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WHAT AMERICA THINKS.

EFFECTS OF OUR VICTORIES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, CTOBER 26TH, 1916.

A SHATTERING BLOW.

“A GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY."

TURKISH ARMY DISCIPLINE ARABS DRILLED WITH THE WHIP A Turkish army conscript has been Writing from New York last month, Courcelette and Biera last monto, The Siving his experiences of Ottoman train Describing the taking of Martinpuich, the Financial Correspondent of The Times special correspondent at British 16 methods. From morning to night, Daily Telegraph said:—

he says, it was drill, drill, and again American

Headquarters wrote ndilitary writers are It has taken us so long and has cost, drill. immensely impressed with the

We were divided into groups of Afty recent such herce Aghting to make our way for performances and immediate prospects of 1,000 yards along the Bapaume road each of which was put in charge of a the British Army in France. Led away from Pozières! And now in a day we young non-commissioned officer from the by German propaganda, and also influenced by not a few arm-chair critics have swept over two miles of enemy Military School of Constantinople or here, who refused to believe you could country, and both Martinpuich and Damascus, or of some Arab who had

seen several years' service. raise such a magnificent army in so short Courcelette are in our hands.

Martinpuich was known to be very These instructors had a hard time of a time. America has bitherto given all strongly fortified and held. The troops, it; the German military system, which its praise to the French. On the anniver here as elsewhere along the front, when had only recently been introduced, was sary of the Marne the New York Tribune, the moment came went forward magni- too much for them They kept mixing which is not a yellow" or a German ecently, and swept the German pusitions up the old and the new methods of train- ever to the British, declaring that the Beyond the arst enemy trench was hopeless to try to make out their users paper, refused to give any credit what opposed to them almost without a checking, with the result that it was often French had done everything at the erries, or rather a maze, of other tren- Marne, and that the British had failed ches and fortified positions in shell-holes in dash; in fact," the British were never and the like. The tanks actively engaged in the battle at all." Britain, we were told hero at the time of very useful work--indeed, no less a per parts of the rifle; weeks more went to Verdun, was fighting to the last French man," and so forth

All of this was, of course, the product of ignorance on the part of the mass of Americans, and of malice on the part of a few. Now everything is changed. It feels good nowadays to be a "Britisher in the United States, and, despite all you read in the ppers about the villainy of the British ack List and Washing ton's threats of reprisal, the name and prestige of England never stood higher than to-day Influential military critics of Amerion's leading papers, basing their opinions on despatches sent by their own accredited representatives, are foremost to day in giving credit to the British, and recognise fully that your victories are not due to any languor in the German

defence.

here did

ARAM AND THE RIFLE.

Whole weeks were spent in grinding into the Arabs the names of the different teaching them to clean it--although it

GERM

TRAPS.

THEIR FAILU TO CATCH THE WARY BRESH SOLDIER

the special Corre dent of The Times One heare mucalk nowadays (says at British Beady ers) from men who various aluminati which the Germans have been in our test pushes of the leave behind them on they are driven out of a trench have been driven "ut of so many there are fairly expert on the subject of fated trenches now. From the beginning has always been very careful abo picking up any out. It is wiser, move it carefully first, because all st of casual articles article lying about a trench or dug

themselves but in Man's Land in have been fong fined by strings to hidden mines. Not ly in the trenches

boen set for the unv; but the unwary front of the trench arious traps havo

person among Briti soldiers is grow

ng extremely scaro

The profusion of abs and grenades. concerting, even thou they are merely abandoned and coin no hidden devilry. Even a harms-looking board, the other end and it a cord to a when you tread on ilmay kick up at

hidden mine. A thinnown as the tor toise, which looks soming like an iron hot water dish such a he sees on break- fast tables, standing on four short

son than a German. battalion commander surrendered to the tank" itself, and was taken on board us a passenger, must be said that, once they had mastying about is als a trife dis

