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AMERICAN MISSION AND THE

WAR CABINET.. CONFERENCE IN LONDON,

A conference was held at No. 10, Down ing Street, between the War Cabinet, the

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 1918.

THE HALTER WE CAN FUT ROUND THE GERMAN NECK SIR EDWARD CARSON'S WATCH- WORD FOR THE NATION.

THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI. THE CHARGE OF THE TANKS

OM PHILIP QIRSS)

OF

beann over to

heads of the chief Government Departing at the Constitutional Club recently sure, the surprise of his life on the West, village which our men were 45

ments concerned and certain members of

the Mission from the United States of America on November 10th,

Sir Edward Carson addressed a gather. on questions connected with the war.

trenches

sa swiftly and so stealthily. The battle had begun, and our men had already gone away to the Hindenburg Line when back for this other battity which had como I went forward through the thistles it vas quear to see the absence of mud and The caemy this morning had, I am shell crater and wa

and the front-line the ern front when, without any warning tacking Just to the left of We was

earth of those newly-dug

assembly by the ordinary preparations that are brown earl of the newly dug voorby made before battle, without any sign

white parapets of the Hindenburg Ling hundred strength in men and guns behind our dug in the night and a httle beyond the

yards the vain for a few

of Ribercourt and front, without a single shot fired before and beyond the attack, and with his wire, great belts lesquières, toward which our men wens of hideously strong wire, still intact, our Gghting Behind me were our field ba

were not in hiding, bet troops saddenly sasaulted him at dawn, toric and heavies, through which I had were in full view of the astonished led forward by great numbers of tanke, ed. They smashed through his wire, phased beyond enemy, and were firing an intense bom-

the sir bardment,

lled

with the to his trenches, and penetrated in many places the man Hindenburg Line and scream of their shells and with the fright- the Hindenburg Support Line beyond. ful thumping of their fire that one's ears were deafened. For miles the white

early were

15 was a surprise to the enemy, and, to be frank, it will be a surprise to all

od of this the line and, to my mind, it is the most | and fighting, brilliantly sensational and dramatic opisode

imagined with the greatest secrecy. through

year

the salient where it seemed to ins had most of our guns it was astound-

to see so many batteries here..

Waz bychapg 10 position to give some it is not likely to be a revolution of Not a whisper of it had reached

to the ruins of Beaucamp I looked

to the Fleecuières Ridge. To the

wood

and the is still

End

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standers

wall

Noult, and

Referring of the out to the party truce which at present prevailed, he proceeded In welcoming the Mission, the Prime to note the difficult nature of the period. Minister said that it was a great satis of reconstruction which lay ahead of us faction to himself and his colleagues that It might, he said, be the most critical this gathering of two nations now equally period the country had ever had to go dedicated to the common task of defend through. ing the liberties of the world should take There are the continued) those who place in the very room in which states think that after the war there will be men of an earlier and less enlightened no political partics. I do not take that generation had committed the blunders view myself. I do not think it would be which had estranged them This confer in the interests of the country. But there ence, he said, was a business gathering will be modifications of parties, And the culmination of the hard, patient, and the party that will succeed best after uacbtrusive work which had been done the war is the party that recognises boat between members of the Mission and the the changed condition brought about by various British Departments in pre in through with gun flashen, and having vious days. Its purpose was. determine bloody revolutions, in other countries how the United States could best co threatened revolutions. Don't any of operate with Great Britain and the other you be misled into thinking that there ja no revolution going on in this country, Allios. On such a matter Great Britain

higher up the disaster, but it is by facing the facts myself, who are always up and down theft of me was the

Havrincourt practical advice. Like hereal, United States was a pacific Power. She that you and I will prevent disaster and lines, and since the secret of the tanks Château of Harrincourt, had, therefore, to build up her war marchy, here. (Hear; bear;) Do not themselves, who suddenly had the "starding, though in ruins, outside the are roofless houses organization almost from the start. In forgot that it is not a professional Army pearance in the Somme last years

unlike the villages doing this the United States could learn that is fighting for us. It is the Army is, I believe, the best kept secret of the

Fot nothing The enemy knew

ng, which have only from the many mistakes which they of the nation. It is the nation itself. war;

during the Tast themselves bad made.

twenty-four

site The battle picture was the most to practical business fleid it was moment that you can call upon the men very dimcult to draw up any table of of the nation, whatever their class, to seen to have been aroused among hie wondestul thing I have seen in this war

