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LABOUR MINISTERS. PROTEST AGAINST INTRIGUE.
PATRIOTIC MANIFESTO. Labour members in the Government
The War Office would, in my opinion, No State department for the sul vagy be well advised if they were to publish at of lost ships existed prior to the out- iancé some sort of connected narrative. Salvage Department has a record of 407 esto:--We entered the Government as break of war. To-day the Admiralty have recently issued the following mani- the events upon the British front from merchant ships salved and restored to Labour representatives during a time of March 21 to April 1st of this yend service, and a confidential number of war. By doing so they would remove the mies that he ve also been saved in a damovre-mastering national need, and Labour aged condition or raised from the bottom has in that time exercised an unpreced chievous legend that a British army had the department is manned entirely by ented influence in the councils of the been broken-an „iden, which is not only salvage experts, men who were engaged nation. Our position, however, is being bad for our prestige abroad but pernici in the work as a commercial proposition ous to our young soldiers. It is true, then, however, that often it did not sniping on the part of anti-national before the war. Ships were so cheap rendered very dificult by incessant save in the sense that when a division to raise a sunken wreck and restore her of corps is turned at the flanks some read different now, and the result is that in-
to seagoing condition. justment is needed to reform the line vention has been stimulated to an extra Things are very The miracle is that under the most exc ordinary extent. ing circumstances conceivable the line was naver broken, and there was never a tine when the Germany saw opent country before them and could push on where they would.
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was the greatest weight that could be It used to be considered that 1,300 tons lifted from under water hy wire ropes
sunken Government collier that w the mad recently and carried away by obstructing a fairway was lifted out of four lifting ships, with sixteen 9-inch wife ropes, and the deadweight carried by those ropes was calculated at 2,730 tons. The wreck was shifted a distance of one mile at the first lift, and so was gradually taken to the beach, patched up, and sent off to a repairing yard. She went back
before a torpedo ended her career altoge ther.
Labour Press and other nieans open to factionalists who taking advantage of our preoccupation, attack us through the
recorded and published, our speeches dis- them. Our votes on eccasions have been sected and misrepresented, our actions
twisted and turned, to suit sectional pur- poisoned by insidious propaganda. Wo poses, and the minds of.our constituents have refrained from comment, because we' have desired to avoid controversy. but the time has coine when, in our judgmerit,
inatie,
History will ask who is responsible for the fact that the British line was pushed back from St. Quentin to Albert in those ten days. It is a question which can already be answered with the greatest certainty. It was not the soldiers, who were fiert by odds of four to one in men and three to one in guns. It was not the politicians, who found, as Mr. Lloyd Georg has said, that M. Clem into service and inade several. voyages statement might with advantage bil
a diele oan to refuse." There are times when you cannot refuse. It was not Clemenceau. It is true that asked us to take a risk, and that
he the risk materialised, but the whole of warfare consists of taking risks, and how often have the French taken risks for our sake?
Think of them setting an army beside us on the Somme in 1916, at the very time when Verdun was in balance !
the We cannot always play a safe game while they take sporting chances,
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First of all, we have to point out that car position, even with general goodwill which we gladly recognise is extended to us by the great mass of the workers is a somewhat difficult one. We find our-
Ships sunk in deep water cannot be salved. It is not expected by any salvage expert that the Lusitania, for example, will ever be lifted. Divers cannot work in more than twenty-five fathoms success- may sometimes go down to thirty-five selves honour bound sometimes to vote in fully, though for special purposes they Fathoms for a brief spell of work.
The opposition to our own inclinations, and bulk of the ships saved have been sung in less than twenty fathons, or have been party resolutions.
even in apparent contradiction to pas
But the merist tryo., towed inshore by rescue tugs and have gone aground in fairly easy positions. At siderable risks nec early from bad we the same time, the salvage men face con ther, but also from submarine attack Only one salvage ship, however, his bran lost through enemy action.
TEN A MONTH.
No, the only people to blame are the idiots ami traitors of Brest-Litovak, who by their defection set a tidal wave of million men roiling Where that wave struck it was bound to across Europe. wash something away,
It swept the Bei- tish line back for twenty miles or more of the personnel Bave ennoted many hned The growth of the plant and the skal but in spite of every most desperate en deatour, it was never able to break it.snips to be salved this year than could Always se frayed, ragged line of in have been the case in the early days of domitable men stood between them and the war. Between October, 1913, and De- their goal. When we get our true perceber, 1917, the "number of ships salted spective, the retreat from St Quentin wil rank with the retreat from Mons as one of the remarkable military feats of the war. In each case the British Army was like the light-weight boxer who, overborne and bustled. gives ground all over the ring until he can bring his heavy adver sary down to equal terms. In each case the knock-out was avoided and the fight resumed.