Up to the outskirts of Martisipaich,tered these technicalities, they were ex while there was very stiff fighting, the cellent shots. Their efficiency would have attacking troops had no great difficulty, been considerably greater if there hat Then in the ruins of the village were been more target shooting. the usual deep dug-outs and fortified positions. The place bristled with ma that there was a scarcity of ammunition From the very first, however, we felt chine-guns, and was held by the enemy, This shortage the drill masters, in a in great strength. For long the fight spirit of compensation, attempted to went on among the ruins of the village, make up by abundant severity. our men pushing forward almost yard. The whip of set, flexible, stinging by yard, reducing one strong point after leather, which seldom leaves the Turkish another, until the whole place was in officer's hand, was never idle. This was trenches. It must be indled with cir their hands and they had dug themselves not surprising, for the Arab is a cunning the torpedo which the whale mistook in in a line on the farthest northern and fellow, whose only respect is for brute for fish. Now, in soft mud the cumspection or it goes violently, liko eastern sides. The village of Martin force. He exercises it himself over every paich alone yielded, it is believed, tome 700 of the 1,400 prisoners who were taken possible victim, and expects the same on Friday by the troops engaged on this treatment from his superiors. bit of the front.

THE TAKING, OF, COURCELETTE.

A SUCCESSFUL DRIBS,

Ihn had experience with corruptible Turkish officers, and one day when The troops who teak Courcelette had an barrack conditions became unendurable extraordinary experience. Less than two I went to the officer commanding our hours before our advance was to be made division-an old Arab from Latekish, the Germans delivered one of the heaviest who had been called from retirement at attacks which they have yet made, on the the time of the mobilisation. He lived in front just north of the Bapaume Road, a little tent near the mosque, where I They succeeded in breaking into our found him squatting on front-line trench, and hard fighting and bombing were going on when the hour adding drowsily over his comfortable set for our advance arrived. At the Paunch leg appointed moment our men went forward 1 entered boldly, squatted beside him, As he was an officer the old régime, from the support lines, and other posi- tions in rear of the trench which the and told him my troubles. The answer Germans had entered. Never was & came with an enormous shrug of the counter-attack delivered with such shoulders promptitude or in such strength. The "You are serving the Sultan. Hard Germans themselves must have marvelled, ship should be sweet!",

wobbly legs, has been und in several

amiable enemy is bung large steel man-traps of the famiar gin type, strong enough, it is eved, to break man's shinbone it caught him fairly.

What impresses on most about all these things is the inner amount of ingenuity and trouble ich the German sponds on tricks which are no possible true military value. feel confident that all these devices thether have not the floor cost us five lives since i battle begon. do not know for cein that they have cost ua one, thoug I have beard and of one man having is ankle dis- of men being wounded a tortoise,

what kind of an enemy German sup located in a trap - Rufione wonders

poses the British Armybe if there things are to be of any against it. He might as well beat toroms or paint horrid faces on his sandle parapets.

Sometimes bis wilinesses the form of evacuating a trench in the expecta- tion that we shall delightly occupy it. We are distrustful of trenes which are given to us as presents. Resently n patrol reported that a ver considerable of them and taken others prisoners before "A crime A crime !" I interrupted. portion of the Aswitch trench was they started from their own, front line. To think of it, when I, a humble deserted. So we lay low in our own There were very formidable German soldier, have dozens of them at home! I lines and watched. Presently the enemy positions in front of Courcelette, esperi eially two trenches, which the enemy had should be honoured if you would allow opened a terrific bombardent on the My voice trailed off sugges empty trench and then mit gallantly fortified in every possible way. Twice waves of men went forward and failed

on pushed it with his infantry who were reach the trenches. The third wave swept

could you get hoc 1" he hides in holes close by. Then it was into and over both trenches and into seked.

that the trench began to atorest us! and over both trenches and into the out-"Oh, I have friends here in Saffed; and we promptly went for and took skirts of Courcelette. It was not sup- but I must be able to sleep in a nice it and have held it ever sin posed that the place could be taken at place."

