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RETURN OF BRITISH PRISONERS.

LIFE IN GERMAN CAMPS.

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The steamer Oranje Nassau brought to Tilbury on October 7th another party of wounded British prisoners exchanged

Fourteen of the with Germany, wero still not cases" and had to be oarried from the boat to the hospital train on stretchers. The remaining 110 says The Times--werd a cheerful com- pany of maimed warriors, and released privates of the Reyal, Army Medical Corps.

WAR NEWS.

"MARMALADE FOR EVER!!

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 102, 1918.

Wounded soldiers state that a famous regiment principally recruited from Dun dee charged with their astonishing battle cry, "Marmalade for ever!"

FRANCE'S AIR SERVICE,

SPEED DOUBLED, LIFTING QUADRUPLED,

experiments.

CHARGE TO CERTAIN DEATH,

GREAT GALLANTRY OF AUSTRA-

LIAN LIGHT HORSE.

The charge of the First and Third Australian Tight Horse Brigades (on foot) in Gallipoli on August 7th was one of the most superbly devoted devils it is possible to conceive. The object was in bold the Turks at Anzac where they were, while landing was being made elsewhere, and This object was attained-ar cost of the life of nearly every man who took part in the charge. The story here given is told by Captain C. E. W. Bean, official Press representative with the Australkins in the Dardanelles.

In the meantime, ten minutes after the second line, the third line had gone over! the parapet as straight and as quick as the others. The attack was then stopped, and, fortunately, was stopped in time to prevent a small part of this third line:

There was one reaching the fire zone. point where our trenches were under cover of the slope, and the men had to crawl out some ten yards or so before they put up their heads into the torrent of lead. A dozen or two were stopped here before they made their rush.

It was all over within a quarter of au hour. Except for the wild fire which burst out again at intervals there was not a movement in front of the trenches only the scrub and the tumbled khaki here and there. All day long the brilliant sun of a perfect sky poured down upon them from a cloudless sky. That night after dark one or two maimed figures appeared over our parapet and tumbled home into They were men who had the trench. there was a sorap of cover and had waited fallen wounded' into some corner where for this chance to get back. One of them cane from below the parapet of the Tur He had lain kich trench on the right. there all day, too close to the parapet for the Turks to see him without exposing There was another wounded themselves.

After dark the" heard the Turks come out over the para pet of their trench warching the bodies of the men there for papers and diaries, so they arranged to make as fast as they "The man who could for our trenches. arrived back was shot through the ankle. His mate never came.

M. René Besnard; Under-Secretary of State for Aeronautics, in an interview published in the Journal, declared that he intends to establish complete harmony bo tween the needs of France's military avia

Before daybreak the attacking parties tors and the means at the disposal of the

Each of aircraft.

day filed into the trenches from which they constructors When the steamer entered the dock the brought frash and happy progress,

"We shall work without ceasing on the were to make the rush. They were in their sirens of every vessel in, port hooted a

construction of heavy machince," the shirts, with their sleeves rolled up and and I shall encour the brown forearm muscles showing welcome, and from the docks of two great Minister continued. essan-going ships cheers rang out. Cheers answered cheers, and faintly across the age all research work, improvements, and Their knees were bare and sunburnt. Thanks to the increase in Each man carried his full kit, with 200 Water-bottles water one heard the cry of "Are we

power and the better utilisation of bi- rounds of ammunition. downhearted?" followed by the inevit-planes, for monoplanes have been discard were full; they carried food for a day or Each man had stowed carefully As the Oraniced, we have been able to increase the two. able shoat of defiance. Nogtan was brought into the berth which

especially prized-a fragment of Turkish had been cleared for her it was possible radius of action and the speed of the into his pack such little momentoes as he Australian nestr bin

machines." to pick out a soldier swinging a con-

The Journal, commenting on the Mini-shell, some Turkish coins bought off cortina. The tune which caught the ears ster's statement, says: "In one year we prisoner, a home letter and a photograph They were saying good-bye to of those on the quay seemed familiar but have quadrupled the lifting capacity for two. curiously old. Voices took up the chorus, French aeroplanes, and we have nearly their own trenches that night they would

sleep in the scrub. and, for the frst time since this war began, men were heard singing Yip-i doubled their speed."Reuter, addy-ay "if that is the correct spell- ing of a refrain which one had believed to be dead and forgotten.

It

ITCHING FOR A SCRAP.

