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THE HONGKONG DAILY

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is drawn. “You cannot vindleste outraged the tillage?" I could shove them toge morality by surrendering or allowing ther with a few charges of dynamite, yourself to be beater. On the contrary, he said; and I lent a ready car, as if you are in the wrong and desire to have always held that To plough and acknowledge it and make amends, you hoe, to reap and sow, and he a former's must achieve victory or your amends can boy," is an unendurable lot, and that have no value. Let us suppose for the artillery will find its true service in sake of argument that the Kaiser becomes agriculture, as it has already done in nvinced that his declaration of war was locomotion (for your motor car cylinder

If, as is likely enough, you are in ae; that it is his duty to restore Lor is a cannon).

hopeless moral muddle about the war, be curious as to how they recon you may cila it with their conscience at the front |to heap death on destruction in the amaz ing manner I have tried to describe, and whether I write is a buman hing, or

CUNNING RETREAT.

TRYING TO RESTORE HUN CONFIDENCE.

HOOKING THE WIRE

RAIDER DISGUISED AS A SHELL:

CEATER

[DY CAPULET.]

we played in the 99th This was a game w Londons when I was in France. We wor somewhere in the Bethune district, hav

who were before us, had straightened out a hollow in our line, so we were in ing a pretty rotten time. The Durhams

a new trench. Being mostly miners,

[BY "W. IBACH THOMAS ] I said something in a brief telegram of the spectacle of the German deserted We should all to France and Schleswig to Den Hut how of the effect of all this on the mark; that he owes Belgiumi an apology

Here there is nothing reasonable lines towards Bapaume. and a colossal indemnity; and that ho

to be said: we are face to face with the endure to hear what others have endured should make us a present of his fleet and

human nature, and that civilisation is in confine German activity to the land. If fact that pugnacity is still a part of to suffer, and some further details of this he were to do this now (assuming, of its infancy. Men will play at war when battlefield will give a moro real explana course, that his subjects would not at once

films and magazine stories prove that war perfect theory of its why and wherefore.. consign bin to an Irrenanstalt), there there are no battles to fight, their cinema tion of the German retreat than the most

favourite food of their imagination; defeat

the compelled worst hardships sta

they go and

back

to it with mathematical precision, but no one fit in every respect but one, and that was in the operation; it would he simply as the ransom offered by

will see the battle in terms of diagrams the barbed wire combatant. Only with hiring and after suffering di offered them starvs- and theories who iware of the muddle necks could be make an When Ga

of the graveyard labyrinth edified world dub hir Wilhelm the Mag-

and disgust.

·

fiend when I shantelssly avow that I would be no grace nor moral stancois volunteer for var without waiting It has been, and is being, carried out they had made a rattling good job of

joyed my week at the front much mare than I enjoyed my last week at the sea

side.

to be.

To take the latter and lesser point first animois. I press this on the consideration, wounds and death, they jumped at and th the enemy fied in real horror where, and

are

Masters, the captain of my company,

tish one, it is a dastardly assassination: Socialists, internationalists, haters of And this something is nothing but war where they fell. If they were wounded tache after eating his soup and frighten

STUMILING INTO. DEATH.

CATERPILLARS.

Just then wire was badly wanted else

we had only a couple of the chance when Mazzini offered them from war does not blot out the glory of the tion of the British eltizen who has qualms the millennium they look no interest in sun or the spacious beauty of the broad

him. At the front you see men coming The enemy, driven down the hill to the strands to protect us, and therefore had fields of France in their dazzling robe of of conscience about our part in the war,

He has plenty of partisans in the from the trenches so tired that their valley in front of Bapaume, was so ham- to keep our trench double-manned in snow; and a hungry and social man does

