STORIES FROM THE BATTLE- FRONT.
SERGEANT'S DEVOTION.
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GERMANY'S DIAMONDS. PROBABLE REASON FOR THE "DEUTSCHLAND'S " TRIP.
The real significance of the German submarine's voyage to America will prob- ably be found to lie in one word, "Diamonds," writes the Amsterdam cor A wounded submitern of the Border respondent of the Daily Chronicle, Regiment has, written home:
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It has long been Germany's object to realize the value of the huge stock of diamonds from her late colony of South west Africa. Stringent measures have
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IN HOLLAND. ENEMY PLANS TO SMUGGLE GOODS THROUGH NEUTRALS. Bearoely are the trade war pluns of The international Arbitration League, of Westminster, London, has not allowed the Allies announced than reports are the war to interfere with its efforts to once again coming from Germany to the wards making the world a safer and saner effect that certain British firms are even place to live in. While recognising that now trading with the chief enemy (anys there can be unly one end to the present the Daily Chronicle Special Correspond- struggle, that is the victory of the Aleat at Amsterdam).
From various conomercial centres, over German militarism and barba Never again in my life do I want to go through such an unadulterated hell.been taken in Holland to prevent the exrity, the members of this organisation are sepcially Leipzig, come declarations We entered our assembly trenches in aportation of these German diamonds, quietly working towards the goal they that these firms only recently placed
experts constantly examining stones
With such reports uncon wood (nicknamed here Blighty"
and August of 1914, when they had every £500,000. account of its unhealthiness) on Friday order to decide the place of origin of had in view long before the fatal July orders with Germans of gouds valued at 11 p.m. The din of our own batteries the diamonds intended for
We extremely unpleasant, while those who • 13)BODAS cordial support to the movement. for forbade sleep, as did also a few ga Nevertheless some German diamonds have hope that the German people would give tradicted, the impression caused here is
Fritz distributed been smuggled out of Holland
have received from the League the follow are interested in the discomfitaire of the shells which Mr.
Anterien. around us at early dawn. He then com-
Recently some Dutch diamond firms,ing cireulat, which, we reproduce in the Allies do not fail to make the most of
hope that the wider the publicity given to the rumours.. reneed searching the wgoil to try and
batteries, which wern established for a long time at Antwerp the scheme outlined therein, the greater knock out our
identi, making hin very uncomfort were considering the question ning per the probability that the ideas set forth their Antwerp houses and returning per will be generally accepted, and the sooner able and apgry. Fifty-nine,brumps and lightning whiz hangs burstantly to Holland, but urgent represen be adopted by the progressive rations of
at remain that they should inans
At the same time a sort of quote as follows:- Antwerp.
The Council of the International strange to say wounding only one wat.
mysterious promise was made that the our artillery, commenced their hurricane bombardment, which near future would see a surprising de Arbitration League, adhering firmly to lasted an hour and a half I can't development in their prospects, and the its belief that there is no future for the cribe the infernal dia, but the nearest arrival of the submarine in America is cause it serves unless the power of the German military vaste is broken, notes
Such agents are doubtless among those I can get is the roar of 1,000 trains taken as a fulfilment of this hint.
Vast quantities of German diamonds with satisfaction the growing conviction.
now placing orders among their German friends (probably for ufter the going through a tunnel and multiplied by 100! At about 7am. our gunners bit have been polished by cheap labour dur-that some means must be found to save a Bocke land mine about two miles off ing the war at Antwerp. That the smug the world in future from such a crime
ns that which is now desroying so much war delivery, when they imagine it will and the ground shook like an earth gling of diamonds has been carried on quake. We all thought, our assembly for a long time is fairly evident from of the flower of the manhood of Europe.be the easiest thing in the world to ac the fact that certain firms in Holland is being slowly realised that hammanity cumulate Germun stock in Holland and trenches would collapse on top of us.
cu fond another but not Dutch Grins have effected in At 7.1 mM), land mine, which went up with a terrific surances on packets of German diamonds rour, accompanied by the before-men-destined for America,
Commenting on this theory the tioned earthquake effect (We now learn that these mines were the largest ever Daily News says: At the time of Botha's conquest of German South-West Africa, it was stated that the Germans exploded in this war so far.)
had, before the war, already practically exhausted the diamond fields which led
Much remains to be done by English
right over us, felling two big trees, but tations were made to them by the Ger: the world as a measure of practice. We who, not actually German, are openly
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has a vested interest in the replacement method of settlement of the dispates of of war by a more just and rational lions-the progress of which depends very much on the growth of goodwill amongst the peoples of the world.
