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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28rB, 1916.

POZIERES RIDGE.

HEROIC ATTACK BY THE MEN OF KENT

SY PULIP QISES.}

TREATMENT OF BRITISH N.C.08 IN GERMANY.

VISCOUNT GREY'S THEEAT

Copies of reports of visits made to bri- soners detention camps at Erfurt (May ... It was in the midst of a tumult of guns 13th) and at Langonsalzo (May 19th) by and below the long, resonant, journeyings. Dra A. E. Taylor Rad D. J. McCarthy, of great shells on their way to the enemy's on behalf of the American Embassy in territory, that I sat to-day with some of Berlin, have been issued by the Foreign the officers who have just chased the Ger- Office,

retreat

SPLENDID FIGHTING-MEN,

RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

THE ENEMY'S MAN-POWER

HINDENBURG AND FALKENHAYN.

[BY THE TIMES [MILITARY CORRESPONDENT. |

THE AUSTRIAN 108SES,

THE ENEMY OUTSUMBERED.

fighter though he ho, he is no longer master of the situation, and with the Austrian Army crambling before his eyes, and his old soldiers sacrificed before Var- dun in the useless attempt to call laurels for the Crown Prince, be has a thankess Pole and will probably fail

tho

GERMAN

a portion of a trench and took shelter in his Majesty's long as the present compaigning season Alexeieff, whose excellent prepartiona

attack.

caused

We shall not possess the key to secrets of the German Higher Command until we know the character of the rela tions between Hindenburg and Falken- hayn. The latter is a masterful per sonality who is credited with having mans out of their trenches to the north. At Erfurt nothing of a gravo character

taken possession of the Kaiser and pre- of Pezieres. It was a curious little real was noted. There had been a delay in

Vented, so far as possible, all others frein (with steak and onions most excellently the receipt of letters for six weeke, which - The grand proofs given by the South- approaching him. The type is known to fried under the blue sky outside our the camp authorities promised to risern Armies of the regained vitality of us quite well. His fame, stood bighest shelter. A captain from Kent sitting medy

mighty Tussin are

are as unpleasant to last summer when Russia was reeling next to me was examining the mechanism Al Langensalza a serious condition of enemies is they are gratifying to friends. under reiterated blown, but he seemed all of a revolver which he had taken off the things came to light. According to the 1t had been a German fable since the the time to be jealous of Hindenburg, | body of the German offer he had killed report of the medical u men, the camp is autumn of 1915 that the Russian Armies and allotted to him, in that stage of the They were all men of Kent around me. divided into two general divisions--for | vere of little account, and the whole campaign, a subordinate part, When at The captain is a merry soul, who laughs those willing and those unwilling (in-plan of campaign for 1018 was Uased the Lime of the assumption of the Chief most heartily over his huitbreadth escapes weddinge) to work The latter are housed upon the confident expectation that the Command of the Russian Armies by the and still more leudly when he describes in Strafbarrakken (punishment Russians could be held fast by compara Tear, a real chance offered, of a thrust little exploits which would make most barracks), and there were confined in this tively weak forces while the bulk of the towards Vilan, and the destruction of a men shudder at the mere remembrasce part 61 British, of whom three were ser- German Armies fought in France. By large part of the Russian forces, it was The tinse when he was caught in a dugout geanta, 27 corporals, and so privates dint of endeavouring ta deceive everybody, found that Falkenhayn had committed and came out into the middle of a bombs, Kent Regiment, stated that shortly themselves.

ranking N.C.O., Jos. H. Sherry, 1st the Germans had ended by deceiving, the unpardonable fault of undertaking a ing party of Germans who flung their

simultaneous offensive from Galicia, and grenades all round him, but just failed to after their arrival at the camp they were

had thereby deprived Hindenburg of the blow him to bits before he shared "down asked to work, and those who had not

means for delivering a stunning blow the trench (this was some time ago), seems volunteered to do so. were traisferred to

If we are prepared to credit the Rus The decision to transfer the main to him the funniest thing in the world, the punishment crimp. They were not sian figures of their captures, as all weight of Germany to the West for the and he can tell you dozens of things that permitted to smoke, to play cards, to recent experience tells us that we may,

