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IRISH HUMOUR IN THE TRENCHES.

BRITISH IN THE BALKANS, have made well-beaten pathe, neatly marked out with stones along hillsidas, where in all the centuries none of the earlier inhabitants of the Balkans had troubled to mark a track For genera tions untold, Turk and Bulgar and Greek have been driving their donkeys up and down the steep and rocky gullies that are the only roads from village to village, and more of thoss rooks have been cleared Balkans were made. out of the way this week than since the

COLD WEATHER WORST UMY OF THE

TROOPS.

By the pourtesy of the Army chiefs I

Special invercat attaches to the follow- was able before proceeding to the battle-ing telegram from Mr. G. Ward Price, field of Platonovka to converse with the for it gives the first full and descriptive will find that a party of sappers hat Where there was a ford before you Chief of Staff, the regimental

Locount of the conditions under which the already laid the foundations of a bridge. British troops operated in Servia, and and in the villages whore some of the manders, and the men who had figured in contrasts these conditions with three men are quartered the mud hovels, whose the earlier and forcer stage of the battle which prevail ou our other fronts The floors were covered with a festering pile of Lake Sventon..

telegram is dated November 95 from the of rags and rubbish foot deep, have fected until a county council inspector been scraped and scrubbed and disin- would pass them without hesitation.

segments of a circle.

The enemy had forced his lines unco- fortably wear to Dvinsk. Between Lake Brenten and Lake Isen his heavy guns. were within 10 milog of the railway bridge at Dvinsk, and almost all points, between Lake Demmen, in the south, and Illuket, north-west of Dvinsk, Phis lines described evex-contracting Information reached our Staff that the Germaus were preparing to follow up their success of 23rd October by sending a fresh division to reinforce Illukst and thence to drive a strong wedge across the Dvina, fanking our whole position. The prompt strengthening of our defences at Illast enabled us to cope with the onamy's advano. Our artillery here bril lantly distinguished itself. One battery drove out at night to within a mile of the enemy's trenches and opened a direct fire with such excellent effect that it destroy- ed every vestige of the barbed wire breast- works, enabling our infantry to deliver a counter-attack, and itself withdraw with the loss of only two horses,

British Front,

In a wild country of deep ravines, green and fertile valleys, steep irregu la limestone hills country a different from the Folders of Belgium, or the slag heaps of Lena, sa the Potteries are from the Highlands of Scotland part of the British troops in the Balkone ate now in the first line face to face with their

enemy.

Of all the wars the Balkana have known ours will be the only one that has done them some good instead of unadulterated harm

We are lucky in having from out of a railhead what is probably the best road So far, however, they have hardly for a few abrupt caniveaux here and in Macedonia as a line supply. Except even caught a sight of him, for, along this there it is as good a road as many a ope eastern wing of the are which the Allied in England. And as it runs across the line makes, the Burglar, as the men lir ve hold, stores and ammunition can call him (often with an alliterative be brought up by motor and horse-wagon epithet), is, at the moment, an easy-going except on the last stage, which carrios and unobtrusive opponent them up to our positions in the hills,

The Freach, who were here before us, drove him, ie the first day of November. after a stiff encounter, up a ravine and across a valey to the north, as far as the point which he now holds

WAR IN THE GULLIES..

TRANSPORT BY HULE

An advance too, when the time for il

transport possible. Mule-path, climb up Here mules and donkeys are the only the beds of streams that are dry now, but will be torrents in the spring, and in. Following this success, the French were which the men in the fighting line will Consequence this will be a campaign in making good their position along the crest have to be limited to the strictest neces

over 16, the Bulgen suchensaries in the way of supplies. The temper of the men was such that with considerable energy, eroeping down November the Bulgars attacked them young, and old were thirsting for the the gullies on their side of the valley and comes can only be gradual and slow, enemy's blood. Overnight our mon cross noiselessly scaling the steep slopes op and other countries where our troops have On the north-west frontier of India the river, ereep up to the German, trenches, and leave pickets in every foldsile, their feet shod in their peasant campaigned with mule transport, six to tanned leather), so that they might clam-mcat that a small force can cover under Opinakies (a sort of moccasin of unten miles a day has been found to be the ber more quietly over the loose rocks.

