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PRES,
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MBANING OF
[BY BIR PHILIP GIRIS, A Ypres League has been founded in which all men of ours who served in the salient are associated us members of brotherhon in arms, unforgetful of the dead comrades who lie there-200,000 of them and mindful of their own service
in the ordeal of battle, which for many was hardest there, and of the meaning which that names Ypres will have for ever in our history.
+were drowned in-the-swamps, and I-ray them lying thereThe way to Passchen- FEES are and the horror daelo was a ca dolorosa
of it, the immense range of its misery and massere, was only relieved and lightened by the wonderful patience, the most grim endurance, of those masses of British soldiers who in their masks of mud refused to surrender in 'their souls to the agony they, endured. As I write those hamar pictures: come back to me hauntingly, and I salute again the men who served in the Salient of Ypres, in fantry and gunners, lorry drivers and labour units, surgeons and stretcher- bearers, Air Force and tanks, machine gunners uml trench-mortar men, the grent heroic crowd.
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Taes: 8th Dec., D'light. Tues., 5th Deo. Dlight Tues., 8th Deca D'light Tuss, 6th Doc. Noon Tues., 8th Dec., Nou Thurs., 8th Dec., D'light. Thurs, 8th Dec, 10 AM. LEONGSANG...ER. 9th Dec 3 P.M. BORVANGS 10th. Doo, 10 am. LAISANG" ...Tues., 20th Deo, & P. CALOUTTA LINE:-This Lane afforda regular sailings to Calcutta. Peasng ou Singapore; returning from Calcutta stanare proget via Biraits and Hongrong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai. All stamers have excellent passenger ordmmo ission are and Fans and cares fully qualified fitted with Blestzie Light, and
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TINE:-A weekly serviso is maintained with Manila by vouscle with good
upon it, so that their children may keep | battalions of ours who were in the salienti. HAIPHONG LINE PAssenger scoonmodation, sailings: from bath peras every Friday,
They BURNRO
Large numbers of officers and men whe served as Ypres have already enrolled themselves as members of the League, and bave received their certificate of member.
There were other bad days and weeks ship, finely designed, and good to keep as and months, when, the enemy was strong SHANGHAI a memorial of honour. The families of still in the last phase of the war which was touch-and-go for us. I remember sce- those who fell in the salient may have ing old Bailleuf go up in dames and Kem. now this same document, with the service mei captured, and all our old roads about! and sacrifes of their own men recorded Westontre taped out by shell-fire. The it in roverence and shall remember. In then stood between us åhd ruin. the city of Ypres itself, among the ruins were weak battalions, worn down to little there, will be kept a register of the dead, groups of dazed and tired men, fighting and plans are in progrees to mark the all the time, suntching a little sleep, and sites of the great battles, to guide pil-waking up to fight again. It was a weak gring "to-the-most memorable places of line that curved round Ypres and its TIENTSIN historic fighting, to keep the Beague.in ramparts but it was strong enough to friendly touch with the people who have seve us all, and the ragged ruin of the come back to those fields, and if possible Cloth Hall-in Ypres is a pillar of victory in these hard time to put up some gained by an immense sum of death now visible memorial on behalf of the League gathered into the graveyards where those, That may be a belfry whose chimes, comrades lic. sounding across the Menin Road, belew Passchendaele, beyond Hooge, will be a spiritual call to the hearts of those who know what happened here,
These plans and the idea of the League depend for great success upon the response of all those hundreds of thousands of men who now in civil le look back upon the old days in Flanders as the time of their supreme test, in which, by the grace of God and their own strength of soul, such se it was, they did not fail.
IN REMEMBRANCE,
.
BROTHERHOOD OF ARMS
All, our armies or the Western Front passed through Ypres. The Ypres League is the brotherhood of all ranks who terved there. The annual reunions of officers and men belonging to the League which it is proposed to the League which it is proposed to hold would gather up. locally the spirit of those five years of history.
BANGKOK
No large Tee is needed for membership." The subscription for one year is ve uhillings, and for life membership two There is nothing bat sentiment in the pounds ten shillings. If the respons in idea of the Ypres League. Yet it is as great as expected the League will be sentiment in which there is no falsity, a widespread fellowship without dis morbid touch, but something which botinetion of rank, from field-marshal to longs to the best pride of men, to the private soldier, and will have a vital in gladness they have in the courage that fuence in perpetuating great memorien was theirs in frightful hours, or at least when in spite of the enormous tragedy in the mastery they had over the fear that of war the virtue of the common min was in them, and their resistance to the was nobly revealed. The Ypres League misery, the beastliness the flth, the terrors will hold the remembrance of that. Its that were around them in those grim kecretary is Major Marat, at the offices battlefields where death took a freakish of the League, 23, Henrietta Street, choice of life.
Cavendish-square, London, W.
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I believe there is hardly a man in those hundreds of thousands who, in years to come, will not be glad to nod his head towards that frained cortificato of honour and say, "You see, I served at Ypres !" not in boastfulness, but in remem brance. I think, too, that the children of those who died in those fields will cherish that bit of paper is a proof of brave ancestry. I am one of those who can tell
"THE OLD" "ATLANTIQUE
IN, PORT.
