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OUR LONDON LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

A WEEK OF TRIUMPH IN THE

WEST:

THE GERMAN STRATEGIC

RESERVE

AN OPEN CONFESSION.”

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 117.

GREAT BATTLE BEGUN IN DARKNESS:

WINDMILL CHANGES HANDS FOUR TIMES

[FROM PHILIP GIBBS.] BRITISH HEADQUARTERS (France), May 3rd.

feult fighting is now in progress, having Another day of close, fierce, and dif begna early this morning in the darkness, and going on down a long front in hot saline and dust and the smoke of in

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NO

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It is clear that the German Staff have LONDON, April 10th.

sacceded, in forming a mem The news from the Western Front is Reserve during the winter, writes Colonel new Army of glorious The enemy is being driven Foyler. It was designed, presumably, to back steadily and surely, losing thousands

use this resorve as a striking force at some of prisoners and hundreds of guns; and selected spot in a more or less desperate scores of towns and villages are being attempt to snatch victory from the jaws restored to their lawful ownere, At the of defeat. Yet, while we have been moment of writing the British advanced awaiting it to develop some sign of offen- tine extends fanvise from the south-eastive activity, we have been presented with of Lens, east of Vimy and Arras, across a defensive aspect of German strategy, innumerable shells. At many points our the plain of Douai to a

a point near Cam-

the shape of a retreat along a wide sector braia and thence to the outskirts of St. of the Western Front Shaken by the Quentin and through La Fors to the repented Allied attacks on the Somme Aisne A glance at the map shows what the great General Staff has preferred to may happen when the wedge is driven withdraw, rofusing battle, rather than to deeper into the territory occupied by the call on its newly constituted reserves to enemy. It means that from Lens to the repair or strengthen its shattered first North Sea the Germans must abandon the line troops. The Germans may explain defensive positions they have held since this retreat as they choose; it must they were flung back after the Battle of an incontestable proof that the the Marne. To the south they must demoralisation of the German armies has also retire to escape being out-flanked commenced, though it is doubtful whether into a narrow pointed salient, which are there any likely to be until the The opinion is firmly held that although it has yet gone sufficiently far to deprive the Gormanie hosts may be able to post the leaders of all prospects of success in pone the day of reckoning they are new offensive. They have suffered a already beaten. They are out-generalled check, which they find it hard to disguise, and out-fought. Our men have such a and they must as far as possible, post auperiority of guns and munitions that one or avoid suffering a disaster which The infantry are able to advance under do so by essaying a war of manoeuvres, 88

The first consideration is, food for our will to resistance, and can only hope 2000 of fire 80 terrific that they can distinct from tranch warfare to which

lighting men and the civilian population. scize and occupy positions with cumpara they cannot now expose their new levies, strength of the enemy's defences south of to be institutions of national value, it

difficult to get forward, owing to the thing else must stand down. tively little loss of life. At the captura of the Vimy Ridge one gallant Canadian posed of young, unseasoned recruits the wood, and an abominable barrage of follows that they should be kept

Since the newspapers aro acknowleged regiment did not sustain & single of

and hospital discharges, with any degree xususiy The men marched under as mediocre quality of these troops, they reports from this doctor of the front, inmediate prospect of obtaining pulp

Far apart from the heavy shell fire. I can only obtain vague demand for food ships, there is no are of high explosives whch swept every will all have suffered from malnutrition, which forms a part of the old Hindenburg

throughout, and since, owing to the going

and will he correspondingly deficient in probably preferred to draft these now fighting is happening here, and our men moral For these reasons, they have line, but it is clear that very stubborn reserves in as reinforcements to the units have hombed their way down six hundred on the front, rather than to risk their yards of trench and have established end have chosen to retreat while the pro-north west side of the village. Further employment as a new fores, and to this themselves round Fontaine Wood on the sens of amalgamation is in process, and north fighting has carried our line out thereby also economise the remnants of from Guemappe towards St. Rehart fac mass of manœuvre the new levies, and make this the real signal rockets sent up here by our men numerous units, reconstitute them from tory, just above Vis-en-Artois, but the

ahead of the main line. ______ may only come from advanced Trosts

troops have succeeded splendidly, in spite of great resistance from fresh German re giments and intense artillery fire. The mest important gains of the day are in the direction of the village of Cheriey, where good ground has been won by papers to day The demand for them j Now what is the position of the news English battalions, and in Bullecourt, abnormal. Circulations are enormous where street fighting is in progress This What in the old days would have been thrusts the Croisilles, where he is still holding out, All this requires paper, and there are no enemy by Fontaineles considered very large is now ordinary paper or pulp-uden ships on the seas, nor should be utterly untenable.

