVIDING FRENCH AND BRITISH and delicate understanding such as a clever woman can offer? And if, because FORCES.
of diplomatic confervatism, neutral colo tries are barred, is there no pro work to be done among women at
is nothing but
captive balloon were felled on April send and
at, Phim Hangard 3rd Tan other aeroplanes were driven women ble it is suggested that I consist of 104 separate parts and need
has
SPLENDID BRITISH COUNTER- ATTACK.
down damaged in the enemy's lines after Eights
the needs of
the constant attention of the soldier in whose charge Lam placed,
I cause him more punishment than does
strang drink
I am an important factor in the conduct.
common-sense manner, though of the war when employed in a cost the tax-payers enough money to
build countless aeroplanes
neither do I cause them punishment, Ias not curied by those soldiers, riether do I waste their time or their tax-payers money.
I
am an excellent target in the sun and am often the first part of the soldier aniper Part to attract the attention of the Hun
I am very useful, ea indispensable, to our Krupp munition plants when I fall into his handa hasTAR
expensive than if they had been cleared tion point of the French and British indefinitely could offer susc0281 PIn not so plentiful now as formerly.
你
LONDON, April 28th.. Beuter's Correspondent at French LONDON, April 25th. Beuter's Correspondent at British Headquarters, telegraphing at midnight The War Office would be more human, Food Headquarters saya The success at on the 24th inst, stated: Fursuing his but not less efficient, for the feminising Villers-Bretonneux, beginning with a policy of alternating blows the enemy touch of a level-headed woman. Aplendid counter attack last night has attacked southward of the Somme the restrictions would be less irritating
performance. It cost the morning after an artillery preparation designed by a woman who understood the been a great Germans terribly dear to get a footing which left no doubt as to his intention needs of the home te well in the village, which will be scarcely less The main objective was against the juncthe out, as seenis likely. We have doubles armies north of Haugard, a subsidiary But if there are no new departments to resestablished our line east of that place blow delivered against the new French be created in which women could serve German tanks have not particularly is positions south of the river Luce suggest with their brains, at least give them I tinguished themselves. Five concentrated ing that the Germans wished to thrust a chance in those which already exist, may not be a potential Lady upon a single British "female" but on wedge between the French and British Perth in every office, but it might towards Amiens, or to wipe out the Hangard salient, on which so many be worth while to make the search. We attacks have been broken. The artillery do not want it to be told in the history attacked our front for sixteen miles hebooks of to-morrow that the brains, of tween Ribement-sur-Ancre and Aily-sur-women were deliberately frozen out" 1
the during the great war.-B. D., in the Daily Nove Gas shells hailed French and British batteries all night a
the arrival of a male tank quickly made off. It was two of our light tanks of the amall mobile pattern which did fearful execution among a fresh enemy division These tanks charged the massed troops agnio and again as if they had been wallowing in & rast shambles
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and resent being thrown away in this
useful service, manner when I could perform a truly am one of the few remaining relics of the old pre-war days, when tradition outranked expedition in the Army. am wondering how long I am going to
am not doing my bit." held my present job, for I know I
am the unnecessary brass on the
King's uniform and equipment.
PAUL HAYEH.