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FULL STORY OF NEUVE CHAPELLE.

A BRILLIANT NARRATIVE,

DEEDS OF THE REGIMENTS.

HEROIC INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE,

on them.

CAPTURE OF THE VILLAGE.

There was bloody work in the village of

war has yet sean. The battalions which the stretcher-bearers, all heedless of bul wore to open the attack were by now lata, moved swiftly to and fro over the tredged together in trenches, and ditebes shell-torn, ground. waiting for the first gun to give the signal of battle. Behind their sandbags, a white line just visible in the half light before dawn, the Germans kept watch, uncon-Neuve Chapelle. The capture of a piace scious of the inferno about to break loose at the bayonet point is generally a grim Not all were unconscious business in which instant, unconditional Prisongs taken in the fight relata that in surrender is the only means by which bloodshed, deal of bloodshed, can be The London News Agency verived from one section of the German trenches a cap-

If there is individual resist a correspondent last month the following tin became aware of unusual movement in prevented.

ance here and there the attacking troops. description of the battle of Neuve the British lines opposite him and soon

cannot discriminate. They must go account of the four days' battle to reach full of men. He sent an urgent message

·England It shows how, after the sue back to his artillery requesting the battery them (the Germans have a monopoly of the cess of the first bombardment and the first commander to open fire.

finishing-off of wounded men), otherwise The latter re- rush, the British advance beyond the vil-plied politely that, he had strict injuncthe enemy's resistance would be sniped

enfiladed from hastily prepared strong. lage us stayed by the infantry oncoun- tious not to open fire without express holds and half a dozen different points.

The village was a sight that the men say It looked as it

Chapelle, the first full and independent } disosvered that the enemy trenches were through slaying as they go such as oppose,

· bedauere sehr.

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tering sections of barbed-wire entangle orders from the Corps Commurder. ments which the artillery fire had failed to break up; how under the fire of machine guns our men fell tearing at the wire with their hands; and how thick weather after the first day prevented the artillery from opening the way to the ridge towards Lille. It shows also how German reinforcements were hurried up so recklessly that they in turn were mown down by the British machine guns. The writer puts the German loss at nearly twice as high as the British:-

The chaos is 80

Also Of a sudden the deep boom of a British they will never forget. gun struck on the ears of our wating ed photographs do not give any idea of an earthquake had struck it: The publish troops. But the bombardment was not yet. For an hour or two the guns boom-the indescribable mass of ruins to which ed intermittently. " registering as it is our guns reduced it.

utter that the very line of the streets is all called-that is, making sure of their re- spectivo ranges rather like a cricketer but obliterated. Once upon a time Nouve having a few balls at the nets before he Chapelle must have been a pretty little goes in to bat. Then dawn broke softly, place, big as villages in these parts go, the shadows melted, and the clouds drift-with a nice clean church (whence it prob ed away and here and there a British ably got its carne), some neat villas in the aeroplane sallied pluckily forth over the main streets with gaudy shutters, half a of shrapnel smoke hanging motionless in the outskirts a little old white chateau: German lines, to be greeted by white balls dozen cstaminets, a red brick browery, and the clear morning air.

It was indeed a scene of desolation into which the Rifle Brigade--the first regi One troops are in magnificent form. Gormans behind the white and blue sand During the night hot coffee has been ment to enter the village, I ballovo--raced

headlong. bags in their long line of trenches, cury served out all round.

Of the church only the bare Some have had a ing in a semi-circle about the battered vil-warm supper.

No one thinks of break-shell remained, the interior lost to view lage of Neure Chapelle. For five moutlis fast now. Many regiments have discarded beneath a gigantic mound of debris. The they had remained undisputed masters overcoats The sun, stealing along the little churchyard was devastated, the very of the positions they had here wrested line, glints off the points of bayonets fix-dead plucked from their graves, broken From the British in Optober. Ensconced for business."

GERMANS IGNORANT,

The dawn which broke through a veil of clouds on the morning of Wednesday, March 10th, seemed as any other to the

Here and there a

coffins and ancient.bones scattered about

amid the fresher dead, the alain of that oraing grey green forms asprawl ath wart the tombs,

Of all that once fair

chateau,

in their comfortably-arranged trenches, Every man of thos waiting thousands with but a thin outpost in their freknows what stands before, knows that trenches, they had watched day sue when the guns have had their say for five ceed day and night succeed-night-without and thirty minutes, be will be out in the village but two things remained intact the least variation from the monotony of epen making for the blue and white line two great crucifixes reared aloft, one in trench warfare.

in front of him as hard as he can pelt the churchyard, the other over against the For weeks past the German airmen hatt God How the time draga! The emblem of our faith the figure of Christ,

From the Cross that is the.. grown strangely shy. On this Wednesday planes glitter aloft, morning nobs were aloft to spy out the bird sings. Subalterns are glancing att intnet though all pitted with bullet marks, looked down in mute agony on the strange doings which, as dawn broke, their watches.

shaving in the village. bmight have been decried on the desolate

Then hell broke loose. With a mighty,

The din and confusion were indescrib roads behind the British lines.

hideous, screeching burst of naise, hun- From ten o'clock of the preceding dreds of guns spoke.

