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BATTLE IN A STORM.

(FROM PELLIS G1888.]

Another battle was fought and another

successful advance was inde by our troops to day, with the French in a great assault on their left. Our Allies gained

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 111#. ∙1917

COWARDS.

“CONCHY”! WOULD NOT HELP TO HARVEST.

If the Government desire a

revolution

PAN-GERMAN AGITATION. THE CAMPAIGN IN THE ARMY

The present severity of the German consorship of Parliamentary reports, and

MR. CHURCHILL ON GERMAN VICES.

PEACE GUARANTEES. Mr. Churchill, addressing a large andi-

about 1,200 yards of ground in two ExLord William Cecil, Bishop of the complete suppression of particular ence of munition workers at Ponders-end,

have

Friovanet), fentirent paurus ces England,

The German system declares that tho interests of the German Empire are lot

Break, e

only superior to all other intercato, but that they are the only interests wor considering in the world. solemn faith of treaties, the Fatherland German interests brook no delay; sink requires it; hack a way through Belgium,

tulle tendency of which they treatment of the Pan Germang in Ger- the merchant ships, not only of foes, bur

Over to

of friendly neutrais, leave no trace hind, it is by order of the Government. What are the rights of others if, German might prevails? Deutschland über alles

madness

all the case I mean of the mea Nothing handly the religious zealots most all military offoes in Hanover, proving it day by day, and testifying to

their hands,

and who took the terrifie

respi

rains. The wind howled and raged across

it: fielda Honvy storm clouds hiding be

gathered

speed and rand over the the stars, broke u con and came down, drenching all our soldy

moon

the

doy Zur

bmarice ‘aro.

proving it.

Banyan as people of similar from the second Landsturm Battalion at to strangie and women folk are proving

the countenance and

The

Our wives

it will be assur

cost.

after the war they could hardly have reeded in more efficient manner, declares

in describing conditions at the strides, captured some hundreds of prison Dartmoor settlement of conscientious issues of the newspapers, seem to be said

and many machine guns and two field-

jelu objectors, which he has visited.

making secret parliamentarism" into guna and

billed large numbers or fancied or real, against

Eleven hundred men, who have 4

D permanent German institution. The enemy in this

ack, and in the bombard

Berliner Tageblatt, however unlike most menta which hastack, and in troops are within a few hundred yards he states in a letter to the Times and of that forest of which Marlborough there have ample time and opportunity to other journals, including the Faruirts

holds organize resistance, armed or passite, published a fairly full report of the Houthulst Forest

stholds

and against the existing order of affair speech in which Herr Landsberg intro gono

forward about 1,500 yards Mootings are held constantly which are depth along a

line beyond Poolcapelle terminated, not by the National Pham Majority's interpellation about pro Anthem, duced into the Reichstag the Socialist across Ypros-Gheluvelt rond. enemyllred great losses again for

Ample

is given to these paganda in the Army and the privileged Two new

just brought into the the 227th straight, from Rheims, only make the use Backs of lettera wany. Although the Reichstag ultimately getting into the line at three o'clock this conte and g

no doubt conveying instrue behaved with its usual submissiveness, morning, and the 195th, newly arrived tions for those plans of bloodshed which Herr Landsberg's speech contains many from Bussia, have received a fearful may of some future time bring, according paints of interest.

That is their creed, faith, and philoso baptism of fine, soll at least three other to their view liberty, and, to our view, The following passages dead with the divisions have boon hard hit, and are now

rain to England.

phy; but it is not the path to glory, tha

bleeding frum muay wounds, and

agitation in the Army Surely it is very have

unwise to bring dis

It is reported on all sides that soldiers path to wealth, power, and safety. Is it many prisoners from.

