THE GLORIOUS 29TH DIVISION.
HOW THE OLD GUARD" FOUGHT AT GALLIPOLI.
GREECE AND SERBIA.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2ND. 1915.
IMPORTANT TREATY RIGHTS.
GERMANY AND HER
SUPPLY.
THE GROWING COST OF COMMODITIES.
FOOD
The Government journal, Patris, pub lishes the statement that Greece had no right to oppose the passage through. The rapidly rising price of the first Salonika of Franco British troops to necessaries of life in Germany is being felt EFFORTS WHEN OTHER TROOPS HAD Serbia. It then proceeds to give theso acutely that, censor or no censor, almost reason for this statement, quoting cer- every German newspaper is now following NOT SUCCEEDED."
tain clauses from an unpublished Greco the courageous: iced of the Socialist Per Serbian treaty, the most important of which is that Greece assumes the obligates in denouncing those who have tion to give military aid to Serbia, not engineered it, p
The latest German papers to hand do only against a Balkan State, but against
not hesitate to demand that the Kaiser's any other Stato,
protection shall be withdrawn from these "shameless robbers."
[BY K. ASHMEAD, BARTLETT.]
The 10th and 11th Divisions of the New Army made the landing at Suvla Bay On the second day they were reinforced by the 53rd Territorial Division, and later on by the 54th. The 13th Division of the New Army was landed secretly at Antec, and took part in all the desperato fighting for the ridge of Bari Bair, the young and untried soldiers doing ex- tremely well alongside of their mere experienced Colonial comrades. In fact, the Colonials took them in hand and helped them to complete their training under the enemy's fire. "An excellent feel- ing of friendship has thus sprung up between the men From "Down Under " and these volunteers from all over Eng land, who, let it be said to their lasting credit, wire the first to come forward to assist their country, a year ago.
Tho 29th Erade of the 10th Division also fought at Anzue, and later on, on August 27th and fellowing days, played a pro- minent role in the capture of Hil 00, where the Connaught Rangers made à fice attack.
WORLD-WIDE RENOWN.
Greece, the journal says, was obliged to give this military aid to her Ally from the time of Austria's declaration of wir on Serbia. If she had not fulfilled this obligation it was only because her Ally considered she was doing her an equal service by guarding for ber her railway communications with Salonika.
*SLAY THE MONSTERS
WAR NEWS.
AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
The Sochsischer Tagıracht is somewhat pessimistic as to the outlook:
the
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HOW THE PUBLIC ARE DELUDED. has weakened slightly and spread metwar).
THE LURE,
The Hamburg Frindenblatt, which has always displayed a fertile imagination, cheers its readers, with the following fantastic story
Pressure having increased considerably over Hokkaido the gradient letween that island and China is now shallow. It remains fairly steep from the Tangtze to the S. China Sea,
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Germany must carry on with firmness until peace is assured in such a way that, no enemy dares in future to threaten us.
Such are conditions that cannot be obtained except by annihilating France
not by robbing her of provinces, bus of and England, and by punishing Russia,
The shameless manner in which English her heart. Thus say cur German leaders. soldiers are being misled by all orts of Now let us put to our ourselves fantastic lies to induce them to enlist is the question .ELS to whether such a illustrated in a letter from a Germän victory is possible. We solemnly soldier who was engaged in the recent assert that it is not even though fighting near Locs.
war should last another three This man writes that a wounded Eng- years, nor if Germany sacrifice not only greater number of wounded, as in the fear lest he should be again transported. first year of the struggle, but even at along with other exchangeable prisoners the loss of three or four times as many tent who attended him in the field hospi-
to the English front, related to the sur But we are
tal that he was shipped from England same.
not for the front, but, as ho, was twice assured by the English authorities, to form part of the English garrison of South scam of Ukion betwoonj The camo Na cccupation at Cologne. The man added
Hongkong and Laroaks. Į
under that impression.
