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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1917.

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AT THE FRONT, July 29th,

[BY W D. NEWTON ]. It is noticeable that, in order to dis- parago

the Allies, German military writers have adopted the habit of dwelling upon what Major Moraht calls the superior. technical resources of their enemies. Every effort is made to show

I am on the front where the Roumanian that it is machinery alone that gives the Allies their supremacy. Britain has been Army won its first victory against the accumulating munitions and laying rail Germans and proved that, if well supplied ways for the last six months; prepara- tions (were) made as an enormous seal with artillery and war material, the men during the winter of 1916-7. (Baron von Ardenne), and in the attacks themselves, are wonderful. The enthusiasm and dash masses of iron, steel and explosives with which they fought aroused the ad- wera haried against our line." If the miration of all who saw them, I had an commentator particularised, he states, as Major Moraht states, that the other opportunity of witnessing to-day a smaller English weapons, the very numerous machine-guns, tanks and aeroplanes, were action, and could not but be struck by (also) used in masses, and he is likely the energy and contempt of danger which to bring in an inevitable reference to the

was shown When the first of the wound- output of the united shell factories of the whole of the Entente, including Ameed were brought in they all shouted as rick. No commentary at all evades the they passed,Got then, General! The mention of mines," for the mines of disaster in Galicia has unfortunately Messings have given the Germans a changed the situation, but though the main blessed opportunity of obscuring and offensive of the Roumanians lasted only a belittling their defeat, and also obscuring few days, it recovered for them over 150. the way the British generals, gunners quare miles of territory. aviators and infantrymen brought

about that defcat.

The success of the Roumanian Becond Army Mas due to the large mass of artil lery, which was considered the strongest an the whole front. An intense propara. tory shelling started on July 24th against the positions at Marasti, which were con sidered impregnable by the enemy in the 20th three large breaches were made in the enemy defences, and at 4 in the morn-

The reason why the Germans aro-adopt. ing this

machinery military ecíeneo pose, is, of course, perfectly obvious. It serves, they think, the double purpose of depreciating the success of the Allies and winning sympathy from the neutrals. 793

It gives to the world a pictuer of enemies, incapable of success

by ordin ary means, calling to their aid all dising the 3rd Infantry Division launched its cold and inhuman arts of the wrechuni attack. The artillery fire was excellent. cian. It also gives to the world so the German oficer prisoners declared that German hopea) a picture of the German they had to deal with French and British Michae!meongeable before men, at artillery The Marasti position, which length being battoned to earth hy was strongly fortified, with between six machinery. Ordinary means will not pre- and ton rows of wire entanglements, four vail to beat Germany, therefore de redoubts, and a great number of machine vilish English have resolved ruthlessly guls, was held by a division of General to use every engines and every mechanical von Gerck's Army Group. The dash of device they can turn frook

oat of their f fac the Roumanian infantry was splendid torice, to attain their end.

and, in spite of the desperate resistance of the surprised enemy the town was re. taken after & four hours' fight. Fronch officers greatly distinguished themselves in this operation, Sighting with the same en thusiasm as the Roumanians.

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is not war, it is bald employ artit / division which started the attack conweigh what you should, you have given

lery as powerfully as the Germans. And one can remember with what disgust the inventors of gas and the fammen werfer," described the Tanks is un- fair"

When, therefore, Major Moraht says necusingly of the Allies, that the usages of war have became much crueller one feels that probably be is speaking out of LTD. German heart; but one is not im pressed, and it is doubtful fit neutrals are impressed. For the neutral memory is not so short as the German memory The neutral can ask-Whence did this cruelty spring! And he can ask -II cruelty has sprung from the use of machinery, which of the opposing sides went into the war boasting of its mechan ista to such a degree that it actually talk ed of its army as a great machine" that would sweep aside all resistance?

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tinued to advance rapidly south, towards the Putan valley. The enemy Bed com pletely demoralized and panic-stricken throwing away their rifles, steel helmets, and anything that might have hindered their flight. Many had no time to dress, and the enemy commander on one sector, Colonel Schmidt, ran away in slippers and bareheaded.m

My dear reader," he said, "when you write that you are thin and do not me the real cause of your unhappy feel- ings. If you only had a reserve of fat this would give a quieting and reassuring influence to the vital forces, and gon would then be happy, contented ; and optimistic.

Then, too, you realize that the pro per distribution of fat on the body and beauty and ugliness, and you envy. your limbs makes all the difference between a liberal allowance plump friends. As of fat is ons of nature's wise precautions to enable us to bear some of the trials of life, you should do all in your power get fat. I know nothing so valuable to The health, fat BUL CO. DI make people fat as a preparation of Bargol, prepared by The

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On the following days the pursuit con tinued The enemy, who had no other prepared defensive ne, tried to resist in the wooded mountaina, being reinforced to regiments brought for a rest from Macedonia and hurried to this front in motor-lorries by Mackensen. On the 27th and 28th the fighting was desperate and more bloody than on the first day, the is essential, as it has great value as a Germans using all kinds of ruscs. In the reserve force, and saves the other tissue

to get fat." Puton valley they made signals of surfrom destruction. So, by all means try

A, S. WATSON & Co., LTD., It is Germany who has turned war into render, but when our men approached.

VICTORIA DIBMNEARY, an affair of machinery rather than an they threw hand-grenades, decimating &

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Apart, even, from her whole Boumanian detachment. New Rou

QUEEN'S DIBNJARY, most notorious contributions to the manian troops immediately attacked with mechanical inventions of war, the gas fury, This operation was carried out at cylinder, the flammenwerfer, gas-shells, slight cost to us, while the losses of the the incendiary disc, Zeppelingand the rest enemy were heary; in one redoubt alone Germany had planned this war to be 2180 men were killed. war of machinery since before the begin ning.

The number of prisoners taken by the Her strategic railway built years before Roumanians was over 3,000. The booty the war (railways that formed the ful-also was considerable, because the German crum of such campaigns as those she had not expected an attack on that section: undertook against Russia, for instance) of the front, and owing to the quick together with her ready supply of motor action of the Roumanians they had no vehicles, were to carry har, troopg

well

smallest, and thousands of hand grenades. The retreat was so hasty that there was no time to blow anything up, and the villages were filled with stores.

into the hearts of enenly countries before time to destroy their material. We found the less mobile defending forces could large stores, over 300 tons of ammunition hope to resist. It was her heavy pieces of all kinds, from the heaviest to the from the foundries of Skoda and Krupp (pieces made easy of transport by ingeni ous mechanical devices) that were to blast her entry into France through the bar rier forts of Liege and Namur. It was As on the Western front, the Germans Germany's overwhelming readiness in tried to destroy the villages as they ro aeroplanes that was to give her ad treated, but fortunately the Roumaniang vantage over her less well equipped foes, followed so closely that they burned only and her unexpected strength 33 howitzers

and heavy artillery was to secure her the 10 houses in Marasti. When they say that Victorious results of this serial domina- there was no hope of a successful resist ance, their patrols collected all the in-

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All along the line Germany's relianeshabitanta together between the ages of 12 upon machinery as the main means to and 55 with the intention of carrying them STEAM Victory is observable. It was Germany off. But the prisoners, watching their who turned war into an affair of heavy opportunity, terrorized their sentries and gung und high-explosive shells, and it was saved themselves in the woods, where they Germany's use of machine-guns that set were hidden for three hours, when the CO. the Allies working hard to draw level Roumanian patrols arrived, and only a

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