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·RUSSIAN TIDE RISING.

AT FLOOD IN APRIL.

INTERVIEW WITH STANLEY WASHBURN.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRIES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2018, 1917,

THE RUMANIAN CAMPAIGN.

OUR ALLIES AGAINST HEAVY

ODDS.

An Independence member of the Roumanian front has given & long inter- Hungarian Parliament coming from the view Nepsena, explaining from the military correspondent of the point of view why the Roumanians tave suffered defeat.'

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In an interview with a presentative of the Japan Advertiser, be said:

"There will be no peso for Russis until Germany is defeard, just as there they had to face greatly superior artil As a matter of fact, at most points will be no peace for England or Francelery and superior numbers as well. With › It ia no longer a war between the regard to the artillery, nowhere has the Russian Government and the Gar number of heavy guns employed by the man Government, but slowly the war Austro-Hungarian and German forces

the been so great as it has been on this part has become a struggle between the Rusan, people will not make peace that it was these guns that won the battle Russian people sad the Germans. And cular front,

The artillerymen declare There is a peace party-in other words & and made it possible for the army to proderman party in Rusia-but to advance so rapidly particularly as they illustrate this party's position in Russia were brought up with such extraordinary Mr. Washburn draws on his own rich rapidity after the advancing army, fund of axperiences;

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Into this place went the Scottish worgeant and his five men to reconnoitry and and out if the chemy ware still there. It is mbous as sale a thing so to go into a jungle frequented by tigers to see if they are at home. There was no shot fired, and the small party of six went on, until Mr. Stanley Washburn, who for the

suddenly they heard voices. They stop- last two years has been the correspond

An ice-cold rain has been falling to ped and listened. They had come to a ent of the London Tomes with the Tsar's

morning discussing the state of the were many Germans talking loudly, as day, and as I sat with soms officers this line, of dug-outs, and down below there armies, is paying a visit to Japan. He

enemy's lines, and of ours, the wind best though quarrelling and cusing. bas enjoyed unusual opportunities for

The This member, against the window of an old chateau Scots those six men-dung two bombs moving the eastern war, for he has been who took part in the operations under and howled through a roofless wing of in the entrance way of the tunnels. They permitted to go where he pleased, being Falkenhayn and was one of the first to the house, so that one's very spirit barst with an explosive roar, which was the only journalist to enjoy such enter Craiova, declares that after the privilege. He has been over the entire battle of Brasso it was clear the Ron-shivered at the wailing Rotten for the followed by crice of terror.

A few Russian front,

manians stood no chance even at these men," said one of the officers, and moments later sixty German soldiers points where they were equal in num rotten for the roads again." The sky rushed out with their hands up, and hers to their opponents.

was leaden, and it was what the airmen surrendered to the ex. The Scots were would calla, dud day" as far were firing continuously keeping the sergeant detached two of his men to at embarrassed to know what to do with such observation goes. But our heavy gusta crowd, and after some deliberation the Huns unhappy, as our men say and conduct them to the edge of the village. above the cry of the wind came the Then he made further explorations, and are shocks of noise with their tale of came back an hour later, after a hot time does not budge in the mud the guns go and shell-fire. winter warfare. Though the infantry under machine gun fre, snipers bullets,, his front lines beyond the old Flers linca this war will make the very virtue seen on with their work day and night. In, The stories of individual courage in the enemy is not more comfortable commonplace, though, as God knows, it than we are

He sits in a ling is hard to be brave in the presence of linked-up shell-craters, with hideous death. For sixty hours, which communication But in order to discover the main rea "EVERYTHING BUT THE SOLDIERS.";

trenches, beyond is nearly three days and nights, two Bon of the Boumanian failure one saust There is no comfort, in a position like Infantry worked under intense shell-fre the ruins within reach of our guns, private soldiers of the Durham Light During Brusiloff' deivo

last go deeper than this. The fact is that the that, nor safety, nor anything but misery as stretcher bearers, going out into the he anys, the Fifth Biberian tough and seasoned German, Austria, of and vileness. He tries to dig, but our Army Corps came back into reserve si Hungarian soldier, after his long experi shell-fire stops his industry and blows his open again and again to bring in the Lutsk after being pretty badly dusted in shop of war, is a bit of a general himself the fighting osat of Kovel. The corps by now, had he is led by trained Hoers. Bapaume line, he is digging and tunnelno passion in them save the fire of self-Assiring to leave the Colony akonit apply

work is accustomed to discipline to bite. Beyond, along the wounded whe lay about in the mud had lost heavily, and when I asked the and non-commissioned officers, the latter ling and wiring with more chance of sacrifice and charity. What they had was These men were not fighting. They had at home, general at Lartek to let me sisit his representing the cream of the industrial succes, and a there will be along the poblest type of courage. And of troops and sco how they had come classes. The Roumanian peasant is of respite before the British are at him another kind was that of a Sect, another through, he told me he was embarrassed different type altogether.

