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THE BRITISH · LINES,

"W-KEERING FIT FOR THE ADVANCE.

A great many of these unimportant ing in zones of the air In search for so146- fight exceed in the amount of effort they indication of the enemy's plans will require and the amount of injury they report at the end of a day's hard work indiet, engagements which during the of tricky flying and constant shriling that South African War, were trumpeted the roads are clear, and that the railways OUR TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WAR.

across the world as great and sanguinary are free of rolling stock along the enemy's battles. I was up at Ypres last week, and stretched out boneath their foot; and in They have the whole country the The Special Correspondent of The the vibration of the constant artillery fire all conditions, except when misty weather

ruins of the town were shaking with. mes surveys all the activity which has to the south-east. been going on behind the British lines incisive bark of the French 75

The short, quick prevented accurate obarvation their reports could be accepted as n generat during the winter months of apparent mingled with the duller booming of our basis for the working of the General Staf Hongkong raints!! for the 21 hours ending a quiccesne, and shows what means have own artillery. We were attacking with with complete assurance of their correct- 10 m. to-day, 0.CO inches.

been taken to keep the men fit sad to all the old and all the new methode of ness. make them ready for the resumption of warfare which are constantly practised

THE MOTOR-OMNIBUS. The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon, more open operations.

in this war; occasionally the wind brought. It has been said that the neroplane hue. to-day is de sallow

He writes! A trench map such as those a noisy gust of rapid machine-guu aring deprived war of its surprise. Napoleon prepared by the Army map-mazers in beit after bolt rattling away in the it was, I believe, who declared that the the field gives one some idea of the extra distance. Up there to the south-east men military genius was the man who guessed ordinary complexity and strength of these were putting into practice the education what was going on on the other side of.

both sides tion tronches, saps, dug-cuts, lighting it the say which have been revived and need be done; but a new element, hus Communienia old and almost forgotten traditions the hill. With the neroplane no guessing trenches, snipers pits, sunk

wir relearned during the last few months, entered war which has kept alive all the entanglements, machine-gun emplace- The grenadiers and the bombardiers Lave old secret of surprise the motor omnibus. ments, earth or sandbag braistworks again ncquired an actual instead of a The words embuss and debuss cover the map as closely as the veins upon purely historical signification, for while have been consecrated in Staff orders. alemf

the Army is constantly active along the Many is the battalion which has then ved trench line it is by no means idle when orders to embuss at dusk at. X, sod it gets to billot. They are, of course,

debuss" at Z, ninny' milos along the given a thoroughly adequate rest when front, in a very short space of time. they have been through a strenuvas time The methods of relief and the time tables of duty in the trenches vary from ligado to brigade according to the view of the particular brigadier or the depth of water and mud in which the nan have to do their spell of duty in the first line.

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CHINA COAST

REGISTER

29TH APRIL, A.M.

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Temperature.

Humidity.

Direction:

Weather,

Vladvostock,l 71.29. Nemuro 'mun‡ 61.29. Hakodate

defences

to

The map does not attempt to show all the detail of the works-the traverses, the buttresses, the front and flank parapets, the keeps, the moste, filled with bedstenals,

All this work is done at night, and its stakes, fentes, tree trunks, in fact, any

importance was very poignantly realized thing which is likely to trip up an attack

by our own troops during the early fight- ing party endeavouring to wade through

ing round Mons, when, the day after METEOROLOGICAL them; they do not show the grisly under

serial

reports Ad

the enemy's growth of barbed wire, the piles of

strength, they found it swollen beyong morable entanglement, the upkeep and

all expectation. It has been restized b repair of which are the nightly task of

------- POLISHING UP.--

the French who, while General Manoary the modern fighter. They do not show

Commanders arrange that while avail. was making his superb stand along the those quite considerable features of the able for trench service the men shall hayo Ourcq, made a hasty raid upon the taxi- landscape, enormous shell craters which as light a time is possible, but when the cabs of Paris and rushed them out cram Form along the front, as it were, a relief battalion moves buck into reserve their med to the last inch with fresh fighting map of

a chain of extinct volcaties. time is fully occupied in solving the great material. It was realized by the French They are the evidence of the hidden line problem which lies before our army to- during the titanie struggle than 3,000 of defence and attack situated many miles day in Flanders, that of keeping the when they transported no less than it the rear of the fighting the guns, trenches manned and at the same time men in motor-lorries and motor-omnibuses which, hidden away with ingenious skill, keeping the Army fit for the great day from one part of the field to the other are really only seen where they strike. when an advance becomes possible along the roads at night. It is realized Although our men have not the venti- There are regimental officers whose voice to the full-by the British Army, which, mental passion of the French soldier for become heavy with regret when they talk though it may lament the disappearance the 75 they have nevertheless a great of the condition in which their men came of the old source for the supply of light and well-justified liking for the artillery, out to France, Indian Battalion, air artillery horeca, which was found in the Their voice from behind speaks of the finest in the service," which have had old Road Car Company, has many rIL security, of protoction against attack. their marching power reduced, their sons to bless the change which has given and of support during an offensive. I do shooting deteriorated by the heavy it thousands of quick-moving, casily-run not think that our field guns can equal requirements of the trench. the best performances of the French "75," which will deluge with shrapnel the enemy trench fine, even if the French attacking troops are only 40 yards distant from it. Our guns, nevertheless, sided by extremely efficient serial ubservation have now firmly established their acend aday oyer thiy enemy's artillery, Although miles to the rear of the trench

The Cavalry are in some respects the line, the guns, with their shells, form a most to be pitied; their officers s'gh uver very real and very powerful element the fact that, at present at least at the the grim unyieldingness of our line in Flanders.