requirements of the nation in the matter NEW STRIPED AND FIGURED DESIGNS. of food are satisued

The way to Cherisy was taken rapidly without any serious check, although there was savage machine-gun fire at Fontaine

FOOD.

the Germans are literally overwhelmed might bring the collapse of the people Tes-Croisilles Our men found it veryThere can be no question of this Every

square yard in front of them, MODERN WARFARE._______

• It is mrprising how fixed in peoples minds is the old conception of wuriure In spite of the lessons of Armageddon there is still a solid belief that the age- long style of lighting is the only possible way. But of course there is more differ- ence between the present methods of war than between the latter and the fighting and the wars of the Nineteenth Century of the Middle Ages. Some of the War Correspondents messages in the last few days have contained references to opera tions of small detachments of cavalry, whereupon pundits in the Press have pro claimed that the Huns will soon be on the run. We all hope and believe they will run, but mounted troops cannot have much part in starting them off. Modern

to

per from overseas, it follows equally that the only thing to do is so to conserve's lication to the end of the war, even the stocks in linnd as to guarantee pub though sizes may be restricted to the

barrowest measure-

Newspapers will be smaller.

Sooner or later each and every one of That is what is bound to happen.

As the demand for supplies of food grows, them must still furner reduce its size: so will the hope of extra paper diseppen... South of the Scarpe, between Monchy generally to loox this fact squarely in the and those two woods of ill-repute, then make provision now in such a It is the auty, therefore, of the Fress Bois Fert and Bois du Sart, the battle as to ensure continuous public- has been similar to other struggles over urgent national duty--Daily Express, the same ground, where the enemy stares

tion during the war, thus performing an cross to our lines from good cover, and as every inch of earth registered by his machine-guna, of which he has great treb from which they had uo escape morning, and would not give way under number of sight officers and about two and Scottish troops attacked here this bayonets the survivors surrendered, to the matt bodies until they gained lime on Xrosive Divisions of Prussiane,, What a terrific fire, but forward in men belonging to the Fifteen the crest of Infantry Hill, and 300 yards made them wick and sorry men is that short of the two woods, now linked to two of their battalions had just arrived in gother by the Germans with belts of wire high spirits, having been told that the and well-dug trenches...

troops in front of them were weak, and they were ordered to attack Arleux this morning. The Canadians attacked, first, and by six o'clock these Prussians were sadder and wiser men.

warfare is simply slaughter defeat if she is to hope for any fictory his guns, with a clear field of fire from

the village and caught ita garrison in a

which commands & superiority of heavbe smashed, at any rate, if Germany is to numbers in enfilade positions English After brief hgating with bombs and

The question now arises as to where this reconstituted striking force will be employed. General opinion seems to be divided between the Flanders sector and the Trentino. Beth these hypotheses cat be maintained on plausible political con siderations: A Flanders offensive because it would be directed against Germany's anachinery.

principal adversary, whom she must and a superiority one at all. The Franco-British armies suust guna, field guns, machine guns, gero- planes (which are the

Loyes ners), and the motor transport, and rail great battle at Vordan demonstrated that

of the gun-

saved from utter

defent

t, and since the addition, Industrial lotus in the North-East Heeren, stacks in

to feed the guns, with French

impregnable on capable of manufacturing unlimited Quantities of 1 munitions,

prove that no success could hoped

for there, and the wholesale devastation by the German armice in their retreat from the Somme is an open con fession that they do not contemplate any return in that region; a Flanders offen- there would assuredly seriously compli sive alone remains to them, for success Cate the British Army's communications with their island base.

ways

THE OLD IDEA,

instrument

GALLANT CANADIANS.

