THE DECISIVE BATTLE. COLONEL REPINGTON ON THE
MARCH RETREAT
Licut.-Colonel Repington, writing in
the Morning lost on General Gough's army, says notice that the Govern. mend Press in doing its best to unload the responsibilities of its masters upon the soldiers, and especially to blame our Command in France and our Fifth Army for the success of the German attack on March 31st Aid rusbequent days The Was Other permit these insinuations and innuchdoes to be published broadcast without reply, and refore I am entitled to defend my old campaigning comrades nudo re-establish the facts.
Why was our line extended south of the Dise? It was extended at the urgent solicitation of the Feuch, and contrary to the reasoned views and reiterated re-
THE HONGKONG DAILY" PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 29TH, 1916.
ILL TREATED TO DEATH,
THE WAY THEY HAVE IN THE
GERMAN ARMY Z
The basis of, German discipline is fear, and that fear is often taught by the utmost physical brutality.
This
was well-known before the war.
which Germina
BLUFFING THE WHOLE WORLD
DESPERATE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN GERMANY
[BY ERNEST LIONEL PYEE]
LONDON AND DEKLIN COMPARED.
Someone said to mo yesterday, "Don't you think London is beginning to look shabby? No, 1 do not think so Berlin today is really shabby and unkempt.
I have always in my mind the back. ground of the seventy or eighty visits I have paid to Berlin since my arrival at Rubleben in 1914. Barlin at that time That was passing away. Something had was not in the first flush of war fervour gone wrong with the war exactly what the publio did not know. The Army had not reached Paris according to the six weeks time-table allotted to that task. The populace was very frightened Berlin, with its theatres, restaurants, and about Russin. The normal night life of cabarets, was in full blast Regiments, smartly
face after face baggard and yellow, with deep dark ring round the eye It is not necessary here to dwell won the effect of the impoverished dit upon motherhood and upon delicate people. The richest get to Switzerlad or Halland if they can. There arenning: rich people who do obtain footby in- mensa expense and underhand methods and risk of punishment. The fact is well known. The process is know by the means to wangle German slang term of schieb which, methods
A thing brooked
I was not so anxious to et into Berlin as 1 might otherwise Fe been, well-fed appearance that cul many for my English parcels had gö, me à qurel glances to be direct at youngish-looking mark ( (48) in escort near me, and, of course carried mufti I took care to keep military my day's provisions with me
root infrequent in the German Cases army of recruits who were driven to sal side by sil-treatment; this punichments N.CO's were allowed to invent and inflict on their men were, many of them, barbarous besund descrip tion; and while in the Brtiish army no officer would or could lay, his hand on a man under pain of losing his commission in the German army office could, and did, assault their men with impunity, and in the most cowardly and brutal ways,"
It has been the same..
during the war. To the German newspaper correspondents presentations of our Command in France, the German soldier has been the hero The opinion was, when I last visited in field grey," but to the N.0.0 in the General Headquarters, that we could not training camp; he has been only so much afford to lake over more ground, not only material to be brutally beaten into shape, because we had not enough divisions, but just as to his officers at the front he has but another three months would finish it. Lion of wealth has not bommen because the divisions themselves were been, in that phrase which only the Cry mana could have invented, merely dang se reduced in strength by the failure of
non-fodder.” the Government to supply drafts that our new line would be too thin.
The French, on the other hand, desired us, both on military and political grounds, to take over more line, and they, too, were right from their point of view. We were both right, and if the British Com- mand had to give way in the end owing to the pressure brought upon it, I do not think that it can be blamed
THE MARCH OFFENSIVE,
વનમાં
wars-the
dressed in new field-grey swung through the streets and there was unate everywhere. The war would not be over by Christmas as had been expected. How, no one seemed to know ALF Germany's recent Danish Austrian, and French-had finished. Nothing could withstand The ill-treatment of the German soldier German might and Deutschland über has even led to public protests in Ger. Allee" The trains still bore the insignia many and has been discussed in the London Paris, or St. Petersburg. Even Reichstag, where speakers have complain-then soldiers entrained with their rifles ed that the men who were acclaimed as covered with oak leaves, and the cannen heroes were constantly insulted and were also wreathed with the emblem of
victory.
brow-benten."
What the German soldiers suffer during their training can be imagined from the letters of prisoners which have spoken of the happy relief it was to escape from the life of German training camps to life in the trenches. But the most strik. ng evidence, as often happens, is to be found in an official document,
An article in the Bremer Buerger-Zei- any for February 22nd explains in tail the distinction in military law he tween disablement due to service and
disablement due to active service Various forms of disablement are catalo gued according to these two cinsses, and in the list of disablements due to ger vice appears ill-treatment resulting death at the hands of sucpriors or fel low soldiers."
Mion.