A little British corporal, bandaged from head to foot, partially paralysed, and minus an ars, who was in the action at Loos, describing the fighting, states:

and

Everyone itghed for a scrap,'

Soon we were able to hail the musician. and to ask the origin of the gaudy yellow "Get it from a instrument in his hands. Russian" came the reply. "I swapped him some souvenirs for it and then had a job rending it with sticking plaster before the bally thing would play. wasn't half leaking when I got it. Plays This a treat now, though, don't it?" time the melody was Tipperary, and as a patriotic finish we were given God Save the King" The men were eager to talk to anybody on shore and they amused than themselves by calling Sprecken siehe cried, te Deutsch to a group of girls among the When a rope crowd behind a barrier. snapped there was a cry of Kapout,' and when some one asked what the word mueant, a soldier in a ragged cont yelled will "Kapout-finished. The Germans be kapout abortly."

"What sort of food did you get in the camps was the next question. "Food f" shouted the returned prisoners derisively, "we got a loaf of black bread every 10 days to starve on, and some potato water to keep it down. When we got in this boat we had the first real meal we've tusted for 14 months. If it hadn't been for the parcels sent out from home we shouldn't be here now. The Russians are Some of in worse straits then we were. the bread we got from England had gone green on the journey and we couldn't at it, but the Russians devoured the mouldy stuff."

deliberate cruelty Stories of

Germans wer not the part of

with the present party, numerous

complained of* the bni

everyone vileness of the food and the singling out of the British for insult and barsher treatment than was shown to the Frenchi and Belgian prisoners, Private Max well, of the B.A.M.C., who, as a stretcher- bearer was captured on August 26 last year near Cambrai, spole of a posteard which he had written home complaining of the food. A few days later he was given dinner in the officers' mess, and after the meal was asked if the food had been good. When he expressed his con tent he was ordered, under threats of punishment, to write another card saying that the food was satisfactory. The card was written, but with a fictitious address,

HELL UPON EARTH,"

Private Fidler, of the 1st North Lan cashires, who was wounded near La Bassée in December last, said that life in camp was "hell upon earth" for the British. They were treated worse than doge, and picked out from the French to be sent out to work. The best place for the food they were given would have been

a pig trough. The coffee might have been made from burnt barley, and the cheese Another, man was like "hokey-pokey." said that he was taken prisoner during- was then the South African War and

very He had had a decently treated. different experience in Germany,

Private Moore, of the R.A.M.C.. an Irishman, gave a description of the visit of Sir Roger Casement to the camp at Limburg. They had been starved, he said, with the object of making them join should be proud of the way in which Irishmen had remained loyal. Sir Roger Casement read a document stating what 2,400 men in the camp, less than 50 were ready to listen to him, and these few were of no character and not fit to be soldiers. The soup they were given for food, Private Moore said, was made of grain or potatoes which were alive with mag- gots and had to be disinfected.

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The attack on the loft-hand side of the apex was to be made by the 8th Light Horse, with the 10th Light Horse follow- 10g. Four lines would start of a hundred being from the 8th Light Horse that is, and third the and fifty cach, the first and second lines Victorians and fourth lines being 10th Light Horse Western Australians. The first line was to carry, among other things, two scaling ladders made for the occasion, The fourth line would carry picks, shovels, and a dozen sorts of engineering supplies, but it was to fight like the others if necessary.

when the word advance came we were like a menagerie let loose, and sprinted for the enemy's trenches, I selected fellow as powerful looking as Jack John son. I dodged a blow from the butt of his rifle, and hayoneted him; took on another, and down he went. My third like a patriarch looked

'Oh, don't?' a soldier.

I dagbed at him, and. I hadn't the heart to finish the job. On we went, trench siter trench, until the Germans were piled thick; but a We terrific machine-gun fire swept us. Raw strong German forces advancing, so we dashed among them with terrible leg-up,

Our artillery wrought fearful havoc, the enemy being literally blown to pieces. Six Germans assailed one of them. The bravest among us chaplains, who stuck to our sides where the fighting was ficreost."

effect

THE GERMAN GOD.

were the

KAISER AS A MODERN CESAR.

THE ROMRARDMENT.

But from that man we know all that will probably ever he known of what those Light Horse men found facing them a they ran through the dust haze

Rearer trenches troops.