in person at the CENTRAL POLIGM STATION between the hours of 8 a.m. in 2 van, nei 7 P.M. He deeply again. to allow my request. He explained that loves his native country and is devoted in addition to the losses before Kerel to his duty as a soldier, but, as a rule, against the inevitable evils of winter, when a shell came and crashed into the

Se 4 P.X. fully, Our men are putting up a stiff defence sentry in a front-line, trench at dawn, portal or identification papera.

Argyll and Sutherland man, who was u Appleamin will on division had been sent to Riga, he is illiterate, and even many of the son and are not beaten by these hardships. entrance of s dug-out in which a machine rata in the Colany for more than 7 days I be required to prečnos Paas- other to another part of the line, and commissioned officers to whom he looks In sheepskin coats and trench waders gun team lay asleep. The sentry had the required to Register themselves under the All persons with curtain sxceptions whe about all he had left was & staff and for guidance have no idea of what a map and steel helmacts they look like queer instinct of a goalkeeper, and it was a REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDIN headquarters. He had all the apparatus is for. Most of the Roumanian soldiers combinations of the shepherd, the sea sudden call of instinct knowing the ACE 16 for carrying on a campaign except the in time of peace are farm labourers, and soldiers.

they have never been subjected to any not bother about appearances, and going which made him do the maddest man, and the Puritan soldier, but do sleeping, men depended on his goalkeep- "That's about the position of the pro- kind of discipline. In Roumanis prac German party in Russia now. They tically there are but two classes the pes about this dirty job of war in the practi- neat thing. He flung himself at the have leaders, & staff, beadquarters, and santry and the boyars or big landowners. cal make the best-of-it way which is the shell, asized the frightful thing in both a plan of campaiga-all they lack is the The latter, it is true, are highly intelli-ential character of the New Army men hands, and hurled it over the parapet szwding $50, soldiers. They had no backing among gent and make excellent officers, but they It was in the heavy rains of November all is 30secs, of fine. the Russian people.

are without the support of middle-class that they had to suffer most, and it was" dud," and did not explode, but that The Russian people at simple, reserve officers, such as constitute 75 per then that they had the chance of showing was his luck, and not a lessening of his elemental-not like the

cent. of the total number of officers in all the grit that was in mor volatile, responsive peoples of other warring

our Army.

It is easy to see, therefore, that we are Scots and Irish lads and Welshmen

showed it. Lancashire men and killed supreme act of faith. Countries. It has taken then a long time to wake to the war, and they have superior to the Roumanians in man-squared their jaws and plunged into a risen to the situation slowly like the tion is very different There the English and styles of speech, "It's a bloody to do with courage, or

power. ry different. There the English and of mud, and said in different dialects toll of a carious thing which has nothing Large New Consignment of and/or car hasedona Godistos at tide. Russia will not reach the tenth and French are in every way a match for business, this war, but it's got to be done soldiers, but much to do with this war, of her power until next April. When the Germans, for the men there are of so get on with it, boys. Stick which has made a great wide belt of the first Insaan forces were sent to the the same build, the same strength, and it! front, there were many troops who did the same mental capacity and training fast and too deep in shell-holes and soft over a country where many people had And they stuck-sometimes too destruction across France and Belgium not know whom they were going to fight. Look at Serbia, a smaller But slowly that knowledge and the hatred Roumania, but one on a much higher

country than ground. of the Germans has come to all the love of culture, and one which produces

their houses and their home. A few days nation, clear to the Pacific Ocean. When fighters as good as any, who have taken

igo a French civilian and his wife, a soldier has been wounded he has gone part in this war. But then Serbia 's The fighting spirit of these cold, wet ollicers, came to Fricourt, which we accompanied by two or three French back to his village and told his little free and democratic and its population men did not fail in critical hours which capturest on July and Ericourt is now SHADE CREPES FOR DRESSES, Claim against the Steamer must be circle about the Germans and the way does not, like that of Roumanis, consist overtook some of them last month, when on the edge of the Somme battlefields, thoy unde war. When man has been only of nobles and serfs. The great free, the enemy made a heavy counter-attack far back now from the fighting lines of WRAPPERS, OPERA of Shamer, otherwise they will not be presented in writing within 10 days after arrival killed, five people in his village, perhaps, democratis nations of the West, France and captured a broken down trench, after the village there remain only a few have mourned him and cursed the and England, although they were not storms of shell-fire. Some of the North- rahbish