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IMPROVED TRENCHES.

An enormous amount of labour has been expended in the endeavour to im prove trenches from the comfort point of view. To the casual visitor the result does not seem to be commensurate with the effort. To the men who stood night thighs the change effected is enormous, after night in froozing mud up to their Some of them established in the bed of the River Des Leys, which overflowed its hanks to a distance of 80 ur 90 yards, were absolutely uninhabitable, and dur ing the night they had to be evacuated.

and the men lay down upon the mud of

the road in the rear until any activity of the enemy forced them back to the water-logged trenches.

When they motor-omnibusba.

get back into reserve the work of polish- ng up, of removing all these french stains upon the glittering regimental machinery goes on a pace. They are put through their shooting on improvised range, they are give a little marching. and every now and again they may have some divisional exercise.

I will dent later with some of the other branches of the Service who have gone in practice in the field far beyond the aspiration of theorista

ILL-TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS.

-DUTCHMAN'S EXPERIENCE AT

RUFLEBEN.

Being & Hollander he has been permitted to return to this country affar being detained in Germany for some

Houvenaghel spoke with some feeling of the bad treatment meted out to the months, and he has just arrived in Hall:

British prisoners. He said that when the soldiers went round to wake up the sleepers in the morning they shouted

years of training the men have received,

Some of the latest phases of life in the nll' the hors's care which they have been taught and which has made of them the internment camp at Ruhlebon, neur finest cavalry in the world, is now abso- Berlin, are given by Frank Houvenaghel, lutely worthless; bot the training of the one of the crew of the Wilson liner cavalryman, the individual intelligenes Castro. required of him, has made of him a adaptable and splendid material for "When they get back troch fighting, sometimes with floppy billies, which are froin the trenches they find their horses not beloved of the English cavalry com mander, who likes to see the play of muscles over the belly of the horst in movement, in any Do not in the pink of The cavalryman's time does not oonation which is their normal state. hang keep the horses in good condition in a It is difficult to benvy on his hands. country so closely cut up as is French Plauders, where roads are many and meadows few. Happy is the colonel who and its regiment billeted in one of those long, straggly villages which make of this country a huge sultarb of Lille, a stretch of level grass where he can keep his old men polished and their horses fit, and where he can put the emery paper of his experience over the sterling if unpolished metal of the recruits,

Rouse, you English swinel. If à mair (was found not to have got up he was subsequently put into a call with a cou.. crete floor, was given only one blanket to wrap himself up to, and was kept there for 72 hours. A number of men were

I saw some of this old teench line whers the men were at work repairing with pick and shovel the rarage of the rain. The splinter-protecting narrowness of the eut, in some places almost too narrow for passage, had given way to a dangerous open width; instead of the clean cut clay wall faced with hurdles or wire netting there was just enfused mound of

as though it had best blown to pieces by tumbled mud. The trench looked alroos:

a land mine. Night after nig't the men are at work building up shat the elements have unbuilt during the day, consolidating, improving, and extending the hold they have upon Frane. They do not pretend to like it, but they never great school of war is devoted to the train-one were lucky he might get a little bit theless have a cherry philosophy tha: hasing of the bombardiers; they are strange of meat. The British prisoners had been carried them through what they are looking men, recalling old traditions and

having their constitutions undermined by the bad and insuficient food served out. The bread, allowance was now cat down, and a loaf of black bread made largely with potato flour weighing 316, was given out periodically. This had to be made to last, for no more could be had. Every morning they had to march three-quarters of a mile to the cook-house and fetch Never before in history has there be sometimes cocoa, which was a wretched black coffee without sugar or milk, sad accomprised such a vast educational concoction. For dinner there was soup work as is being carried out now

which tasted vory much like cabbage Flanders, frequently under the fire of water one day, turnip soup another day,

One part of this and rice soup on yet another day, and if

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PICTURE OF THE BOMBARDIERS.

the enemy's shells.

