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GERMANY'S" ARMIES.

INCREASE OF 822 BATTALIONS.

Mr. Henry Wood, special correspondent the United Press with the French Armics, writes:-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAT.

TWO IRISH PATRIOTS.

MAJOR REDMOND AND LIEUT. KETTLE:

THEIR LOVE OF HUMANITY.

DECEMBER 7TH, 1917,

LIEBKNECHT'S BOOK ON

A STORM SWEPT BATTLE- FIELD.

"MILITARISM

GERMAN COURT HOLDS IT TO BE THE FIGHT FOR THE PASSCHEN.

TREASONABLE AND ORDERS IT

DAELE RIDGE.

TO BE SUPPRESSED

Mr Philip Gibbs sent the following Militarism, the book for which Dr.despatch from France on October 7th- Karl Liebknecht, Socialist leader, served

The scene of war since Thursday, when our troops went away in the wet mist for the great battle up the slopes of the Pass- chendaele Ridge, has been dark and gram and overcaat with a brooding sky, where storm clouds are blown into wild and

ahlustic shapes

No better testimony to the fact that: By an intensity of mobilisation that has

England went into this way with clean drained Germany, dry of every, man capable of military service the German bards could be desired than that Wilhe fighting divisions on the French and the Redmond and Tom Kettle, two chivalrouighteen months in a German prison on a charge of treason is placed before Rumian fronts have been practically and devoted Trish patriots, gladly saerit doubled since Aug. 1st, 1914. Despite ficed their lives to the cause for which American readers in a translation pah this gigantic effort, France, England. she is fighting (writes Harry Jones lished by B. W. Huebsch,

Daily Chronicle). Neither and Russia, the three original Allies, in the have, in every way, kept pace, with the of them had any reason to love England, result that, at the present time, they still though they rejoiced to think that the have numerical superiority. In addition newly-enfranchised British democracy had

The Y.1.0.A. is busy in another tent CUTLER PALMER & CO.'S

or another dug out. It has a cheery way of producing hot cocoa on the edge of B battlefield and of thrusting little packets of chocolat isnits, cigarettes and matches into the hands of lightly wounded?

the long trail for walking younded and men as soon as they have trudged down,

renched the first dressing station, where there

is a little group of men waiting to bandage", their ""wounds, to say, “Well done, laddy, you did grandly, this morir- It was prepared as a lecture in 1000

ing, and to fix them up with strange and delivered before a conference of

Over the country rouna Ypres, which

and wonderful speed for the journey to young people. Soon afterward it appear- ed in book form and in April, 1007, the still in its ruins holds the soul of all the the eye hospital where there are beds with white sheets-sheets again, ye goda f monstrous tragedy hereabouts, white

and rest and peace and warmth The following October the black, gullen peaks and were shot through

There are queer little groups between author was sentenced after a sensational with a greenish light, very ghastly in its the sandbags of those forward dressing trial, the conclusion being that he find evention of the litter and the wreckage stations. On one bunch 1 suw a full New of the great arena of human slaughter Zealander and sonic Warwick boys--the and to demoralize military spirit.

mince were the lopped tranke of shell-and a farmer's Ind. from the West-Coun- At that time the defendant said to the with tooth-like jags above heaps of fallen spoke with a fine simple gravity of the lashed trees and bits of ruined buildings who said It seems to Oi, and Judges -

things had had geen and done; and a thin. faced Lancashire boy, who still wanted to kill more Germans and put them to a pasty kind of death; and a follow of over grand.” the Lincolns, who said,Our lade went

it has been definitely established that the nude its peace with the Irish people and book was suppressed by the German cloud mountains were piled up against

duthorities.

military value of the Allied armies, as was anxious to cancel and atone for the constituted at the present time, in con-blunders and crimes of English rule in stantly on the incrense, while that of the Ireland No; Willie Redmond and Tom Gerrian army is unmistakably on the Kettle did not take up armieste. El intended to injure the morale of the array Etched sharply against this queer luming Warwicks did famously in this battle-

in this war decline. Since the beginning of the war from regard for England, but from love the now Allies, that have joined France, of humanity and froin a conviction tart England and Russia have far exceeded, Ireland owed a duty not only to herself in the reinforcements of troops which but to the world, and that the path taken they have added to the Allied cause, those by her must be the path of honour and brought to Germany by the Allies won justice. over to her side. The debuite figures and details of the latter will serve to give an

when

CHARMING TRENCH BEETCHES."