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Among the latest devices employed are submersible electric pumps - British in vention which can work under water, Enough has been made public now to and pump out anything from 300 tons to give the diligent collater sufficient 500 tons of water an hour. material to form his judgment, and to these pumps that a large oil tanker was it was due to partially reconstruet the operations. We solved recently. She was mined, and he know that 11 divisions covered the enor-inflammable cargo caught fire forward. pious front of 10,000 yards having three There were explosions of ammunition on infantry and two cavalry divisions in supboard, and explosions of petrol fumes. port.
These sixteen divisions were of salvage vessel was standing by, trying posed to fifty, forty of which were in the to keep the fire under, when the wind line and tea in immediate reserve. The changed and blew the fire astern, so that disproportion was, however, much greater the whole ship seemed to be one raging than this, as the attack was not equal furnace. There was nothing to be done along the whole line, and the British right but to scuttle the ship, and that was not to the south of the Oise was not attack easy. It took about forty shots below the ed
at all, so that the right-hand division water line to do it. She went down in was largely unengaged. Thus the attack fairly shoal water, and the fire was ex was overwhelming in its strength at certinguished. The shell holes were plugged tain points.
by divers, the water was pumped out, and the vessel was raised, with some of the valuable cargo of oil, undamaged and still
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in political life must know that that is a condition of Coalition Government at colleagues of other parties in the Govern any time, and is more applicable to our ment than to ourselves. They, as well as we have. sunk personal and party pre- dilections. During the last three years
measures
greater than at any previous time in the of democratic reform have been passed, albeit in a time of war, history of the country. Measures bave been taken in regard to soldiers and sailors which have put our gallant de. fenders on a better scale of living, and their dependents upon a higher standard than ever before. All these things have been brought about as a result of ces. sation of political strife and the coming together of parties in a common cause, We take no special credis for them, but we are glad to have been put in a position to have helped in their achievement.
CUTLER PALMER & CO, ́S
again to divide the nation into warring Efforts, however, are now being made political sections, and we desire to offer to say that upon the people of this coun- a word of warning. It is not too much try depends very largely the futura freedom of the world, Our sen power resources, as well as the bravery of our and our great mineral and financial men in the field, have played, and must continue to play, a decisive part in the maintenance of the. struggle against German aggression. manifestly of supreme importance that It is therefore national unity should be maintained. division would have the most disastrous Even the appearance of weakness or effect on our course of the last
Allies. Russia in the furnishes an illustration of the evils with Rixteco months The weighs of men and guns was suff cient probably to force the line in any
which we are threatened. Notwithstand. case, but it was greatly helped by a fog stuffs and wool in another ship worth absolutist rule of the Tsar, she has since The same pumpe saved a curge of fooding that she succeeded in throwing off the which lasted during all the critical hours 3,000,000. She had been torpedoed, but fallen a victim to the machinations of the and confined the vision of the defenders was towed inshore by reseus tugs. Work common enemy. to a range of 50 yards. This put all the was only possible on her at low water for themselves in a state of physical starva- machine-gun defences out, and enabled the about two hours with ordinary pump. tion, and reduced to an unparalleled Her people now and enemy to filter between and surround the The submersible pumps were taken down depth of degradation and helplessness. outlying redoubts.. The held out magai into her stokehold and engine-room by ferntly, but the enemy simply masked divers, however, and so efficient was their We hope that in the near future they them and pushed on into the battle line. work that the ship was lightened auffi- In spite of the most arduous labour this ciently to be Boated off and seat to fully be recorded that they are being ex may again be able to help in the common cause, but in the meantime it must sorrow-: was not continuous, but was a chain of repairing port. She is now strong posts We have no enslaved on."