the most favourable conditions, and one of the front, and, to-day, walking along on the map of the Balkans to perceive We have since taken over this sector head only look at the contour of the lines. the slopes outside our trenches, you that the transport conditions there, found, st every step, grim evidence of especially for a large army, are anything the Bulgars determination scores of but favourable. But such things are the empty cartridge clips, here a blood prececupation of the staff, and not of soaked haversack, there a flat green the private soldier, and the latter, peaked khaki cap with a bullet hole

of ground intervening between the enemy's position, and the left bank. Through a periscope I saw these brave fellows keeping a ceaseless vigil, quite indifferent to the enemy's fire. All at tempts by the Germans to throw a bridge over the Dvina at Yanepal and other points in the direction of Jacobstadt have invariably failed. They are becoming wearied, and, according to information brought in by our scouts last night, they have already withdrawn their cavalry to the south-west.

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clean through it, and, all along the rider, Gads the Balkans quite to his liking. less than 40 yards from the trenches expression of disapproval that I have A bit parky," is the nearest to an which the French then held the little beard."Parky indeed, it is, and scrapes of earth (individual parapets sleeping on the bare floor of a village My hosts at one of the batteries wel-diers hurriedly scooped up to shelter often enough in the night to think with few inches high) which Bulgarian sol hut even with three blankets, one wakes comed me into their comfortable dug-out. them as they lay there returning, at point We retired early to rest in order to be blank range, the furious rifle fire which ympathy of the mon in the first line, up betimes to visit the trenches. But the French poured at them through the wind comes-men who are sleeping bud- along the ridges, over which a bitter our alumbers were destined to be broken dark. up. The telephone from the straw pallet

dled together in their narrow trenches, of the commander hummed out orders to

with a waterproof sheet for a roof and a prepare for a Zeppelin. We all promptly

The French trenches were only element couple of blankets per man between them sallied out, and I had my first glance ofory works a few feet deep, for digging and aching cold a nocturnal visitor so rarely seen on the in this rocky soil is the hardest and 1 Eastern front. Sailing at great height slowest work, and there was no wire front the Zeppelin emitted spasmodic flashes, to their positions, so that many of the apparently trying to pick out a course 300 Bulgars who lay dead along the slope towards Dvinsk without making himself just under the crest next morning had too conspicuous. Que or two shrapnel been killed by bayonet wounds ne they sholls, however, burst so close that the tried to rush the low parapet in front commander of the aircraft last bis judg- of them. Since they faced in this at ment and turned sharply westward, at tack they have drawn off to the other the same time dropping a shower of side of the valley, about 1,400 yards away, bombs, a great part of which were after- and the only signs of life they have shown

wonr BY NIGHT, FLEEP BY DAY, Now that their work consists chiefly of digging, some battalions find it better to work at night, and sleep by day. But there is no grousing, and the men who have been on the Gallipoi peninsula ra member the heat and flies and ceaseless shells, and find the Balkans, by compari- son, almost a holiday-country.

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wards ascertained to have fallen on the since we took over the first line hore and rish voice, echoing down the ravine, and, and other unsightly eruptions,

enemy's own trenches, causing heavy loss of life.

started improving and strengthening the positions have been the occasional shell ing of which yesterday was the most

along our front. a new 6-inch howitzer started ranging

the men with the big black kettles come climbing up the scope from the field kitchens below, they find the bronzed faces avaiting them wearing the most content-

| I visited several regiments in the

trenches, which they have been hodine vigorous, amounting to 25 shells, while and amiable expressions

In fact, the cold is the worst enemy which the cheery Irishmen who hold Bray Head, Dolly Mount," and other newly-baptised hills have so far, had to face. The cold at nights has already begun to be very bitter.

A STERNER PEAK DISTRICT.