soners from their ranks into

into our contented spirits of all sorts together in are recruited by their officers as members not important, to make it clear that such

creed Teads people large masses. band was this thing donet How did facilitates the organization of revolution in Saxony, and elsewhere soldiers are to ruini is it not one of the most im To begin with, of the Fatherland Party. At Freiberg, cheme, and molurches through rese How we succeed to day, when even the most every one who had any experience of detailed for attendance at Pen-German portant tasks confided to generations of optimistic men might have bon preyed organization knows what an advantage it meetings. The poor devils have to pay men to prove that fact beyond doubt o upon last night by horrid doubts Our is to call together the future members of their subscriptions out of their sixpence dispute for all future time. It is to tast froops, we know, are wonderful; there the

that they know a day. They are told to state their civil of paramount importance which you are nothing they cou

could be asked to do which who is on their side in every town in

every they would not

not try to do and struggle England and what is their personal value. professions are trades, so as to hide the proving hore in the workshops with

Next, it tends to

Our soldiers, the swindle. We have reports on this sort turn of your machines bring to the death to do. But last night's it revolution a body of people who of agitation from the Prisoners of War who are striving onward through fortifien tack might have seemed hopeless” in the morning except to men who had weighed I have always thought ill-used, and who, Camp of the 10th Army Corps, from tions which the Germans have erected, are

who had all the evidence in wherever

are give great-

it with their

ir blood

sailors

ors who are from the 14th Jägar Battalion, from the it sure of the memy's strength and

is so unjust as to treat Marat Staff of the 346th Infantry Regiment, reaching down into the depths of the sea of saying "Go"

to the start of this new opinions, or so foolish as to enable the Insterburg, and, indeed, even from Mace. battle It was a black and dreadful former to convert the latter to his reveladonia (Laughter. The chemical de it in their households by every act of night, raining more heavily after heavy tionary idean, or at least; to get from him pertinent of the Ministry of War has thrift and care which conduces to economy Flanders with long sinister wailings as of his religious charact that come cireulated a list calling for adhesions to tignali crngth.

and conserves effect our limited na the Fatherland Party; every new what occeding, he said this profoundly im

even at the most terrible the political, who have refused oven to Vasual ade in Chief in Berlin, lists have tion of the Germans had stained all ther

Conchigh suggests that the religious put down his name, because he knew what

should be set free, and that at stake for him By order of the moral, this absolutely heathenish concep astiat in gathering the harvest, should be been circulated in his office. At Cologne actions. All their wonderful perform who mardud dong the roads and tray freq poatly failed by enemy neroplanes Hory Baemeister why d to arrange a had born innred and tarnished and blot making ponds about them where

visited general-in-command a been marred stood. And it was cold, with coldness where they would have to work for their demonstration. In the district of the 7th ted out of the book of hunan fame-

(Hear, hear.) Army Corps a pastor named Krüger was

He had referred to the employed to deliver lectures in, which he first fundamental vice of the German був the crater land of the battlefields, whe way, and some were near crying with the said that our soldiers, when they heard tem, the second was that they proceeded But somehow we got on. Some of the Reichstag Besolution of July 19th, to exalt the person of one man to be ing through it picking their way between how they got on, and that is the wonder regretted that members of the Reichstag the master not the representative of the whole State. As late as the twentieth cen the shell holes in daylight, taking hours and the splendour of it. They got on to

Quantities of who could not be birched.

most intelligent and to travel a mile or two. it might have the line of the attack an hour lectures have elsewhers been delivered all try they found a

educated people content to be ruled by seemed impossible that grend bodies of before the guns were to start their drum- ready to the chosen lecturers, who are. Kaiser, practically independent of Parlia kroops could go forward in assault over bre, and they joined the thousands of told that their activities will count as

And able to

appoint such, country and win any kind of

and Jucts other men who had been lying out in the National Service. It is really time for Fin conditions. That they did to i.

such proof

one more proof to add to a then with cold all night, and were numbed us to escape from the choking air of the

state of siege, which is producing a cor- the great questions of public policy, and