This involves.
INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITÝ, "It is for statesmen to prepare for At 7.30 am. our A Company left the to their occupation of Lüderitz Bay and lasting peace with skill and belief in trenches and marched through the wood is hinterland, and to their long war with their mission, as soldiers organise for war. to the entoer where they were to de- the natives of Namaqualand. Also that Out of the present ruinous anarchy there houch and went oul into the open. DGerman diamond dealers had disposed of must be evolved law and order, the only and B Companies followed suit, and most of the produce in Amsterdam, security for freedom.
The yield of these some form of collective control of the then Company, which concerns myself, Paris and London.. Our half-mile march through the wood inferior diamonds in this region was at issues of peace and war through a con- the Memorandum endorsed by the Coun was enough to break one's nerve right one time some hundreds of thousands of stituted international authority, and in cil on February 5th, 1915, an attempt was away, for machine guns were pouring pounds a year..
made to outline the beginnings of a work! lead all through the wood from every direction, and how we got through thut
plan for the elimination of war, declared bit without a single casualty is a mys
by Kant to be contrary to the Inw of What the Kaiser and his *tery, We arrived at our debouching point, which by this time was being skelled with high-explosive and shrap nel as well as being the target for ten Bothe machine guns which made the open ground a sea of death.
It was a distasteful task ending my men wat, but it had to be done as the ----Regiment were waiting behind to We had gone, follow up the Borderers. about thirty yards when three of my brave lada were killed outright. I then balled the men and made them crawl on their stomachs another twenty yards where we found cover in some shell eraters. Men were falling everywhere. Then a shrapnel burst overhead, knock- ing out some of my brave fellows, killing
firms in, the way of removing from their service innumerable agents in Holland outrageously anti-English,
I frequently come across such agents, who, while drawing large commissions English houses, nevertheless from spread heroe anti-English sentiments wherever they go.
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Allied countries.
A German trader now in Holland from Hamburg has confided to his friends that nobody could imagine the various dark and devious deceptions practised daily in order to obtain American goods He says that great When the former. success attends these plans time comes, this machinery will doubt- less be reversed to the disadvantage of the Allies.
LABOUR TRUCE AFTER WAR.
TRADE UNION PROPOSALS.
trenches. Our time came in due course, and we moved up into Thiepval Wood, which served as some cover for the troops nations.
"An interesting discussion on after-war 10 advance of us. Directly we arrived military caste have done must in future they moved out, and we watched their be made impossible. Lord Curzon has conditions is likely to arise at the annual 11 க seutence: Trade Union Congress to he held this splendid intrepidity in No Man's Land as they faced a whistling torrent of Ger put this demand
Machinery must be devised to prevent sear in Birmingham during September. man machine gun fire augmented by the reign of brute force in the world and The London Society of Compositors has bursting shells. It seemed an impossible the plunging of all the achievements of tabled a resolution suggesting an ap thing to pass that fire-blusted zone, but humanity, by the caprice of an individual proach to the Government and the Em they did it..
or the ambitions of a nation, into & 3ployers' Parliamentary Association with Their going gave the Germans the rible welter of blood."
a view to the establishment, for a period cue to shell the wood where we were, and
of three years, of proposals for
1-Compulsory membership of trade some dainage resulted. The Belfast Inds by that time were chafing to be into the to it with a mighty shout and we slipped rimmage. The signal given, they leapt
anions."
out in our turn to face the music in No Man's Land, At the very border of the wood our colonel fell mortally wounded, and a number of other officers and many men foll also. three of them. One of them next to me
"Remember that these were men bound had his skull telescoped by a huge shell aplinter. I got a small fragment in aby mecial bonds, and you will realise most unromantic spot-it rendered aît-something of the rage that burned in ting a pain-which, however, did not their hearts when they saw their comrades go down. But they had sworn that who worry mo much.
ever fell there should be no halting till This is the objective was won.
- I then gave the signal to advance, and to their everlasting credit not a man held back. Before we had gone another
2.-A compulsory 48 hours working 3-Compulsory minimum wage of 30s. week in every occupation. for adult workers.