I can assure him with some mouths hang open; and you have only to mered, day in day out, by our powerful trenches. at not enjoy a meal and good company quarters or headquarters any blic less be confidence that there is not a professional read the pages of Mr. Patrick Macgill to artillery that they built fow alleys of case of an attack. It was a pretty tight cause the table is a mess-table, even when soldier at the front, on either side, who learn, that nothing but the fascination, communication and had much ado to keep fictween the chalk walls besides being is imposed on by the special pleading of war could make their lot bearable. their fighting and support trenches habit hostly dull. Not even a trench raid to the windows are shaken by occasional which was put up in this country in 1914 Others, returning to the trenches after able. They did nothing which military cheer us up the Boche had taken the shells gong or coming. Taking nhout the

to avoid the disruption of a political

·Men were killed by shell-fire in trenches alarm and put a regular jungle of barbed war among soldiers is not depressing and sometimes revolting, like talking about it party, and in Germany to save the credit their respite, are more serious and con- necessity did not compel.

of a dynasty. The soldiers all damn the earned All of them would describe theat among civilians. To the civilian the war party politidings and the courtiers with selves as completely fed up with war. and alleys; men were sniped in the open wire in front of hima is often not a war at all; it is a writing

the greatest heartiness, and feel far more They are not joking, nor singing songs, by sharpshooters and indirect machine

But they are no more trenches were thrown out on to the para- up a game of footer in the twilight with aluminous ball. But it went down the squabble, to be conducted by

Lan 1. An officer or over and loft there, sometimes half

pet anonymous postcards and throwing a strongly against those who smoothly said nor making the least pretence of enjoy gun fire. Some of the dead in the said something must be done, and be got

hopelessly wretched than

left untouched by ehelter- and fell into the soup. They said the- dead cat back and forward over the Kar-pence when there was no peace, and left ing themselves.

wall. To him, when a British soldiers only half prepared to meet our engage with whom I condoled on the unutterable covered by trench repairers throwing out chimmer of the brigade staff cookhouse, don

set off, that ing carth. but mentioned, as kills a German soldier, it is a heroic ments, than against the thorough going boredom of war admitted it to the fulmud, sometimes left

lest; Tolstoyans.

Those who fell in the open were left brigadier turned out with a fiery mous. deed: when a German soldier kills a

Bri

In the trenches there

plenty of there is always something exciting."

No soldier on service

that. like goen on

itself. Men torn from civil life of the they were still left, and sometimes, draged the padre, but that was a yarn. All the thoughtful soldiers (and war war, men who read the Labour Leader eschew the Morning Fust, But can

most prosperous and comfortable kind, ging themselves away, were drowned in

It was after this game that Private makes soldiers very thoughtful) clearly understand that there is a morality of any sene man's mind le so confused as and engaged in the most perilous service the sheh made marshes.

to suppose that they raise white flags, or under conditions that would, one would

Night and day platoons going up and Potts, of my company, came to me with war quite distinct from the morality of

fold their arms and allow themselves to

Why not shift it over,. peace, just as the morality of an inter-

er, say without affectation that they have

sir I didn't see how it was to be zollern? On the contrary, they are never been so happy. They seek terrors row passes of death, losing men and we 'ave none. among the best of the fighting material.

When the word was given to leave the done but I mentioned it to Masters. Thor too, wish to dictate the terms of and hardships more determinedly ther material at each venture.

security. The never again" of the civi- sepulchral swamp of daily death the men Just then young Barry turned up, the peace and they know, that they cannot warm clothes, comfortable firesides and do that if they are conquered. There, le linn papers, the apology for the war on went rather too quickly, as if indeed the gunner sub, who has to protect us wit at home a childish sort of conceit that the ground that it is to end war, finds posti leace were behind them and the vil- the Boche attacks, which he hasn't the

out with a brilliant idea, imagines it to be possible for a member no echo nt the front. The soldier may lages of Le Barque and Ligny-Thilloy slightest intention of doing. Barry carne of a nation to say, "I don't hold with pity those who have been driven from were thus lost by mistake.