Among the most strongly-worded of these half a million in killed and much Jish prisoner, who was trembling with today in as followa comments is the following from the Ham burg Fremdenblatt ---
Wo are tired to death with the academic If Greece had refused passage through stiscussions in the German Parliament, as Salonika to Franco-British troops, she in Ministerial circles, on the evil of the would thereby have been violating herusurious dealings with the food of the food of the Powers would have been justified in a treaty obligations, and the Entente poople resort to force, not by the right of their might, but by the rights arising out of the Greco-Berbian treaty,
SIKHS IN SHANGHAI.
EXPRESS LOYALTY TO BRITISH RAJ.
On the occasion of the anniversary of Guru Nanak Singh's birthday, in the Sikh Gurdwara, Shanghai, and in the presence of a large and representative Sikh congregation, the following resolution was passed unanimously with the request that the sanie should be conveyed to HM Consul-Genera) —–
"All true Sikhs in Shanghai desire to But the real purpose of this article is to de belated justice to the role played express their loyalty to the British Raj by the famous 29th Division in this and will devote their energies and cans" Homeric. struggle.
The renowa of this to assist the British Government. The bad division 18 world-wide, and its number charecters now in Shanghai, and those will over in future be surrounded by that endeavouring to annoy the Government in mixed halo of romance and glory which India, are not tras Sikhs, and this meeting attaches Caesar's 10th Legion, or to of Sikhs pledges itself to assist in foiling Napoleon's Old Guard. In fact, the 29th the efforts of these bad charneters. It have earned for themselves the title of will assist the British Consul-General and the "Old Guard" of the Army. Unfor the Police in arresting these bad charao- tunately, but few of the original veteransters."-N--C. Daily News. who landed at Seddu) Bahr ero left, for nearly all are dead or else have been invalided home, - Some have, in fact, been wounded many times, as the division has played the most prominent role in almost every engagement that has been fought on the peninsula during the last six months. I do not know how many times it has consumed itself in its furious attacks
the enemy's works, but already, I believe, at least three times the number of its original strength have passed through the ranks. It is here that you see the value of traditions, for it does not matter how young and inexpori- enced are the drafts sont from home and the officers who command them, no-sooner do they find themselves under the mysteri- ous balo of “ No, 29" than they invari ably distinguish themselves and fight and die just like that marvellours band of old soldiers the last of our original Regular Army to take the fold who made the bistorical landing on April 25th.
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because they were the only corps which the censor allowed to be mentioned, all reference to the 20th and other divisions being taken out for reasons have already stated. But in reality the 2nd Mounted Division of Yeomanry were held in reserve behind Lala Baba unti late in the afternoon, and they only came into action after the repeated efforts of the 80th and 57th Brigades of the 29th Division had failed to shake the enemy's defence. The Yeomanry deserve every credit for the magnificent manner in which they behaved when in action for the first time. They advanced for two miles until a perfect hail of shrapnel,
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over ground, which afforded nos so much reached the dead ground at the foot of as & blade of gross as cover before they the enemy's works. It was the 2nd Brigade, under the Earl of Longford, consisting of the Bucks, Berks, and
to
hold out, all the
GERMANY'S TURKEY TROT,
DUSTEION.
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Herr Paul Rohrbach, in his fortnightly that even his officers had left England Nouth ocast of Chira between / The same na
Nothing of value is to be expected from them. The Government must no longer hesitate; it must throw overboard once and for all every particle of delicate cop-review, The Greater Germany, admits sideration for the susceptibilities of promi-. with some chagrin that the German pro- nent personages in Germany who are wax gramme has all gone wrong," and ing fat on the sufferings of the masses, who argues that Turkey is the only lever
left:- are quite unable to meet the ever-increas ing charges for the necessaries of life.
For these sufferings there is no justifica tion. Food is available in plenty, but the birds of prey have fastened their talons on it, and these monsters must be slain in whatever circks they may be gathered to hatch farther scandalous plots
Let there be no mistake. Unless Ger many adopts measures go broadly conceived that they can be made instantly applicable against all and every one of these criminal rabbers, the fight against food usury will be as the fight of a schoolboy with a hydra that develops two fresh heads for every me it is deprived of
We have stopped England's war of star vation; surely we are strong enough to prevent the army of the asscrupulons from playing the same game within our own country. The continuance of this scandal is a disgrace to the Fatherland.