4-No reduction of present wages or increase of hours.
Cmplete recognition of trade unions and agreemenis,
6.State unemployment pay for men and wonen.
"Lord Curzon's declaration has a sig nificance which it would be difficult to Imperialist statesman in line, almost exaggerate. It brings this distinguished without exception, with those groups of instructed pacifists in different countries which have been exploring the subject for some time. Whilst differing in many details, there is a consensus of view as to the imperative need of endowing Bay international authority which may be created with adequate powers to enofrie its will against any law-breaker in the community of nations.
great step forward. It brings the Peace movement into the
B resolution relating to I was leading my platoon in front of domain of practical effort. In the sphere 100 yards I found few survivors of Aour force and we reached a sunken road of action statesmen naturally seek the national organisation of industry, urging" We got into another shell very graphically described by Mr. Beuch line of least resistance. It is also the that the war has proved the national Thomas, The Daily Mail war correspon course which pacifists must pursue if weakness and danger of our pre-war in- platoon.
The task is e crater just, as a lad was hit in the arm
dent, as at one time swept by machine they are to be effective. A corporal
for reform," and claiming that our vital hy a machine-gun bullet.
From there I sent two scouts tremendous ane. It is nothing less than dustrial system, and the immediate need gun fire.
industries should be controlled by the and I bandaged him up as best we could forward to reconnoiire, but I soon saw the ultimate abolition of war.
them both fall. So I sent my orderly, firat advance towards this difficult goal State. and then a big shrapnel beast burst right in front of us and we got the fall forward to see what had happen cannot be all that is desired, but should blast, MeKnight, the corporal, had his ed. He reached one and was examining be of a kind which will serve to facilitato future progress. Regulation and limita thigh smashed and arm broken and him when he himself was hit and fell, got a clout behind the right ear with ordered my men to lie as fat as pancakes tion of armaments, for, which we have to avoid being seen, while I went forward long striven, must form an essential splinter which knocked me silly.
to see whether I could render any a to feature of any such effort. HERDES "GONE- WEST."
M1 crawled forward, but realised
to reel about me, so
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No finality claimed for this plan. it is not even a scheme for compulsory arbitration or conciliation. It seeks, ia plain wards, to ensure that in no case sball war take place before inquiry bas I awoke to find myself alous in the at once that M was dying, and just
"Common ground for concerted action been instituted into any difference which shell crater with my head roughly as I was turning round to return to my handaged. McKnight must have band- men I was pipped in the head myself in
Upon this ant, and it seems to be found in the four and which ordinary diplomatic methods aged, me and then himself, and, thinking way that would have been fatal but amongst practical pacifists is all-import. may arise between the signatory Powers,
for my steel helmet. me dead, crawled back to the wood.
The men, bless them, started forward propositions of the American League to may have failed to adjust. tried to stand up but everything seemed and swept past me on the bound. In a Enturce Peace, which command the sup foundation a larger structure will in short while I got back into the wood and port of ex President Taft and many of time Have to be built, but a beginning is equipment and after a drink from my thence to our trenches, but I found it the most influential men in the United everything. The all-important thing is water bottle began the longest" jour difficult to get along, for our men had States, President Wilson having also to take the first step in the right diree- ney I ever wish to make, crawling on moved so swiftly and fought with such given his general support to them. Lord tion when the soldier retires from the "Ex-President Taft and his colleagues hands had knees back to the wood, terrific vigour that they were already Bryce, tou, has associated himself with field in favour of the statesman.
The accursed machine-guns were send bringing in big batches of prisoners, sing proposals embodying the same principles
States should join such a League of ing 4p dire all round me, and whying songs af victory and uttering wild and methods as these four articles of the believe it to be desirable that the United Nations as they have projected, and Pre- a pot riddled through and through is Irish cries the while. The prisoners were League to Enforce Peace:
(1)-All justiciable questions arisings dent Wilson has encouraged the hope a perfectly marvellous thing. If God a sorry crowd. I wish I could recall the ever watched uver any man He watched comical Irish comments that passed as oree me last Saturday on that never-to- our men shepherded their captives along between the signatory Powers, not settled that this may become an accomplished
the
I WOR, I had by negotiation, shall, subject to the fact. Thus the scheme has on it the be-forgotten morning. I passed first one
limitations of treaties, be submitted to a stamp of practical international politics. of my fine fellows, then another, soms
The officer's story was over, but what judicial tribunal for hearing and judgIt only needs the joint leadership of the loubled up, other lying stiff, but all
as bravely as any men in be described was not the end. What remut both upon the merits and upon United States and Great Britain to make "gone West
mained of the Ulstermen were mustered any issue as to its jurisdiction of the this scheme the initial stage of that in- bernational government which would put our finest Guards regiments.