Mr. Redmond was 54 when he joined the British Army. He went to the front

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Rain fell heavily for most of the day, nearly all the night, and as it rains day, and a web fog rose from the already ponds brimming over into swamps ground where the shell craters were of mud. Through the wirk curtainwave Wounde incessantly, almost as intense as the drum- Gre which precedes an attack, though who had clotted blood over his face and a Near by was a wounded German soldier

There was no attack from our side or the friendly voice spoke to him and said, bloody bandage round his bead A As a rebuke to his prosecutors, the enemy's, and it was a strange, uncanny Vie sents mit Ihnen? How are working people of Berlin elected him, thing to hear all that crashing of gue- while he was still in prison, their reprefire and the wall of great shells i fich you getting on?) And by locked up in

native in the Prussian Diet, and there to the German lines through this mid als Kamy Better here than on the "ASAHI BEER. an allitariams Campaign' against Frus day darkness. han

bait efield,

fought all right. His machine gunners fired till we were all round them.

The toll New Zealander said:" Fritz

iden, as well, of the proportionate growth of the Allies fighting forces on the two in France in the winter of 1915, he was principal fronts. On Aug 1st, 1914, killed when gallantly leading his men in when Germany had mobilised to the action on June 7th, 2017 Twice during extent that she deemed necessary to win leave from the trenches, in March 1916, the war, and to win it quickly, she threw and March, 2017, he took part in Irish on to the French and Russian fronts: 122 debates in the flouse of Commons, pleat of four regiments to the division: By reconciliation between England and Ire On June 28th, 1916, Dr. Liebknecht was gone un to long so long through the fighting divisions, constituted on a basis ing like a man inspired for an eternal

I marvelled at the gunners, who have, ürst crushing France with the bulk of Innd. Un the latter occasion his lofty sentenced again to thirty months peualnys and nights-feeding those monsters these, and then throwing them on to the eloquence and noble emotion thrilled servitude. The trial was secret Ah The infantry have a hard time. It is Russian trout by means of her system of everybody who listened to him. This appeal resulted only in an increase of the they who fight with flesh and blood strategic railways, she counted on a quick memorable speech is given in full in a sentence to more than four years, and against the machinery of slaughter which said the Lancashire boy. They ran so They're all cowards, them Fritzes." and complete victory heyser was volume just published, in which are re further appeal was denied. At present is set against them. It is they who go hard I couldn't catch them with my of the Yser was printed a number of articles written by Liebknecht is in prison making shoes aut aeres the fields on that, wild adven bayonet. Then a bullet came and went being bought. Germany bad found is recessity to increase her fighting divi Majur Redmond when he was it the front, as some one said, to help the Prassiture into the unknown. But the guaners, slick through inv head." The bullet fail- sions, on the two fronts, to 187. Se sketches appeared in our columas not practise law again, and the German pounders in the sodden fields, with piles smallest fraction of an inch, and had For The Daily Chronicle. These trench Government stand on its feet. He can standing by the heavies and the 18ed to kill the Lancashire boy by the tember of 1015, towards the clerious anonymously. We know that their charm, ruling class has thus accomplished its of shells about them and great duings furrowed his skull, Russian campaign, the German divisions on the two fronts had been increased to the tenderness, their revelation of a fine object

tempered soul, made a deep impression In this book Liebknecht treats

nearby have no casy, pleasant time. The Warwickshire lads told quter tales On the morning of the last battle I saw of the battle, and they bear out what I the pressure on her four new divisicas of republication in permanent form. One militarismi chiefly in its relation to the enemy's shells searching for them, have heard from their officers elsewhere.

By this time Germany began to feel on our readers. They were well worthy and vegan the gradual transformation of of the most touching of them describes capitalisin and class struggles, declaring Auging up the earth about their bit There were numbers of German soldiers her divisions to a basis of three regiments The burial in the battle-zone side by side that the manufacture of arms becomeseries, ploughing deep holes on either side who lay about in shell holes after our each, instead of four; the extra regiment of a young Irish officers, one a gradually a monopoly of the ruling of thent. They worked in the clase neigh barrage had passed over their lines and thus new Catholic, the other a Protestant, symbolis.conomic class, whereby the physical basis bourhood of death, and at any moment, their blockhouses, Bus. Towards the middle of the attacking in their soldierly life and death whan of democracy is done away with. Then between one round and another, a battery uni block roses, and, shined, our offers on Verdun, about June, 1916, all of the Major Redmond calls the glorious and we begin to bear :-* Possess and you are and its guns teams might be blown up though they knew that by not surrender- Gerruan divisions had been reduced to The brave Catholic, of Northern and Southern | in the right.” ”

