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THE GREAT OFFENSIVE.

VIMY RIDGE AND DOUAT PLAIN.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1ST. 1917.

THE DOCTOR'S FUNCTION

IN WAR.

the hint, that no ground on the western life in war time, Naty, destruction!

of

GERMAN BRUTALITY TO BRITISH WOUNDED, PRISONERS "BUTCHERED ON THE

WAY

A Borno correspondent of the Times writes

THE DANGER-DREAM.

Although he could confront open peril without any sign of fear, curiously enough the presence of a strong current of electricity had always given him shudders of apprehension.

As a hoy he hated the devices, which shocked you for a penny, and not for coin from a bowl of electrified water. sovereign would he try to snatch the

The famous Vimy Crest, where our It may be granted that the doctor is a offensive was held on May 9th, 1915, was useful man in times of peace, but what carried in saperb style by Canadians, Can he do in vari: He cannot prevent Thus the last obstacle fell which barred war, but he can do much to make it loga the Plain of Doual, where the strategic deadly, and if he is of little assistance in possibilities are very brilliant. So the new methods of taking life, he is most fertile and successful in devising monns official French commentator expounds the for saving it. The first hold that the the revention which it has prouuced or Une or the saddest truite at the war is results of the first day of the great offen- doctor has on war conditions depends sive of 1917. Ha remunds us, if we needed upon the chief cause of the

The HALATE.

WOLLTE. As & man he had once been shown round Auled to this as been the as one of the London sub-stations by a one would closure of the character of the German young engineer, who escorted him behind front, not

the sodden trenches suppose this to bo the actual slaughtered Cross Lerman women have cave the lofty switchboard, with its fascinat around Yprus or the battered hills of upon the field of battle or the death rate Verdun, has been more fiercely fought from wounds following, but as a matter but many aundreds of use, by patted familiarly a copper bar, and an to British wounded--not in 18otted bases, ing coloured glow-lamps, opened a case, for than this Vimy ridge. In the last of fact this months of 1914, when the Allies and the factor is a comparatively minor attently and us out. purpose WACH nounced that it was at that moment brutality which, a Lew years ago, we" alive" with 6,000 volts Standing on Germans were extending their lines in

Strange as it may seem, it is an abund would have thought incredible in any glass as they were, the engineer explain- the race for the Channel ports, the Oerantly supported and overwhelmingly women with white skins, Bits of scortes, mans seized all the high ground north of proven fact that up to about thirty years scraps of evidence, nave, or course felt a remarkable sense of relief when he ed, there was no danger, but the visitor Arras. The French attacked there, and ago the real terror of war wag disenso, reached us since the very beginning of the the Germans held their positions through and that sickness from camp infections

was well outside the building and the -241- But there are loud oz our mich now the early months of mib, till in May and bad food discasa destroyed from five in dwitzerland, released from German Durr of the machinery died away General Foch launched an offensive. He toy were lost on the Beld of battle experiences in the early Guy, of the war

seven times as many lives in

heir accounts on their won the summit of the line of downs, theor as a result of wounds. Up to thirty give some idea at what the voludio of bill of Notre Dame de Lorette, but this years ago the deadliest enemy of the is separated by the deep valley of Bouchez soldier in the field was not bullets, but now in Germany come home. When that testimony will be when all our prisoners from the Vimy Ridge, and does not combacilli; not the sword, but the strepto testimony has been, as it must be, pro road that position So in September a coccus. new attack was organised, which carried

THE THIRTY YEARS WAR

perly complied and sifted, it will make a monument of German shane which will stand as a warning to the world for gen

worked-up feeling to-night, when the Why he should have this strained sky was clear and the only thunder was out; all he knew was that he lay on his that of the guns, he could not quite mako hard bed of planks and rugs waiting for something that should liberate him from the abominable oppression. All else— the sunset hues, the occasional arrival of

ear yet carried no meaning-seomed vague and unreal. He was totally un- hallucination whatever it was which prepared for the vision, nightmare, or brooded over him during the next hour