Warn argeney. In a war of this kind every sacrifice themselves, their lives, their troops Immediately in front of the at wonderful because very strange. thing was urgent, But, after full de-homes, and their property, each in their tack. But hit Higher Command did not. South Africa, before intense bombard liberation, he and his colleagues were various degrees, and that things can then dream of such a blow How could the meats bathed frut two tatters stood in a class be the same

enemy guess in his wildest nightmare that is as we know them had been invent blow would be struck at him quito snded, must have been like this. The coun- the enemy's was rolling and by themselves, as being of superior and I might make a few observations on denly, at that Hindenburg line of his our lines and the

green, unpitted by those equal urgency. These were man-power at Current events, I would ask you, in the enormously strong in wire and redouts great pite which make the Flemish but- the fronts and shipping. The Prime print condition of affairs, to take and cannels and trenches, and without tlefields. For riles it was dotted about

aign of with Minister then gave in explanation of

25. your watchword the simple word any artillery preparation or any

camps, norses, guns, gun-limbers, the military situation: Steady. We have arrived at a period gun power behind our front is true transport, and all the movement of

He pointed out how the collapse of of the war in which the grit and the that he had withdrawn many of bit una army in action. A number of tanks were

this quict

part of the front,

the battlehold, resting awhile for Russia and the recent roverses in Italy nerves and the soul of our people are from made it even more imperative than had being, and are going to be even the usual way, by days of bon

until that wire of his was cut and the pale light of 1

apother adrante, strange grey mustos in of bombardment

the beon the case berore that the United sorely tried. For myself, I believe the

which -givis

able at any dieta oraing scarcely spoke to one States should send as many troops as pos. greater our difficulties the greater becomes after artillery registration.

away all secrets, he had every right

the pilots. How are you doing! Every right, thoughay" we (Hear, heat) But to my mind nothing can be more mischievous, whether it be o

thoroughly pleased with himself,

and tanks were crawling along the roads only sorry that his tank temporarily

Was towards Havrincourt and our lines below indisposed. As I stood looking down en the Flesquieres Ridge, hiding by day n

the

only the gunfire and the copses DI this wooded and roll-

thin Bering

of the infantry in the thistles, ing

gcountry beyond Peronne and

I was very close, I heard the Bapaume. Indeed, he know little of all awful sweep of machine-gun fire from the that was going on before him under cover flanks of the tanks: It was answered by of darkness,

"He then turned (Hear, hear.) And do not imagine for although so certain uneasy use the or two and a stick or two to mark

sible. He was anxious to know how soon the first million men could be expected in

"in

sibie across the Atlantic as early as pos- our determination to overcome themeleve himsel did not know that are giving the merry hall," he France. The Prime Minister next turned by the action of Politicians or the Press, recent nights great numbers said, it our day out,"

to chipping. After explaining how Britian shipping was now wholly employ ed on war work partly for the Allies, partly on her own account, be pointed out that, assuming the submarine situation got no worse, the casing of the position of the Allies depended entirely upon the date at which the American programme of faunching 6,000,000 tons of shipping promised for 1918, came into practical effect. He had no doubt tast, with the Inrgent industrial resources of the world, a su highly-trained and adaptable in dustria: population, and an exceptional national gift of organisation, the accom

than that anything should be tolerated which leads to an incitement to schism and mistrust.

While I do not think that any country cap boast of more patriotic Prees than ours, I think it would he well if they would remember a very elementary motto "Don't talk to the man at the helm

THE ALLIED COUNCIL,

was wrong.

HOURS OF ANXIETY.

I attended this morning an historie meeting of the British Cabinet with the American Mission at Downing Street, in 100lim policy of taxing our Colonies was agreed upon, in the same room in which enemy suspected was considered and decided the question two ago when he handed our

For the generals and Staff officers directing this operation there were hours of anxiety and suspense as the time drew ear for the surprise attack it was the most audacious adventure, and depended been kept! It

Was

machine-gun fire from enemy redoubts in Lateau Wood, where there was heavy fighting going on, and in Flesquières village on the height of the crest in front and from of where I stood by Beaucamp, and the direction of Havrincourt

ing

I was a very dreadful sound in one Had the secret weapons from hundreds of then, and

hungarp steady blast of fire from many of those as though the broken into by the sharp staccato bar- t or meting, like a soffinmaker with his tacks, from single machine to our shell-burst

plisainent America in the matter of the old room; I believe in which the absolutely on su a night?

shipbuilding would astonish everybody.

The Prime Minister then turned to mattera & scoundary urgency He point

Captured two or threePrices Has captured ground. side. I think I ed out that though they were of secondary America. It was a notable gathering the cocret File brave meable that where near our batterics, though the

of peace and the independence of those men told anything or had they kept came from the

of that.

on these

quiet

was on SAW only a dozen big shell-bursts any

wight ent

Bentries of

silent nights, the advance, Greater, but with nothing like clatter of gun-wheels over rough roads. the intensity of the battle up north.t waz clear at a glance that the enemy was the rumble of transport behind the lines.