byne of those howling beasts which seeming they wore bound to die. It was the basts of three regiments only. By this Irish hearts. In the ariny, as in the plans of the bubble exploited peace and of their flight before the final roar of at bay

to gather strength and ferocity at the last stipreme courage of the human heast of the entire Empire for available men, loved. Very teaching is the letter from characterizing them as being nong Now and again a lucky shell of the change, and by a constant une combing House of Commons, he was greatly be and the bubble of disarmament, destruction, Germany was able to augment her divi Father Kelly, chaplain to the Irish but foolery, phrase making and deception sions on the Eastern and Western, fight troops, who slept in the same cellar as for the present, and he undertakes enemy's gets an ammunition dump, and ing fronts to 173. The autumn and Major Redmond three nights before the clinch this by adding: The fact that great torch rises to the dark sky, and winter of 1916 wind creat heroic soul was at the thought that he comedy at The Hague puts the frue stanie shells are touched off. But the gun all the excitement of a battle-ground, be

Hindenburg's batile describing how iniserable that the Czar was the chief originator of than its fames there are wild explosions as colossal

ffort at mobilisation Liup of new divisions. His in-

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the wreckage of an aeroplane, and from There was one of these who lay under that cover he shot some of our men at close range; but be use there were many bul- lets flying about, and shells bursting, and

first, and just in time. The German had his rifle raited at ten yarde range, but sergeant of the Warwicks who saw him

before he could turn disco the sergeant whipped round and shot him

Now there's trouble, thought the

young officer, feeling for his revolver. But when he came up he heard the General telling two wounded Germans. victory, and that if they were good boys that the English had won a very great he would end up stretcher bearers to carry them downs

MIDDLESPN “KAMERAD."

the morporation of other con over the top with his men; and how he of colonial militarism, which Lieb and car-splitting and nerve-destroying, Barred districts. As early as December, bubbled over, with 19mportant the knecht argue is pushed ever more vigor and our young gunner officers, muddy, un

of Berbia,

tumnale of their own batteries, deafening these these efforts 1916, the fighting divisions of the tweeners, consented to his leading his commercial and political expansion, he phee up and downs the line of guns saying, in deference to his importunity, the ously to the front by national devices for shaven, unwashed, with sleep-drawn eyes, had permitted an in- fronts to 208. By July 1917 at the end battalion in the charge. of the French and English

Bring offen.

201

YAN Are you ready, Number OneNumber KETTI

COLONIAL ARMY sive, Hindenburg had attained 24 divis 2

One, Bre" with no sign of the strain after the general fighting was over,

Some of these meŋ-were- discovered. sions. On Sept 1st at the time. Ger- Tom Kettle as an Irishman of rare

The colonial army, which frequentie (zat keeps them on the rack when a big and nasty shock was given to many undertook her counter-offensives of intellectual gifts; a brilliant scholar, asists of the scum of the European mitle is in progress. the Russian front, a maximum of 239 delightful racontour, one of the wittiest population, is the most brutal and lighting divisions had been chrown on to of abominable of all the tools of capitalised

a young A.D.C. who went

with ________ LIMIT OF ECMAN NATURE. ...

his Divisional General to see the the two fronts by the Germans against picturesque writer. There was a rich stato There is hardly a crime, which the 143 fighting divisions which Germany savour in his personality, and it exhaled colonial militarism and the savage trop for the infantry. It begins before the the shell craters, and the A.D.C. suddenly For them the battle lasts longer than who is a quick walker, went ahead over | captured ground next day. The General, threw on to the French and Russian from him in the spoken as well as the brutality directly cultivated by mantry advance, it lulls a little and then saw two Germans wearing their steel hel fronta with the beginning of hostilities. written word. He was a master of phrase have not produced, p

breaks our into new Fury when the Germets rise before the General from one of AUSTRIA STATIONNEN, and a coiner of epigram. A stupid book He displays no patience even with a counter-attacks begin. It does not the deep holes She now has on