Slate sand others, that our troops have in them Not all of them got there,

and waist-high in waterruption which makes the prospect for the out regard to Parlin Practically wi an heroic spirit which is above the normal man guns had been busy most of the future very bad,

tive institutions. It was 300 years and laws of life, and that, whatever the condi- night, and big shells were coming over. In the 3rd Army Corps the propagando more since we had tolerated such a state tions may be, they will face them and Thirty men were killed or wounded with is regularly organized. On the Western of things in our country. But the Krapple them, and, if the spirit and flesh one thell, and others were but and fell front Herr Traub has delivered at least mans were content to remain in a degrad

and lay

and having resigned to their itself

splendid sent to the Eastern front Discussion is Go body and soul, allowed them some tip to search for not permitted after the lectures; a peace selves to be used as a tool to force tyranny bearers My friends who hast travelled i said to be desired which is in accord and oppression upon their neighbours. as anything we have done since the High eleven hours had had no food, all that with the wishes of the soldiers, but their WaLLY AND NICET

LETTERS landers and the Naval Division captured time!" I would have given my left wishes must not be heard. Herr Max He proceeded to dwell upon the corres Beaumont Hamel in the niúd and the fog. arm for a drop of bot drink," said one Bewer, who recently called attention to pondence which More wonderful

fof even than that because her...

I was fair perished with

Tsar and which was " Willy on a greater scale and in more foul wea

Bigned

and Micky. Bome of them had rum. served out himself by his monarchical lyrics (the the Kaiser inch took place in 1914 hetween And said ther, This morning I have been among to them. They were the lucky ones to description of the Kaiser, which was re-

key the men who lay out last night before the it gave them a little warmth. But others cently published in this column), has in these letters alone they would find a as to how the war was made, and ther attack which followed the first gleams of could not get a drop. They went over to Went to deliver best lectures he would also find the key na to how

the Western front. In these troops who were cold

peace that ended the war should be made.. the to-day, and who marched up, the attack, and exhausted, after a dread attacke" the trashy talk of eternal Hear, henr.)

did not

and but staggered march

and hungry

Whatever these men may stumbled up to take part in the attack ful night, and they gained their obice peace, and calls upon the Kaiser te be, good, bad, or indifferent, superior These men met had come back wounded i va salute them, if ever I meet them attended the lectures, and let them go on,! tives, and routed the enemy at them,

and send Scheidemann and Erzberger out of the average or below the average of

the house with a vigorous kick. Officers human race, the kind

the Only in the worst days of the

many prisoners. 1 Somme have I seen such figuris. They were and will

given were not the kin jobe that they wer

of jobs. that any plastered from head to foot in wet ad in the world when the war is done. but the Vorudry was prevented from man should be given to do. This one-man Their

hands and faces were covered with

printing a report. Even the sick are not power this power which enables

and his small handful of adherents ant one man There were a number of German block-left in peace, for the propaganda has clay, like the hands and faves of deed men

houses in front of them beyond Abraban been carried into the hospitals. In a the privileged classes closely, and intimate- They had tied bits of sacking round Leigh and the Gravenstafel. On their Prisoners of War Camp it was stated that by related to him and to his system, to legs, and this was stuck on them left there was a blockhouse called Peter Erzberger and Scheidemann ought to be plunge the whole world into war, and with clots of mud. Their belts and tunics Raald hollonies to her boys there, and tire aid he was astonished that Schiede. continents, must past altogether from any though Little Mother Wendy given penal servitude, and a bold cap to make sport of the fortunes of whole were covered with A thick wet slime wo They were sosked to the and their instead of Foter Pan's cockerow there was mann had not been shot. All this props system

world which will, fulfil hair was stiff with clayed to the house of death were Wolfe Copse by Army Orders. The desire for annex (Cheereat democracies; beting

the wail of a wounded man. Beyond that ganda is ordered from above, as is proven the casent inl conditions which Peaco For se like men who had been buried alive and Wolfe Faria, from which the fire of ions increases with distance from the and dug up again, and when I spoke to thom found that some of them had been german machine guns came avishing in front, and the agitation is calculated to buried alive and unburied while they still streams of bullets. There was no yard make the soldiers feel that among their had life. They told me this simply as if of ground without a shell-holo They officers are men who desire to prolong the it were n normat thing.

