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VON KLUCK ON THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.
EXCUSES FOR BARBARISM. The Chicago Daily News publishes the following dispatch from ita Berlin cor- raspondent, Mr. Raymond Ewing, dated October 14th-
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IV.
I do not believe the Allies can break through the German line," General von Kluck said today. The problem of the
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NO SEPARATE PEACE, JAPAN AT ONE WITH HER ALLIES.
A Blue-book [Treaty Series No. (1918)) gives the text of the Notes - specting the accession of Japan to he Declaration of September 5th, 1914, be tween the United Kingdom, France, and Bugs, ungaging not to concluda poseS separately during the present European War. The Notey are as follows:- BIR & GREY AND THE FRENCH AND RUSSIAN No. 1
AMBASSANORS TO THE JAPANESE AMBASGADÓB.. HOW LONDON, October 19th, 1915.
Perhaps we are not quite so clean as we were before the war," mid on officer "We wish denke only twice a week instead of every day. This means that quarters are not so moist and the men have more freedom of movement. We want them to have as much freedom as possible. " for thirteen months; waiting for battle! Your Excellency
Walding, waiting, in such confinement Think of the strain of it! temperament is well atted to undergo such
The British
Count Bendrondor, and Sir E. Grov The Undersigned [M. Paul Cambon duly authorized thereto by their respec follows:- tive Governments, hereby declare as
thereto by our respective Governments We, the Undersigned, duly authoriza have the honour to invite the Imperial a test, and particularly well fitted are these sturdy seamon of mitury years. An Japanese Government to signify, through my may imagine them wearing down Declaration between the French, Russian, your Excellency, their adherence to the fight; naturally, they want nothing quito London on the 5th September, 1914, the their efficiency on the leash. They want a so much. But they have the seamen's phi- text of which roads as follows:-
and British Governments signed a insophy. Old von Tirpitz may come out and he may not. It is for him to do the worrying. They sit tight. The men's ar that they should not be worked atale; for dont is not imposed upon. Care is taken the maxkeman who puts a dozen shots Tho French, Russian, and British Gov- the Russian Army was different from trust, à navy may look all right and through the bull's-eye had better not keepornments mutually engage not to conclude ours. It is axiomatic that the longer an
get into bad habits, army stays in the field with losses its
on firing, lest he begin rimming it and peace separately during the present war. quality degenerates.
The three Governments agree that when In our case when we throw recruits into the holes made by
terms of peace come to be discussed no- an offensivo after two months' experience
one of the Allies will demand conditions of ponce without the previous agreement. they bring the army back to fighting about as slack as they please.
of each of the other Allies. efficiency. The Russians had so many holes, due to the large number of pri- We struck them in a time of great weak sonera, that they could not hold us off
ness,
of the turrets is good, or that the guns will But how does it know that the armour fire accurately? Indeed, all that it sees is the shell. The rest must be taken on bo quite bad. The nation gives a certain amount of money to build ships which are taken in charge by officers and men who, shut off from public observation,
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signed this Dechration and have affixed In faith whereof the Undersigned have
day of September, 1914.-We have, ete.. thereto their seals.
Done at London, in tripleate, this 5th
Your Excellencies,
PAUL CAMBON. BENCKENDORFF. -E. GREY, No. 2.
Where an Army officer has a change when he leaves the tronth for his billet, The result rests with their industry and there is none for the naval officer, who, responsibility. If they are true to the unlike the Army officer, is Spartan-bred is all the nation may expect; if they are toll of casualties; it lies cramped in dug character of the nation by and largo that to confinement. The Army pays its daily better, then the nation has reason to be grateful. Englishmen take more interest outs, not knowing what minute extinction in their Navy than Americang in theirs. may come. The Grand Fleet has its usual They give it the best tunt is in them and comforts; it is safe from submarines in a they expect the host from it in return quite harbour. Many naval officers spoko Every youngster who hopes to be an off-of this contrast with deep feeling, as if THE JAPANESE AMUASSADOR TO SIRE GREY cer knows that the Navy is no place for fate were playing favourites, though AND THE FRENCH AND RUSSIAN AMBASSADORS. idling; every man who joins knows that have never heard an Army officer mention he is in for no junkeb in a pleasure yacht. it |
JAPANESE EMBASSY, LONDON, The British Navy, I judged, had a rela
The Army can give each day fresh proof
October 19th, 1915. tively large percentage of the brains and of its courage in face of the enemy, Cour- application of Britain.