fronts es published in December he described as militerism as it exists ostensibly log answered by hours of bombardment, but the two

and when the S... signals have been divisions. Owing to the fact that these very suitable for the Christinas are national defence, giving it as his opinion latter are exclusively on a basis of three of a man who climbed from poverty to that the proletariat of the world can goes on again to keep Gemman ronds under regiments to the division inhead of four. greatness, he said: He was of humble expect any profit from policies which bre, to smother their back acres, to batter as at the beginning, the

their gun positions trifle deceptiveckoning

figures are a origin like the violin string. The Royal make recessary the militarismo Ainore accurate idea Irish Constabulary was formerly an abroad These policies serve the exploit So yesterday, when the German guns is got

battalions. ns army of occupation; now it is an army ing interests of the ruling capitalists were getting back behind the Passenen there have

numbered approximately 1,000 of no occupation. Never were the em. These capitalists know that after every duce, hauled back out of the mud to take men, although it is definitely known that barrassments of a politics party fixed war a veritable mud volcano of du up new emplacements from which they hundreds now far below this number. more happily in a phrase than in bis brutality and baseness sends its floods or can pour explosive, on the ground we On this basis Germany started her cam witty remark apropes of Mr. Balfour and nations participating in it, reba have captured cur gunners could not rest, All over the battlefield there were queer paign on the French and Russian fronts, the Tariff Reformers: They have nail arising all civilitation for years but made this work hideous for the enemy little human episodes thrust for a minute with 1,312 battalione. This number hased their leader to the mast. An Aus Modern militarism is described by Dr now been increased to 2,334. These fight tralian poet of pacifist leanings one day Lichknecht as a force which attempts battles have worked with a courage and advance by British and Overseas roops

and followed his guns along their tracks, ing units, of course, do not take into said to Kettle: "I would rather be to square the circle, which arms thr

The British gunners in these frightful or two into the great grim drama of this account the millions of men employed in tenth rate minor poet than a great people against the people endurance to the limit of human nature, up the heights of the Passchendaele the services behind Titanic increase is in no way This soldier." Well, aren't you?" was the attempts to be democratic and despotic, and to marvel at them. The soldiers who had been waiting to attack ing to Allied military authorities, be disconcerting reply: What could be more enlightened and mechanical, popular and

and the infantry are the first to praise Ridge, where thousands of German creation of new fighting units has, in Loyalty is the bloom on the face of free enlarges upon those general propositions the water-legged craters, and out on the and mingled them with its clode. cause they happen to know that their own felicitous than the wise observation anti-populae at the same time fantry go marching in the rain and them were caught by the rolling storm of every way, been cqual: Other aspects of dom Life he compared to a cheap la special chapter on leans and battlefield-stand knee-deep in pools and One tragic glimpse like this was on the trudging in the mud and stumbling over shells which washed the earth about them the situation are also most encouraging table d'hote in a rather dirty restaurant, Effects and Some Cardinal Sins, bogs that have been made by shell-fre, Australian way up to the Broodseinds Austria's mobilisation effort since the with Time changing the plates before you As to instilling the proper military cutting up the beds of the Flemish brooks cross-reads, the key of the whole position, beginning of the war has been more or have had enough of anything.

like the Hannebeck and the Stroombese after a body of those Australians had and the Reutelbeke, and by the heavy marched may miles through the night downpour on the upheaved earth lover Appalling ground under scattered Winter conditions have come upon us,chell-fire, and were only in their place en They were the old winter pictures of attack half an hour before it started of war that I saw yesterday round about The story of that night march is in itself the old Ypice selient, when wet men a little epic, but that is not the episode

water, and pattering upon their steel hatschtering must have been heard by the with cold rain sweeping upon them, so The Australians drew close to one of the that their water-proof capen stream with blockhouses, and the sound of their Along the roads Australian and New barrage had just passed and its line of Zealand borgmen go riding hard with fie, volcanic in its look and fury, when wata x sharp metallic tinkling sound. Germans inside those concrete walls. The their horses flanks splashed with heavy travelling ahead. goba" of mudQua wagons and trans

ANOTHER BIG DIAMOND FOUND.

WIT AND PHILOSOPHER.