THE TERRIBLE BRITISH ARMY. One realises here, after reading reports from all quarters that the Germans are being beaten back because they cannot stand, and Americans in general now understand for the very first time that the "contemptible British Army" has become a terrible British Army. The French," says the New York Times to day, have had praise, deserved and plentiful, for their heroism. It is well to spare a little for the creation of dead Kitchener, irresistible in its might, pro- digious in its courage, terribly avenging on the Germans and the ancers of neutrals.

Such is the keynote of editorial refer- ences in the world's greatest neutral country, and they deserve emphasis to day because Americans have been told so many times by Berlin that the German if they had time to think of anything I should be more fit to serve him if army in the West was invincible, that as our men, wave after wave, swept on I got more sleep and rest."? they did no look for anything more sub-to and over them and out beyond, in the He waved a fat hand about the tent stantial than a deadlock on the old lines, attack itself as it had been originally Look at me! Here I am, an offer This view has been reinforced here by planned. The only real difference that of rank, aud"-shooting a knowing American correspondents with the Ger- the German attack made was that our look at me."I have not even orice man army, who have been fed with super- men had already killed a large number blanket.” “ optimistic reports and legends in the same way as the German populace. The only rift in the lute comes to-day from A few German-American newspapers, which stem alarmed at the performances of your armoured ears, and protest against “auch diabolical juggernauts." as inbamane and contrary to the spirit if not the letter of international law.

THE FOXY KING OF BULGARIA. CULMINATION OF A LIFE OF TREACHERY.

The wheel has come full circle.

· FIVE YEARS AGO.

tively,

"How

this stage of the fighting, but (as I re"Of course; certainly. What would gently fold of the French) our men, you suggest???*

ALL HOGS TOGETHER.

having wou all that they were set to win. "That hotel kept by the Jowish widow clamoured to be allowed to go on. It might do, I replied.... was after 6 in the evening before the More amenities were exchanged, the troops on right and left of this attack upshot of which was that my four friends along the Road and directly against the and I were given permission to sleep at face of the village--had both completed the inn- humble place, but infinitely their work and firmly held the ground better than the mosque. It was all perof the waiters is such as to use the up to the village itself. Then they went fectly simple. on; and by 8.10 o'clock at night they had worked clear through the ruins and had carried two especially strong positions

A new disaster, according the Tag. liche Rundschau, has fallen of Berlin -

The tone of our cafes and lestaurants has become one of vulgar brutaity, down- right repellent to a person of rancinent.

The bearish anties and unminerliness

feeling that the guest has enterți by mis- take a resort of fish porters; y, for the most part, waiters and diners al seem to be cut from the same cloth. They equal

on the farther side the cemetery on the On the east of High Wopil, again, was north-east and a quarry on the north of made almost the biggest push forwardech other in vulgarity and rudness. the village,

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Taking the text Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein, the Daily Telegraph devotes a leading article to King Ferdi rand of Bulgaria, His plight at this zament, it says, is no occasion for idle insult. But certain things must be said of him--and it seems to us that this is the time in which they should be said. The man has at last felt the touch of the Ret upon him which he has so persistent ly and mercilessly set for others; and there is, perhaps, no living man who will feel in his heart even a trace of remorse as the seine is relentlessly drag

beloved when we visited foreign countries, Red ashore;

The record of Ferdinand of Bulgaria gallantly carried out. There is no doubt In the capture of Flers the troops

is now flourishing more than ever

All this notwithstanding a Berlinagi- will probably always possess an interest that the enemy losses were immensely fought splendidly, taking in successive strate took the part of a waiter at the for the paychologist and the student of heavier than those of the attacking pushes, first, the German switch" line Cafe Bauer who shouted to a cotoner, ural debility; but, unlike many other troops. They suffered seriously by the which still an unbroken across this art Stop your jaw, or I will smas your careera of unscrupulous ambition, at no useless attack which anticipated ours of the front, and then all the ground to

ugly snout!" thus encouraging these moment has it been touched by even a and they were in great strength in the the outskirts of the lagen hemen of boors to become still more brutal and vo passing gleam of nobility; never, from whole area which was captured. From their right had been keeping abreast

bearable. the beginning to the fast-nearing end, has Courcelette some 400 prisoners were there and then took up the advance and

tte some d

The owner of the Cafe Bauer, had he his miserable career been redeemed by taken.