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WRECKING A MARKET-PLACE.
Lectung
At the beginning of the war the great that the campaign would evotre itself majority of the German people imagined something after the following seder:
First of all, France would be crushed; then, our troops turning back, nearly the whole of the Austro-German forvey would be employed ass nst Russia, and in one way or anther, either at the same time, or later, we should settle accounts with England. Only a very small minority. foresaw that the war would be decided in the east,
To-day, after more than a year of war | and of undecisive struggles in the west, everybody is of opinion that victory or defeat, politically at least, is dependent on the preservation of Turkey, and of our freedom of communications with that country.
"If we lose that, all is lost.
"A COMFORT TO MANKIND),
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The Rheinisch-Westfalische
The official North German Gazette gives the following account of the great thinks that the interpretation of the egg and butter night at Aix-la-Chapelle, of objects for which Germany is fighting is which some brief but quite inadequate not sufficiently wide. Its real aim is to details have been cabled from Amster-prevent the world from becoming British of absorbing at the expense
in the We want no more butter and egg battles Austria-Hungary.
German such as disgraced the public market-place Empire! in that ancient Rhenish city, notwithstand-
Neutrals and quasi-neutrals should be ing the provocation which the excessive assured that it is not merely for the free. prices of food may cause the average dom of the seas but for the freedom of householder.
the world that we fight. German's triumph will prevent the world from becoming English; nothing else can.
Buyers were asked 3s. 4d. per pound for butter and afd. apiece for eggs. At these entirely beyond the reach of average rates the articles in question were placed citizens. A woman, having been informed of the price of butter, purchased a few
Seizing horseradishes and carrots, men and pounds and flung them in the dealer's face. This was the opening of the battle women, salesmen, and customers Lombarded each other with these missiles with such
bogan to flow..
Personally, we can add our testimony to the truth of this story, which we have recently heard repeated, though in slight- ly varying forms, by other English prisoners with whom we have como in contact.
In certain cases the garrizoning of Stuttgart had been the objective which bad the English Army authorities dangled before their dupes' eyes; in others, the men had been tempted by a dazzling picture of the delights of garri son duty in Berlin or Hamburg to don the khaki.
The announcement that the Fremden- blatt can add its own testimony to the truth of these stories leaves the critic. powerless,
BRITAIN'S OFFER OF PEACE."
Very amusing is the following extract from the Berlin Kreuzzeitung:--
Those who are skilled in reading between the lines will have concluded by this time that we are about to be hon- oured with an English offer of peace, couched somewhat in the following form:--
Here, shake hands; let it be between us as before."
Such an offer may be expected the moment that the English Government sees fully that our destruction is impos. sible, and that the war does not lend to busines
When it comes, there will not be a man in Germany who will regard the proposal as otherwise than a typical example of English cant, to be aid by the side of the other examples.
It must be a comfort to mankind to We could make no more fatal mistake within sight. England has overreached behave decently towards Germany in the know that settling day is already than to tenst in any English promises to herself. Her dream of uniting Africa future. Such is not in the nature of to India through Egypt and Persia will England, which is the nature of a jungle not be realised. Germany has no desire boast, the howling of which no reasonable Fast: her geographical position is opsions of goodwill and friend.óness. to make conquests for herself in the being would interpret as sincere expres posed to such a course, unless, indeed she were to incorporate the whole of
If England wins,
The 20th Division landed under the Dorsets, which made the final glorious warlike force that in many cases the blood Austria-Hungary two-thirds of the GRINDING BRITAIN TO LUST."
command of Major-General Hunter charge, in conjunction with the 87th Weston, and since has been commanded Brigade, and obtained temporary posses- by Major-General De Lisle, except atsion of Hill 70, which had subsequently various periods when that general has to be abandoned in the night. The losses been called away to exercise a bigger of this brigade were very heavy, the command, when the divison has been led Bucks regiment losing almost all their by Brigadier-General Marshall. All officers and men. four countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, have the honour to be represented in the 29th Division.