Here and there I et à doubting Thomas. England was a hard nut to crack. The coming of England into the war had curaged the Germans more than any other happening in their history: However, they got over the chock of this great war factor and had reached the stage when they were belittling England They began to beast over their cups, which were then still full, that the Berlin policemen would be sufficient to tackle the British Aring The omia papars were filled with pictures of long-toothed sportsmen with big pipes and very short kilts.
14
CONTEMPT POR" ""SBORTSMEN,"
!
Food grumbling is the arse of Germany to day, and whenle great sash cones I imagine that Junker of it. For there has been reat deal class will have a particularbad timo of war profiteering in Geray, open and flagrant. Food supplicave been held tack for a rise in pricendustrial companies have doubled, let and quadrupled their dividends e taxa-
surate with the situation, a victori- dus Germany is full obitternces. Thefts of food from traind shops have become as common a cik is hoard. 18, which even after thrend a half Years of war is still goion. Pigs, geese, and rabbits are sedly fattened in cellars and sold to theiieber (the people who buy or sell 1 by illicit methods) at enormous priedai
Just before last Christo was glad to buy a secretly Lattenrow for das I was robbing on Gern of a Kood meal
No, I cannot say that see anything hubby in London, either the appear- ance of the streets or the ple. London seems as full of life as orint 94th July, 1914, when I made my fish summer trip to Homburg,
We had such constantcounts of the bombing of London in German news. papers and from Germs gossips that when I arrived here theselt before last
expected to find at lome indica tion that the Germansiad been here. Up to date the visitona London has groat difficulty in find any traces of where bombs have falle
Our London shops anght for sure yes after the bare widdys of Berlin. Compare Harrod's or Stridge's with Wertheim's What play in the win- compare the county Stads of Eng
What was the situation of our Fifth Army at dawn on Mareli 21st? It stood with its 14 divisions on a line 40 miles in Jength, from Burisis, soirth of the Oise, to La Vacqueric, some nine miles south west of Cambrai. It had 11 division in The line and three in reserve. It had only taken over the line on January 20th, and the troops were so busy digging and wiring that few, except those in reserve, had more than seven days for training during the two months which followed: Its advanced outpost line can front Barisis to the hills west of La Fire, thenes
Now if there is one word more than another, which embodies German con along the Oise to Moy, wherice the ling ran west of "51. Quentin and so north- Physica!" ill-treatament by superiors, tempt when speaking of soldiering it is west of the St. Quentin Le Catelet road.even sarried to the extreme of death, in
sportsinan,
A nation of bad loses This out, he was well sited and con- / koked upon as so normal a thing in the land bad winners has no conception of the dous of these great Ludah merchants || sisted of a number of posts which affordedle of the German Amy, as inseper
chivalry
of Anglo-Saxon games and each other mutual support. The fighting ble from the maintenance of discipline, sports. Horseracing there is in Ger
that it figures, as hatter of course, posit-on-whein rear from Condran, on the Os through Tergnier, Hinncourt, the list of thras disablements due to sin plenty, but it is a matter of and with those in Gema Yesterday, Ressungol le Grand Roupy, Maissemy service" which entitle the wife to a pen gambling Trotting likewise. Massed actually passed a flat of sheep. Com gymnastics, in which 100 men move as are the restaurants, Fst out of eur Hargicoust
Lempire, to" Roynudecourt,
iosity 1 asked in a tandon restaurant. one, appeal to them, but the idea of a It is to be noted, however, that it does boxing cratest in which the couple beginney, und Worcester uge. They were and on this line every preparation was
for the following extras: Pickles, chut- ninds for a strong resistance. There were not appear to entitle her to a full pen by shaking hands and end by shaking supplied as at any other dime, supporting positions in rear, and much sion.
While a widow whose husband hands is something that they regard na All the Berlin restaurants that remain died on active service receives absolute foolishness and as a sign of in- open use a fine samoulige bill of fare, Lard though the troops had worked. A 168 marks (£8.4.6.) for each child, aferiority, just as they consider, votes 19 but it all comes down to potrtoes or
widow whose husband has died through men sign of vulgarity and decus swedes in some for other to
ill-treatment by a superior receives So John Bill's little Army was a cont only 200 marks (14.13.0.) and only 60 tens of no account, excepty marke:(£2.18.0.) for each child. (The off the slate as except by purchasing power of the mark to-day is the doubting Thomases, who were less than half what it was,) were very careful about expressing the
-It is interesting to contrast these figrues with the much more generous pensions! the twelve which they possessed the prepaid to the widows of British soldiers vious year. For this cause one quarter of our infinty in the Fifth Army had dis appeared. The breaking up and drafting elsewhere of three battalions In ench division need great discontent, and, preover, injured all the system of roulement, deprived each brigade of battalions, and made much more difficult the system of relicts. Thus the Fifth Army, and they were the overves and with with few reserves and with out continuous lines of defence for which there were not enough men, awaited the onset of the Gerniat massËS, P
French Wire, but time had not allowed All the rearward nations to be organised
the bridges were mined and detachments
stationed by them to effect the demolitions int case of feeds
WAR CARINET K FAILURE.