I have the honour to acknowledge the age It takes on a new meaning with the receipt of your note of this day's date, Grand Fleet The individual element of in which, in the name and with tho gallantry, merges into gallantry of the authority of your respective Govera whole. You have the very communism of ments, you invite the Imperial Japanesa courage. The thought is to keep a wool Government to signify their adheranco head and do your part as a cog in the to the Declaration between the French, vast machine. Courage la ns much taken Russian, and British Governments, signe for granted us the breath of lite Thus, at London on the 5th September, 1914. Cradock's men fought till they went down. the text of which reads as follows: It was according to the programme laid Then follows the text of the Declaration Ioat for each turret and each gun in a tur- of September 5, 1914, which is given above.] ret, Smith, of the Army, leads a bomb- In reply, I have the honour to adquaint throwing party from traverse to traverse; your Excellencies that the Imperia, Smith, of the Navy, turns one lever at the Japanese Government have authorized right second. Army gunners are improvme to inform you of their full and com ing their practico day by day against the plebe adherence to the terms of this enemy; all the improving by Navy gun- Declaration.--I have, etc., nors must be done before the battle. No
K. INOUYE. leges in trenches; no attacks and counter- attacks, a decision within a few hours perhaps within an hour..
It is not so different from what it was for 10 years before the war," said one of the officers Wo did all the work we could stand then; and whether oruis ing or lying in harbour, life is almost normal far is today,
The British Fleet was always on a war footing It must be Lack of naval Preparation is more dangerous than lack of land preparation." It is fatal. know of officers who had only a week's leave in a year in time of peace; their pay is less than our officers' Patriotism kept them up to the mark
I repeated to the General the rumour that the Allied losses in the Western offensive was now a quarter of a million. I can believe it, he replied. It sounds very probable. When one counts the dead, the prisoners, and the wounded our losses have not been one-sixth, well, perhaps, nearer one-fifth, of theirs."
I asked whether he believed the soldiers at the front hated the enemy as civilians do at home, and he answered :-
No. For the soldier his life is a task, i where there is little time for hate. He only hates when there are barbarities practised by the enemy, Barbarities aro impossible to prevent in' war. Though cases are less frequent now than they were in Belgium, instances do occur-- some French, some British. These stir up a fury in the troops which makes them hard to control. It was so in Bel- gium. Our men did not mind being shot by rifles or cannon, but they wore in furiated when struck down by women through treachery. When such things occur then war becomes cruel and soldiera become impossible to control. The Bel And another thing once a sailor, gian campaign in all its phages will always a sailor, is an old saying; but it never be known. Much has got into the has a new application in modern navios, papers, but not all. I remember when They become fascinated with the very I was in Louvain weeks before it was drudgery of ship's existence. They like destroyed I told a priest in a hospital that their world, which is their house and it was scandalous that they did not con- their shop. It has the attraction of a trol their women. He merely shrugged world of priesteraft, with them alone his shoulders. It was the same story in understanding the ritual. Their drill at the Franco-Prussian war, but this time the guns becomes the preparation for the the French have acted differently. great sport of target practice, which I asked the General where he believed beats any big-game shooting when guns the decision would fall. That is imcompete with guns, with battle practice possible to foretell now,” he said. “ For | greater sport than target practic. that is a political question rather than a Bringing a ship into harbour well, hold military one. It might be in the Balkans, ing her to her place is the formation, but who can say to-day?
roaming over the seas in a destroyer all means eternal effort at the mastery of material with the results positively demonstrated.