Full justice has been done in the past to the roles played by the various brigades of this Division up to the time of the series of operations which com- menced on August Oth, and which ter minated for the time being.on August 21st. But all mention of the final efforts of the Division to achieve success, when all others had failed, has been suppress ed up to the present because the mention of it would have involved the disclosure to the enemy of a strategical move which the General Staff considered it advisable to keep secret as long as possible.
A SIGNAL HONOUR.
In their fury some of the combatants even human race are for ever enslaved, and danced the war dance in the midst of bas-doomed to drag theraselves along with kets, full of eggs. A horse harnessed to a one leg chained to the dead weight of market wagon was deliberately smeared all that English despotism that saps the over with butter, and well-dressed women vitality of nations as a parasitic growth who had come to buy the high-priced but battens on the life of even the studiesi ter had lumps of that article stuck by the tree of the forest, rioters in their hats, the general outery being." If we are unable to eat butter or eggs, neither shall you."
Eventually, after the market-place had been wrecked, but not before, the police made a charge and dispersed the rioters.
THE BLACK SPOT.
The same paper says:--
We may, in all conscience, permit our selves to count on our military and political success.
There is, however, a dark spot in the situation. It is this. The German Em pire, so powerful in arms, the terror of world of enemies, is proving incapable of securing a lowering of prices for the daily food of the people of articles of the first necessity, of which, nevertheless, we have an abundance.
THE OFFER OF CYPRUS. In a letter to the Press, Mr. Joseph H. Longford, of the Reform Club, who was for many years a British Consul in Japan, says UN NE
The political genius and patriotism of the Government seem to have reached their apogee in the offer of Cyprus to Greece and the terms on which it has been made, and it is peculiarly fitting that the fact should have been notified to the public on Trafal- gar Day.
The Humburger Nachrichten admits that Germany has been preparing for war for a quarter of a century, and rejoices, though somewhat prematurely, at the results attained:-
On the battlefields east, west, north. and south, we are now gathering the Fruit of that which was sewn twenty-ava years ago, when the Fan-German League was founded.
That fruit consists in the mighty, con- centrated, unanimous will that has been cultivated in every section of the popula- one Pan-German will to overthrow and humiliate England, to whese perfidi- ous and utterly worthless policy the Pan- German Alliance has for decades directed public attention.
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OUR "COMPLETE FAILURE."
The Voziache Zeitung affects to be serenoly unperturbed by the livelinens" of our submarines in the Baltic, and the English Fleet has proved itself cheers its readers with the assurance that completo failure:
Thank God for the Pan-German-League which has opened the eyes of every Ger- A man to the undeniable basic truth that It is to be hoped that the policy will be for us a an empire there can bo carried without further delay to ita logical future at all unless we grind the British conclusion. An offer of Gibraltar might world-power into the dust. bring Spain into the war, and if a gratui- tions loan of a hundred or more millions (a mere trife nowadays) was also made to her, she might by the Spring have an effi cient army of a million son to relieve some of the war-worn French and English on the western front. Holland would, no doubt, gladly come in if Ceylon were re stored to her (Singapore might, perhaps, be thrown in), and if Hongkong wore offered to Japan to complete her quadrila teral in the China Sea she would no doubt be willing to place a million of her best fighting men on the Russian front.
Then the war would soon be brought to a triumphant oonclusion for the Allies, and our young men, who have stayed at home, might in the meantime continue, with tran: quil winds, to throng music-halls, football fields, and racecourses."