But his wire was still

and no weak in artillery One of our battalions, new batteries revealed themselves, and the Royal Fusiliere, gained their chjee that was the thing which might lull ail tives without a single casualty. Other his suspicions on death to infantry, had very light losses, and they were the uncur battalions of English county regimenta wire has always been death to

I from

machine gun bullets.

sary to the creation of successful airmen. the law of reason, Let our imaginations and every time till this it has been the dressing station on the southern

on

men

to

by

lew

the building of aerodromes Was Ag essen. from England. The school books of the have been taken, and most of a long, long trail to the dressing station

gone out of reach, notably Russia. At the whatever might happen to any other gun iro and machine-gun fire slashing the necks of two German

ing increasing dependent upon what the North-American continent could produce

The Germans were aghast and slazed Many hid down in their dug-outs and tunnds and then surrendered. Only the steadiest and bravest of them rushed to the machine guns and

the same

importance. He denit first with the nero don't imagine have come into se tion plane situation. Everybody who had simply to please you or me, or this nation Followed the war from the outset realised or this Empire, but with a far greater how vital was the command of the air. stimulus, to assert those lessong of liberty In the battle-line was almost as which, handed down from us to them essential as the command of the sea. He has and torosecute to the end believed that the people of the United the same ideals of Freedom, and put st States possessed in an unusual degree the end for ever to the horrors of Prussian qualities of enterprise and daring neces domination, or the law of force as against The American climate also lent itself to gen little farther, and ace what this guna' job. Wo know that whatever 8115- of the attack they had only received the development of an air service, because

means. Just before the war the school visions were aroused, the surprise was part

We caught the 200 walking wounded eleven o'clock it was clearer and more equable than the books of America probably ended with made this morning.

in the morning, five hours or so after climate of too British Isles. This was of os of Amatica thrust into a War of a pile of anenay momenta in the the battle begin. They were very

and in special value because the training of Independence wrung from the oppressor night, they had no proof of what was as battles go now, but I hated to soc pilots, the creation of dying units, and and the glory they had in breaking away

to them

fellows

of the coming out the blow. Some hundreds of fighting and making their way down in tini to the creation of a true Air Service future will tell them that together the sa tao building of aeroplanes them English speaking races, when the war was them say that the first thing they knew Some of them could hardly hobble, and selves.

going badly, and when liberty and free of the attack was when out of the mist every few hundred yards had to sit down DRASTIC FOOD RESTRICTIONS SOON. dom were in the balance, once more shook they saw the tanks advancing upon them, and lean up against the bank of a sunken Some of them were helped down Next to aeroplanes came food. Several hands across the Atlantic, and became smashing down their wire, crawling over road.

German

was, queer Prisoners, and of the great grainâelds of the world had one family, to go on to the end, and, their trenches, and nosing forward with by

to see one of our шén:

his arine with front their sides. same time production in Europe was nation, to see it through. (Cheers)

alling. The Allies therefore were becom. So far as I am concerned, I am full

man wounded were helped man by Gur way with their arms round the of hope. I know and believe that we

men less hurt than they, and walked in have the cards all in our own hands. It and cecnomise in the use of food.

He is not a mere question of battalions or

necks of our men, and sometimes an Eng along together very assured the mission that the most drastic maritions. There are greater forces be

to snipe

Filipe our like old cronies

Most of the men. Out of the silence which had been upon the people of the British Isles, civilisation, and if that is not on behind our lines a great fire of guna come the battlefield were from the

on my side of the prisoners

20th partly in order to assist the Allies, there is a persuassive force of an econd.

knew they had them. They kn upon

Landwehr Division, which had relieved and partly in order to leate more room mic offensive (Hear, hear.) We hear a for the carriage of men and munitions great deal about the bombing of Hun aught by an amazing stratagem, and the 51th overnight. They were Bruns-

full of terror Behind to the battle fronts. He pointed out in buildings. For my own part, a far more tanke, coming forward, in platoons, the wick men, and oldish fellows. Through the fields of thistles came single figures particular how the heroic manner in effective offensive, ie the bombing of Han infantry swarmed, cheering and shout and little groups of wounded, and on which the French passant bad shouldered businesses. Let us bomb them now (Louding, trudging through the thistles, while

hile the sides of some of the tracks were the rifle instead of following the plough theers.) Let us bomb them so hard that the tankz made a scythe of machine gun