Owing to the failure of the War Cabinet te provide men, all the divisions were down to nine beittalions instead of
|
a year (ut prewar rates £18.11.8.) and
the lowest rate in the British army is 135, Bd. a week (it increases as the woman gets older), that is £35,158, a year, or nearly double the German pension: The allowance for children is also much more generous. Five shillings a work is paid for the first child, 4s, ed. for the second, 3. for the third, and 29. 6d, for onch additional child. That is, calculated by for this and or the first child, £10,16.5 for the second, 68.13.4. for the third, and 56. 10. each other child,
VIEWS
Tablecloths wore long ago forbidden in Germany as involving the use of coal, bleaching chemicals, dud labour.
Around me in my onkin turant were men of between 40 and 60, well turned out, with stiff collars. These sains. men if in Germany would have been run Marshall Collast, for der nnd with he starched for Germany is starch less, and washingles.
shirking,
MORE PRIRLS THAN PORK,
The American soldier is regarded as of even less importanes the war than was the Britisher, for the vason that the Germans believe that their under-rca boats will stop any considerable number People tell me that there are a number of Americans from striving in Furope of mer of military age in Government The Americans are also regarded as offices in England 1 do not believe that surtamen, or money grubbers bent there is one man of military age in any business only Evidently by Government Goverment office in Germany. Quite orders, the German papers, comic and otherwise, have been put to the task of part from the port of the Govern. inaking the Americans look ridiculous posible. Too many young Cermons Lim and contemptible in the eyes of the been killed for the public to tolerate any have Cermans. Berlin a few weeks ago was Thus while a British widow, with three billed with photography of seven captured | children, whees husband has died through | Altericans.: I do not agree with Mr service in the army, gets a yearly peu- Wile that the Germany are at all awake sion of £68,58., a German widow with to the American situation. That they three children whose husband has died on Face disappointed in the result of the sub active service gets £44.53 20 and after marine warfare is beyond question. It man widow with three children whose hus not starved England in twelve weeks husband has merely been ill-treated to death by a superior gets only £23.10.
as they had thought, but it will, they believe, certainly prevent the landing in Fanie of Anicicans. Another theory
Or is that the Americans should be 1,000 men, whereas in our Fifth Army; an aportant decision, namely, whether allowed to land and then be starved by for reasona into which need not enter, to stand and fight it out or to fight back.the sinking of the supply boats. the actual trench strength was 800 at the The possibility of the need for a deci Well, as to shabby Berlin : indst. The German troops had also had
Little by little the shadow of war fell the advantage over us of two month
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and
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What came against our Fifth Army The whole of General von Hatier's 18th Army This army consisted of the 3rd 4th, 9th, and 17th Army Corps, number ing in all 23 divisions in front line and 17 in close support, inaking 40 divisions In all, with 8,800 guns, which enormously outuumbered both our
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of life physiologically speaking the Now (digestion is the prime function process by which the food you eat is ultimately converted into blood, brein, and muscle the process, in short, by which you exist, and compared to which all else is unimportant, even trivial. It inilure in any part of toes, and any sums up and includes every function of of it must of neces sity be injurious to health. Digestion the body, and if you allow your digestion stomach, liver, and bowels to get -your How many men have been killed !...] sut of order, your whole system will sure- an asked daily. Nobody knows,
ly suffer. No published. It is not difficult for any one in Germany believes in the losses as
In-digestion is therefore the fanda- person on the spot to ascertain that there nearly all other disorders spring. This mental ailment of the human race, tho disease from which-barring nccidents---- are men of his own fircle who have dis is a strong assertion, but it is true, aud appeared and never been accounted for for this reason. Good food, when per way of exaggerating their captures and in which the germs of disease cannot live; in any list. The Germans have a strange fectly digested, becomes
blood, PART, rich minimising their loss. I should like to your body being thus fully nourished, know how tally off their alleged 46,000 every organ does the work which Natura prisomers the other day were medical intended it to do there is vitality, re- men, orderlies, and wounded men who serve force, strength to resist, and would not get away Today a little on the other hand, food (however good Fourth of the couturaded to the On Austrian and Bulgaries of turkish, make pure blood, because i auto vild leave. And on this point I believe that its nourishment; your system the offers of the German Army get the brain suffers for want of sustenances stard longer leave than British officers, the
Every organ of your body Might up strain of this new kind of warfare being impurities, dus to decomposition of the considered as rendering more leavo neces- sary than brmerly.
