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A STRICKEN BATTLE AREA. VISIT TO OVILLERS. SITES THAT WERE VILLAGES

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AN OLD FRONT LINE TRENCH.

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TRENCH JOURNALISM.

SOME QUEER TITLES

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LOOKING AHEAD

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BY LOVAT ERASER

OPTIMISM ON THE COMME

THE CRISIS HAS PASSED."

Under the heading Things Are Well on the Somme, the Cologne Gazette pub

extremely optimistic dispatch from the lished last month a highly inspired and German Headquarters by Professor Wegener

if we are to overwhelm Germany. There without exception from the supreme lies before me a map of the western front, leader to the simplest soldier. The pur- showing the situation on December 31, pose of the great Anglo-French decisivo 1914. It is very little altered to-day on offensive has not been achieved, the map Germany lias Battened the What is still be ng effected by the con- have slightly advanced their line in the battle is only a mad. purposeless, suc Ypres and Verdun salients, the Frenchtant throwing of new enemy masses into Champagne, we have made dents near rifeing of the flower of their people. A La Bassée and Lens, and a slice has been breaking through of our position here is The great changes which have been struggle in breaking up into individual cut out on the Somine

definitely out of the question. The wrought cannot be shown on any map, fights, which, however gigantic their They lie in the immense array of men measure still remains, have resumed the and guns now concentrated in Northern character of the ordinary position battles, France, in the swarms of fresh troops Moreover the bulging outward of the completing their training in this coun- enemy front to the east, which our

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If anyone still needs proof of the sound second anniversary of the outbreak of Wo have quite rightly celebrated the Thero i probably no more dreadful moral and high spirits of the British was by emphasising the great and hope region in all this stricken battle area than Army in the field, and particularly of ful change in the position of the Allies, that which lies about and beyond Ovillers the New Army be may find it in a but it is time to look atend and consider Professor Wegener is made to say that La Boisselle There are 10-adjectives in with no describe its hideousness My few extracts from the Army's tronch the immense task which still lies before he has had ample opportunity for discus- object in being there to-day (August 8th) Journale For of trench journals there uk mense which lies sion of the situation with everybody from was to push up as far as a civilian might is no end, and they come from every sort We hold the seas The Allies have the Commander-in-Chief and bis Chief over the ground just won to the west of of unit, The Whitz-Bang is the mighty armies which are still growing, of Staff to the simplest soldier, that ho Pozínres.

monthly organ of the officers and men of they have more than redressed the balance has hoon-permitted to attend numerous As far as La Boisselle itself you can the Durham Light Infantry. In the title in the matter of munitions, and by the stoff consultations, and that lie has been take your motor car along the main of the Iodine Chronicle you catch self-sacrifice of her sons Great Britain as far forward as anybody can at present. Albert Bapasme road, though you will the scent of the RAM.C. The Vic has made herself a first-class military go. He says that he has seen the half- havo, the road to yourself when you do it. Patrol" is run by a new Canadian busta Power The Germans and their dupes destroyed Péronne, the ruined building La Boisselle on the right of the road isllion, justly proud of its recent affiliation are gripped on every front,

and devastated park of La Maisonette, not more than a flat layer of pounded to the Victoria Rifles of Canada, a regi went, and it is in the west that the future provveds

But the tide has not yet turned in the the ruins of Beliny and Estries." Bo grey stones and mortar on the bare facement with an honourable history of more of the world has to be settled.

I will here state as my general impres of the earth. Of anything like a village than fifty years which may seem a mero In swift tidal areas there comes half an sion of all that I have seen and heard only or individual buildings there is, of tender infancy to regiments with Albuera hour of slack water before the turn one thing because it is the most import course, no semblance. On the left of the and Badajoz on their colours, but is of the tide. Your boat floute calmlyant and the thing that matters things ronds the ground dips steeply down for almost as old ne United Canada. You seem to feel the brimming ocean are well on the Bonnie The battle is 50 yards or so, then slowly rises to what

The Canadians are the most prolife of gathering its strength for a fresh, irresis is called Ovillers La Boisselle because trench journalists. Besides the Viestible movement in another direction, hit the most immense and the most terrible hat was where & village of that name Patrol, they bring out the Trench for the moment its deep stirrings impart that has yet been experienced. But the stood until a few weeks ago. Today, if Echo," written by a vivacious battalion no motion. We are at that half-hour real crisis has passed La Boiselle is almost obliterated,