Tot in the game-Bargol makas Pany, Forvish People Flump and Popular SARGOL, the concentrated food that pata on good, healthy feah, sometimes at the rate of a pound a day, builds up the thin and weak, brings back the rosy blush of health, roknus out the skinny, scrawny figures to lines of beauty and plumpness, does it quickly and

series of

You ectively

Math, neither do we. But after a leng

the

understand it! Well, to tell ZUR CINGLY PRggamants we "hit uron an idea " and produced a combination of tissue :

have performed wonders in making thin people plump and fat. Bargol was made to put fresh on thin folke, but we don't understand one-half the other remarkable things it does for the thin and undeveloped, the palo and the weak, the dull and the Hatless. It is not a drug nor a stimulant, but can be best classed as a concentrated food with high time building qualities. A food that rester dick, reet blood, builds brain, and brawn hardens flabby muscles and makes even a confirmed dyppeptic “alt up and take notice." In building time it has a higher value than good beefsteak or eggs

gave them the western slopes of the ridge, have reduced the population of Western erationsAAL NUMBER spent shell, he voices that reached he Bargol helps you to assimilate your food, to get the utmost good out of every

the French lines beyond Souches, and The Thirty Years War is estimated to over the French line in this region, and and Central Europe from about 20,000,000 in May, 1010, we lost part of their posi- to under 14,000,000, and during the

yet tions on the ridge. With the Somme whole of its deadly course less than thirty offensive impending, it was not thought pitched battles were fought, and the worth while then to recover the ground actual number of men killed in on or and so the dawn of Monday Jast found dying of their wounds afterwards was under 200,000. Pestilence, disease, and

Une has heard before how German women refused to give Drach wounded through Germany, so that they suffered any food or drink on their long journey unterable anguish for days together but it is only when one hears the stories. other that one gets any idea of the unl

the Germans still firmly planted all along mine accounted for the rest in the massa hundred, De after an-

the line of heights, et se d

During the course of one of the most

his winter camp and began his spring

campaign two months earlier than was

intended because his men were dying faster of disease and food before or would on the field of battle.

had done

scores of men of all ranks who had the same experiences, Food and urink were denied them (by women wearing the Red

with the filthiest abuse.

_____

Before him loomed a rank of big

exhibiting a line of awful little crackling sparke of vivid green. He looked round for the switchboard; there it stood, high

ghastly blue flame would spit from some insulators, and every now and then a

contact broke, unexpected corner as a lover dropped and

This glance at the history of the war is famous campaigns the great Gustavusversality and the horror of it sil. There dynamos, filling the air with a husky ohh to show the supreme importanen which both sides attach to the Vinay heights. A position which throngh cam- paign after campaign is thought worth tens of thousands of lives must give great advantages to ita possessor What then their winter quarters than soning in Cross) and the denial was accompanied and black and grim, pointed with white In the peculiar value of the Vimy Ridge The answer to that question, as to so many other questions about military ope rations, is to be found in geography. The Vimy Ridge forms the north-eastern spur of the mass of high ground known as the Hills of Artois, which may be called an extension on the other side of the Channel of our own Downs, It is not, -as we have seen, the highest ground in the neighbourhood, for there are loftier points to the westward which have long men in our possession. But it is the

It was the common amusenient of these winter quarters in full strength and high were in the last extremity of hunger dad Armies have been known to go into Red Cross women to tempt cur men, who condition and be so decimated by disense thirst, by holding food and drink out to as to be utterly unable to take the field them to try to make them snatch at it note by note until it became an infernal. The humming of the dynamos ascended at all in spring. One of the greatest and then drawing at away, Blany scores deafening screech, which assaulted every strategise of the later Middle Ages of our men, begging for a drink, had nerve in his head. What puzzled him, declared that the hospital and the winter coffee, or water, or soup tendered to even in the midst of helpless terror, was camp were the graveyards of an Army.

Even under the most favourable condithem; and then at the last moment, the the inhuman blindness of it all. No

gentle nurse would spit in the cup or glass. Not seldom our men, in their friendly figure, calm with knowledge, suffering, had to drink the defled stuff walked casually along the platform of while the women looked on and laughed the switchboard to glance at gauges or An equally common entertainment, with move controls nothing human relieved blank spaces of gloom beyond. And yet

watching him qui those mysterious glowlamps looked un- commonly like steady, sinister eyes

war

tions, up to thirty years ago the regular ratio between deaths from disease

in wh and deaths on the field of battle and from last spur of the high ground, and beyond the death-rato in the American Civil War these women was to offer a wounded man the iron mechanism of the place or the

wounds was seven to one. For instance, was six times as great among soldiers battle and wounds. actually in the held from disease so frets a glas, perhaps, of water, then, standing forty years ago the new doctor began to station platform and the railway carri Rather more than just outside his reach, to pour it slowly on to the ground or down between the take the field, and his first distinct triumph was in the Franco-Prussian War of

1870, when the death rate was reduced to three deaths from disease to one from A BRILLIANT RESULT.

it to eastward lies a broad plain: There and the eastern slopes; as now we do, is fore, to hold the Vimy Ridge, the summit first hold ground which gives observation and artillery positions commanding the country for many miles to eastward, and secondly to have overcome the great, the only important, natural obstacles to an silvance over the plain of Douai... ANIZERS OF THE LOW GROUND. AN

Now this plain has a twofold import * contains a network of com- mmunications upon which the German front on anything like its pressant line depends. It is the area of by far the

battle.