campaign of 1 1916, and thus to leave to have happened to him like this since attend or play games, and were deprived must sume that three of the Austro-Hindenburg a secondary role, was also August, 1914, when he was in the great of hot water for ten They could not Hungarian Armies engaged have been Falkennyn's, Whether Hindenburg op- have drinking water at night as the top shattered and that they no longer afford | posed the plan we do not know, but there in the enclosure was under suspicion of to their German Allies the aid necessary is a fairly credible report that after Hin- bring typhoidal. Two other sergeants to support the pretensions of the German denburg's Command had been drained. The colonel of his battalion, who sat complained of their treatment as they Command. The Armies of Austria have he advised that any further depletion of opposite, is of a different type, quiet and had broken no rules. Ten other men shown in the past a capacity for recovery his force would render him incapable of thoughtful, but with a sense of humour stated they were ill or unit to work to which we must do full justice, but resistance. Could he have foreseen the also that lights his eyes. And tive paces A corporal (Corporal R. Srowden, 13th there are limits to endurance, and breakdown of the Austrian Armies on two off was the Medical Officer a doctor who Canadian Battaliony complained that he though the Austro-Hungarian depots and fronts this summer he would assuredly loves, his men, and, would not leave this had been roughly handled and kicked by march battalions may rebuild in some have been much more anxious, and we battalion of the Kents for any other in a German under-officer.

Incasure the shattered regiments, we find must have a certain sympathy with the the Army (ha has patched up all their An inspection of the food was made, it difficult at present to take them as old Marshal who, with his best troops bodies after every scrap and did heroic The dish, acrid and disagreeable in worth much Bothmer, it is true, has fallen at Verdun, his Austrian Allies work for them the other night), There flavour, was composed of Sauerkrant and hitherto escaped the disasters of his melting away and no more reinforcements were other officers who fought in this potatoes with here and there small por friends, but he must have been badly except drafts available from the West or "show to the north of Pozieres, all tions of fish, and it was impossible to mauled daring his retirement. There are the interior, has now to confront forces proud of the men who had done the job, decide whether the taste was due to no fresh units upon whidi Austria can much superior in numbers to his own. all wanting to say how splendid they decomposition of the Sauerkraut or the draw except those on the Italian front though we may doubt it-Hindenburg were and it was good to be among the che attention of the Commandant was look for Austria is cheerless in the exfore in the pending operations, this

which are fully engaged, so that the out has asked that the Kaiser may not inter- Before the fighting began the colone) took the jovial captain up to the line to called to these complaints, particularly treme

probably a shaft nimed at Charleville view the Promised Land," as he called to the cuso of the non-commissioned offi-

and Falkenhayn's Headquarters, but the it. And the Promised Land looked very cers and the men unfit to work, then y

conditions of the campaign in the East uninviting on this high ridge above the Viscount Grey, in asknowledging the

promise to be very onetous, and Falken blackened ruins of Pozi where the receipt of the report, remarked that the and prestige in Volhynin, where they have rid before long of an inconvenient and The Germans have also lost mes, guns, haya stands a very fair chance of being. German second lines were guarded by it delay in delivering letters to prisonere failed to stem the tide. They have hither all too popular rival. tangle of barbed wire. It was also difi- must be attributed to some other cause at to held out sucessfully against Evert and cult to look at it very long or very present unexplained than that assigned Kuropatkin, but they must have suffered

NUMBEKUN closely because the enemy was alter-by the German authorities transfor of ing " the field of observation with every prisoners from Erfurt to Langensalza. much low, and it is notorious that the

The improvement in the prospects of In a communication dated August 14thussians outnumber them and have no the Allies is very largely due to kind of erump" and shell. One day

the last week our artillery began a long and the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs alone. We have perfect confidence here by Brusiloff and to the immortal velour intentions whatsoever of leaving them splendid leading of the Southern Armies steady bombardment of the enemy's line, enumerates enses of punishment inflicted that the Russian Northern and Western of his troops. It is also due to his Im and a number of Germans ran out of on British soldiers at various German Armies will continue their pressure operial Majesty the Tsar and to General

camps and proceeds shell holes in No Man's Land. There

have lasts: We in the West shall do the same, was a retaliation from the enemy's artil hitherto observed the agreement as ref for we better Weds these we for the camrmigm of 1910. deserve hand- lery, and they used a number of gas gards, non-commissioned officers both in

some acknowledgment. If neither we in shells, so that the men of Kent had to put the spirit and in the letter, and they had are all under a mutual and explicit the West nor the Russians in the East on their gas-mask before the time of Ueir confidently looked for a similar observ though we have had some disappoint the Gernians, we can be sure that all of obligation to continue, and because have yet broken the stubborn spirit of ance on the part of the German Govern- ***** When we popped over the parapet," inent. No German non-commissioned ments, the grinding effect of the general us are well aware of the fact but we can says the captain, we advanced into the officer in the hands of his Majesty's Got alles watching to our enemies all say this, that the legend of German was hyjoux that the Blinking Boche had pressure, direct or indirect, brought to pon the man-power of the enemy and have seen the best soldiers of Prussia middle of the Brock's Bencht, and it crament is compelled to work, nor is any June 4th, will have 2 crippling effect invincibility it ever it passed current has been for ever dissipated. got the wind up heat to induce him to volunteer to work. will end by abating his pride.