RENAMED THE "ANGKOR."
veteran"- the A. "Wounded atlantique was in Hongkong harbour
old
ANTWERP vis Singapore, Penang them that any man who went out through for a few hours on Saturday on her first
Tasaday. Saturday, Wednes say, Saturday,
Port Said.
Friday
Friday,
Friday,
Friday,
HAMBURG, via LONDON & ROTTERDAM.
LIVERPOOL via "MARSFILLES.
KAMAKURA MARU
@YDNEY & MELBOURNE vis
8th Dec, at-11-2
23rd Dec., at 11 am.
6th Jan, at 11 s.. (30th Jan, at 11 am !
trip after discharge from hospital where she has been under treatment for wounds
Ypres along the Menin Road, who sat in the dirty ditches of Hooge who helped in any way to get forward to the ridges sustained-in-the-Great War She is not. up to Passchendaele, and defended by any servies the last hold on the ruins of the city, passed the highest test of human courage.
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only entirely cured but is actually better than before she was hit, for the dock surgeons have given her an entirely new and improved inside" and "topside." She has also a new name-the Angkor. There were other British battlefields number of guests, including the The fields of the French Consul-General, M. Renu, the where the test came. Somme were the fighting grounds and the Rev. Father Robert, the Director of Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday graveyards of thousands of gallant men. Public Works (the Hon. Mr. T
Island, Townsville & Brisbane.
Tuesday.
13th Dec.
Tuesday,
Tuesday,
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From St. Quentin to La Bassee across the Perkins) and representatives of other Vimy Ridge, out beyond Arras, there shipping companies and of the Press, not a yard of earth that does not belong accepted the invitation of Moos, R. to the history of British valour, buffer Rodenfuser, the local agent of the Com ing, and sacrifice. Each hummock of pagnie des Messageries Maritimes, to tea ground was a landmark in this frightful on the vessel on Saturday, when an epic of human strife. But the Ypres opportunity was given of seeing the im- salient is especially the greatest battle-provements made. A new deck has been ground of the British race. All our divi. sions passed through the furnace there at one time or other. Not one of them escaped that ordeal, and by general con- sent it was the worst place of all.
NEW ARMIES' ORDEAL.
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added, and this without in any way interfering with the handsome lines of the vessel. The new deck provides n surprisingly large amount of accommoda. tion, including two delightful lounges one fore and one aft. The dining saloon Is now a very spacious and handsome apartment and the cabins have been modernised and give ample space. The furnishings are of high quality. A piece of the torpedo that damaged the vessel has been mounted" and is exhibited over .. suitable inscription."
It was worst of all in the early days of the war, when the Germans made their thrust towards Calais, and all we had of strength-which was not much-barred their way until the lines were thin and ragged, but still unbroken, in the first
The vessel is manned by a French crew battle of Ypres and the second. It was and the cooking is evidently done with the worst place when the New Armine the expertness for which the French came along and learnt their first lessons nation is famous. Visitors on Saturday. in the school of war, and were fogged after trying the French pastries sad the by shell-fire. The enemy had all the, good delicately flavoured ices. wished that the ground on the ridges above us. They chef could be persuaded to fund on a few had perfect observation of all we did,wrinkles" to local caterers so that the from the Wetschuete Ridge and the monetong of restaurant ten might be Messine Ridge and Westhoek, and be somewhat relieved.
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Frezenberg. They had great gun power Mons. Rodenfuser, in a short speech. when we were weak in guns, and the New mentioned that the Atlantique was ter Army had to stand under fire, without pedoed off Brizerte in May, 1918 she was "answering back," or with much arti saved with much difficulty, the torpedo hole 175 square metres in lery, and by day or night, as they march-having made
ed ap the roads to Ypres past Vlamer extent. However, the steamer managed tinghe, as their guns went up and their to reach Bizerte and was temporarily wagons, and their males, shells followed repaired there. Afterwards she was re- them, met them, and caught them and constructed and brought. ap-to-date at they were" fed up" with it all.
La Ciotat, Franca Everything, in fact, was new except the hull.
There were fed up with the stink ing pite of Hooge, where they lay in water, lico-eaten, with the smell of death in their nostrils, with mine craters close to them. It was the worst place of all for many months, and for longer than that,Year after year the Ypres salient did not change its character very much
PLATE GLASS WINDOW. *'-Eʊoking through my Toric lenses is like looking through a fine plate glase
It was never really pleasant for British window," said an American lady, in the soldiers. It was not a "health resort" course of her remarks while in a tram- even after the capture of the Messines car the other day. She said just the Ridge, when we knew how much the enemy
had seen and were staggered at the right thing. It cost a bit more to build. Knowledge. It was less of a bealth re sort when the battles of Flanders began more to make a pair of Toric lenses than a plate glass window and it cost a bit in 1917. It was then one of the most dreadful plots of ground upon which the the ordinary fat kind. Torion are more old moon had ever looked down since the than worth, the small-difference in COBI beginning of the world,
to you in the added comfort you derive
GEORGES VIA, DOLOROSA. SĄM HY Hundreds of thousands of men wallow. from their use. Torid lenses of any ed through the swampe in enormous strife, prescription are manufactured by The under immense and all-destructive storms Hongkong Optical Co., ruccessors to of high explosive. Tos solid earth became Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Befr La liquid bog when the rains began and
did not end. By Glencorse Wood and ing Opticiane, 53, Queen's Hand, Cental Inverne Coponded me fell and Apy
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