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SATURDAY, JANUARY

WORLD FAMINE IN TONNAGE AMERICAN OFFICERS' CLUB,

WHEN PEACE BREAKS OUT

II-CONTROL OR CHAOS

Loy ARCHIBALD BORD.) ____

[JPENING BY DUKE OF CONNAUGHT

The Ditko of Connaught, formally declared the American Officers Club,

TOUS

[FROM PHILIP GIBBS

FRANO, December 3rd.

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the one!

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It would be an act of folly to ignore the Chesterfield-gardens, London, open on Before the German troops advanced in brigade, headquarters.The message was

November 2018

Mr. Harry Brittain, the chairmen of the club remarked that it was en eventful day in the history of the Pilgrims, and his mind went back to a time, some sixteen years ago, when with EAT Roberts and General Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, he had the privilege of being associated with the foundation of the British Pilgrims retrembered a prophecy made by General

their violent attack against cour, Lines

gach

dangers of the pepe situation when last the floodgate so long shut aro opened, and from all quarters of Europe come insistent demands for commodities of all descriptions from food to nickel The perit, is that the ore and leather. people who have suffered so long owing to Germany's original sin may not under stand that the war will leave a legny behind it. The whole economic structure of the Old World Will lie in ruind more than that, the visible means of subsistence Wheeler, who said," I shall not live to they would gain peace. The German um of human life, depends on thir coole Teasures of Hair and Skin will bave reached a lower level than ever for everyone in Europe is in digree dependent on oversen sup for the most modest standard af while

there yet time to organise Europe may suddenly

ly be confronted with condit

ditions which we need stor attempt to paint in lurid colours

If the situation is not faced therefore, do all that in us lies to there was to be peace if they won the reds At 0.15 am, large bodies of

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of the least imaginative among us can it was not much they bad been able to 16K a pitiful thing, revealing the peace west side of the Canal du Nord, and Vill have as clear à complexion, and is colours, for the imaginatione, ready in mutual confidence and trust Pence if they gain six kilometres of sion were scen entering ocuvres Anne, ness, roughness or scalp irration, you

when more

restrictions of

fill in the demils of the struggle, after three or four, or years of war, the

artificial war are removed. On all hands orders

forward for everything literally

deyil to bay, It not, true about the in error, and meant to bày • battalion who began last Friday morning and hat headquarters" which was quite another thing, but it gave a shock to the officers been reneyed to-day on our right wing who were receiving other messages from braken through at Gonnelien and Villers with fresh troops, they were commanded their right reporting that the enemy had in, an Order of the Day by their army guisain, and that later he was on the general to retake nii, the ground lost by voit sad of Gouzenacourt, and that bany our victory on November 20th, and pro- of our seri had been surrounded.

norve to men who know that the grat mised that if they captured six kilometres shock hat nothing to cause loss of Are see the day, but perchance you may, when army on our front has been fighting for hoss to deal with a crisis on question the armed forces of our two great nations long time under the impulse of the your gens all right went a will march together, side by side in illusory promises of peace. There was to down the wire, and the answer came back. fight for the freedom of the world. Let be peacs if they held out till August, We at all right; killing difera in bund- help in preparing for & perfect "Anglo Battle of Flanders. Now there is to be German troops to the strength of a dive Aerican understanding, so that we may

ground lost less than a fortnight ago, hour later our 8.0.8. went up on the m should that fateful day arrive Forbape achieve but to the best of their ability hunger of men who 380 nothing but thirty-five minutes later on the east side. the Pilgrims of London and New York slaughter ahead of them unless they can of the canal. Long waves of men, in

end; this war, but, to be just to them, field-grey no need to ask their business had striven for that great ideal (Cheers) they are fighting now as hard as ever were seem coming like slow-moving, Waves

The Duke of Connaught said.We are here to do honour to our comrades and they have fought, and with a proud and over the rolling ground towards the magnificent attack on Bourlon Village lish soldiers lying behind machine-guns, army and navy. The idea of the lub is North Country infantry made their Bourlon Forest. They were seen by Eng simply a continuation of that which in some of the German officers refused to lying in tussocky grass with rifles ready terested me several years ago for the

they called us. Two of them blew out below oeuvres on the west bank of the formation of the Pilgrims Club, which surrender to the "accursed English, as standing on the fre-step of the trenches was formed with the object of promoting their brains rather than be taken prison. caual and standing to the guns, feld batteries, and howitzers in the open conne good fellowship and mutual esteem beers, and a non-commissioned officer com

American and ourselves (Hearted kurs hari before our men by thrust try not far back from these advancing Then, at last, the whole world will best) In those days I did not knowing a bayonet through his entrails. That hordes Our men were staring at these realise that there is a serious shortage that anybody even thought that there is proof of the bitterness with which grey fellow who came over with packs of tonnage. It will presumably be the would be a possibility of the Forces of these Germans are fighting. Those pen on their backs. Looked as if they was policy of the Allies to exercise a stringsit our two countries being united hat belonged to the Cockchafers or coine to stay, said a Cockney fellow control over their own shipping, oven Brittain has told you of the distinguished Malkaster, who were shattered by the afterward, and then he added with a after peace is signed, perkara

rhunt for several Atherican General who said that he would Welsh in the early days of the Flanders grim laugh, and they was Sonic of years. That is, incaid, an

essential con

con not see the consummation of his wishes, