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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY TH, 1917.

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THE WESTERN FRONT.

THE WAR LANDSCAPE,

[BY K. G. WALLS.}

A journey up from the base to the front trenches at the present time shows an interesting series of phases. One leaves A big town, in which the normal life threads its way through crowds of resting men in khaki and horizon blue, in which staff officers in automobiles whisk hither and thither, in which there are nurses, even a few inexplicable ladies in worldly costume, in which restaurants and cafes are congested and busy, through which there is a perpetual coming and going of processions of heavy vans to the rail- One dodges past & way sidings. monstrous blue-black gun going up to the British front behind two resoluto trac tion engines, the three sun-blistered young men in the cart that trails behind, lounge in attitudes of haughty pride that would shame the ceiling gods of Ramp ton Court. One passes through arcades of waiting motor-vans, through suburbs still more intensely khaki or horizon- blue, and so out upon the great, straight, poplar-edged rond-to the front. Some- times one laces through spates of heavy traffic, sometimes the dusty road is clear METEOROLOGICAL ahead, now we pass a vast aviation camp, now a park of waiting field guns, now an encampment of cavalry. One turns aside, and abruptly one is in France France as one knew it before the war, on a shady secondary road, past a de- lightful chateau behind its from gates. past a beautiful church, and then sudden

y we are in a village street full of stately Indian soldiers.

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It betraya no military secret to say that sometimes the rare tourist, to the British offensive visits Albert with its great modern red cathedral smashed to pieces. and the great gilt Madonna and Child that once surmounted the tower now, as everyone knows, hanging out horizontal- ly over the road in an attitude that irre- sistibly suggests an imminent dive upon the passing traveller.

One looks right up under it.

GERMAN PRISONERA. Presently we begin to Bee Cermat prisoners. The whole lot look entirely contented, and are guarded by perhaps a couple of men in khaki. These German prisoners do not attempt to escape; they have not the slightest desire for any more fighting, they have done their bit, they say, honour is satisfied. They give re

A little way markably little trouble. further on, perhaps, we pass their cage, a double barbed wire enclosure with few tents and huts within.

A string of covered wagons passes by I turn and see a number of men sitting inside and looking almost as cheerful as a beanfeast in Epping Forest. They make facetious gestures. They have a

old Dne

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camps and batteries creep forward, the stores, the dumps, the railways creep forward, in their

thrust against the German victorious

lines. Over head hum and rear the aeroplanes, away towards the enemy the bumped blue Bausage-shaped kite balloons brood thoughtfully, and from this point and that, guns curiously invisible until they speak Aash suddenly, and strike their. one short hammer-blow of sound..

LORD FRENCH'S TRIBUTE TO NURSES.

OPENING OF NEW CLUBHOUSE

Lord French, in opening the Imperial Nurses' Club at 137, Ebury-street, ro- cently, said:

It gives me peculiar pleasure to come Then one sece an enemy shell drop here this afternoon to open this club, among the little patch of trees on the because of all the arduous and zealous crest to the right, and kick up a. great toilers throughout this terrible war nono red-black mass of smoke and dust. We deserve our heartfelt sympathy and see it, and then we hear the whine of its gratitude more than that band of devoted arrival, and at last the bang. The Ger- fadios who have given up their lives to mans are blind now. They have lost the the care of the wounded.

In all my air; they are firing by guesswork and experience of warfare in Egypt, South their knowledge of the abandoned terri- Africa, and Europe the military nursing tory

sistor and her glorious self-sacrificing They think they have got divisional work have ever impressed upon my mind headquarters there," someone remarks the best form of high-souled Christian courage and devotion to duty. In those early days, in Egypt when the Sudub was a seething mass of fanatic dervishes, to fall into whose hands meant death and torture oven to a man, these noble women used to accompany our forces under burning Bung up to the very border line of imminent danger, and were only prevented by the most peremp tory orders from ranning terrible risks of death and capture. In South Africa and during the prosent war in France, no one can measure the value of their devoted work:

There is very

They haven't. But they keep on." In this zone, where shells burst, the wise automobile stops and tucks itself away as inconspicuously as possible close up to a heap of ruins, little traffic on the road now except for a van or so that hurries up, unloads, and gets back as soon as possible. Mules and men are taking the stuff the rest of the journey. We are in a flattened village, undermined by dug-outs that were in the original German second line. We sepert ourselves to a young Troglodyto in one of these and are given a guide, journey to the ultimate point, across the and so set out, on the last part of the land of shell craters and barbed wire

litter and old and new trenchos. Wo

have all put on British stool helmets, hard, but heavy and inelegant head coverings. I can write little that is printable about these nesthetic crimes. The French and German helmets are noble and beautiful things. These pans...

They ought to be called by the name of the man who designed them.

