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The following vivid leiter from done splendidly, the-are com Road, the latter commanding a den or tennis Court, on an elevat- The shock of war has shaken
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That was about 11.15, and Forterms and particulare apply to or cast. Apply to M. K. c/o which had no very secure foundatorial battalion in Flanders is you." tion. Bat it will be a thousand particularly worth quoting: "It I remember thinking of you people THE HONG KONG LAND IN- Hongkong Telegraph.
VESTMENT & AGENCY was a joy to get your letter. in England in church or strolling pities if oar pleasast little con-will tell you in a minute the cir-round the country lanes. Well Co., Ltd. temporary Notes and Queries comatafces.. But before doing we held on with men getting hit the stres, and strain of these so let me wonder if you realize in quite as unhealthy way. We of these the conditions under which I sent held on we saw our reinforce- troublous times." With a candour that is refreshing, a note in this ou ay last. I sent it off an manta come out, we saw them fade week's issue explains that the hour or two before we marched away. We found the Germans to an attack we made the coming up in force on our flinks. paper cannot be coulianed inde-
next morning. There fintely, owing to the weekly five of us in the room as I wrote, There was nothing else to do, were Then we got the order to retire. def it which has been experienced and it makes one feel a bit and it was bitter and damnable. since the outbreak of war. Since carious to know that the five Moreover, we had to fight our 1840, Notes and Queries has been of as would not be in there or way through the German lines indefatigable in the collection of alive anywhere the fellowing again in order to regain our men. quaint and out-of-the-way items,
dead I can't go into details of the abielly of antiquarian and liter evening. That was
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dead hellish afternoon, for hours above ary interest, and its loss would
certainty. Three be felt more than that of many within 12 hours before you had orawling water of the German were killed our waists in the mad and foul more pretentious publication.
breakfast the next morning-on communication trenches, isolated Economic Endurance.. wounded and I alone anbic and and cut off by an enemy we could We sincerely hope it is true well. You see we can work these notes, but who was steadily tha Lord Midleton and Mr. Harold Cox are to be members of things out with almost actuarial reducing our numbers by very the Inter-Departmental Comprecision. Our battalion had 17 excellent esiping. We were four mittee on retrenchment in the company officers in the attack subalterns in command of 30 to spending departments of the ght were killed, four wounded, 40 men. Two of the officers were jose.. missing. of the foar killed. The other man and State. Lord Midleton, whose
unscathed three of us had myself deterrained to wait until knowledge of the public service
before. darkness and then try and get is considerable, certainly initi:ted pot been in attack
I fad
digressing through the German lines to myeel! the debate in the Lords which
a risk, but led to the decision of the Govern.lready. Our attack was the one our own, it ment, both by his admirable arda-on Sunday, May 9. the everything was a risk that day. letters to the Saturday Review and 000 in which The Times kicked To cut a long (and in reality too by his action in the Upper House, up the fuss with reference to thrilling to be enjoyable) story TOLET No. 8. Queen's Road. Central, top floor. Apply Mr. Harold Cox bas long shown alleged abortage of H.E. shells. short, we made the venture and bimself a writer of wide informa. won't and can't say anything we got through back into our to Gande, Price and Co., Ltd. tion on economic and financial about that. But what the official trenches about a quarter past 8.
and unofficial reports dismissed Incidentally, I found that I was my rose almost burrowing the JNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. AMERICA TO JAPAN Landaay matters. His article in the new, Edinburgh Review, Economic in a few lines was to us fifteen reported killed. (My pans, in-ground. Men were being hit all which formed the and a half hours of desperate deed, was to down in the pre- about me. Somehow I shall never Endarance," basis of his speech at Merchant bloody fighting. I won't apolo-liminary list of casualties). How know how or why I get across the Taylor's Hall, is a masterly effort. gize for the second adjective and why I got through without foot of our parapet. There was Eastera Extension Australasin THE RECHTER'S TREASURY OF Mr. Cor was once secretary of it is Zo mot juste, and being hit Ishall never know. In
a slight ridge there; lying_abso- We advancing under cross fire men on lutely flat, it gave cover. It was Increased Taxation in Austrails, were the extreme left, the pivot either side of me within hand'e still light-about 7.45 and I told At the men about to wait until it was The expenditure entailed by of the whole attack, and we were reach of me-were killed.
point I had haled my darker before the last dash over the war has rendered necessary the only battalion that ancceeded one rertain increases in taxation, but in doing its job that day. The men for a breather (it was in the the sand bags into our lines. it is proposed to raise the addi- minate our bombardment ceased first charge of the morning, after tional revenue required by means we were over our parapet; and taking the first and before reach-
Asleep Under Fire. of customs, land tax, and death charging right through we caping the second. German trench).