The Russo-Japanese War carried it one step further, and roduced the ratio to shout 2 deaths from disease to one in battle; but the Spanish-American War regrettable to

alumped badly. and

The air grew hot; quick with that fore boding of danger which, when crimson

induced in him responsive thrills. The

meals for &

Take it with your wear & few days, the test will tell See how your has improved, how the blue melancholy feeling goes, how good your meals

has

A few days more and you

more and you begin to take on flesh. You look better, act batter von can do more, do it quicker and eater. Your friend slap you on the shoulder and says: "Hello, Bill, you're looking fine, never saw you looking better."

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SOLDIERS KINDER THAN NURSES. The French prisoners, we know, were lightning fiskered through distant clouds INDIAN CHIEFS WAR OFFERS. British. One of our officers was wearing ho crept behind that frowning switch-MUNIFICENT AND VARIED GIFTS not regarded with the same hatred as the sparks sizzled and snapped. Deliberately a pair of blue French trousers. Putting off his tunic, he appealed to a Red Cross board-face, with its staring, basilisk aures for food, and are, taking him to $309, and gazed at the high tension · bars by French, gave it him, in us excite in their enge. What would happen, ho The remarkable flow of gifts and assist- ment, he inadvertently said: Oh wondered, if he placed one hand on the

terrible copper strip and earthed the ance by Indian chiefs and unblemen as ingny as nationa ometimes French officers were metal near? A blistering flash--a guchi MTA, VIJANA

the snatched the food away country and used its resources to the the Cuban campaign, able to get food which they generously of mystic light, and oblivion, extinging, and the Viceroy almost daily receives

richest coalfield, and the most important the dosthamne disease alone thank you Thereupon, seeing other by grasping some part of exposed toward the war continues without cras-

Industrial district of France. Through out the war thợ Germana have held this

atmost. Now the Vimy Ridge, the slopes

phoid fever were five times the deaths in battle and

But

the present

wounds in

and destruc

again.

shared in secret with British comrades, tion?

valuable offers from some part of India.

Among recent notable gifts are those of the Morach of Patiala, who has raised camel corps, and will defray their antire two corps of mule drivers and a complete

huge war, of which are gentle on the west, rides out live as it is, has utterly shattered all In at least one case the behaviour of the He heard voices as he looked at the of this eastern plain very steeply. If you previous records, and British Royal Army Red Cross women was too much even for glimmering bar-voices that seemed to remember the gentle waward ascent of the under the leadership of Sir Alfred Keogh, two of our officers were in a railway devastating dir of the dynamos. He

Medical Corps upon the Western Front, the German soldiers.

roars in his ears even louder than the South Downs and the steep northern has actually, from such data ae are avail- searp you can form some idea of the conable, more than reversed the ratio; that carriage with nine wounded German pre put out his hand in an agony of attrac expense during the continuante of the trast. The sishmit of the ridge is some is to say, only one death from disease to plied with food and drink and cigarettes, it was met by another hand, cool and has given 100 came d

vatos. The fatter, at every station, weretion to touch that death dealing horror; | war. The Khan of Kalat, Baluchistan. soolt. The plain below slopes gently to three upon the field of battle.

The Rajch of of esat and north, from some 200ft, in Vimy In fact, it is very largely due to this but the British officers were merely called fresh and comforting. He still gazed-nt Manipur has raised a double company itself to thout 100ft. at Douni and Lille brilliant resalt that this terrible struggle This went on for over 24 hours until the time of red gold sky beyond the open dobar partly defray its cost in, testing 22,900 *** English, swine * ́ ́ and given nothing, the bar; it receded and became a long infantry, costing 10,000 rupees, and will The double reason of a lovel country and has been able to go on as it has for nearly a. rich industrial area have brought this three years with so, comparatively few German soldiers could stand it no longer of the hub. Friendly voices, chaing, train, a reserve of 100 men, costing 22,000 plain a number of great highways of com signs of exhaustion of man power upon Then two of them pretended to have resounding a though through empty rupees yearly munication by rond, canal, and rail either side. In spite of all the appalling finished their own portion hurriedly and caverns, welcomed him back to earth The Chiefs of Jind, Maler, Kotla and Name any town of size in the district and astonishing new engines and methods asked for more. Keeping what they then You've been off under the anas Faridkhot and a number of the feudatory and you name a nodal point of com- of destruction which have been intro received out of sight will the brain was inthetic nearly an hour, old boy said States of Behar and Orissa gave 54,000 munication Lens, Douai Lille. To giveduced, the death-rate, so far as can be, they gave it to the British off clear, confident tones he know well. "A rupees for two aeroplanes the Bharatpur a catalogue of their connections, would be