The men in the able.

Through the thick pull of shell evening endless files of men marched front trenches were deafened by the sharp smoke Germans were seen on all sides, silently down the roads leading towards reports of the field-guns-spitting out their merging half dazed from cellars the German positions, through Laventio shells at close range to cut through the Ger- and dugouts, their hands above their and Richebourg St. Vaast, poor shatter-mans barbed wire entanglements. In some heads, others dodging round the shattered ed villages of the dead. Watch the cases the trajectory of these vicious mis houses, others firing from the windows, troops as they go by. Here come Indians, sites was so at that they passed only a

from behinds carts, even frora behind the dark faces beneath slouch hats, kukris few feet above the British trenches.

overturned "tomb-stones, Machine-guns slung behind their waistbelts. Not Gur- The din was continuous. An offer who were firing from the houses on the out- khas these they are farther down the road had the curious idea of putting his car to skirts, rapping out their nerve racking

bat Garhwalls, a tribe akin, of similar the ground said it was as though the earth not above the noise of the rifles cast of face, with a strong Mongolian were being smitten great blows with a strain, but men of sturdier build, Here Titan's hammer. After the first few shells are the Leicesters, the Tigers," as they had plunged screaming amid clouds of call them from their badge, here Terri earth and dust into the German trenches, torials of the Royal Fusiliers, here the a dense pall of smoke bung over the Gorish Mercy, merey !. I am married!" Lincoins and the Berks, the silver cross man lines. The sickening fuines of lyd of the Rife Brigade, the star and bugle of dite blew back into the British trenches, the Scottish Rifles, the Black Watch In some places the troops were smothered their bonnets, the Northants, and the Wor in earth and dust or even spattered with cestors, heroes of Ypres. Halted by the blood from the hideous fragments of roadside are the Middlesex, the West human bodies that went hurtling through Yorks, the Devons; every burr of Britain the air At one point the upper halff from Land's End to John o'Great's 18 German officer, his cap eraomed on his heard on these deserted highways. - : read, was blown into one of our trenches.

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL.

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Hongkong Obserwatory, June 1st

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THE PLAN OF ATTACK,

Two days before, a quiet room, where Nelson's Prayer stands on the mantelshelf,

THE ASSAULT.

Many strange incidents were observed. one cellar a portly German was found dancing about in an agony of fear, screaming in a high-pitched voice in Eng-

Your missus won't thank us for sending you honie!" retorted one of the men who to him prisoner, and his life was spared. A Rife Brigade subaltern, falling over & sandbag into a Gorman trench, came upon two officers, hardly more than boys, their hands above their heads. Their faces. were ashen grey, they were trembling. One said gravely in geod English:-. "Don't shoot! I am from London also!"** They, too, were mercifully used.

Just outside the village there was a Words will never convey any adequate seme of tremendous enthusiasm. The

saw the ripening of the plans that sent idea of the horror of those five and thirty Ride Brigade, smeared with dust and

these sturdy sons of Britain's four kingminutes.

When the hands of the officers'

Many, wear

Beis du Biez.

THE SECOND PHASE.

It is now half-past 8, the hour when

dens marching all through the night watches pointed to five minutes past Bled, fell in with the Third Gurkhas with Bir John French met the army corps couhistles resounded along the British whom they had been brigaded in India manders and unfolded to them his plus lines. At the same moment this ahells hehe little brown men were dirty at di- aut Kukri in hand they had very L STATE OF WEaters, bŊblus sky, o dotmobs a for the offensive of the British atmegan to burst farther ahead, for, by pre- thoroughly gone through-some-houses-at-

against the German line at Neure vious arrangement, the gunners, lengthen-- Chapelle.

ing their fuses, were lifting on to the erraroad on the Rue du Bois and silenced & party of Germans who were The onslaught was to be a surprise.village of Neuve Chapelle so as to leave making themselves a nuisance there w That was its essence. The Germans were the road open for our infantry to rush an

some machine guns. Riflemen and Gur- to be battered with artillery, then rushed and finish what the guns had begun.

khas cheered themselves hoarse. Then We had! The shells were now falling thick among they pushed an before they recovered their wits. thirty-six clear hours before us.

to where a fringe nf Thus the henses of Neuve Chapelle, a confused long, it was reckoned (with complete accu-mass of buildings a reddish through laggy trees on the horizon marked the Dattray, an afterwards appeared), must the pillars of smoke and flying earth and At the sound of the whistle-alas! elapse before the Germans, whose line bedust. fore us had been weakened, could rush up for the bugle, once the herald of victory, 2 pm.

reinforcements. To ensure the enemy now banished from the fray--our men folks in England are com! rtably sitting being pinned down right and left of the 'scrambled out of the trenches and hur-down to their breakfast, when trim maids 2981

attack was to ried higgledy-piggledy into the open are bringing tea to the bedsides. Neuvo "great push" an

Chapelle is ours, but the German resist delivered north and south of the main Their officers were in front.

ance is not broken. Only a few hundred thrust simultaneously with the assault on ing overcoats and carrying rifles with fix- Neuve Chapelle.