recognised. Germans. Now the whole nation is in prepared for the war, stood their ground umberland Fusiliers were in the neigh trenches, the old mine-craters, the shell

heapa, among the broken CLOAKS of all Styles. INDIAN, No Fire Insuranos will be effected by the arms against the Germans and will bara for more than two years against the most bourhood, and resisted in a grin. temper | holes, and the litter of complete destrue. I PERSIAN AND SILK CARPETS.

undersigned in any one whaterer, no peace with them until they are ever known, and within a very brief lapse män.

formidabile military strength history has and id many fine acts of courage. One tion. Bps the French civilian pointed to

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There was my house. supply of munitions and artillery from other man, badly bruised by abelling up the earth, and digging a foot or

Roumania has not had an adequate did great damage among German troops, am sure of it." The party started scrap- | solicited, the very beginning of the war, and this splinters, sat in a crater just outside the two down, here and these. we knew directly we fought the first trench for s day and a half in charge of there was a cry of astonishment. Ged battle against then around Brasso. As party of bombers, and kept up a soon as this was clear we were at an im-constant fire on the enemy.

nked! It is here! I have found mense advantage, for the knowledge that were private soldiers and lance corporals were raised up as though in the presenDD These men it!" cried the Prenchman, and all hands no barrage fire could stop our columns and sergeants acting on their own initia of a miracle. inspired the men with zeal for the adtive. It was a sergeant with an Irish vanceMorning Post.

name who took command of a company.

It was hardly less than that The and tried to dig a new trench to defend Frenchman and his wife had found Fra. THE the position, and kept it at work, sure 38,000, all the treasure of their life, six inches deep ander soil that had been flung shell-fire. All this was done when the up by mine-craters, barrowed by high

beaten.

NOTHING TO OFFER RUBRA ***What has Germany to offer Russin to malo peace, not only now hut in any futuro set of proposals? She has declared the independence of Poland, and so cannot give the Polish provinces to Russia. Galicia belongs to Austria Hungary and Constantinople to Turkey, and the Kaiser cannot use these for bribing Russia.

FINE ACTE OF COURAGE."

them--and

It was a

BURIKO TARASUKE. And now, talking of faith, I want to

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Germany might have had peace with Bussis long ago if she had played the game of war like the Japanese did twelve years ago. But in her methods of Russian army under General Stoberbat of the loyalty of every man, under bad warfare she made the big mistake. The chieff, the army that made the advanesweather was at its woret, and when the explosives, dug by German soldiers, use of poison gas by the Germans basin the direction of Lemborg, had opposed men were very near to exhaustion by cold tramped over by British soldiers, and done much to make Russia determined to defest Germany, In the Germans the Bussian soldier has found a foe that does nut play the game, and he will tolerate no agreement with such a fo

HAVE RUINED CHANCES FOR FACE.

I hold that war is fought to gain parts of nine German divisions. In did not wait for leadership, but, without buried there The news has spread.

peace--peace on your own terms, and any act that puts that consummation further away is a blunder. By the many acts that have steeled their enemies against them the Germans have made any sort of an agreement with these peoples more and more remote, and this. fact has made every act of brutality, every desceration of what their enemies hav held sacred, a terrible military bladen"

last summer's drivo would have carried If the Russians had had the guns, them to the Vistula."

tortured by every destructive act of war.

his hearth-side undisturbed, and beneath more, the Frenchman found the soil of Yet here in Fricourt, which exists no

it untouched, the money-box he had Another little party of French men and women came to Fricourt two days ago and have been scraping among the rubbish beaps and saying, "Perhaps after all we shall find something." And it is a pitiful thing to see them seeking for the dust of their houses, doubtful of the very place where they stood.

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to it six Austrian divisions and one and dampness. German division. this front there were

Three months later on three Austrian infantry divisions, two Austrian cavalry savage fighting, in which individual Some days earlier last month there was divisions, two Turkish divisions and British soldiers or small groups of them

superiority in artillery. addition, there was the Austro-German officers, kept striking at

the enemy. There was a splendid corporal in the golf to be a good captain of men when Durham Light Infantry who showed him they were left without any other officer. He took command of the company and ODESKA JARS, Mackensen's forces in Roumania will surrounded. Most men might have been resisted a counter-attack until absolutely not reach Odessa, Mr. Washburn be- tempted to yield at that time, but not lieves. rle believes that the Russe this corporal in command- Roumanian line will hold on the line of way through, boya," he said.