Believe or disbelieve the follow- duties, the incidence of the tariff tured the first, second, and third The two men on each side of me being cast on Protectionist lines. lines of German trenches on our (I could have touched any of the ing, bat it is a fact, and it sur- The Government does not intend front at the point of the bayonet. tour) went in succession. A ballet prised no one more than myself. to interfere with State sources of We swept straight through while struck the ground between my Lying there fat under the income more than can be helped,wo companies, turning right and forehead and the ground-I was slightest ridge of earth, with and does not propose to adopt a left, bayoneted and bombed the lying as fat as possible-but it shells bursting and whistling Federal income tax....
When the Hans back along their trenches for only covered my face and head overhead, with ballets throw Budget estimates were framed, it a couple of hundred yards on with dust. When I took up the ing up earth behind and before was expected that Australia would either side. Then we settled down first reinforcements to our front and around one, and going "phlat not send more than 30,000 or to hold on to what we had taken. lino o had to cross a field of against the parapet which was 40,000 tre pa to Europe, bat far. According to programme the hundred yards of flat, bare my desired haven 20 yards away ther contingents have since bean and-and-(not Territoriale, but ground, with scarcely a blade lying there I fall fast asleep from offered and accepted, and it is Regulars) abould have advanced of grass and with a machine-sbeer exhaustion. It must have probable that another £3,500,000 in the same way on their front end gun eweeping the place and a been nearly half an hour when I will be required over and above connected with us. They couldn't sniper doing very pretty shooting woke. I made the dash, sorimb. the present estimate, on behalf of get through, and never got too pretty for my liking led up the parapet, and flung my- the Expeditionary Forces from through. Meanwhile, we held on, though; a corporel and myself selfover and down smong our own Australis, to the end of the and held on, against steadily in were the only ones of the party men. I never mid "Thank God", financial year. A loan of £24 Our U. 0. came with us, though Our hottest time I think, though, the dag-out of the to rest Hongkong, 27th August, 1015.
creasing German counter-attacks, who got across without being hit, as I said it then. I went into 500,000 on account of the war haa been received from the British he had been on the sick list was the final eoramble book over and get a smoke (my first of the Government, and it has been far for ten days, and the day after we this ground to the British trench whole day). Somebody came ther agreed to lend the Common-came down had to go again inte in the evening. About 120-150 along, and a voice asked in the wealth an additional sum of hospital. Our Major went up yards through Gorman barbed darkness, "Te Mr.-here?" #Yon on through name after name." It $3,500,000 with which to continue with the bombing party into the wire and across ground liked by who wants me?" "Thank God, dont even now for us to realize; ia impossible, to describe it is German trench on important public worka,
our left a withering cross-fire. It was a air, we thought you were killed." where they hold them at bay hailstorm of lead, ballets split. It was my company sergeant but we had done our job ag a for hours until they broug top ting up the ground and filling major, and we shook hands-not battalion, even though the British trench mortars. But our right the air with a buzz of angry becsa usual proceeding in the Army. forces were at night as they were IF you have lost your appetite was floating in the air. We stuck and bursting shells. For From him I learnt the new in the morning before the attack.
ore of the big variety of it grimly for eight hours or more one hellish moment I was caught "Killed,
'sir!" "--?" "Dead. That was not the least bitter, dainty dishes at the ALEXAN unt half-past 2 on that Sunday in the barbed wire, but managed air, he died in
mysime." louet fragio feature of it all. DRA CAFE is sure to tempt afternoon. My God, it was somehow to wrench myself free, "➡ ➡ ➡?" "Killed "--sid, nơ (Continued on Extra,}
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