The idea of soldiers aghting together in closely disciplined order which held good for thousands of years as the best

FIGHT FOR A WINDMILL and most successful ighting has been

North of the River Scarpe there is destroyed. It is as obsolute as the theory

great fighting round Roux, Gavrelle, and on which all military teaching and tied has rested that the first object is to

OppyGarrello has already been the break infantry formation, and to follow ay ang ka

scene of many attacks and counter this up with a cavalry charga and The defeat of Roumania was indeed for ing of last month the enemy advanced guns, 1 aaw this incident this morning. attacks, as I have described in previous The prisoners escaped our shell fire, but cavalry pursuit. Artillery 18

messages. It was here that in the fight the essential

were nearly done to leath by incir own now seen and organised by the traitor. The time after time in close waves, only to be They had been put in an enclosure next The infantryman is a specialist, trained in accordance with his plan; for he wish that heaps of these fold-grey died lie outing the Red Cross, when suddenly, the of war. Russians had massed in the Sereth lines soythed down by our machine-guns, so to a Canadian field dressing station fly- as a bombers or for a scrap in theed to be invaded as far as he Sereth, to there on the barren land. To day those enemy's guns began to shell the area with captared trench, where, however, knives allow the military triump of the Cen death wore cited by many comrades 6.9 They burst again and again during ve clubs ate na good as and even better tral Empires, and then to conclude a When our men advance they were met half an hour with tremendous crashes and thans bayonet for personal fighting separate peace in consequence of a defeat by mass of Germana, and ouce more the so-clouds.If those Germans are The attack to-day consists in pulverising which he would represent as a Roumanian line of battle bad an ebb and flow, and still there, said a Canadian, there the enemy trenches with high explosives and not a Russia defeat This he reason and blowing the defenders to atoms, or ed would not shake his power or that of both sides passed over the dead and won't be much left of them. When the burying them wholesale. When this has the Toar. Goeral Iliescu also says that the wounded in assault and retirement. Four shelling ceased off I went towards their been done the infantry are sent on under Roumanians were beaten because they were times an old windmill beyond the village place, but found it empty. As soon, ha curtain, or burrage, of hire to repair less well armed than the enemy, but the changed hands. Four times the Germans the selling started their guards hurried nd consolidate the captured position and initial cause of our defeat he adds, who had dislodged our men were cut to them away to safety farther back behind hold it against counter-attack. The guns ar then moved forward as soon as may phil Government of Petrograd, who play here, as though these bits of brick and were diverted to another route. Une of was the disloyal plan of the Germano pieces and thrust out. Men are fighting the lines, and the Canadian wounded be, and the process is repeated. It is ed with the fate of Roumanis in order to wood are worth a king's ransom or a these Prussian officers was shown his old slow work, especially over a front of facilitate a premeditated act of treachery world's-empire, and in a way they are lines, captured on April 9th, and he asked sixty miles which is the extent of the There, he concludes is one of the im- worth that, for the windmill of Gavralle what regiment nad done sus a gallant wedge the British are driving into the ponderabilia which noRoumanian, is one point which will docide a battle or work The Canadians did it, bo was Garman defences at the present time; but French or English diploruatist would a series of battice upon which the fate of told, and the same fellows that, it is the only, way, gu

have been able to foresce; but it was our two Empires are at stake. So it happens tured Fresnoy this morning." The Pras- ruin,” After reading this story of in this war that a dust heap like that sian officer could hardly believe it, but tap and passion with which M. Miliukoff, the of the Somme battles becomes for hours complimented the Canadian troops who treachery one can understand the fury other windmill at Pozières in the crists when he was convinced of its truth b present Foreign donounced the villain Sterner in the er days the prize of victory or the had fought so hard and so far. They

Minister of

Russia last November

were proud young officers, and when I

& HUSSIAN JUDAS

Gives

____ Light is thrown this week by an ill- minating article in Yew Europe on the tragedy of Roumanis, whose délice alapibed the world last Auto18 useful record of Continental the explanation of General Iliescu, the is among

for them and paved the way symbol of defeat. former Chisl of the Roumanian General closed his bargain.