Break a the River Pruth, if not further west fought their way back to their own lines. Bo they The Russian retreat through Poland as this stream, which marks the eastern It was the same with a private of the in 1915 was tragia. I have seen, on the boundary of Roumania. The country Durhams, who held a post with a Lewis- Narev above Warsaw, the Russian cais-which lies between Mackensen and the gun team until the enemy was all round The new Austrian Emperor has always lae all package are required. sons go to the front, the hores driven great Russian port on the Black Sea thom. A German officer with twenty men until their mouths dripped with blood. is difficult, traversed by many rivers, called on them to surrender. No bally

Boen t-unconventional sort of min, says When they arrived the Russian batteries and lacking in roads. It will have to fear." shouted the machine gunner. He castle of Wartholz, he and his bride fre a writer in the Manchester Guardian. would reply to the steady German ham be crossed before the spring thaw comes, shot the officer, scattered the men with a

On their honeymoon at the ancestral mering for perhaps twenty-five minutes, or it will become impassable for an army burst of machine-gun fire, end came back quently rabbed shoulders with the cour and then there would be an hour of with heavy artillery. Besides, silence, while the steady, perfect, ham-Russians will have the advantage of in-

the with his weapon.

ery folk the local picture palace- incidentally supplying the owner with mering of the big German gum went on. terior communications, while the Ger I have seen the Russian batteries man line will be tremendously long and

new films--and they entertained all the village officials at the castle. Once his limbered and sent back without firing a difficult. The Roumanian army is not

wife lost a comb, and they stopped at a shot, because they had no ammunition." done for, Mr. Washburn believes, and

hairdressers to buy one; and the Arch with time to recuperats should put into

duke just managed to scrape together Thas campaign was heartbreaking, the field at least ten effective army

one-and-seven pence to pay for it. As but this year we hare had. something corps

they entered the shop, officers who were different. This last summer has been

being shaved sprang to the salute, and exhilarating. But even Brassiloff's

Vienna, even in quite recent times, the upset the little adventure When in drive was made in the face of terrible "It is becoming more and more

Arahduke was sometimes seen wheeling superiority of tho Austro German evident that the Germans are finding

his children in a parambulator. artillery. All last summer; .I did not it hard to supply the man-power de see a Russian gun larger than six-inchea; manded. The ingeauity with which they the Germans were well-supplied, with bare shifted their forces, and oreated guns up to eleven inches.

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DAKING PAST BELIEF, The daring of these men of ours would be past belief if one did not know the lazing truth of it. There were two Argyll and Sutherland toen who a tow weeks ago hoisted themselves out of a shallow ditch and crawled out into No Man's Land. They wriggled their way through the mug in and out of shell holes, round by dead bodies and broken andbags and old timbers until they were within 100 yards of the German line. There they lay doggo and wailed and watched, Presently German officer came out with two men and passed within thirty yards of them. They shot these

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taken into consideration when planning peace she asks for new, on her three Germans, and then were discovered an offensive-time, materials and men terms, she will be overwhelmingly defeat The Russian, if they were to operate ed. Russia's losses are small compared by others and instantly attacked. They close an it should be in the morning! If with their allies, had no time to wait; with the low, the German nation, in its bolted back quicker than they had come, not let they were at a disadvantage in regard to economic and intellectual life, has sus-but reached our lines safely and satisfied materials, so they had to make theirtained. offensive and pay is men.

Germany in paying dearer for with their day out. It was an Argyll The Russian every death to-day than aur other and Sutherland sergeant who was first offensive was not cheap, but at that the nation.

into Martin puich with zet insfectives oreated among the enemy

two lance The first line of the Germany army rporals and three men of the same 'was greater than the Russian oases.

"I have often been caked why Brussiloff's zero in economic afficiency as far as

was 100 per cent, military efficiency, but regiment. That was on September 18th, which is ancient history now; but this offensive stopped where it did why it their value in Germany's aggregate pro exploit has not been told before, and fell shert of Lemberg and Korel. I duction was concerned. The men Germany ought to be told, ean anwer that bent by telling con- is sanding to the front now have been ditions on one section of the front, When factors in the economic power of the the offensive began on June 8th, the Empire, and now Germany is spending

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