went through the village itself. The constancy to any principle but his own

the slightest conception of the decencies position which gave most trouble appears of social life, should have dismissed this personal advancement.

to have been a fortified position of

great On the right of these two attacks, that strength situated on the Ginchy-Lesbeufs unmannerly waiter as an example to the is, to the cast of Martinpaich, is the Highroad, which these troops seem to have others. After all, however, the man, no Five years ago he was ordering from much trouble in this battle by reason attack the toks

Wood area, a point which has given as taken most gallantly. In this part of the doubt, argued--and very logically, too---

that the present-day public are Paris the robes for his Coronation as Em chiefly of the fortified position, of which while our seroplanes came down low and worthy of their servitors Where all are

also did their part. peror of Byzantium; to-day he is a I have spoken several times, on the used their machine-guns on the enemy in bags, one hog the more does not matter. restless fugitive between the postern doors extreme eastern angle of the wood, where his trenches and in the fortified position. of palaces in Sofa and Vienna, hated by a large thine crater had been converted on the roedded the Bulgarian people, whom he has into a veritable fortress of unusual

THE DANGEROUS DAWN OF betrayed, and branded as a suspect by strength. From bere and from the

Per Amakusu Maru, from Swatow, Mr. the very men whose cities are grudgingly highest point on the ground, which is which has seen the most shattering blow It has been a great and glorious day,

WOMANHOOD.

G. Rault and Mr. A. Hentrice, opened to him incognito and deserted. just below the extreme northern point which we have yet dealt the enemy. NeverGirls upon the threshold of womanhood etc., Mr. H, Alkau, Miss B.-I. Allen, Per Shingo Maru, from San Francisco, The world has not forgotten what, hap of the wood, the enemy has been able to was the Army in better spirits, pened in October, 1916, when he plunged sweep the whole wood with machine guns flushed with the wine of victory, more care and attention.

more often drift into a decline in spite of all Rev. and Mrs. F. P. Beach and infant, his unwilling country into war with her which were so placed that our guns confident of its ability to beat the German lively girls become weak, depressed, irrit barn, Miss D. F. Blackburn, Mr. H. Even strong and Miss Francis Beach, Mrs. M. C. Black patron and liberator, Russia.

could not reach them. If our men could under all conditions. And never has the able and listless. It is the dawn of Bowers, Miss P. L. Chevrier, Mr. D. E. Those were terrible days in Sofia. take High Wood, as they have taken it, enemy seemed more broken by defeat wemanhood-a crisis in the life of every Cappleman, Mr. C. Campo Rencoret, Mr. Again and again the elder and greater I doubt if there is anything on earth Prisoners who have been taken do not girl-and prompt measures should be F. B, Crawley, Lient, and Mrs. G. W. men of Bulgaria-Gueschoff, Buvo, that they cannot take and will not take hesitate to say that Germany is kapit taken to keep the blood pure and rich De Armond, Miss M. Dort, Mr. P. M. Stambuleski, and Malinoff-argued, pro- if they are asked. tested, and pleaded for their country, but

so depressed are they and so stunned by with the red tint of health. The tanks," again, were of service our success-but the prisoner immediately