Under the lying pretext of protecting the small and feeble against the mighty enemy, England has the effrontery to land her forces in Salonika, and the pro- cedure is accomplished under cover of the English, Fleet, which threatens Greece in protest. with starvation if she dare life a finger
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The arrival of the famous 29th Division on the battlefield stimulated the whole army, and showed how seriously our leaders regarded the task ahead, for everyone felt that if the 29th failed then no other troops could hope to succeed. Like the Old Guard at Waterloo, they were brought up to make a final effort. to break through the enemy's ever- strengthening works. The division was ranged along the line stretching from Hill 70 to Hill 112. The 37th Brigado was ordered to attack Hill 70 and the 86th Hill 119. The South Wales Border ers acted as a connecting link between the two. The 88th Brigade, which had On August 6th the 20th Division was suffered very heavy losses at Hellos on holding its old position on the left of August 6th, was held in reserve. Our our line at Helles across the Gully in across the Sari Plain was prolonged Ravine, the trenches captured from the to the south by the 10th and 11th Divi enemy in the great advance of nearly a ions, whose task it was to assault and
This empire, which is imposing its will milo made on June 28th. An attempt was capture the enemy's treaches in their im on two great world Powers and on their made to advance on the afternoon of mediate front and then to converge to allies, is compelled in its battle with pro August 8th to capture a section of the the north and assault. Hill 112 from the ducers and dealers to surrender to their enemy's line known as H. 12, which had south.
The As I have already described the fight will, and to confine itself to a tumorous ex long defied all efforts to take it. 88th Brigade, after an artillery prepara
in detail, I shall not do so again. The pression of hope that they may vouchsafe tion, delivered a most gallant assault fret attack on Hill 70 was made by the somewhat to abate the usurious charges over ground devoid of cover. In spite Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Border which threaten the health and the life of of all efforts the attack did not succeed, Regiment, the former gainst the west the masses.
These faint-hearted efforts can accomplish for the Turks, dug in with their usual face and the latter against the south.
no good. Producers, middlemen, retail skill, had suffered but little from the pre-Both regiments fought with the utmost
dealers, all are equally rapacious; to them liminary artillery preparation. In con courage and almost gained the crest, sequence, the Hampshire and Worcester- only to be driven off again by the enemy's the war is but an exceptional oppurtunity for enriching themselves. And the great shire Regiments suffered severely. While concentrated shrapnel poured in at a the landing at Suvla Bay and the great range of 1,200 yards from Hill 70, and German Empire stands powerless! What advance from Anzee were taking place, by the fire of machine guns. Throughout a humiliating confession! the 29th Division held its ground and the afternoon the 86th Brigade made
GERMAN HOUSEKEEPING BUDGETS. Buccessfully repulsed several attacks from repeated efforts to advance on Hill 114, the Turks
suffering heavy losses, but could make no
The effect of rising prices on the house-- progress in face of the enemy's deter- THE 20TH'S FINAL EFFORT,
keeping budgets of the German population mined resistance.
which is not directly filling." taking in is graphically described, in a letter from a When the attempts of the new divisions
HEROIC TROOPS.
to the Torwarts. She saye ballast in the place of nourishing food sa to take the Anafarta Hills had definitely When a final effort was made to cap-Hausfrau failed by August 10th, there csino
ture Hill 70, late in the afternoon, the that her family, consisting of husband, as at all events to get the feeling
The Dardanello, project has lamentably Mon, interval of ten days before our
South Wales Borderers, who had been wife, and a 10-year-old child, was accus of satiety." army
She adds that her housekeeping books failed, the Belgian coasts have at times could be reorganised and sufficient stores held in reserve, ware brought up. This toned before the we: to consume g1lb. of and ammunition landed to allow of a regiment advanced against the south face meat a month. The rise in prices compelled show a rapid progress in this course--less been unsuccessfully bombarded by a few Te
old ships but no English commander has with meat, breed fresh frontal attack on a grand scale on and dug themselves in boneath the crest her to reduce the quantity to 1431b The and worse the positions we had failed to capture in before the 2nd Yeomanry Brigade, under family's average monthly consumption of the first surprise.