He spoke with particular enthusiasm of the work of the Turks in Gallipoli, which, for the Aliies, was, he said, *Busfall." This student word for the vicious sword attack in a dúc] which slashes an opponent squarely across the cheek, the General uttered with a vivid imitation. I asked him whether he was pleased with the conduct of his Army during his absence. "Yes, indeed,' was the reply. "That fine army, you know, is still the closest to Paris.'
KAISER AND HIS GUARDS. After the Prussion Guards had taken an important part in the battles of Galicia and Poland they were sent to the Western ( Brars or Waaraan, b bine eky, o deleshed theatre, where, the Vossische Zeitung says,
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"they contributed to the failure of the
Franco-British offensive.”
The Borlin Morgenpost is able to pub- fish a speech by the Kaiser in which he prooted the Second Division of the Guard. The Kaiser said :--
THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS.. In one of the Dreadnoughts. I saw a gun's crew drilling with a dummy Bin., weight 100lb.
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Isn't that boy pretty young to handle that big shell ? an admiral asked a junior office
MR. ROOSEVELT ON
ENGLAND'S FAILINGS..
INADEQUACY OF OUR EFFORTS.
Mr. Roosevel, writing in the current number of the Metropolitan Magazine upon the American need of preparedness, England affords a famentable example
This partially explains the love of the Navy for its work; its cheerful repetition of the drills which seem such a wearisome business to the civilion. The men know the reason of their drudgery. It is an all- convincing bull's-eye reason. Ping-ping1 One heard the familiar sound of subceli- be practice, which seems as out of propor- says.**** tion in a 16in, gun as a mouto squeak from on elephant whom you expect to trumpet.of the punishment that will surely, in the As the result appears in subcalibre praoand, befall any nation which lails to take tice, so it is practically bound to appear its datics seriously. Her Navy has done her soldiers at the in target practico; as it appears in target admirably, practice, so it is bound to appear in battle front have bebaved splendidly; but the practice.
English people, as a whole, have appeared
It was in the flagship that I saw a deto very great disadvantage when com- vice which Sir John referred to as the next pared, for instance, with the French. This best thing to having the Germans come is true of their capitalists. It is still morə out He took as much delight in it as the true of their working men-compare their gun-facers who were fring at German striking working men with the French Dreadnoughts of the first line, as large as working men, who toit night and day. It "He doesn't think so, the officer your thumb, which were in front of a sort is most true of their demagogues in Parlis- plied, "We haven't anyone who could
of hooded arrangement with the guns of a ment and in the Press, who oppose uni- handle it better. It would break his British Dreadnought inside the rest Iversal military service. heart if we changed his position.”
censor myself before the regular Censor After a year of war wealthy England- sees it.
England the home of industrialien, Eng- Not one of 50 German prisoners whom When we heard a report like that of a land with e great military past and her I had soon filing by over in France was small target rifle inside the arrangement, tradition of fighting men has failed to do ae turdy as this youngster. ranks of an infantry company of any from the metallic platter of a sea. Thus sis, France, Serbia, Montenegro and
In the 5 small red or a small white splash roseher duty as Germany and Austria, as Bis army he would have been above the aver the whole German Navy has been pounded Italy have done theirs. Relatively to her lage of physique; but among the rest of
the gun's arsw he did appear slight. to pieces again and again. It is a great Need more be said about the physical game. The gun-pointers never tire of it standard of the crews of the fighting and they think they know the reason as ships of the Grand Fleet?
well as anybody why von Tirpitz keeps his Dreadnoughts at home.
THE TOWED SQUARE OP CANVAS. But elsewhere I saw some real firing; for
because he had done it thousands of by one who knew what he had to do to go.
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population she has put an army of utterly inadequate size into the field, compared with what the other Powers have done Mars lamentable still, she has utterly fail ed, even with a year in which to work, to produce the artillery and munitions of war which will make her ablo to be na effective- at her German opponents or her French- Allies
The Prussian Guard, the choice troops One had an eye to more than guns and of Frederick the Great, fought down its machinery and to more than the charac enemies east and west, and our enemies ter of the officers. We wanted to get bet have been obliged to recognize what it ter acquainted with the personnel of the means when the King of Prussia puts his en behind the guns. They formed ships must have their regular target prão-.