Presently we are advised to get into a communication trench, It is not a very attractive communication trench, and we stick to our track across the open. Three or four shells shiver overhead, but we decide they are British shells, going out. We reach a supporting trench, in which men are waiting in a state of near- ly insupportable boredom for their mid day stew, the one event of interest in a day-long vigil, Here we are told impera tively to come right in at once, and we do.

IN THE FRONT LINE TRENCH.

All pramunication trenches are tortu ous and practically endless. On an offer sive front they have vertical sides of un- supported earth, and occasionally Boak aways for rain covered by wooden grav- 1 ings, and they go on and on and on. rare intervals they branch, and a notice. board says. "To Regent-street" or "To all just trench. For a time you talk, but Oxford-street," or some such lie. It is

You

chief command at home I have visited Since I left France and took up the almost all the hospitals in London and many others in all parts of the United Kingdom. Conducted as these hospitals

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with no effort spared to ensure bright and cheerful surroundings, and with every endeavour made to ensure the utmost possible measure of comfort for the wounded and maimed soldiere, there must yet always be within them an atmosphere of depression and sadness inseparable from the contemplation of strong vigorous frames maimed and in- jured for life, and young lives perman ently blighted by the loss of sight or limbs. Dangerous operations are con stantly going on, and in spite of the gallant efforts, so pathetic to watch, to conceal it, pain and suffering are plainly visible on many of those still white faces along the rows of ents. One cannot help, after an hour or two spent in those hospitals, leaving them with a deep senes of sorrow and sadness.

in this depressing atmosphere that, week Yet it is in these and surroundings and in and week out, for more than two long yeara these noble-minded women have spent nearly every moment of their lives. Surely no effort can be too great for us to make to give them what peace, rest, and recreation is possible for lives so spent. It is to full such a purpose that this club has been started. If nurses are to be fit and strong in mind and body before going abroad, or while You doing their abnormal strenuous work at home, they need some place of rest such as this club, which will be bracing and invigorating.

won-

Na 20 subdued sing-song going on. But one of talking in single file soon pails.

them looks a little sick, and then I notice cease to talk, and trudge. A great num not very obtrusive bandages. Sittingber of telephone wires come into the up cases," my guide explains. These are trench, and cross and recross it. -- part of the casualties of last night's fight. The Belds in either aide are now more evidently in the war zone. The array of carts, the patches of tents, the coming and going of men increases. are three women harvesting, and presem ly in cornfield are German prisoners working under

Frenchman. the Then the fields become trampled again. Here is a village, not so very much knocked about, and passing through it wo go slowly beside a long column of men going up to the front. We scan their collars for signs of some familiar regi- ment. These are new men going up for the first time; there is a sort of solemn elation in many of their faces. The men coming down are usually smothered in mud or dust, and unless there has been a fight they look pretty well done up.

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cannot keep clear of them. Your helmet pings against them, and they try to re move it. Sometimes you have to stop

you and crawl under wires. Then der what the trench is like in really wel You hear a shell burst at no weather:

You pass two pages of great distance.

Strand Magazine.' Perhaps thirty yards on you pass a cigarette end. After these sensational incidents, the trench quiets down again, and continues to wind endlessly-just wiry, sandy, extremely narrow trench.

At last you reach the front-line trench On an offensive sector it has none of the architectural interest

first-line trenches at such places as Boissons or Arras. It was made a week or ay ago by joining up shell craters, and if all goes well we move into the German trench hy the line of scraggy trees, st

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We can peep discreetly because night. chrapnel over the enemy at the rate of just at present our guns are putting about three shells a minute, the puffs fol- low each other up and down the line, and no Germans are staring about to

see us

Such a club requires money as all its appointments ought to be in keeping with the objects it is desired to attain. Appeals to help the sick and wounde are easily felt, but the public is evidently not accustomed to consider the needs and lives of nurses, for the funds are very slow in coming in. Help in the shape of gifts, both in money and in kind, is seeded at once, for whan the club is adequately set going the members' sub- seriptions will keep it afloat.

They club, for which only the initial expenses have been asked from the public, is intended for all nurses, home and colonial, who have had a full, general training or who are in course of such training. The member's 'subscription is and 7. 6d. for probationers, 10%.. 6d. a year for fully trained nurses

dining room tariff is moderate, and the are charmingly decorated, tho drawing room, lounge, and

quiet. room are comfortably furnished. There are four bedrooms. which can be used for nurses passing through London. The whole air of the place is very homely.

rooms

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some of the youngsters drag. One plea- sant thing about this coming down is the is usually at work as soon as the men welcome of the regimental band, which

turn off from the high road.

I heard several bands on the British front; they do much to enhance the general cheerful- DENS, On one of the days of my tour 1 had the pleasure of seeing the Blank-

The Germans "strafed" this trench over-night, and the men are tired and shires coming down after a fight. As we

sleepy. Our guns away behind us are drew near I saw that they combined an

doing their best to give them a reat by extreme muddiness with an unusua relasticity. They all seemed to be look strafing the Germans. One or two men are in such forward- sap keeping a look- ing us in the face instead of being too

out; the rest sleep, a motionless sleep, in Then I Zagged to bother about us. noticed a nice grey helmet dangling from the earthy shelter pits that have been one youngster's bayonet in fact, his eye cooped out. One officer sits by a tele- directed me to it. A man behind him phone under an earth-covered tarpauling,

and a weary man is doing the toilette of The wearing of moustaches by British had black German helmet of the type a machine gun. We go on to a shallow soldiers having been made optional by a best known in English illustrations; then

recent Army order, the kind of moustache trench in which we must stoop, and which two more grey appeared. The catch of

has been badly knocked about... allowed is now regulated by an official helmets had been indeed quite consider.

Here we have to stop. The road to Ber-notice issued in the Aldershot Command. able. Then I perceived on the road bankin is not opened out beyond this point. It states that if a moustache is worn above, and marching parallel with this

My companion on this excursion is a

no portion of the upper lip is to be column, a double file of still muddier

man I have admired for years and never shaved." Germans. Either they ware caps or went

Bee the no helmets act before until I came out bare-headed-there- among them. We do not rob our prison-war. He is a journalist. Two-thirds of ers, but a helmet is a helmet.

were

MAKE-BELIEVE MOUSTACHES,

This may do away with the "Charle Chaplin and tooth-brush" moustaches, the British officers I met on this journey

which came into fashion in the Army were really not "Army men at all because Somo Bori of make-believe. Now one finds that the apparent officer moustache. had to be worn. is really a musician, or a musical critic, or an Egyptologist, or a solicitor, or a cloth manufacturer, or a writer. At the outbreak of the war my guide dyed his craters, and you see them at twilight hop- hair to conceal its tell-tale silver, and ping about from one to the other." We having been laughed to scorn by the

have very little wire, because we don't ordinary recruiting people enlisted in

mean to stay for very long in this trench, the Sportsman's Battalion. He was and the Germans have very little wire woanded and then the authorities dis- because they have not been able to get covered that he was likely to be of more use with a commission, and drew him,

it up yet. They never will get it up now, in spite of a considerable resistance, out I had been led to believe that No Man's of the firing line. To which he always Land was littered with the unburied returns whenever he can got a visitor to dead; but I saw nothing of the sort at take with him as an excuse. He now this place. There had been no Gerua stood up, fairly high and clear, explain-counter-attack since our men came up ing casually that the Germans were no here. But at one point as we went along longer firing, and showed me the points the trench there was a dull stench. of interest.

ONE OF HAIG'S BAILWAYS. Now and then one sces afar off an am- munition dump, many hundreds of stacks of shells without their detonators as yet -being unloaded from railway trucks, transferred from the broad gauge to the narrow gauge line, or loaded isto motor trolleys

Now and then one crosses railway line The railway linea run everywhere now bohind the British front, the construction follows the advance day by day. They go as fast as the guns One's guide remarks as the car bumps over the level crossing: That is one of Haig's railways. It is an aspect of the Commander-in-Chief that has much in pressed and pleased the men. And at fast we begin to enter the region of the former Allied trenches, we pass the old German front line, we pass ruined houses, ruined fields, and thick patches of clustering wooden crosses and boards

I had come right up to No Man's Land where the dead of the opening assaults

at last. It was under my chin. The skyline, lie. There are no more reapers now, there is no more green upon the field, the last akyline before the British could there is no green anywhere, scarcely a lock down on Bapaume, showed a mangy a ruined village, crouching tree survives by the road-side, but only wood and overthrown trunks and splintered under repeated gobbings of British "They've got a battery just stamps the fields are wildernesses of shrapnel shell craters and coarse weeds, the very there, and we're making it uncomfort woods are collections of blasted stema and able." No Man's Land itself is a weedy

This stripped branches.

absolutely space broken up by shell craters, with ravaged and ruined battlefield country very little barbed wire in front of us and very little in. front of the Germans. extends now along the front of the Somas offensive for a depth of many" They've got mipers in most of the miles across it the French and British- (Continued at foot of next Doluma.)

ON THE EDGE OF NO MAN'S LAND.

Germans, I think," said my guide, though I do not see how he could tell. He looked at his watch and remarked reluctantly, “If you start at once you may just do it."

I wanted to catch the Boulogne boat. It was then just past one in the after- noon. We met the stew as we returned along the communication trench, and it amelt very good indeed. We hurried across the great spaces of rusty desola- tion, upon which every now and again a German shell was bursting...

By one a.m. I was in my flat in London. I had finished reading the accumulated letters of some weeks, and I was just going comfortably to bed.