finally reached the edge of the wood, on the Sunday, and it was pointed out question.
to them that there was still a bit of
(2)-All other questions arising be war in the same category as that which where I discarded all my equipment bar trench that had not been fully won. revolver and glasses, and then a Dorset Would they finish the good work? The tween the signatories, and nut settle offences against public law and order by negotiation, shall be submitted to a have long occupied in the internal affairs answer was immediate and emphatic
in international organisation is Did they win through?" asked a Council of Conciliation for hearing, cou-of all civilised countries. This first step
sideration and recommendation. visitor. 7
supreme importance. It is as such and
uicer helped me the dressing station. He picked out my shell splinters and bandaged me, after which he made me lie down for a bit. Then the humano Hun planted a few gas shells in vicinity, which made life more dificult.
the
I then made my way through the wood
to the motor-ambalance station on the
rond..
On my way I met one of our sergeant with half his face blown away. Do you know that this man wanted to carry me and got quite angry when I told him that it was he who wanted carrying? Never shall I fotget the grit of that splendid chap, and I hope I shall meet him one day again, in Blighty."
NO HALTENG TILL THE OBJECTIVE WAS WON.
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An
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officer who was there and whose (3)-The signatory Powers shall jointly not as a particular plan of reconstruction wounds were such that he was almost left use forthwith both their economic and that it forms advantageous ground for for dead opened his right eye the only military forces against any one of their concerted action.
part of him not swathed in bandages-number that goes to war, or commits
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and answered with a certain fierceness acts of hostility against another of the Arbitration League, therefore, concludes
They won the trench and held it till they were relieved. They won it over the bodies of dead men, mixed British and Germans. By the time they finished the trench was half full-a ghastly sight."
THE COLONEL'S HAYONET.
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pastories before any question arising that the friends of Peace might well con- shall be submitted as provided in the centrate their activities on this attempt to orgaise the nations for peace. These foregoing.
(4)-Conferences between the signatory proposals are the irreducible, minimum Powers shall be held from time to time of the ever-widening demand to make to fortmulate and codify rules of interna the defence of public right the common One of the bravest men I ever saw, tional law, which, unless some signatory concern of all nations, and they harmo declared a wounded private in Edin-shall signify its dissent within a stated 'se with the spirit of the Bryan Treaty, now, bappily, concluded between the burgh, was a captain who led our lot period, shall thereafter govern in the in the charge. He was a great big chap, decisions of the judicial tribunal men- United States and Great Britain and a large number of other Fowers. It would "The men under me," said a wounded and as plucky as & bull-terrier. He set itioned in Article Dac
us a fire pace, but he was such a big They bemark that they could scarcely miss him.
"The omission from these proposals of a beginning moderate, practical, and officer."were from Belfast. Jonred to the original Ulster Volunteer held force, and at the outset of the ware got it behind the ear and fell. Then any provision for dealing with a war yet far reaching-of a new era, in which struggled up again and said, Come making non-signatory Power would seem that League, of which Sir Edward Grey they enlisted for active service.
ou, lads.
Two minutes after he got to be a weakening limitation, but that has so eloquently spoken, would be might we lay in some trenches just inside another in the middle of the forehead. I and other points are matters for further united quick, and instant to prevent, our front lines, while over us screamed should like to have saluted him again consideration, and do nos affect the and, if need be, to punish the violation the most thunderous bombardment of all after the battle. He was a brave man.
governing principle of the scheme, which of international treaties, of public right, Well," interjected a man of another at this stage is alone of importance of national independence. regiment, "what price our colonel! He What is aimed at is international organi (Bigned on behalf of the Council), carried a rifle and bayonet. I don't sation, backed by the power to make it know what you chaps did, but I do know effective. the task of clearing the first three that the colonel' did in more Germans
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Early in the morning the advance began. Away went the Irishmen who had
than any other man in our battalion."
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