Mr. Roosevelt never shuns high colours- Guard into the fight. With God's help it patches of blue on the decks, as one | tìră, trar or no war, £f those eruiséra was allotted to the regiments during 70 looked around the Fleet, against the steaming across the range had been sending when he wishes to drive an argument days of fighting to storin 20 enemy post-back ground of the dull, painted bul-in. or sin. shrapnel, we should have pre-home. But, unfortunately, there can be no tions and to assist in bringing to an end warks of steel-the human element whose ferred not to be so near that towed square doubt that, though his criticism is some
skill gave the ships life-deep-chested, of canvas. a enmpaign which cost the enemy all his vigorous men in their prime, who had tinguishable at a distance from the neu- rather disquieting extent what is begin- Flashes from turrets india what exaggerated, it represents, to a frontier fortresses, besides countless booty the air of men grounded in their work tal-toned bodies if the vessels and the ning to be the opinion of thoughtful" war material, and prisoners. After this by long experience. One noted when an
Americans.-The: Timen. accomplished work your King's command order was given that it was obeyed quickly shells struck which was where they ought call you to new work..
The Emperor Napoleon, who, as is well
A fimiliar scene, but with a new mean come to making promotions. But does not ing when the time is one of war. So far outside influence play & part? you ask. If known, was proud of his Guard, coined
are all kinds of bluejackets, There are the phrase "The Guard is the walking citadel of Emperors." Thus it is with you. there are all kinds of other men. Before was very good shooting, indeed One prevent this, another thing appears to be; Wherever the Guard is put in to the fight the war some took more than was good broadside would have put a destroyer out that the British nation lives or dies with. splinters are flying and the enemy is for them when on shore some took of business as easily as a Jack Johnson" its Navy. Besides, the British public has fought down. God was with us and will nothing stronger than tea; some enjoyed does for a dug-out; end it would have said to all and sundry outsiders: "Hands- be with us further, Thus I express the the sailor's privilege of growling; some made a cruiser of the same class as the one off the Navy ! All honour to the Bri wish that God's protection may henceforth had to be kept up to the mark sharply; firing pretty groggy-this not from any tish public, much criticized and often met be with your arms
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The war imparted eagerness to all, the such a salute. But it seems to be waiting officers said Infractions of discipline for the Germans any time that they want in our ships; the technical phraseology The language on board was the same as ceased. Daya pesa without any one of it. the crew of a Dreadnought having to be
practically the same; we had inherited Bri- Oh, that towed square of canvas! It is tish traditions. But a man from Kansas called up in default, I am told. And
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mind some vast factory plant where every that he might be with our North Atlantio unit was efficiently organized; but that Flest After a turn in the trenches the soldiers comparison would not do: None will, The The same sort of shop talk and banter dan at least stretch their legs in billets. Grand Feet is the Grand Fleet. A certain number of a ship's company.
in the wardroom, which trims and polishes now and then get a tramp on shore; pottition of civil life. There is no linear pro world apart. Securely ready the British Ability gets its reward as in the compe human edges; the same followship of a
2 real leave, but a personally conducter cuting not far from the boats which will motion indulgent to mediocrity and in Fleet waits. Enough drill and not too
feriority which are satished to keep step
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much; occasional visits between ships: sigusi. However, al that one needs to end harassing to those whom nature and hooks and newspapers and a light-hearted keep well is fresh air and exercise. The application meant to lead. Armchairs relaxation of scattered conversation in the blowers carry fresh air to every part and retirement for those whose inclina-mess. One wardroom had a thirty-five- of the ship; the breezes which sweep tions ran that way; the captain's bridge second record for getting past all the pit- the deck from the North Sea are for those who are fit to command. Officers' falls in the popular Silver Bullet" gamo, frosh enough in summer and a little too records are the criterion when superiors if I remember correctly.
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