Until now, indeed, the 10,000 or so Bilgers who face us have been well satis- fed to leave us alone. They apparently hold a scattered line of trenches, block- houses and bangars along the ridges parallel to ours, and their patrols come down into the valleys a night, where tachments of our own, they occasionally meet with similar de

When these encounters occur the Bul- opportunity to surrender, and every day gara, quite frequently seize upon the little bands of prisoners and deserters. are led up to the beadquarters of the They explain the vous brigades. readiness to give in on their part by the fact that their army is short of food.

One sheep among 200 men is their usat ration, according to one prisoner, and a Balkan sheep has about as much meat on him as a well-fed coolie dog.

for several weeks. I there saw and spoke to young soldiers who had recently been called out. It is impossible to givo even- a faint idea of how I was impressed by these brave fellows, who in their Bum plicity appear to be unconscious of the heroic deeds and sacrifices they endare.

On aserriaining that their visitor was

There is no mistaking their good spirits, an Englishman the men eagerly entered

for all that, and though the great diffi into conversation, and their non-com- missione 2 officers asked me to convey their prive the men of many of the small culties of transport will necessarily do greetings to their Allies, and their as- surances that they would fight to the lasturies which the troops can have in breath for the common cause. The men France they are thoroughly pleased with seem to be deeply attached to their com their aew fighting ground, its climate, its pany officers, many of when finished scenery, and its greater variety of life. school only

These few months ago, youngsters are imbued with the same. spirit of simple loyalty and devotion to If you took the Peak District and duty. My gunner friends had told me raised the hills, broadened out the valleys "We always feel like taking off our hats and wrinkled the slopos into watercourses to the infantry. They bear the chief and gallies, so that the whole landscape

+ ONLY A FEW SNIPERS hurden of the war. We call them aviatiye took on a sterner, harsher and more (ie., holy.')" 1 remained several hours massive aspect, you would get a fair

They do not even snipe us to any great in the trenches, and lolt if my visit imitation of the country where the first extent, though the country, broken and had been all too short. With such men-British engagements in the Balkans are hilly as it is, seems favourable for such and Russia has apparently an inexhaust being fought

tactics, and their shells, most of them ible supply she must win.

Rich land, well watered, with heavy fired at extreme range, only resulted generous soil. Partridges, hares, wood among one battalion that had received cook, are everywhere, Engineers with 23 of them in one cut finger, another our forces have noticed traces of minerals slight desh wound and the destruction including gold. Cotton grows there, and of a haversack, about which "It's not tobacco and hemp. There are orchards of the haversack I am after mindin" said mulberry trees for feeding silkworms.it, owner, but the pair of socks that Valleys are atrewn with great yellow was inside it, maize pod that ought to have been gather ed in August, but were left to rot in the and one that daily becomes stronger. It is a strong position that we hold, fields when the peasantry had to abandon But the country that lies ahead is very their villages under the familiar stress of mountainous and differt. The Balkans

DRESS REFORM AND WAR

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An amusing story comes from one of For though God made this part of the area land where it is a mistake to expect thebelligerent countries, in which a Balkans to be a garden where men might rapid military developments, and pro movement has been started for dress live at their ease with little labour, gres here, if it is to be sure, must also reform among women, the object being not as settled by such a haphazard mediere low. to secure perfectly proper of races and religions that feuds and mas costumes as to prevent the importation of sacres have always sprung up there, even foreign fashions.

more readily than crops, and the villager, while he tilled his fertile fields, had a rifle ready to his hand.

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In a weak and all too generous moment the reformers permitted an opposition speaker to attend and display a number For years past Bulgarian free-beaters of the very latest designs executed in slaughtered Greek peasants in the name another country, Much to the dismay of of the Bulgarian Church, and Greeks the patriotically inclined, the great Intent Bulgarian villages to make con majority of the women prezent deserted verts, to the Patriarchate while their the home made orators and the home-made common masters, the Turks, massacred dreases, and crowding around the apostle both impartially whenever reasons of fashion, applauded enthusiastically as Stato made such measures desirable At each new grown was exhibited to their the expulsion of the Turk by a momentary admiring gaze.

combination of mutually jealous Sertian Bulgarians and Greeks into a Balkan

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