Steds the traitor In Oppy above Gavrelle, which I ac spoke to one or two they would not admit Judas has carilled yesterday as I saw it in the that they had been mastered in this war. Stuff This distinguished authority dence again in I have here the evi golden bait, the Germans there whom I They teem to have an unbounded faith -states

tha

man who ruined the Rou-Agures, the number of shekels, the pieces knew this attack was coming, it was of the suberine warfare. I found no in cold could not we have heen very busy, Thoy, in Hindenburg's genius and in the effects manian advance was M. Steurmer, the of silver for betrayal" pro-German Premier of Russia, to whom Russia and well for Europe that the old night they worked hard to protect them

It is well for dear that it must come to them, and at such spirit among the non-commissioned the late Tsar had given power in the régime, at Petrograd has gone for ever selves, fear being their taskmaster. They under an evil spell, hating the war, but interests of

the Romanoff dynasty. Gen- but alas that it should have had themade machine gun emplacements, not only seeing no end to it. Neither side will officers and men. They spoke as men eral Iliescu, describing what this Judas power to plan and execute such & in pits and trenches, but in branches of win, said one of them. But who will did for his blood money, says Rouxaia and increased and equipped her army torous crinio

the

пров

LIQUOR CONTROL.

footing 820,000 (including 500,000

many trees, and wired themselves in with stop it! The papers write about condi esbatante). Owing to the immens As soon us Parliament meets after the Guards Reurve, newly brought up, held thing and one party another, and we many twisted strands The Secondtions of peace, but one party says one dificulties of transport and com Easter recess an attempt will be made to the village and wood and white château don't know what to believe I asked anunications. Roumanila in July, 1916, obtain something definite from the Go with its empty windows and broken roofs, them about the Russian revolution, and Tot ready, but the Stuer ernment with regard to the future of the and kept below ground when our gun-fire whether it had any influence in the met Ministry insisted upo the war. When the

her entry into liquor trade. The brewers are anxious stormed above them, Bo when our men German trenches, but they seem to have ed tha: 20,000 Russian soldiers should is a good deal of talk about: Government night they found themselves at once in a event, not affecting their own lives or Roumanians demand- to know what is in store for them. There attacked in the pale darkness of a May heard of it only was a vague, far-off them from an attack in the rear from ject is fluid I think from what can be

Provided for the Dobrudja to secure purchase, but while opinion on that sub bail of machine gun bullets, and later ideas. They were more interested about Bulguria, Stuormer replied that me would be ample to make a political this step will not be taken during the Wood, but, owing to macred German Behind the lines the secne of war to-day

20,000 gathered in well-informed quarters that about them. They pentiated into Oppy had been reduced by o

under a shell-fire which made fury their food, and said their bread ration demonstration, and that the Bulgarians war For one thing it would not be ad- troops, who counter-attacked, fiercely, they

one-third. would never be willing to fight against visable to adopt such & far reaching did not go for into the wood or lose them glare of a man, where men waiting to go Bussia Ho also refused a request for change while so many men are ever withdrawn to the outstrikts of Oppy, so mules kicked and rolled beside heavy the Russian armies to take Rustchal, country on military service.

was on white, dusty plains, under the which would have protected Bucharest 2 most determined stand against State that our guns could get at the energy and batteries and transport Guns were of the solves in such a death trap. They were into battle slept beside their arms, where The Rouninnias armies in Transylvania purchase will be made by the tectotallers, drive him below ground again. North thundering close by, and hostile shells were to link up with a Russian advance who want prohibition pure and simple, wards we stormed and won long trenches wera bursting among the tents and from Dorna Vatra in the Bukovina, but and nothing else. Those extremiste aro running up from Oppy to Arleux, sad kinema pavilions, and band was play these troops never moved, and are still the real foes to temperance reform. The most necessary for further progress, linking They never believe aa, indeed, are strong enough to wreck any mensare ing up with the Canadians, who made ano sen, man would believe it unless he which does not please them, and of course great and successful attack upon the saw it with his eyes and heard it with his 30 the present Parliament legislation could only proceed by consent of all par village of Fresuoy just south of Acheville. own ears, for it was all fantastic de a ties. The nation is ready to al with I know more about the lighting here than nightmare of war, with wounded men the question, and the brewers are not at other parts, and it was certainly a hobbling back from the bloody strife State would stop play the part of savage bre They completely surroundeding, rifles or whistling in tune with the averse to surrendering at a price I very gallant feat in the face of the many and wending their way through the old the Prime Minister had his way the dificulties of the ground, and a most trenches, in which other men bat polish-

(Continued at foot of uret out") band, Daly

thero

ORCHNISED ESTRNYATA But this is not all

General Iliescu says that in spite of the assurance he

ave to Roumanis and to France, Stuermer never intended that the Russi armies should move to support Roumania (Continued at foot of next column.)

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