Davis, Mr. H. K. Dempsey, Mr. and Mre, in vain, The Bulgarians were indeed here, especially in helping to reduce the after his capture is seldom in a mood to tien at this critical stage the body ley, Miss D. Endeley, Mr. H. W Frantz If the blood is not in a healthy condi- F. T. Daniels, Mr. and Mrs H. B. Ends resentful and hostile, but the chiefs of strong point on the eastern angle of the look at anything but the blackest side. becomes ill-nourished and grave disorders Mr. and Mrs. C, Humphreys, Mr. and the Army had been won over, and wood. But our men first worked up both Personally I have no ides that Germany may result. Radoslavoff was a mere tool in Ferdi sides of the wood, fighting their way is yet kaput. That any German soldier is not maintained by the flow of pure, D. Hargis Master P. M. Hargis, Mr. If the bealth of the body Mrs. B. Honig, Miss A Honig, Mr. O nand's baud.

almost by yards over the series of small should dare to say so, however, in strong blood, all sorts of evils and weak and Mrs. W. C. G. Howard, Mrs. F The words in which Russia entered which the ground was

trenches and shell-hale positions with captivity or elsewhere, is evidence of the nesses follow, and these may lead to fatal Haskell, Miss K. Johnson, Miss H. John- her protest against Ferdinand will encircled the wood which was still full of successes which we have won upon this saved thousands of young girle from what K. V. Khiani, Miss E, Koilerman, Mr. They intense moral effect of the long sequence disease. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have son, Miss J. Johrison, Mr. L. Jeffs, Mr. live longer than the man against of machine-guns and enemy, sheltered in front. whom it was

directed: "Bulgaria, every cunning way. Then, beginning We know the German has hurried down erht have been life-long invalidism or B. B. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. and but from our live at the lower side of the here from the North, I have to-day They are a blood-builder of unequalled Nitamura, Mr T. Morren, Mrs. E. M.

early death.

Loftus, Miss C. M. Mitchell, Mrs. 1. a short while back liberated from the wood, they went steadily through it. Ispoken with one man of the 38th Regi richness, strengthening weak nerves and Mulder, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mr. 8. MAT Beusian people, has openly taken sides the dead which it contains, with its of September 14-15, and was in the fight healthy blood which a with the enemies of the Christian faith, defences, and the enemy machine-guns, ing hine here in time to be taken prisoner stain her strength. of Blavism, and of Basia, who leaves the was horrible in every foot of it. But on the morning of September 16. Accord Pink Pills have proved their value over ing, Mr. G. H. Pettersen, Mr. W. W. Dr. Williams Mrs. M. H. Peart, Dr. N. R. Pekelhar- fate of the betrayer of the Blav cause to we cleaned it out and bold it and our ing to other prisoners, three divisions and over again to young women the just punishment of God."

line due north of it is about 1,000 yards have been recently hurried down here; an health was failing. We do not believe that there is in this beyond its furthest extremity

g women whose Payne, Mr. and Mra Palencia, Mr. W. A. Peairs, Hiss M. B. Remedios, Mra. man a spark of regret for the disaster be It is just two months since the first to help in their transportation,

Pink Pills for Pale People; if preferred, G. L. Robbins, Mr and Mrs. D. L. Smith, limmense service of motor-cars being used. has brought upon hireople. The col-small detachments of our troops pene

Any dealer can supply Dr. Williams E. MRichard and child, Mr. and Mrs. Lapse of his person ambitions no doubt trated High Wood, in the attack of July put too high an estimate on one's successes Road, Shanghai, will send them direct land and infant, Mr. B. E. Bolomon, It is easy in the moment of victory to Dr. Willams Medicine Co., 96, Stechen Mr L. Bledman, Mr. and Mrs. Buther- affects him bitter but the deepest feel 14th It may be questioned if any single and on their effect upon the enemy. But for $1.50 bottle or six bottles for 38, Miss G. Salinas, Mr. L U Sherman, Mrs, ing is probably rentiment against those point at Verdun itself has seen more be as moderate as one may, nothing can post free- who have shouldered him aside, and are fierce fighting than High Wood has seen obscure the fact that we have won a great now attempting to save some remnants in the Inst 60 days. Ita final capture is, success--nore sweeping at some points women is the little book, "Plain Talks Thomson, Mrs. F. Thornhill, Mr. D. D.

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