So attempted a counter-attack. "I don't hold with Lloyd wrecked homes to wander on the Pacifism does not trouble the Higher age or with Bonar Law, or Rassin, their tourth in hainless agabondage. Four bodies of mon advanced from differ- Command in the least. The Quakers can-

Or French Republicanism, er Barabbas,

He does not pity not beach an Army Commander much less or what not, and to refuse to help in the and are the victims of war without havent directions in the German's manner.

himself. A. * Commander-in-Chicf anything about war accordingly. But that does not sure any part in it. the horrors of war: He can shake hands vive a day at the front. When war over-

THE WAR SPIRIT IN MANKIND. whole-heartedly with President Wilson takes you, you must fight, and fight to both on that point and on the abstract wing whether you are the aggressor or Great correspondents like Mr. Philip desirahility of avoiding a victory. the aggrieved, whether you loathe

Gibbs, finely sensitive to the miseries of victory for anybody is a victory for war as the kingdom of hell on varth or regard the troops, and with literary power and whether your General is profession-it as the nursery of all the virtues. It is alised enough to desire a victory for war or humane enough to depreciate it, the not that you must defend yourself or enough to convey a heartbreaking sense perish; many a man, would be too proud it through, fascinated by the spirit which practical moral for him is the same; he | to figlit on those termis ou must defend drives men to endure and defy so much the other attacking groups was annihilat-for the Staff. They called it a minor strains every nerve to avoid a victory your neighbour or betray him; that is

outrageous mischief and danger. for the other fellow. And the other fel- what gets you, You Day swear never soldiers says that war is hell but he does a small remnant.

During this retreat we have on low does the same. Thus all the tangle

had a hand in bringing about the not say that it is a crime. Fe make many acersations against Germany, some of and tedium of the controversy between to vote for any person or party the pacifist and the militarist disappears war, or you may look forward with them ridiculous enough in view of similar whole taken very few prisoners, even on the battlefield for whether you fight exultation to a century of triumphant

soldier he censes to blame her clearance in Gommecourt becomes for victory or fight to make victory im hul elections; but if you have an atm exploits of our own; but when a man wounded prisoners. So thorough was the

you fight possible, the result is the use of companion sense and sympathy with the for bringing war upon Europe, though mannd he was in getting the long cables dragged up, citadel of Serre was not less on the getting the long cables dragged, up, that is the real grievance of pacifist The piety like the very deysi anyhow.

moralising which represents the waste

view with a tiger in the jungle is distinct be killed or desire victory for the Hohen, suppose, make them envy a Polar explo coming down stumbled through the nar- an iden. "Them Uns 'as lots of wire and

from the morality of an interview with a missionary; but they do not ridiculous ly condemn the antions of their enemy in terms of the peace, morality whilst they justify their own in terms of the war morality.

PACIFIST AND MILITARIST.

war, or

of it, nevertheless seek war out and see

He now generally prefers to counter by means of a number of separated units con verging on one spot

Une attacking platcou, just 40 strong, met a patrol of six of our soldiers, took them prisoner, and went back with them as they supposed. But they had lost midst of our lines. The 40 became prison- One of bearings, and the whole 40 landed in the ers, the six were free again.

Why not caterpillars!"

It seems Barry had a friend in the... Heavy Howitzers, who complained that. his caterpillar tractors, were eating their tails off in idleness. Moreover, he know. of a lot of wire cable in the deserted coat "Hitch one end of a mines behind us. cable on to the barbed wire, and the other on to a caterpillar, and the thing's

done s

We would have tried it next night but

The ed by our fire, and another fell back with operation, and first the division and then..

ENEMY'S ONLY AUTERNATIVE.