A shell burst were linked together like the holes in a

non with the sharp sword of the living.

and there was so glimmer of light

in the darkness. To those of us who know

with

light kit or no kit have gono stumbly cold.

shell-holes,

mentary institutions, agents, and to settle

of man can do it, overcome the impossible into the water Ter the there till 14 lectures, while Herr Humm has been ed:

·PLASTERED

the

This battle Bus tonderful the cher

dawn

CAPTURE OF POELCAPELLE

close, said a North Country fellow, honey-comb, and the German troops, very war far beyond successful defence. thick because of their new method of THE PIN-GERMANS AT ROME was buried up to the men the front line was more e

and I Do you mean up to the neck I

"Yes,

and he saith cryce, up to the without being flung down by a shell-burst at buried in its crater, fell up to their waists in shell-holes and up to their arm pits and sank in water and little group of men whom I knew had make their way up at night to join their unit's attack in the dawn

to

defence, very dense in the support

which the

Contrasting

with

or representa-

}}

the German institutions the latter had shown at every point their of the British, he declared, that innate superiority to the viunted German system. They had paid the blood tax- fully, and willingly shared, the hardships and perils, age for age, as every other the profiteers wera filled with representatives is went nobility of our country (Cheers.) As for the

Trust the Peoplish paltical belied.

had not that The symbols of victory must be of a gloriously vindicated during the wart character which all could understand that needed of Vogum was go obvious

it no words to bring it British audience, But the great symbol of victory, which would anything else to the German People that to change their system, and take

of their own affairs in

Hear

In oth parts of his speech Herr Landsberg said that the Pan-Germans are hended by men who have not yet craters. Large numbers were killed and suffered anything from the war. There wounded when our, barrage stormed over were doubtless many idealists among them, but numbers, crouching in old them, but it really must be pointed out Aarators,

barrage passed, they rose and came not dictate peace to the whole world. were left alive, and, as the that Germany, without allies (sic), coult streaming over in small batches with Herr Landsberg continued:- their hands

high-came

aza to hoping for mercy. Many prisoners were all that Germany must have in order to When one sees the picture books showing was at duck that this handful of made before the first objective was be able to exist, one is astonished that It

reached, and after that by bard men set out on their way up to the battle line, and it was only a few miles they Some of the men in shell-holes, wet like The idealists in the Fatherland Party

could be as prosperous for 43 fighting.

quickly at northern stations; other changes to go that distanos, and they did not get to keep fighting, and fired their rifles as with the conquered territories. We havò control d be the liberation of A over N Chi's and pressars has increased had to go, but it took them eleven hours our men, and cold like our men, decided ought to ask themselves what we can do they were on the wrong road,

an hour our struggled Not

WEATHER

REPORT.

December 10th, at 19.18 No returns from Judo-China, Japan, and continental stations north of Shanghai. Au sat-cyclo; e has forn ed

are alight,

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STAGGERING. THROUGH BHEIL BOLES

10:

meet mul

our men,

A

Lorraice.

that

they

effective

8.3, to-day, 0,90 inch Tomi diam is feld The winul night on the band in our ling The enemy was -- ways, and so on, but the population would beginning of this year of the war it was

10

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to-day in an Zöllerau zum

DISTRICT

amarch.

the demons of s

blow

gale against them.

hear.) Up to the only guarantee of

German people

a democratic Con

to the journey's end Strong momoon will prevail along the Chies before they land to attack who mot prisoners who were taken came down no talent for moral conquests. No doubt way. behind It was a long struggle against Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours

the ground heaved 9. own men were

and many of be anti-German because we have a habit true to

and Fome of

say that future 90.34 kuoken, against an average of slapping their faces with wet cape our stretcher-bearers as they came down of forgitting the trifling fact that other peace was..

that their flesh stung as at the slash of

With wounded,

peoples also have a soul We can main insisting on havi lementary system. whips. It buffeted them against each Up on the left of the attack, where our tain ourselves in the future only if we stitation and a

rifles, and. troops were in liaison with the French, succeed in breaking the coalition of our But there was another guarantee since FORBOAST.