of prisoners with their guaris had led to a decicaso in the Irench home- the won't be in existence after the war fire in front of them, and thousands of and on the ground bully wounded men grown supply of food It was the

the Hirden

era, waiting for relays of privilege of the other Allies to pool that let us bomb them to hard that the shells came screaming over most stretchers,

foundations of them won't be there burg lines The German artillery made stretcher bearers or ambulances. Borge luck with their gallant follows in Italy (Renewed cheers.) To my mind, between but feeble answer. Their gun positions of the

were wonderful and Franco. In the third place, he put the United States and our own Empire, were being smothered by the fire of illance drivers

within a few hundred yards the tightening up of the blockade. He not to talk of France and Italy and our our batteries, and there were not many of the battle to pick up the fallen men thought that close co-operation between other Allies, we hold in our own hands German Latteries, and the enemy's In spite of their pain and

weariness, The the United States and the Powers of the halter which we can put round the fantry could get no great help from Western Europe could bring still greater

4. How is it goingery word to naked and economic pressure to bear upon the it. (Cries of "Bravo" and cheers.) like their men, like rate in a trapit We're doing grand: The boys are going

German neck, and we are going to do them. They were caught The German wounded always had a

officers knew that they had been caughtsman after man "Oh! it's splendid! Central Powers during the course of the

was their black day,

straight on 1. One man, a Cockney I think all our men felt the drama of fellow, wounded in the leg kept a group with the profound determination to do all ins adventure and had the thrill of of companies halted for rest on their that was possible in order that all men a thrill which I believe, had departed way back in roars of laughter, as he might enjoy the right to life, liberty, and out of the war because of the ferocity of described his adventures of the morning,

and bow he was hit by a German happiness. The mission was anxious to shell-fire and the staleness of earn as many lessons as possible from the mechanism and formula of stack. To why suddenly, appeared out of the treach

arm-in-arm

restrictions were, about to be imposed hind us. There is the moral force of action, and used their risk them into ish soldier and a German soldier came!

were

In conclusion, the Prime thanked the mission for the invaluable services which the United States Navy had already rendered, as only in pro- tecting ut in with the submarine itself; for the vital hasiat ance which they had already rendered in experiences of the Allias during the last it seemed the queerest thing to be on He used lurid language, but was 60 financing the war, and for effective help three and a half years, and they were the roads again down south where we fol comical and honest & fellow that a padre

Lowed the Germans up in their retreat in

that followed his monologue. cognise the eager earnestness with which experiences and all other informatioured Somme once more, to reach the first vill- padre and others this morning went the people of the United States were been thrown open to them. throwing themselves into their great task, the meeting that the United States were ages of the old war two years ago, and very close to the lines with hot coffee and and he was absolutely confident that the heart and soul in the war, and that his then the great track of that desolate, brandy in their flasks to meet the to shoulder would utterly overthrow the great democracies now marching shoulder country, absolutely endorsed the statement destroyed country where the enemy in his wounded and help them.

retreat blew up every village, cut down mneace, which still threatened the liberty of the world,

in many other ways, He wished to re grateful for the manger in which thosearch of this year, and to pass over the joined in the shouts of

ADMIRAL

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of their President that none of its the trees, and laid waste all the country. One of the wonders of the day ships, or its work-in order to win the side.

sources would be spared-its men its side*** I laid waste al was the work of our airmen

Just

war. Admiral Benson then gave the con. PERONNE HEVISITED. after the what they seemed

came

Aying

stoel my

haty

BO

the

across

Passoverhead

this

BAL BENSON'S REPLY ference information as the immense A few days ago I was looking at In reply, Admiral Bepson speaking work which ane United States had alreads cheacacle in the mists Could it be real to chake & Breeze ove on behalf of the mission, thanked the accomplished and was in course of accom that this morning at dawn I was passing low that they waved hands to British Government for then warm replishing, not only in the training of through Peronne with the first pale light try, and shouted cheery words to

the as they want through the enemy'a lines ception and generous attention which they armies and the building of feels and the of the sky upon je le core in the air, the eas

stone-dead had been had received since they had reached manufacture of munitions, bat in food wooden bridges and into that square

caught napping in the as well as on the earth. She London, The United States, with the economy and the success development where the Royal Warwicks came first to

lock upon the German destruction of strength and vigour of young and mature of aircraft,

Lair little city 16 The houses were burn-In strategy it seems to me the battle machood and the experience reaped from

ing when I went in the first time Only may prove the best adventure we have the history of their own country, was filled

their ashes remained to-day, but it was had, and the enemy was utterly deceived, (Continued at four of next Golumn)

stranger dow after Passchendaele to come Daily Telegraph

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