•

the army corps wanted to take a hand in

it. At last our colonel got love to call

the it an experiment: so that the Staff could take the credit if it came off, and say, one We had more trouble than we expected

cothing about it if we all got scuppered...

our

man in the field, you will help morality against her. Therefore, they cleared; but neither Commecourt Thon we had to splice four all wire

of the Kaiser, whose favourite reading, diere to victory, for all your

even if you are "lunging for Rue TA2 if I am rightly informed, is collection which he has had translated expressly to

com

The next

of Bishop Royd Carpenter's sermons, that will restore them to their homes and and destruction, the tortures and tervors hor Sarre was voluntarily abandoned.] ropes to the end of each with grapnels in a military sense impossible. The din thing was to get them there. Fotts dis ed horrors, may be edify

be edifying and human in a be read aloud to him, produces exactly the make the war seem an incredible night and sufferings of the war, as quite unmix Life there was naendurable in itself, and to hook the German wire.

hut it is not true to nature at the fronter of a moral collapse was imminent. guised himself as a bush and crawled out

Flight was

He left his. sama result in the field as that worship are from which Europe has awakened.

find of Wotan and Thor with which he is

and machine-gunned him. The strange satisfactions which men absurdly credited, or as the enthusiastic

From these sloughs and salients and Bash for them to shoot at and sneaked atheism of Frederick the Great.

their nature which is common to the Hot Ask Sir Douglas Haig or Sir Henry

it war may be rooted in that part of to defeat the only possible alternative but they turned the searchlight on him

Rawlinson whether they sympathised with

paleface, the redskin brave, and the Zulu sepulchres the German soldier looked off sideways, at had to lie out three on warrior, They may be largely a reaction back, as we now look forward to gentle hours before the Roche calmed down.

green and pretty with the work of Then I had a notion As I told Mas the dullness of a civil life that cultivation and dotted with undamaged Quaker Stephen Hobhouse or with fire cating Admiral Fisher, not because it

I

did

THE DEVASTATLOSS OF WAR This is why there are no politics or pacifist agitations at the front, though pacifists there than anywhere else there are more earnest politicians and earth,

against

I

would have been indiscreet for they put with the chalk The devastations of war are not all to satisfies none of their heroic, instincts.illages. He was told that among these tere the commonest object in No Man's me extremely at my case by their frank sole those mourners for the Louysin they must finally be satisfied in nobler he would that every desirable: com showing white through the turf das

sternly repressed and discarded attack... ness and hospitality-but because it did library who have always voted against a not matter.

For good or evil, when once

Bus

Ways or

pri

adulterate and entrap customers by lying

man's hand against you, you are con

workmen.

ont by evidently the proper. thing was to dress

Whenever the

and it worked Best-rate. On the night of our fishing expedition we had twelvo searchlight came my way I lay doggy;

never twigged it. perambuluting shell holes, and the Boche

COCOONS OF IT

once the cus Penny rate for a library in their owhut I should be foolish and dishonest if unication had been tonnelled as a shell hole. I got a big hoop from m is staked on the sworth Crow the Wash parish; and I will not pretend that Ypres I attempted to ignore them, capite work qurning the retreat has been vat, covered it with white calico, and * telligible benefits of service as distin ington, and Lincoln must go through with an Arras are as pleasant to ace as they Then there are the reasonable and in-used as a method of restoring confidence crawled out under it

have been a member of sanitary nyth

may have some auch effect, it has cer it ng resolutely as Ivan the Terrible, were when I saw them in prace. Alexander, or Napoleon. The more they

muney hunting of the merely unsocial

In the Army you do tainly saved the German arms for the desire the end of the war, the harder they ty concerned with the clearance of slum suished from the selfish commercial in the soldier, as well as of saving men

Somme dis must fight to reach it. When clever liter areas and the administration of Building vate Adventure