Suddenly, out of the blockhouses, a

Ports pus Ainging mud from their dozen much or so came ronning, and the

Jess stationary It is only Germany that

walled in Prussia loyalty to the has made the big increase. On the other

King, the doctor feels that the meat hand, France, England, and Russia have

This witty, versatile, richly-dowered suitable condition for its production is all been able to keep individual pace with man might have played a great part in state of complete stupidity, or as low Germany. In addition, the new feir literature and in politics but for the war. an itelligence as possible, which enables forcements brought to Germany

by Tur. From the moment that Germany fell upon one to drive the maes as a herd of cattle key and Bulgaria are get off to an unoffending Belgium he never doubted on any direction demanded by the extreme degree by those brought to the which side Ireland ought to range hornets of the existing order, gathered under the leeside of old dug-outs 1 meat, entente by Italy o from the help in men yet to come from threatened by barbarism, Odin had handling of arms strategy and tactics and Roumanie, apart self Europe had once more been Be writes later, however, that the the United States. As a result the Allies thrown down bis last challenge to Christ." demand of the modern soldier intelligence to-day have an ever increasing numerical First with per, then with bis eloquent and efficiency, and claims that for this superiority, while Germany has already tongue, finally with arms, he fought the reason aloue militarism would no longer passed the point where she can all it the good fight, his valiant work culminating be able to do anything with a mere Josses "now occurring in her ranks. Ex change Telegraph Company,

with the sacrifice of his life at Ginchy en stupid mass of men. We have, therefore, September 9th, 1916, Some of Kettle's education for the army together with an refications on the war are published in appeal exactly as it is done in church, a singularly attractive book published by to human weaknesses and senses Constable Mrs. Kettle has written a biographical sketch of her husband with exquisite Laste. He was only 30 when be died, but he had crowded much hon calculas of suffering that, can sum up the ourable achievement into his brief span cronies endure since the centence of of life. The book contains several articles blood was daubed on the lintel of every written by Kottle at various dates since cottage in Europe. Unless the arch- August, 1814, which are a contribution of criminals responsible for this niamy

It's a spy," said an Australian real value to war literature He loathed were beaten down into the durt he feared the materialism, the cloudy metaphysics, it was all over with Europe and civilis They came down cold and wet from the again rang out I'm English." And Kill the blighter The English voic and the scientific barbarian of modern cation A man holding these views and rue, but in an hour or two they are English he was. It was a man of the Germany Prumia's philosophy did not of Kettle's ardent temperament a warm, inside the dressing stations be Middlesex Regiment who had been cap correct her appetites canonised them bound to and his way to the He regarded Germany as be prime, if though loathing the mechanism of modern ruined houses, still within range of shell Germans find taken him into their blocke twee and bagged walls built up inside tured on patrol some days before The not the sole, author of the war, and all war, he was & Kay and

soldier, bro but safer than the fields from which house and because of our gunfire they that was Catholic and

pean and End-loved his work as. dant of the these men have cine

could not get out of it, and kent him Dublin Fusiliers. He died at the head If any man feels cold said a mediere He was well treated, and his cap of his men fighting with heroic courage cal offer yesterday, give him a bettore shared their food with him, but the against those Prussian Guards, who for waterbottle. To a man who had been awful moment came to him when the is no Lim incarnated the Devil and were his ging an cold mud until an hour or two drumfire passed and he knew that unless

fting instrument

vat end before it was like offering him a place Ly he held his hands high he would be killed to a dazzling career.

An amber coloured diamond of superior quality and 449) carats in weight (about b. was found in the Du Toits Pan mine, Bouth Africa, recently.

Although this is not a record as re gards-weight, the stones undoubtedly the finest and most valuable diamond eves found in Griqualand West. It will rank with the half-dozen other famous dia monda, which are ______

Weight (Carats) Cullinan (now called the Staza of Africs; part of the British Crown Jewels)

Fxcelsior Koh-i-noor

Regent

Great Mogul Orloff

039 uncut Irish, in him rose in passionate anger against the new ; barbarions.

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280 cut

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appalled at the magnitude. venture in decivilisation.

wheels. Ambulances, with their red crosses spattered with slime go threading Australians shortened their hayonets their way to the clearing stations, with From the centre of the group a voice. beneath the blankets which show through Middlesex man, don't shoot. I am an four pairs of muddy boots upturned shouted out in English, I am & the flap behind, and a dozen sitting Englishman. The man who called had cases huddled together, with their steel his hands up, in sign of surrender, like Bate clashing and their tired eyes locking the German soldiers, out on the traffic of war which they are leaving for a time,

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