The

were crammed with The bayonets of the front row seen Just over of Turks could be the parapet-and behind them there ap peared to be two rows of Turks standing waist.high above the parapet emptying their rifles as fast as they could fire them,

VALUS OF THE CHARGE. There is no question that the charge of the Light Horse pinned down to that posi tion during its continuance and for hours afterwards overy available Turkish sul- dier within call. Our own machine-guns were able to get in some good work amung those crowded Turks, and those who know: say that their losses must have been an ample set-off to our own

In order to help the men to get out of the trench like a flash, pegs had been driver into the side of the trench and As the moment for the footholds cut.

urge came near the first line got its foot hold on these, and the second line stood

So ended the attack of the two Light in the trench behind it ready to give it

And then at four o'clock to Horse Brigades. The one man who came the moment the bombardment by our guns back from the parapet of the Turkish For balf an hour the slope in trenches on the Neck reported that the began. front of our trenches was an inferno, and. Turks there had their packs on and were then the uproar ceased as suddenly as it in full marching order-evidently part the stroke of a knife, And that same from the reserves or clea which was being was harried off to reinforce further north had begun ceased as if cut off short by of a battalion that had been hurried up instant the Light Horse attack

when this attack in the centre delayed launched.

it. The Australian Light Horso in the richest and fullest manner achieved the object for which their help had become necessary at a critical period of a great movement.

The men were standing there in the trench without the least sign of excite rent hitching up their packs, getting a The arm foothold below the parapet.

The Hamburg Fremdenblatt, in a power-colonel of the 8th, Lieut. Colonel A. H. White, insisted on leading his regiment. fal bid for the Iron Cross (xays the Ton minutes before the start he walked press), assures the Kaiser that whatever into the brigade office and held cut his the English, and even some of the German, hand to the brigade-major. "Good-bye, A couple of minutes papers may say, Hamburg looks on him Antill he mid a Cesar, Alexander, and Charlemagne, later he was at his place on the parapet all rolled into one, with something pecu- with his men. tiarly his own to give the compound a favour***

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And as for the boys--the single-minded JAVA, MAKASSAR, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO. loyal Australian country lads-who left their trenches in the grey light of that morning with all their simple treasures on their backs to bivouac in the scrub that evening the shades of evening found them lying in the scrub with God's wide sky above them. The green arbutus and the holly of the Peninsula not unlike their native bush will some day again claim this Neck in those wild ranges for its own. TJISONDARI ́ But the place will always be sacred as the scene of two very brave deeds, the first- made by the Turks across that same neck let us not forget it-the desperate attack in the dawn of June 30th, and, secondly, of a deed of self-sacrificing bravery which has never been surpassed in military his tory--the charge of the Australian Light Horse into certain death at the call of their comrades need during a crisis in been very the greatest battle that has ever tremendous fought on Turkish sail. It rose from

Colonel White stood by the parapet wo have cultivated so diligently in time with his watch in his hand. He and two of peace now serve us in the days of war other officers had carefully set and com- and provide us with an armour of defence pared their watches, and the three now enomy mast in the end be shattered into in the line watching the second hand against which the deadliest shells of the stood under the parapet at three points fidget its way round. Three minutes to harmless fragments.

Then simply, go, said the Colonel,

Go!

"It is the persistent cultivation of these qualities that has produced among us men as our Hindenburg, our Tirpitz, and our of entstanding greatness and genius such Zeppelin.

not

They were over the parapet like a flash,

with the men.“ the colonel among them, the officers in line shall never forget that moment. I was passing far Dway We have an Emperor who fires the

that when German. men,

fusillade broke out. imagination of every

a fierce crackle into a roar in which woman, or child, because in him there live tho combined spirits of an again

you could distinguish neither rifle nor Alexander, à Cæsar, and a Charlemagne machine gun, but just one continuous "We Germans would gladly follow his roaring tempest. One could not help an lead through the very gates of hell, were it involuntary shiver-God help anyone that necessary, in order to crush the breath of was out in that tornado. But one knew life out of our enemies, who envy us for very well that man were out in it--the time our qualities and attainments.

put the meaning of it beyond all doubt. "We have an ideal before us, whereas Exactly 4.30-the Light Horse were mak-

PLAYING CARDS IN GERMANY, HINDENBURG AND KLUCK AMONG

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in England in France, or in the othering their charge. There were no British enemy lands they have no such stimulant rifles in all that fire-it was the grooting an addition to the conventional playing to inspire them, and, as is well known, a of the Turkish rifles and machine-guns- nation without an ideal const go under, as the Light Herse cleared the Australian Our ideal is materialised in William II." parapet.

KAISER AS "THE BEAST."

INTERESTING STUDY FROM REVELATIONS.

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NONE WILL EVER KNOW.

One know that nobody could live in it. Many fell back into the trench wounded before they had cleared even the parapet. Others wounded just outside managed to crawl back and tumble in before they wero hit a second and third time and killed as they certainly would be if they remain

is to last for three and one half years. Exactly two minutes after the first line.