6 STATE OF Yamun, b blan sky, o-doinoked andergoing at present, and will support | realizing at the same time many of the very much heartened by the British them and give them stout hearts when the prophetic pictures of the future fighter Relief Fund, through which every one word comes down that they are to go for their middle they carry some. 20 de 30 which to buy clothing if he were in real for to be found in a novel by Wells. Around received four marks (45.) a week, with a decision. This philosophy I heard

need. All who got these mark noter expressed in an undertone in a trench bombs, little cylinders fastened on long east of Armentières, when one din khaki stick round which fall streamers of signed a paper that they would repay the figure, gazing over the parapet, said to the birth of a mixed breed of Froismen Exchequer when in a position to do so

to ribbon. This clothing of ribbons suggests money to the British Chancellor of the his neighbour who was feeling after his

Houvenaghel said that he was among Third day in a trifle despondent. It and Red Indians who have taken to wear- will be all right; I've always erd as sing the Red Indian head-dress as a kilt some English prisoners who refused to. In action they are etranger still. perform some objectionable tasks, but it's the first seven years of war as is the Crouching down among the barbed wise they were forced to do so, with armed the bombers, with their supporting infan-soldiers standing over them. The British trymen with fixed bayonets, raise them- prisoners were full of spirit and refused selves a little from the earch, and, seizing to believe the nows of disaster to England one of these rocket-like bombs from their which was recited to them. belts, grasp them by the stick and hurl them high allove the parapet. They twist

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THE OPENING OF LUNGKOW.

A few days ago the Government issued ordre to chy Governor of Shantung, instructing him to survey the port of Langkow once more before taking any step towards the opening of the port to.. foreign trade,

The reason for this that the territory which the Government at fint intended to open up to foreign

The physical strength of the trench life found its crude moral expression in that remark. Our line by now has grown from the thin line of mud thrown up feverishly with trenching tools by men in the beat of a general engagement to vast system of permanent fortifications and travel uncertainly through the air, That line, if necessary, and the men why and then finally the force of equilibrium fill it, will last through the own hauled for fle streamers of ribbon years of war until the time coms whsserts itself and they plunge straight as Infantry will be marching and shosting a plumb line down into the trench, There is u nofar as though a gigantic at rangs over 30 yards, when cavalry will have come back to ite own and will Chinese cracker wete juniping 2gz he jingling along the high road, having along the zig-zag trench, and clouds of dart at the enemy," wh grecaish smoke rise up, through which artillery teams will stream along the hurtle lumps of earth and tune and trade comprises only a part of the town causeway galloping to new positions, when fragments of the outer iron ring and since the arrival of the Japanese, the maps of the British Army will now the bomb. Which com irure its shrapnel:

sume Japanese, shops, pet office and forward from Section Y to Section Z, when Generals will again. become strate- Trea when they get into the french tie telegraph office have ban established gists and war once more war.

picture is one of men bayoneting and tide the territory which the Govera aring, of little crouching Enaki gutes regulations going the procedure of ment intended to open. According to the scurrying along from craverse to travers the opening of the said port, no foreign halting a moment white the bombardier from the cover of ke jutting earthwork establishments should be outside the area to foreign trade. On this account opened pitaues bomb after bomb over it into the the Government now thinks that if it next section of the trench. It is thus a

at last a

EVELYDAY ACTIVITY.

KEEPING A WEN TRENCH

This picture of permanence must-riot be taken to mean that our troops stand quietly behind their defones works see ing their house as clea and as strong as they can watching the terms treneh is gained, and when it has bech does not amend its original plan re over the landscape at night ad libuig won the work of keeping it begins. Here Pecting the territory to be opened and to the chorus of artillery, machine-guus, again the bombers come into play, bomb enforce the regulations strictly, it would be necessary to order many of the Jupan musketry and bomb from straw-lined after bob, jun-pat after jam-pot, ese establishments to be removed-since stalls in dug-outs, waiting to be attacked, grenade upon grenade is hurled out to they are situated outside the territory to They have a cold and almost carous the back of the trench with much of the be opened. But this fact the Government activity Night firing is encouraged, in activity of a rapidly sinking acrosat thinks may give rise to many difficult serves the double purpose of keeping our throwing out ballast. A while one party diplomatic questions." Hence in order sentries awake and of disturning to busy tearing it to pieces and shutting

Jumbers of the enemy.

The patrols go it up with a clay and sandbag parapet to avoid future diplomatic complications, out every night in the No Man's Land" the bombers behind are preventing the the Government has deemed it advisable between the two trench lines, and they enemy from swarming along the tortuous to re-survey the port, enlarge the extent never know when they may not come channel to the reconquest of their ice of the territory which it originally in- tended to open as a trade port and in neross one of the trench listening patrols trench.

Japanese of the enemy and have amort picco of What is happening in infantry war crease the site to include all the J bayonet work to du. Every now and fare is being repeated in every branch establishments. In this way it will avoid again, in order to worry the Germzes and of the Service. Each arm is adapting future complications arising in order to keep the men from coming itself, to the new devices of warfare quently the Government has ordered the No infer high- nor low water too trench-tired, they have more definite developed by the enemy, and trying to

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"shows," as the Army calls thuse Ice go one better to the surprise of its own attacks which keep the Casnairy List The Army Air Servies has done magni going from day to day.

ficently. The flying squadrons working

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Shantung Governor to re-survey the port and submit a plan covering the foregoing instructions before taking further action. -Feking Gazettë,