it
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and to fight back than to break it to more, from Ruhleben, which is soms Dieses by standing to the last in a pasi eight miles from the city, I could Lion where the enemy had such manifest always not some small change. Certain superiority. Half a dozen divisions more noticia began to be difficult to Bet preserve might have turned the scale Prices rosu. There was a great increase
to even then; half a dozen from Palestine, in the number of wounded men that one
you become weak, nervous, anemic; while Salonika, and Mesopotamia, but they saw in the Tiergarten on fine mornings wire far away. The enemy, Howing Shopy began to shut up. More and more What happened? The attack began by forced upon the Command of the Fifth Shop closed; proprietor gone to the not, and especially are our women not dangerous diseases.
undigested mass in stomach and bowels, through the gaps which they had made was the annouicentent on, shop shutters
are drawn into your blood to poison your the heaviest bombardment yet experienced
1 Londoa shabby? I should think whole system and prepare the way for by British troops, a bombardment of Army the only decision possible.
war. At first the women did not wear shabby. If any of them grumble, let sonte six hours, duration, during which the German guns, becatie red hot. A attack, some units gave way was inevit but later on it was increasingly notice married to a well-off member of the it does, every only you should strive to
It will thus be seen how That, under the pressure of this mass mourning, or one saw very little of it the realise that an English woman is this matter of digestion, aficcting, a
all-important thick mist hid the advance of the German able in the circumstances. But the Fifthable, until today one finds Berlin women
other function of the body, ninusses, which awed between the posts Army, as a whole, was never broken. It very largely dressed in black Motor made dress for herealf- from a pair of keep it active. It is the foundation of
Berlin Bourse told me that she had just and how of our outpost na pad, surrounded many retained its general alignment in retreat, cars disappeared, then most of the taxi curtain Berd again, it was not your physical, bodily well-being, for with of thein. The mutual support of such and eight days after the opening of the cabs, then the few remaining, taxicabs tition of honey but of famine out & sound digestion good health is Do this had not been destroyed by the attack was still in touch along its whole had no rubber for the whole, horses alfi- or quest one of the curious itterly hopelessly impression of digestivo bombardment wasstendered impossible by tront and still fighting gloriously against tha misty and neatly all the firing was at great odds. At the heaviest cost to itself mately vanished, and so at last Berlin, facts about the war is that furs weakness cake Mother Beigel's Syrup. 30 yards sange. The beroic manner in it kept up its battle line and carried back some of the pay comparison with seara more plentiful everywhere than Don't hesitate or delay about it. It fonen which many posts held out for long, with it nearly two-thirds of its guns. It some of the provincial cities, began to normally. There is no lack of fare or of and invigorates the stomach, liver and though completely surrounded by an geve time for the French to came up, and seem empts. It resetables London on a fine diamonds in Berlin. Friedlander's, bowels, cleanses the blood and promotes of enemies, was a marked feature of this to General Fetain and General Franchet dall Sunday, with no motor-omnibuser in the Unter den Linden, is ablaze with perfect digestion, perfect assimilation,
d'Espércy first, then to General Pellé and only a few tramway-caTE. and to General Fayolle subsequently, ve
perfect health. When you A CRITICAL DECISION.
of gratitude for ove an immense
Brown jeweller of Charlottenburg, told notice The German wasses came up against their good couradeship and
Now as to the appearance of the despite the Norease in the price of his
furred tongue, the battle position and there lost heavily. Buccour
headache Regardless of loss they pressed on, and
people. I mentioned in a former article warez But unfortunately for the Ger. Syrup; do not wait for the more seriou not think, when all the facts are the reduction in the weight of Hacken man health, his easier to get pearls effects, and you will be saved months, I do during the day of the 2let, after a long blamed for their retreat. I think that it He is a man of large means, yet he had The lack traffic in Berlin streets,
that the Fifth Army, will be schmidt, the Russian wrestling "lion struggle and must bitter fighting on the
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BANG BANG perhaps years, of sufforing, Fof our men
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about form contagious element of de supports and our reserve divisions carte mander by the War Cabinet to cover their tact at the various shops with which I saw the Wan faces of the children
pression.Saddest and most reade valiant counter attacks, own faults I know nothing. All that Some of them succeeded in their special shall say is that if we're on the lookout dealt in the course of my affairs Therman child life today is a tragedy purpose, but, the growing numbers of the for an Army Commander who can beat effect of the starvation diet on the women and when the inevitable crash comes the enemy, constantly increased from the forty German divisions with fourteen, to make the countenance of the avet will forget the sufferings of their rear, threw at last upon the command and 3,500 German guns with much less rage Berlin lády, which usually is not
the Fifth, Army the recepty of takdag than half that number, there will be the Venus-type even more plain, at childres at the hands of the military
Daily Mail (Continued at foot of nett Column)
(To be confirmed.)
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