That is the un Ovillers-La Boisselle is non-existent: from Winnipeg, the Listening Post," Yet the changing tide must carry us faranimous certainty of the German troops

Standing on the edge of the white road and several more The "Forty-niner" in the glaring sunshine, with the roar of the R.M.R. Growler, and the our own guns behind one and the other Twentieth Gazelle" ure names mare guns ahead, one feels oneself the only oponly regimental The title of "Now fandmark in a waste. The whole earth' and Thon is itself a frank confession surface, befors and around, is torn with of the difficulty of coming out punctual shell holes and seamed with lines of ly to the day in a time of great pushes. trenches, all white, because the soil here The Brazier is full of happy associs is chalk. Such land as there is between,tions for old dwellers in mid-winter scarred, is almost bare of vegetation trenches. But the most picturesque and with only here and there a thin coat of suggestive title of all is that of the sickly grass or a dusty tuft of corndower, Dead Horse Corner Gazette" mellow, or white camomile Opposite, crowning the gentle slope before you, u

A trench journals like nothing so fey ragged - stumps, fragments of free trunks some 10ft high, with bits of splin much as a public school or university tored lower branches sticking from them,magazine. It shows the same apparent in the thousands of munition works enemies cbtained opposite. Péroutje 39 a und gaunt against the sky and mark preoccupation with games: the results of Pouring out guns, and shells, and rifice, result of the successful first days of July."

the winter's football behind the lines are in the unprecedented and organised effort tabulated and reviewed with becoming in which Great Britain and the Domis becoming their destruction; for, an in Bending for Ovillers, we--for an officereriousness, and the prospective strength nions are now engaged in common with be case of Verdun, the huge is forming was with mo-left the road and went next season's term is discussed hope object leason of the Sozune. We have by our positions, and upon which we can their Allies. Above all, they lie in the inner half circle which is surrounded down across the torn and blasted earth fully. There is again, the same mea proved that no labyrinth of treacles can concentrate our fire with our heavy artil to the white line of what was once the sires of relaxation in print, of the rewithstand for ever the smashing weightlery which commands the whole range of German front line trench. It is a trench Btraints of discipline, nearly everybody

the semi-circle. Naturally this involves no inore. It was not much of a trenoli except the CD and the second in com-

far greater losses for the enemy than he, by the time our guns had done with it mand, s gently chaffed. There is the

firing outwards, can cause to he at the beginning of this battle. After same large output of verse parodies and that it was pounded day and night imitations-echo of Kipling, GK throngh all the desperate fighting which Chesterton, and Omar Khayam And went on for the possession of Ovillers, there is any amount of joking on topics Since then, the enemy has devoted a cer- which in the British Expeditionary tain number of shells a day to knocknig Forco never grow old or fade--the trials the poor remuants of it about a little of mess presidents, the complexity of the more It is a futile ocupation, because established forms of official correspond. no one, except an inquisitive visitor like, ence, the smallness of Belgian beer, the myself, would dream of walking along craft and subtlety occasionally used by it. The parapet is mostly strewn all over the rank and file to obtain new issues of the ground. In places it and is up, the trench, so that you go really decrepis and the narrowness of the mixed with trouser or boots before the old ones are on the level of the ground. Then a few Army's range of medicines for minor com yards may be decently intact, so that, plaints. Much of the joking is quite a bully is knocked down he crum half choked with rubbish as it is, it gives.

up and we have yet to test the you shelter perhaps, waist high It, and, like the story of the Irish private spirit of the German Army in plain de the ground around, are littered with who complained one day of a sore foot, feat. The whining cries of Kamurad equipment Cartridges, used or a brated and least revered pill in the whole outs may then he repeated on a larger was given a Number Nine (the most cele which are heard from the captured dug- and unexploded boobs nol bits of or whole shells, beneath your everywhere Pharmacopia of military medicine), and sele

tha hot sun the reappeared next day at sick parade, say chalk is intensely white and the heating, put it under me fut, and divil to fall back-and they are admittedly