That is to say the enemy was sending that the trust of a non-commissioned We must look neither to the right her experienced troops. We have taken from

His Majesty's Governnient

recoil beaten before our young and in hold the view up distress signals to his guns, and in officer to work cannot justify the with to the left, but only straight in front of them every day prisoners and guns. If anticipation of an attack was flinging drawal of any of the privileges of his us to the end, and we must steel our it be the Austrian Armies mainly that coloured lights over to our lines so as to illuminate any British infantry who rank or of any of the amenities in the hearts against all impressions, emotions. Brusiloft and his gallant comrades in might be advancing. These lights worn way of recreation, or otherwise, which and suggestions which incline us to wear arms have beater so well, the Germans fired out of a special kind of pistol, and old ordinarily be accorded to him. ness in one or another form. This have not egenped a dusting, and except when they foll fared up with vivid red If the German Government refuse to wearing down of the enemy's man-power in the mendacity of their bulletins, (ine and green fires.

accept this view and to act in accordance has gone very for, but it must go farther their railways, and in the quantity of At the same time the enemy's machine to their regret, be compelled to adapt him. Our duty is, during the two or no superiority to boast.

with it, his Majesty's Government will, yet to affect his resolution and exhaust their heavy guns and shells, they have guns played upon any figure so revealed, their treatment of Cerman non-commis: three months of good campaigning season

All the same, good as the promise is, so that it was almost certain death to sioned officers to that accorded to British which remains to us this year, to fight we are far from the end. We ought to bo in those flare lights At great risk non-commissioned officers by the German on and fight ceaselessly, on all fronts and be tired of our illusions. If some of our several men sprang forward into the Government. illumination and kicked out the burning canisters. Then in the momentary dark- nese the leading companies advanced in waves towards the German frenches south of Monquet (or, as the soldiers call it, Moo-Cow) Farm, The colouel of the eighty of them in one batch-and the coming winter it must only be with the establishments up to strength. This is battalion went very gallantly with his escort party fixed their bayonets with a firm intention of renewing the campaign not the behaviour of an Army short of men, and as he drew near to the enemy's nap as though on parade, and then at the first favourable moment in 1917, men, and, in fact, the Germans are not own men andere gunnetted like his marched off with great pride leaving the with increased armaments, and with still

against enemy'a prisoners to follow on! lights. He called out to them, thinking One of the prisoners taken later was a GERMANY'S TURKS

more relentless vigour,

your class has not yet been extensively drawn they might be his own men working for forward observing officer, a Prussian ward on his right. But he saw they were giant well over 6ft high, and enormously It will not be, certainly, the aid of the behind. There are the recovered wound- kee upon for drafts, The 1018 class - stands Germans when one man threw up his stout, and he was pat in charge of Turkish armies which will enable olded in large numbers, as well as the pri hands as a sign of surrender, and the little Kentish man standing sit. In in Hindenburg to restore the falling for soners, many of whom have been forced other dropped on to one knee to fire a his socks The German giant was very tunes of his race. The Turkish divi to work. From Poland, Belgium, and rifle shot. The colonel sprang forward, frightened at the machine gun fire of hissions have sunk to 48, because the larger France vast numbers of the population covering them with his revolver, and took own people, which was whipping over the number could not be maintained, and of in the occupied territories have been both of them prisoners.

ground, and, he went back crouching in these 48 many are very weak. There are forcibly abducted to take the places in the a bear-like way, prodded from behind by 28 at the least on the Armenian front, fields and factories of Germani fit to the wes man in Flaki. This sight, illu where that great leader Yudenitch is a gh. With these new resources in view Without many casualties, in spite of minated by the flares, was seen by the present pounding them finely, and we it is unsafe to count upon less than two machine-gun fire, our men reached the men left behind in our own trenches, and can only suppose that the Turkish divi million men still available for drafts German trenches. Great heroism was they stood up on their parapety langhing sinns which have marched across Anatolia and each year the new class called up shown by a young lieutenant and a party and cheering widly