It was then decided Lord Longford, came up from
tity of butter and eggs, the show bimself at the mouth of the Elbe to make e final effort to cut the enemy's Lala Baba. Hore they remained unhind eggs has fallen from 60 to 23, for which the thing on it half the usual quen dared to attack the German coasts nor Wed.
After the loud sounding words about lines of communication by employing the was almost dark, taking part in the final pays considerably more than she did for smallest and commonest kinds of dry and or the Weser.
before the war. The butter for which she fresh vegetables, sugar very limited, cocoa, Old Guard" of the Army, the famous charge which gained possession of the used to pay 18. 34d. alb. is now at 25. Od tea, and jam practically given up, pot the speedy destruction of the German 20th Division. Secretly, at night, the crest.
She has been obliged to give up all butter toes and war bread the principal means of onant defences wo have to-day to three brigades were brought up .in It will thus be geen from this brief suta.
for cooking. Properly speaking, from the nourishment. The result is general under glade thau the English Fleet has proved trawlers from Helles to Suvlal and landed mary that the brunt of the fighting on without the Turks being aware of the August 21st again fell to the 29th Divi- point of view of food values, the diminu nutrition. The problem of feeding a family itself a complete failure.
as well as paying for rent, clothing, heat Personally, I had no idea sion, who advanced to the attack with all tion in the ues of fats should be met by an
ing, lighting, etc., brings a spasm to the they had arrived on the now battlefield their old determination and dash: but increase in the amount of farinaceous and that, eventful afternoon to take up my ably seconded by the Yeomancy, failed there is no visible lack of either the ever had nourishment, but permanent hunger, until I went ous to Chocolate Hill on even the efforts of these horoic troops, vegetable food consumed, but, a though heart." The rise in prices means not only position to watch the coming attack. to achieve success against an enemy equal age rise of 100 per cent. in prices renders which must reduce the health of large soc There I found the outh Wales Borderers ly brave and equally determined, who this impossible. The "Hausfran" says: tions of the population: According to a in reserve, waiting calmly for the hour enjoyed the tacalculable advantage of How is a compromise between the avail- tcientific table, the price of food necessary which would once again see them launch fighting behind entrenchments on com ble means and the necessary supply of for a family of four persons had risen from £151. per week in July, 1014, to £1 ed against their old and formidable foc. manding hils, from some of which he nourishment to be arrived aff. In quan-
173. 4d in June, 1915 and owing to the In my accounts which have appeared could euflade with his artillery those tity we canot economize even before the in the Preas of the events of this memor which temporarily fell into our hands. war we could not afford to overload our scandalous driving up of prices in the able Augus, 21st the chief, credit has been at the 20th Division has only added to stomachs. All wo can do is constantly to last three months rust certainly now be given to the newly-arrived Yeomanry, its fame by this failure,
reduce the quality and exclado everything more than £2 10%.
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The English Fleet, alas! is still all powerful; we must admit that it is oven stronger to-day than it was before the war. Thus England may march in what ever direction she choose, with loud, To Fri echoing steps. There is no need for her to slide along in woollen slippers. Ester, Nevertheless, the bulk of the English Fleet has not been able to boast of a Ban single success.
BEHIND THE SCENES.
The Cologne Volkszeitung, in
con.
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criticism of British military methods makes the important discovery that Eng. land is preparing for a long war
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In this procedure the weakness and at the same time the strength of British institutions is seen. The weakness cou sists in this that much time is allowed. to pass and many mistakes are mado; the strength lies in the circumstance that the purely practica) experiments enable the authorities subsequently to set with a wholly unbureaucratie decision.
The great offensive in the West is, as
All the former wars in which she has becomes plainer every day, the result of heen involved have shown us that Great purely political considerations, as Gen- Britain carries out her military organ-org] Joffre, guided as he is personally by isation only when war is already in pro- military motives, was all along opposed gross. The idea is to permit the actual to undertake it at the present moment. experiences to demonstrate what form the He wra, however, overruled by Sir. Ed- actus) preparations are to take
ward Grey.
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