carrying population who can construct huge works
ploited by Germany and Turkey in the like
the Hindenurg Line. Before evening
Among other interesting devices is the interests of militarism. Ag "standard" patch for the rent in a hull quence," an enormous additional burden the great weight of the attack, boldly and caused by a torpedo. A latter-day dis has been thrown upon ourselves and the skilfully pushed, had penetrated the line covery by a British chemist enables divers remaining Allies. America is, fortunate. at three separate places, piercing it to to dissipate the gases generated in sunkenly, mobilising her forces, and will in time the extent that readjustments had to be ships by decomposing vegetable matter redress the balance; but in the meantime made to present a continuous front. and grain which formerly claimed many it is more than ever necessary for us to Already under the imminent menace near lives-Daily Expres. ly all the British reserves had been used,
set our faces firmly against disintegrat or at least allotted. The German reserves
ing influences, and to renew our resolve were known to be heavy and near. Under should send interal help to the French,
to be faithful to, our trust and loyal to such circumstances the question to be decided was whether the British Army back Our corps C and D, having fallen
or they to us, if the lines were driven and sea,
those who have suffered for us on innd should bold its ground until such date as back S.W: and crossed the Somme and national unity is the one supreme con-
For the moment. adequate reserves could arrive, even i!
we believe that such reserves were available. To do so,
the Crozat Canal from Ham to La Fere, sideration. with the line already shaken and fresh tons of French infantry and one of Labour representatives. We are desirous were secordingly reinforced by two divi.sideration present to our mind. We are But there is another cou. German divisions continually streaming through the rents, would clearly be to cavalry. In the succeeding days, as of maintaining the solidarity of Labour. rink a a very big disaster which would leave fresh French divisions camp up, their We look forward to the time when there Amiens or even Paris exposed. There generals took over the districts, so that must be a rebuilding of the social and seemed to be only cae possible policy, and and D became part of the French industrial fabric. In order that Labour that was to fall. back steadily, 6ghting Army for the time. The Allies in this hard all the way, and so diminish the part of the field were pushed back fur
may then exert its due influence, it is distance which reinforcements. would ther than in the north, but there was no
necessary that Labour should be a united travel, until an equilibrium was reached.
was finally restored to the west of Mont it as the inevitable outcome of the course question of a break, and the equilibrium of division. We regret it, but we regard body. There are, however, ominous signs
didier.
of conduct, to which we have referred, on the part of certain persons who have narumed a right to speak for Labour, but mentous issues involved in the war. We who fail, we believe, to realise the mo
UNBROKEN FRONT PRESERVED.
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That retreat, with such an army press ing upon it, was a masterpiece of dis- ciplined skill. Never have British soldiers been
more tenacions, These divisions have already been mentioned in
Such in a few words is a sketch of official despatches; so there can be no in- March 21st saw the British Fifth Army what actually occurred. The evening of discretion in saying that it was in this up in the air and in deadly peril from appeal to all in the Labour ranks, both operation, and the resistance which pre- ceded it, that the 18th, 24th, 81st, 38th,
canses over which it had absolutely no men and women, to do nothing which 9th, 20th, 68th, and 21st did such splendid found the same army, worn and weary, during the war, or to destroy the pros control "The evening of March 28th will tend to destroy national unity work. There were four corps engaged,
pect of Labour unity after it.
(Signed) Gronce N. HARNES,
JOHN HODGE, Gzo. J. ROBERTS. WILLIAM BRACE J. R. CLYNES STEPHEN WALSTY. G. J. WARDLE, JAMES PARKEN.
25 may be gathered from the bar of but reinforced and firm, strongly but divisions. If we take these corps from freased upon its supports and presenting the north and call them A, B, 0, and an unbroken front to the Germans. When D. we can form some notion of the general one knows these facts and when ene situation. A being next to the Third reads a reference to the disaster of St. Army, fell back fighting hard down the Quentin," or, to the breaking of the oth general line of Goureancourt Peronne, Army," one feels that a serious injustice and eventually found itself, quite un is done to our soldiers and to our broken, defending the north of the national reputation. When the public Bomme river, west of Peronne. B came come to know the whole story in detail, back on the line of the Somme from with its hair breadth escapes, its im Peronne to Ham, collected to itself all provisations, its desperate rallies against sorts of small detachments and one re- monstrous odds, with brigades which were lieving division, hardened as it went, and smaller than. battalions, and divisions finally stone-walled the advance in the were weak brigades, it will find that there position which we still occups. In the are few more honourable episodes in the
Major-General Sir John Konach south the position was peculiar. It had War. When, if ever, we get true casualty K.U.B., has been given full command of heen reciprocally arranged that we returns of what the Germans lost in that an Australian Army Corps, and has been werk, we shall be better ahla to deter-This is the highest position in the Army (Continued at foot of next Column.)"
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