Should the German armies be compelled beats-back on you from the baked earth a bit of good did it do me, Sorr

long way from falling back in the west and the air is thick with the dreadful The geometrical definitions of a subal at present-hon we shall doubtless se smell which belongs to battlefields and tern as that which has position, but no Antwerp made the dominating factor in Mr. Hewins said that at a former stage With the buzzing of flics. It is truly a magnitude" and of a Turkish con their new line. To turn the Germans he objected to progress being made with

muniguur as that which lies equally on out of Antwerp is for us a matter of life the Bill on account of some of its provi-Temporary Bining Regulations in Chins ______Tany point, aro nept, too, and sue can for death, and let us not deceive ourselves- At last you come to a parting of the imagine the roar of laughter in the dug about the magnitude of the problem. The sons, and its consideration was postpon Rewalations for Railway Construction in way, where an old German sign atill out when an eloquent man narrated how last brief siego of Antwerp was no cried. Negotiations had since taken place, Chin sticks up from the fire step of the trench, "we were shelled one day for thirty-six terion of the strength of the fortress, with the result that it was agrece by the Hongheng Hansard Reports of the one hand of it pointing "Nach Pozieres hours. And there is plenty of good. and Antwerp is far more formidable British and Portuguese that if in pur

then where it tells you and go on humoured caricatures and comic ill-to-day than it was two years ago. We suance of the resolutions of the Par Meetings of the Leginative Council,

Published Annually In the trench or beside it, it does not tions like the drawing of the dumbfound shall probably have to depend for its Eunomic Conference either Great Bri- Mountings of Naval Guns and their

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Folitical Obetsoles to Missionary Suese

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vilo place.

WHERE OVILLER ONCE STOOD.

of our guns and the matchless ardour of our troops, and we know, as we have always known, that once the line is bro Len and the enemy lose their heavy guns, Professor Wegener then exnilains in the the Germans Men have always con- French that are suffering in this position, our men are better, man for man, than best German mauner that if is chilly tho quered the beasts of the field, and the so that the Somme battle is unf, together Germans, ovhig to their loathsome habits with Verdun, contributing to bleed the of defilement, have ceased to be counted flower of this unhappy matíon in a battlo 24 men ark that has no prospect of sness. He con Our first task is to cleanse France of cludes with a eulogy of the perfect secur these polecats and to rescue Belgium from ity and order of the whole German their evil clutches. I have never believed organization. step of the way as they are fighting that our armies will have to fight every

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would not know it but for the tree frag note and is waved aside by her with a dificult Ardennes country has to he re-his views entirely. It was an interest ments, and, when you look, you see that there is a quiputity of broken brick and superb gesture and an airy, Apris la covered before German soil can be development in our history, because it stone mixed up with the kneaded earth,

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reached on this part of the front. And was the fist practical application of the and also you come to a hole in the ground AND BERIOUS VERSES, TOO.

then there are Thionville, and Metz, and Paris resolutions. His criticism of the which, being square and lined with brick, But all trene journalism is not humor Strasburg, and New Brisach

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friends for this happy solution of the that Ovillers is more utterly destroyed the loss of a comrade, or a sense of the friends in this country, who are already

han any other village in the battle uren hardness and splendour of the oppor endeavouring to define terms while the Mr. Prestyman acknowledged the value No village could be more destroyed, tunity that may come to a man when Tei of as realised in the first year, per ta orginal proposals had become part inain German front is still unpierced the hon. gentleman's intervention If ecause there is nothing left but the cel some call is made for volunteers, Belind

which I have mentioned and two or much of the chaff, too the characterishaps none of us realise even now, how of international law between Great Bri hire others like it, mere holes in the tically English well for absolute earnest long and how deadly this war must be tain and Portugal, we might have been round and nine quantities, so far as ress-any Englishmon can read plainly ivate brutal fanaticism for forty years palay of the Paris resolutions.

Germany did not arm herself and cul seriously hampered in carrying out the Buildings at all Of superstruc re to the earth there is none. One the passionate determination of the in order to submit to be crushed in two The Bill was rend a third time our there is which those who go there my about its present business. There years. Yet the Allies are slowly perceiv is no concealing to brill of delighting that Germany must be beaten and cak of as a place to take your bearings with which one of the new battalions crushed as we would beat and crush a

Mr A. Femon - sort of Greenwich in this heard its brigadier say to it after its cobre unless we are to be confronted with russia to salute in his own dwelling the E. J. Birbeck HS. T. Bitting emlation -- and it is called: The hurch Undoubtedly church once first severe beat action, simply, Men, & vista of endless wars Buch talk, it mangled corpses of his subjects, is still Cart B Branon ns there, because the maps say so, and you are good soldiers, or the enthusiasm ay be said, will only help to stimulate We may be certain, meanwhile, that the Mr. A. Brownlow ere is still one fragment of a wall which our men's admiration, not lightly woll, German resistance, but I have found by more the Germans are pressed the more