Acts and the tragedy of the

defeat. out your neighbour, nor to chent and But there is genreely a German soldier ry amateurs like von Bernhardi or the triet began for me in some of the villages not have to think of money, nor to cut moment and in this place from a pitiable late General Butler pontificate about war

not known the of the terrors of war and does not

I went with Barry to see the cater being a biological necessity, it is well that which have not been demolished, not in

qur artillery. Dr. Ghelmom Mitchell, as a is well that those which have A comparison of what advertisements Instead of our hand over the line who

the Germans have Albert with Biologist, should demonstrate that if they all done to london on being against every man's and every harbour a lasting dread of

victory alone, not comfortable retreat, was a bit of a slope for them to run down, ter; but ghen the enemy's harrage rains a veritable Angel of the Passover beside possible way for the benefit of your will restore, his confidence and only and the gunner major said they would understood alogy they would, know bet-Manchester would make the Kaiser seem tinually trying to get things done in the Fle.is a worse soldier than he was. Active pillars. We had put them where there on you or his bayonet makes for your me As: to your medieval Cloth Halls stomach, the biology does not matter and and the like, what right had we to sponge comrades in arms of your comrades in under the cover of victory will the full pull an armoured fort up by the roots, the necessity does all you need consider on the Middle Ages in the beauty we arms of your country, of the whole of extent of the retreat be acknowledged to and a wire entanglement was just play Woolly Bear, the Sikworm and the Sen are a part. You may not the public. Where will he seek that vic for them. There were three of them, the then is that the best parry is a thrust. would not produce ourselves? I say

from the bribing contractor and toryaily Mail

Slug But the drive objected to this and the best way out of a barrage the would not advisedly those who say that escape.

name because he would get chuffed when way beds the

Bun

One does not we could not may be referred to the the corrunt quartermaster or the thief trouble but the danger of damp hects school of Birminghom (of all plates), who steals your kit but at least they when the house is on fir; and, granted where Mr. Catterson Smith has then recognised as criminals, as the disgraces conscience as well as by terror. But we he went back to bus driving and he like that both we and the common English hoy, with no mare and accidents of a system normally hon did not so execise them; and the Germans called it the Doggernost.

To become to have managed bt-than a common taste for drawing, and ourable wherez commerce dual did not so exercise them; and now we

must take the consequences. higher objects of pocket before all

we brought or ourselves by being home any more than As soon as we really want an Ypres of eat many a man who has gone into the enters in time of peace (in so far as te the soldiers spaz They tell me that the German prison do not want it, nobody hut a handful of

as much

which

the Gears

now that we bayo elicited from him drawings that have a competitive and places your indivic

ter than to..

the

We had a phone from the front treach to the caterpillars; and the moment our twelve chaps can in and reporter their

done it we must out our backs into it, not the medieval qualitin ambition it quite reasonable to hope oslovans in the middle of war grapnels looked on," the gunner major-

(we)

sparing our soulet bodies abroad mediavni charin we can have it Army a commercialised cad will come out were anything bat lazy pleasure-seekers started them. Then the band began to

interest in safety and success of their new comrades.

ers often show anger

Art Workers' Guild will of it a public-spirited gentleman. There would be to show ourselves as nawarlike play. A good two hundred yards of

bo ennoble men to set against.

as we were uncivilised, a people unfit to knife rests, iron pickets, and angles of This is an argui

the pembers

I have loved these things mad

bo fighting on the same side, or that Irish soldiers whose patriotism consists in an

of barbed wire, and the officer said our

sullenly risation by the stones and saved soul to not survive on either plane. As all events, barbed wire started on n jouby neross ANNA REAL CHORALITYment the ever tall and the Calen ainst dead bodies.

This is not really more strange than trouble to we them as much as any ment, not for the perpetuation of war at the front-end in these columns 1.am No Man's Land. Better still, a Beche

thens to

though they have reasons to de-

They were rolled up in regular cocoons. that French and British soldiers should I know that as good fish are in the sea but for the purification of peace be concerned with the front-they will not officers patrol who were sniffing about in..

as ever caine out of it, and better. When as long as peace remains unpurified, and make peace unless their enemy forces front of our trench came in with it.

methods were barbarous and incultured. impidable pulitical hostility to England, the afected taste for fish becomes war remains in some respects nobler, let sire it of which no civilian can form aby Fenuine imperative appetite, as if was us give it its due and not deliver our