Led bayonets, closely resembled their men. yards from where Iliffemen and Gurkhas

It was from the centre of our attacking are fraternizing in the first flush of vie To understand the importance of Neurs Chapelle it is necessary to glance at the line that the assault was pressed home tory. Englishmen are traversing the inst The guns had done their work stern stage of a soldier's career in the Just be soonest. conformation of the ground.

The trenches were blown to irre fields, the path of death.. yond the village the flatness of the plain is well. becken, and the land begins to rise gently cognizable pits dotted with dead. The

No easy hopes or lies towards a ridge running in a horseshoe barbed wire had been cut like so much

Shall bring us to our goal, from Aubers to Illies-both in German twine. Starting from the Rue Talelov

But iron sacrifice hauds. There is a plateau between. the Lincolns and the Berkshires were off From this ridge the ground descends again the mark-first; with orders to serve to And 1-ft respectively as to where Lille, Hcubuix, and Tourcoing, right

bad they three of the richest cities of France (now soon

the captured line of trenches. in order in fierman occupation), lie together in the first plain, He who would gain the ridge to let the Royal Irish Rifles and the must first carry the village of Neave Rifle Brigade through to the village. The Germans left alive in the trenches, half Chapelle.

The attack on the whole German pasi- demented with fright, surrounded by a tion was entrusted to the Indian Corps welter of dead and dying men, roostly on the right and the Fourth Army Corps surrendered.

After the posed with the utmost gallantry by two most terrible ordeal that many undergo. in the centre and on the left. first line of German trenches. In some German offiers who had remained alone They died because, in their British way places only 20 yards distant from ours, in a trench serving a niachine gun. But they did not know when they were beaten, had been captured, the ground was to be the lads from Berkshire made their way and because when "Advance!" was the consolidated-in, put in a state of de. into that trenen and bayoneted the Gerorder, they advanced, though barbed fence and the Indians were to sweep on mans where they stood, fighting to the last, to the Bois du Biez, whilst the Fourth The Lincolns, against desperate resist wire and machine-guns barred the way.

When I think of their heroic death it Corps, attacking from the west and north- ane, erentually occupied their section of seems to me, so tenacious were they until west, were to occupy the village and then the trench and then waited for the Irish the end, that in distant days the peasants

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Of body, will, and soul, There is but one task for all,. For each one life to give. Who stands if freedom fall? Who dies if England live! Some day, maybe, these splendid lines.

will be inscribed over the great graves where many of the heroes of the 1st 39th Garkwalis, the Scottish, Rifles, and the Second Middlesex sleep together, officers The Berkshires were opend men, dead for England, after the

men and the Rifle Brigade to com? land take the village ahead of them. Who cross these barren plains at night will. Meanwhits the 2nd eth Garhwalks on these them pale shades in the moonlight, The whole experience of this war has right had taken their trenches with a rush still backing at the barbed wire, stabbing, gone to show that infantry cannot advance and were away towards the village and time, before the inferno of fire belched at smashing, Falling, yes, falling all the against machine guns defended by barbed the Bier-Weed wire entanglements. A machine gun, Things had moved go fast that by the them by the German machine guns. firing 600 shots a minute, can reap down time the troops were ready to advance death, then follow me first to the extrems 1 you would hear the manner of their advancing infantry like tipe corn. A

against the village the artillery had not great general has truly said that two men finished its work. So, while the Lincoins right of the line, to that sinister group of with a machine gun can hold up a brigade. and the Berks assembled the prisoners are with the 1st 38th Garhwalis, a tough ruined houses known as Port Arthur. "Wa Concentrated artillery fire is therefore the who were trooping cut of the tranches in regiment, that showed its worth in Burma. indispensable preliminary to an offensive all directions, the infantry on whom deard in the Tirali campaign.

in the present trench warfare. That is volved the hendur of capturing the village Whistles blow, the men leave their. s possible, and that is why the strikes the open, laughing and cracking ickes trenches. Instantly they are withered by The German which delay their production are so fierce amid the terrific din made by the huge fearful blast of fre

trench is untouched. So is the barbed ly resented by cur army in the field. howitzer shells creeching overhead and

Our artillery was to prepare the way bursting in the villag, the rattle of maire, 200 yards of it. The Garhwalis All the offcfs of the lead- for the assault on Neuve Chapelle. A chineguns all along the tire, and the ing companies are killed, right ahead of few hours before dawn everything was popping of rifles. Dyer to the right.

their men. The battalion staggers under ready for opening, on the stroke of 7.30, where the Garhwalis had been working the blast of fire, leases its direction, swings the most formidable concentration of fire with the bayonet. men were shouting from guns of all calibre that the present hoarsely and wounded were reaping as

(Continued on page 7.),

why guns and shells are needed, as many waited. One saw them standing out in

never waver.

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