other, and clutched take off their the enemy were taken prisoners in great enemies, and the best way to strengthen the United States had entered the was tried to wrench” thair

Packs backs. (N.E.winds, fresh

unity of thought And the main poured down upon hostile bombardment well is wea, and the that coalition would be German acquisi **! {so strong-flas

them in ferce gusta antil

was not heavy .28 tion of territory among the great English ste until they were only on the right, so that the casualties soom That is what I say to the idealista in munitics of the world. That she where thei

sh-speaking com NB! winds, boots were filled with water. It was pitch to have been light there. In spite of the the Fatherland Party. I must speak him to be another guarantes for-the future

Ekrong.

dark at the beginning of the night and frightful ground all the objectives were otherwise to the men who are not repence of mankind, very solid, very practi- Afterwards there was only the light of taken, so that line has drawn close the stars. They could not see a yard to Holthalat Forest. There was hear strained from a propaganda which must cal, and very sure. (Cheers) 3

prolong the war by the fact that the war before them, but only the dark Agure of Aghting at a plane called Pascal Farm, brings the material advantages. They the man ahead. Often that figure ahead and a lot of concrete dag outs on

Fon the

Hongrong to Gap Rook,

Formoss Channel.jus.

BonthClouts of Chins bitwon (The same as

Hongkong and Lazooka No, Bowth Cons of Okina hotwest; The man sa

Hongkong sad Halwan .. HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, Desember 10th.

Where as to another. give me a

God's Bake

and opened

He

meant the

and action

fell suddenly with a shout. It had fallen Langemarck Horlthnist road gav, tron: 1 har ring, but it is the suffering are so favourably influenced by prolongs into a deep shell-hole and disappeared,ble with their machine-guns Adler of other people They bay up news tion of the war as is shown every day in

Bill" shouted one masouth of

Farm, just outside our old line, somewhat Papers and spend enormous sums to the declarations of dividends, and who hand, old lad.” There was not was hat also held out awhile, but create the atmosphere in which profiteers yet insist upon conquests, I call shome. a man who did not a PINK AGM and second objective, which the way to theel comfortable. They have learnt that Herr Landsberg argued at some length one gets farther by a powerful use of that enormous sums are being spent on bene was not seed objectives, though Pocicapellà, elbows than by delicacy of feeling and corrupting the spirit of the German I fell a hundred times," said Previous On Date On Dave them. It was high impossible to keep Here there was hard fighting, and the

Day

on one's feet for more than a yard or German garrison put up a desperate they threaten not to subscribe to the War know that their ends cannot be achieved at 2pm

two " So that little party of men went resistance in the brewery On the right Loan if the Government does not make intend to put all the blame on the Beich- stumbling and staggering along, trying there has been grim fighting in the old satisfactory declarations ne must be stag. He reminded the Pan-Germans work across the shell-tol into deep but on either side of it our English troops for the war, although it threaten to and bargain by which Germany acquired eighbourhood of Polderhoek Chatean, surprised that they still deliver materials that they protested years ago against the 85 and

sard one man, fell

further on have made good progress, in spite thes sank

of with a renunciation peace. By great Heligoland, although, if their protest Charlie, he cried. Two of us and then heavy batteries. The enemy has again has stood in the fring line says that the be putting up a monument to the founders and concentrated fire from many their unselfishness. When a man who had succeeded, “the English would now four, tried to drag him out, but we slip- ped down the bank of the crater and had great blow, and has lost large num-war must not end without German con of the Pan-Gerionn League in Trafalgar rolled into the slime with him. I thought her of men, dead, wounded and can quests, my rapect for him would prevent Square. He said that nothing would we abend never get out. Some men were tired. That our troops could do this me from condemning his lack of judg now please enemy countries so much t cursing and socle were laughing in a wild after such night and over ach fonment. But upon the men whose finances the appointment of a Pan-Germanto

ground must seem to the German High ↑ (Continues at foot of sext colašin )

Imperial Chancellor,--Tinter,

Eust

Highest open-air Temperature on Bis 6

to work

Commend hire some black art

(Costinued at foog of news. Column,)