The power to make peace, and the That was when we got him out and left should carry her dag, or the French flag: from the twelfth century to the fifteenth, selves to the oppression of an unrelieved aquato, conceptionako

senity for war and its enormous his trousers in the wire NAA or any flag to actory sooner than fail those fish will be caught. So blaze away horror DEAWRACES OF WAB.

do no rest with the Army, but

Next morning there were only a few in the supreme, duty of putting up a brave gunners on both sides if you only good fight This may seem to you a queerly enough-Philistines and reduce Com There are drawbacks for if commerce with the politicians at home who wield. morality, a boy

boyish morality, a silly and

merealism to ruins you may prove that its worst makes a mari & rogue, die this monstrous engine of death and scraps of wire left opposite us. The destructive morality but it is a real one best builder of all. Either the best

cipline at its worst makes him an auto- devastation. It is an engine which a wise general came round to look at it, and we and unless you can understand it you will never be any use to your country or to be, or the sooner we all blow og maton and a rogue is better thun an man would hesitate to trust in the bands were told that we had done well, but it automaton, and often much less cruel. of God, much less in the hands of men was a hazardous experiment and we any other country during war. Please another off are of the earth the he

But the military automaton of the bar who have sustained no higher test than were not to try it again. The Staff got note that it is, within camp limits, a

________SUPER-PLOUGHING.rocks product of whom the that of a Parliamentary election. Since mentioned in despatches, I got a week's ake they have undertaken as gods to control leave, and Private Potts got ten days Dosmopolitan, supernational, essentially"

vicissitudes, and surprises of war

their undertaking accepted, No 2 for fighting the driver of the main objection to it, and had t outwork ry systems is not 1

that they must

do their best, under the full Woolly Bear hecause he resented, his war which it meghiera mery, touchererva

behoves a Pacifist to is blasted and ruined for ch

Harold, in the Peninsula, said of our hide understand:

A celebrated civilian playwright put Army and their

that they had served they produce wars, but that they are re responsibility which can be charged upon bus being called a stink-and-pop crawler foes,

luced to abitirdity for such long periods them only by full powers; but if even But he said it was worth it.-Daily

will Chronicle. into the mouth of a ruinously pious

for the lie on them and not on the soldier. the sentiment

that Thrice is he 5 but the crow on Talavera's plain by face For the soldier in the field one shot too many be fired the guilt will

ach there is something to be said, we had at this rate of destruction the prayer of In the Echo de Paris Mr. Herbetto And Ferse eth his quarrel just

fold that each proldier in the barracks,

not ↳ Give us peace must be CARMA matters are worse, obvious comment that there are ten le

e better reform.

and get rid of the peoples the barrack thing Jua quarrels in

use And now the

because world, when people quarrel they cease to be just, We sterilise the field that each pretends want for when all is said, war is in our time, but Give us peace in all says that Germany is making a tremens peace, there will be for them the have been filled in at Jade Bay, and And if they had been just before they to gain Bat is this so The artillery frightful calamity, and can be defended. would not have quarrelled, one must say major who obligingly blew hair a Deld to only on the ground that our be defended in As to the heroes, who do not dous naval effort. The flats and d bluntly that war is not concerned with bits for me so that I might see how i grocs that nothing but gigantic salami mental fight of William Blake, who vast buildings and stores accumulated. the justice of its quarrel. That is one was done, assured me that he was doubles will induce us to reform All the long after Waterloo, did not let his sword Docs this mean that the High Seas of the main objections to was as an insting the value of the farmer's land by a military, virtues could be exercised in slag in his hand. His Jerusalem is stul Fleet will attempt to justify the enor

they meparing tation, and the one that will eventually uper-loghing which po farmer could decently organised civil life, and all the to be built, and it will not be built with nous naval outlay? Germans hate Frig uproot it from human morality. But it afford. But, said I how are these reforms could be effected by reason and howitzers. They are too easy to fire land more than ever. What blow aro-

(Continued at foot of next column.) G. B. 8. in the Daily Chronicle, is too late to consider it when the sword pits to be filled up and smoothed over for

Setting

For