from their railheads have lost well at adds another 400,000 to 500,000 recruits to of bombers who went first over No Man's After the first lines of trenches had been very stage as the custom of Turkish the depots. Our Russian and Italian Land so quickly behind our barrage that taken and the dugouts cleared, it was armics Is Several divisions are in Allies have been splendid and have wiped they risked death by our own shells and suggested by the humorous captain that Yemen where the Bherit of Mecca and the floor with the Austrian Armies, bud came against the first defence. The officer further advance might be made towards Idris are in the field against them the Germans stand behind, and we must ARROW COLLARS red the frat vave were found Moo-Cow Form. I don't believe several more are in Mesopotamia. In none of us entertain any illusions That Jying wounded 100 yards further than the there's any Boche in tit trench over Syria are still two divisions, after the breaking down of the German power, jump out position, and it was their there he said. Permission was given Smyrna, t the Dardandles, Constantinople, will not still be a long, a costly, and quick advance which scared the enemy to reconnoître, and the captain popped Thrace and the coasts have been pro difficult affair and helped to demoralise him. The men over and found that the Germans had vided for, there will not be much left who followed ran along the enemy's para fled. They had fed in such a hurry that for Hindenburg to manœuvre. If Vienna pets, bombing down the trenches, while they had left all their equipment, with does not blush at being defended others leapt in and fought their way coats, packs, rifles, and bombs, to say Turks, that is Vienna's affair. As for down. Large numbers of Germans were nothing much of several boxes of excel- the Bulgarians, their hour of retribution down in the usual deep dugouts, and lent cigars, which are now being smoked will strike, and never a finger will be sentries were posted at the entrance of by the men of Kent

lifted here to save then from the con each of these underground places. It was But there were other trenches ahead sequences of their [924-2 the jovial captain, not very jovial at the end the men hared off to three, and moment, who shouted down some of the found them bold by scared men. The

HINDENBURG'S NEW COMMAND, openings

Are you there! Come out of it!" trench" like mad," and blocked it at each command on the whole Eastern front Kentish men started bombing down the The appointment of Hindenburg to the The answer came back, Mit end in case of accidents, while a young down to the Stokhod is on a par with

officer posted a machine gun on the left the selfishness which sends Turkish troops The Central Powers, he says, ha Come out of it, then!!

of it The position, however, became to defend the Carpathians when Turkish the quite obviously an untenable position, provinces in Asia are being wrested from everywhere had to leave the initiatives

when the Germans rallied and attacked Turkish rule The Prussian drops the the hands of the Allica, and even if th Well, bring your wounded up," in bombing parties from the farm. Many veil, nud discloses the fact that his in regain the initiative locally they canu Many refused to surrender or come out of them were cut down by the young off terests are predominant and those of his accomplish now what was too much Then a bomb was thrown into the encer with his Lewis gun and by the Kentish dupes of no account. It is not pleasant them in 1915, when their military pow trance way and alter its explosion, there grenadiers, but they brought up machine for Hungary, with a strong Russian was at itz zenith, and when the All was heard in every case, & great scrambl suas and made the position very hot army ones more hammering at her gater, were in every respect less well prepar ing and scurrying and squealing, as when A lanos corporal behaved very gallantly to hear that the defence of her marches and organized than they are now a ferret goes down a rabbit hole.

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all together, until the spirit of Prussia calculators had been correct the German and her dupes is humbled to the dust, armies would have been reduced to a The cessation of any one of our attacks, minus quantity long ago, instead of so long as the weather and munitions, which they hold on to their old extended The men of Kent were pleased and exhold, as a crime against the common front, do not hesitate to waste life with cited at taking so many prisoners about cause, and if we ease down a little in the out counting, and still maintain their

during the rest of the year. The 1912)

by A NORWEGIAN OFINION ON THE

WAR

Morgenblad, Captain Nor The military correspo

gard, whos work as a military critic ing the has been highly appreciated, expresses that the Central Powers lave lost opinion that the developments since beginning of the Allies offensive pro chances of winning the war.

Sout

28 the funniest thin in going back 700 yards under heavy fire is now confided partly to the

ever to report the situation, and volunteered Charles, who has only beaten duke that immense difficulties still confro. saw said the jovial captain. Out of to return with the message that the patrol under him, and partly to a Prussian expel the Central Powers from the occ other entrances the beggars tumbled up, could not be supported, and runst fall Marshal who cares nothing for Magyars. just for all the world lite rabbits. One back in small groups. This he did, and so long as East Prussia is clear of fogs.pied territory by military means fellow came out with bombs all round returned again in safety with the other Hindenburg is a stent old warrior, tary pressure is not the only meand whi

within a reasonable time. Still, about him in a belt. You infernal party, who brought with them three more Scoundrel, Isat

said what do you mean prisoners as samples" (to use their whose military capacity is entitled to the Allies can apply to crush their by coming up with all those explosives own phrase), incinding the huge offer respect. In saying, as he did some ponenta. Captain Norregaard candle. on you? He guessed what I meant, and whom I have described previously, months ago, that the military situation that the utmost the Central Powers tried to ando his belt, but he was so They have fazny fellows among them of Germany was brilliant but without hope to accomplish is to hold the gree terror stricken that he could not undo the beastly thing until I helped him.” (57

(Continued at foot of next Column)

this British battalion and the amount of comedy they extract from all this grim business is astounding.

Prospects he made the only intelligent part of what they have gazed, wi remark that has been attributed to a there is a possibility of victory for German during the war. But, keen Allies, even if it is not yet in night.