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War enthusiasm in Germany is seen in

Instead of the traditional kings, queens and knaves known to all the world, we have "German" cards with the por- The King of traits of war celebrities, Clubs is the German Emperor; this card reversed shows the Emperor of Austria. the King f The King of Spades is Bavaria, reversed the Crown Prince The King of Diamonds is the Rupert. King of Wurtemburg. reversed Duke Here is rather a curiosity, contributedd lying out there. Practically all those Albert of Wurtemberg; and the King of the Irish Brigade, but British people by Mr. James Moore to the Glarus that were wounded were hit in this way] Hearts is, of course. "Our Crown Prince," EIGER, Norwegian str., 875, M. Eliasson, swell with rain off Gull of Tongking.

on our own parapet. Colonel White man with the King of Saxony as reverse. Citizen:-

The queens presented a difficulty, as it aged to run right or ten yards before he The Beast" of Revelations is actually was killed. The scaling ladders are lying was felt that the royal lading of Germany the Kaiser, and the war he has provoked out there about the some distance out.

were hardly suitable for pictorial treat Recourse has been had, therefore, ment.

The Queen of Clubs is ter of Revelations, verses 4 and 5. They jumped out without the slightest hesita

and deep-chested. No one knows how it happened. And Germania with the Black Eagle on her Verse 4-And they worshipped the lion and, followed them.

But breast; the Queen of Spades is Austria Beast, saying, Who is like unto the Beast?

probably no one will ever know.. Who is able to make war with him!

some either of that first line or of the with the Double Eagle of the Habsburgs; Verse 5.--And there was given unto him second line managed to get into the Bevaria with a ravening lion on her a mouth speaking great things and blas extreme right-hand corner of the enemy's armour is the Queen of Hearts; and Tur The phemies; and power was given unto him trench. They carried with them a small key with an ermine bos, a fez, and a cres- to continue forty and two months.

There we have a fairly recognisable ag to put up in the enemy's trench if cent is the Queen of Diamonds.

they captured it, and the appearance of knaves are Hindenburg and Holzendorff and Moltke portrait of the Kaiser, and the statement this flag was to be the signal for a party (Clubs), the Archduke Frederick and of the war's duration. But the clinching of the Royal Welsh Fusiliere to attack Kluck (Spades), Beseler

Emmich and Dank! evidence is in verse 16: "Here up the gully to the right. Two men were (Hearts), and All the men were wonderfully cheerful.wisdom, let him that hath understanding put in the head of one of our foremost (Diamonds).

The sees show more imagination. The and made light of the terrible experiences count the number of the Beast; for it is saps with periscopes to watch for the first which they have undergone. It must be the number of a man; and his number sign of this flag in the enemy's trench.

to is six hundred three score and six"

gen with his submarine; the Ace of Spades added that they had no complaints

the 42 centimetre gun and a Zeppelin; the make of their treatment in hospital. It This is how the number 666 hits the By this time a French 75--a gun oap- Ace of Clubs shows the Emden and Weddi-

Give each letter in Kaiser its tured by the Turks from the Serbians in was only in the camps that their hard Kaiser. ships began,

alphabetical number-A is the first letter the Balkan war-was pouring her shell at in the alphabet, & the second, e the third the rate of about one in ten seconds into Ace of Hearts a battlefield and ʼn Tanbe: Issho Maru, Japanese str., 1,639, M. and so on-place beside each alphabetical the neck. Machine-guns, far too many to and the Ace of Diamonds Heligoland and

Quite a number of the men who reached home had last a leg, and among them was Private Mackenzie, of the 13th London Battalion, a boy of 19, who looked even

younger.

are as follows:---

number the number 6, which is the total An amazing triumph of dental and sur- number of letters in the word "Kaiser," gical skill has been described before the add the result together as under:-

During the Royal Society of Medicine.. Neuve Chapelle action Highland lieuten-

ant had part of his lower jaw blown away by a shell. He was attended by Lieuten- ant Valadier, of the Army Medical Corps, who put a new floor in the month, joined an the bases of the jaw, and fixed a com

A healed-up nlete set of artificial teeth. sear near the mouth is now the only sign of injury.

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count by their noise, were whipping up the dust, and it was next to impossible to distinguish anything in the haze. But in the extreme south-eastern corner of the Turkish trench there did appear just for two minutes the small flag which our men had taken.

THE FLAG.

No

No one ever saw them get there. one will ever know who they were or how they did it. Only for those two minutes And we get his number as six hundred the flag fluttered up behind the parapet, three score and six.

and then someone unseen tore it down.

Kiautchau.

A Free Church chaplain, referring to the recent British offensive in France, writes: Every man was a hero in the battle of September 25th. One officer. had a football, upon which the names of the. Getting men of his platoon were written.

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on the top of the parapet, he kicked the ball off, crying, Follow up, lads. The office, was immediately shot down, but the men won the position."

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