ww long job. We had to operate at once, State. 50,000 rupees, and the Panna State above the new crop of young Cases of physical maltreatment of our Appendix But we've succeeded and 10,000 rupees for war purposes, soldiers who can be called to the Colours wounded by the German nurses were just you ll be all serene in a month, provided each

AID IN MESOPOTAMIA year, which is the Pas de Calais, which have an area respects, a rather doubt, in some as common as systematic as was the re you don't try leapfrog or tough pastry,

The Palitana Stato gave one

mile of He sighed, smiled, and closed his oyes nurses would come through the trap The doctor can influene, the death rate dressing and attending to the wounds of for healthy sleep and the drone of the railway and 30 wagons for Mesopotamia not yet in English hands, our troops once in war in the superb advances and revolu- the Germans, Finding British wounded machinery of that other world died the Ratlam State will maintain a hospital across the Vimy Ridge are in the coal tionary, improvements effected in the mixed ap with their own countrymen, slowly away to a little troublesome hur for British troops at Indore the Mahara

to write guide-book to Northern red, has been kept down to only a

France.

Tens is the centre of the coalfields of

country. A glance at the map shows how treatment of wounds. Barely fifty years thickly the district is studded with pits ago it was no uncommon thing for twenty, We need but recall the appalling disaster forty, and even sixty per cent of the of 1906 at Courtieres, when thousands of wounded to die in hospital or camp as a men were killed in the blazing pits, to result of wound infections. The death illustrate the magnitude of the mines rate, for instance, in some military hos The coal hereabouts is bituminous, and pitnis as lately as the Civil War, when was the great source of supply for the the dreaded hospital gangrene got into gasworks of France. The country, how the wards, was over 40 ever has little of the desolation and dirt regardless of the size or seriousness of the of the wound By the

new science of

pers

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dreamed of giving them any assistance. they never (as far as can be ascertained) ming in his brain-Daily Mail. jah of Sirohi supports a convalescent

bomo for British offers from Mesopo It was their regular practice to pass by age

tamia at Mount Abu; and the Maharajah of Dholpur has given a motor car for the wounded man, and not seldom, so lug eru use to the Fatherland. It is the new with an insult, perhaps to spit on the because they, for the moment, are of no nursing sisters at Bism or leg bandaged, they deliberately strues troops going forward who must be fed hot have given houses in Simla for The Maharajahs of Sirmur and Farid- the injured amo, or kicked it gave and tended and sent on strong to fight, pain,

howitzerland I have heard a neutral officers, and the Kaisia of Bikh temple In one case a British otheer was ring, gentleman, associated with International contributed the cost of the Sikh temple the among several Grimuns, unua b

Red

Cross work, Bay that on the German in Bestá which we in England associate with ariology this danger has. been almost other nurse, following behind, heard it, ever after beaded with black

passed him with the usual insulte legs and armlets the Cross should for The special War Loan has reached. is not in the least Red Cross has pro

It t£8,500,000

black country. Coalmines cannot well

add to the beauty of a landscape, and their fanabinety and their mounds of débris are in the plain of Douai what

cutting down the death-rata lower sad lower, until in the present war upon the Western Front actually 95 to 07 por cont.

of the wounded.

recover.

they are elsewhere. But the country is green and fertilo, though trees. Ecarce. The mining villages, with their bu lright red brick, their white doors, and at the Vimy Kidge has been so swift as their white and green windows, had a to disconcert the German plans these plessant, comely aspect surprising to an are questions which only the future can English eye. Let us hope that the Ger answer. What we know is that such a mane may be bustled out of them before line cannot in the nature of the ground they have time to carry out the congenial offer a position comparable to that on the work of devastation.