MEH.S. Brand ay have been part of a church, and by for the staunchness of the French at Ver experience that there can be half-ea brutal and strecious their conduct to Browell

Mr & M W G. two graves Why these survive it in dun, or the exultation of the infantry in eures with cobras possible to say. If it was not for them the trenches when they saw the mastery When we turn from the western front wards their helpless victims will become. Mr & Mr W. W. bespot in Ovillers above ground would of the niy pass definitely into the hands and look farther afield we see still more hold their hand by an eolibition of Mi Bryant They still dream of compelling the Allier Bryant different from any other._______

of our aviators. All those things are vividly the hugeness of the enterprise to wholesale Mery such as the world has me D. dach nea written in the chronicles of French which the Allier are committed. Thero journalism pics are the Trentino, and the Cars to be necer pet eten. We cannot retaliate in Capt. Carel Its whole spirit is now a happy one won for Italy, to render her secure There is one thing we can do instantly.pagne

gains future attack. The Belgian flag We can deal with the men at the top. The Mim Champagne files over a corner of Belgium, but not one inch of Berbis is at present in posses German Emperor and the Crown Prince Mr HAR. Conn sign of the Serbs. We have to regain could have stopped these murders and G. L. Courtney and reconstruct Serbia pa a new and these bestial and enslaving practices with Me J. D. Courtney other Russian provinces have to be clear solemnly declaring the German W. B. Davenport eded of the loc. We have to confine the Emperor and hu Heir Apparent to be a F. E. Dark Turks to the highlands of Anatolia, There should be no qualification, no Capt J. Dewar

outlaws of civilisation Me W. B. Douglas wrom which it would have been fortunate place, it is supposed, having been not climb out of the trench to look. One had never emerged no declaration as to what we shall de Miss M. E. Duffy

for Europe and for humanity if they empty threats which we cannot now fulfil, Mr J. Dewar In the last days of desperate fight cannot put a periscope up without its The list in lengthy and it requires al afterwards, no refusal to treat while we

MFA W Estua sa kind of vault into which the being shot to bits, Close at hand the most immeasurable hope to conclude that we have still to gain our victory. The MPG or were hurriedly rocking riffes spat continuously and machine all these tasks can be accomplished before

Mr&Mr P. J. Ar J. B. Edwards on some time of recking the place guns stuttered and growled, and we had another anniversary comes round. Some degraded beings to be pariahs, outcasts

PJ caling it up, or otherwise making it trench mortars at work, which heaved thing depends upon the psychology of the of civilisation, excommunicated by the Postomb projectiles into the air so slowly that German nation. Men who know Ger bulk of the world, in arms while to say

ther large dug out there is which you saw them sali majestically to where many well have never ceased to predict This is practicable now Texans used as a dressing station. the enemy was hiding in his trenches, that when real retreat and disaster begin what we may or may not do twenty-one di Gibb

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Mr M. H. 9. Frank admirably constructed, and has there to exploda prodigiously. For akort we shall see a collapse of the arrogant years bence is not practicable. We can ME. E. Gilmore es the main entrance from the ranges they are no serious as any shell German wiirit swift and as dramatic not pronounce decrees of isolation on

another opening for exit which of their size front a great gun; ; upon road where ran a tromway To our right, close by, we were assured in August 1914, Let us hope so at nut we can brand the men at the ton with PV. Gondbourn Mr B. Futoneaam MC Fritz.

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as the sudden out pouring over Belgium tens of millions of human beings,,, but / Mr A. G. Gordse JW-Stackhouser 3.3. Finlayson MP3, MOSTAR

Mr & Mrs P. J Gray Mr 1 Strickland the very door of the

Mr. N. Gregory MrEM Steigh e dressing station nothing of it, and to our left a little that a race which within the last hundred history endures We can instantly doom villers we went by the further off, was Thicoval, which also gears has burned the palace of Duke to eternal execration fhe two heads of

CailaMr G. & Stott rough 10 seen also, the Hobenzollern Family under whose

als and family a ing trenches, not knowing when we did not saveen it. from other places of Brunswick, forced a King of Bavaria for authorits the women and girls of the village behind any more than Mauqua Fan And all around was from Vienna and compelled-a-King of Northern France are being dragged from

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