Vimy Ridge, or to that on the heights of Bapaumes the great railway can

A DOUAL AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD..

for you. I have lived in England, and have been well treated there. He thank od het. But he said, "I don't want

stituted the snored sign and shamed its name. It has forfeited all right to be re THE PROTECTORATES' PLACE garded as an organization of humanity. It

you to attend to me because you have is an organization of German militarism been in England but because of the Cross and of that only; and it has dragged the upon your sleeve. The bandage was Red Cross flag and the reputation of half undone. She knotted it up again, German womanhood in the mud. hurriedly and so roughly that, in his opinion; she meant to hurt hima she did horribly and left him without a word, eng

BRITISH PRISONERS BUTCHERED.

IN THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

A British East African Correspondent writes to the Morning Post, London, as

Paris, April 10-Under the heading They are Murdering Our Prisoners the Echo de Paris publishes a letter from follows

a native of Alsace who was for some time

in a camp of German prisoners in once the Protectorates are to be colleg the approaching Imperial Confer- France the

After saying that the speech

tively voiced by the Colonial Secretary the speech delivered This is the medium through which the by the Prussian Minister of War, General measurable possibilities, the vast signi. von Stein, alleging that German pri ficance, of our real Tropical Empire are soners-of-war wordfill-treated, was only to be presented at this

epoch-making a pretext for the ill-treatment of British

ings and waste heaps of a mining is some industrial importance, too, and many officials of the International Bed and French prisoners of war the jour,ang We should each be heard,

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PROSTITUTION OF THE HED (BOSA, This last case is typical and symptoms tie The essential fact about the Ger. But it would be folly to read into the Douar is the great railway centre of the man Red Cross is that it is the Red Cross success, great as it is the prospect of neighbourhood, ganglion of lines to Lille, only in name In reality it is nothing wwift and sweeping advance. We have to Lens to Valenciennes, to Mons, to more or less than a branch of the Gur learnt by now what opportunities for Cambrai, equally important as a centre man military organization for the glori defence are provided by the many build of roads and canals. It is a town of ication of the German arms. There are

bo represented by the living voice of trict. Though it is only some fifteen with the value as a military depot to be Cross and of the Red Cross Societies of nel's informant quaten a letter from a one who belongs to the place. For in- miles by rail from Arras to Donai, and expected of a place of 40,000 people neutral countries who have come to know Gorman officer, Lieutenant Jacobi, ach stanos, British East Africa has but 1 though you could make the journey in That, it was a fortress in thy old days is something of the German Red Crow dur of the Registrar at Mullmuseo, to his handful of white population (4,000), but the old days in less than half-an-hour, not relevant to the present war, and, ing the war. Not one of them will chal father in which the lieutenant wrote -

we are the Donai is still far off. Between our troops indeed, the fortifications were demolished man Red Cross is not inspired by any which every good German should be the position of all Tropical, Africa. Our

lenge the statement just made.

must inevitably dominate and the town lies. it is no secret the long since. It was Flemish till Louis of the tender and lofty motives of the proud My work consists in going to highlands are the Heligoland of the area redbe or I have been entrusted with a task of when peopled musing of a land which, Hindenburg line of fortifications, which, XIV took it for France two centuric Geneva Convention What illustrates ins and from between France and Germany north of the Zambesi, and sortie of the running nearly duo south from Tille; and half ago, and the most beautiful truth as well as anything is thisIt in charge of drores of human cattle. Nubian desert. They control the east and passes Deenart, where the high road from thing in the city, the charming crowned frequently happens that, at large stations Eight days ago we left Frence with 400 west and the north and south main routes Monday 18th Aug Arras to Talle intersects the railway from belfry of the Hôtel de Ville let us hope in Germany, trame of wounded coming British and some hundreds of French. In addition to this we can supplant toe- Lens to Douai, and going southward still it survives the war bears on its summit from the front and of troops going to it On arriving at Frankfurt we discovered rica in cotton, Brazil in coffee Argentina CORTES the Scarpe weet of Viter and ex- a lion, who upholds the banner of land arrive together and stand side by side that we had lost on the journey 80 in maire, Russia in flax Virginia in tous to Qufans which is a little the era. But the name of Doua is beat The German Red Cross nurse always nd British and a number of red breeches est of Croisilles, the village already known in our country by the English first the men who are wall and are going To the Alsatian's inquiry subscanently like, from cocoanuts to edelweiss How pencil cedar, and can grow anything we entred by our advance from the Somme Roman Catholic version of the scriptures to fight is these who get the food of Jacobi's father as to what could have may the bureaucrat sense this1 It is What this ling may be worth, how com- which because its Old Testament was and drink and cigarettes, while the become of the missing prisoners here vital that our real value to Empire "be pletely it is fortified, whether our success published there 300 years ago, we still wounded wait. The wounded can wait,ceived the reply, they were butchered depicted in terms of posse not in statics

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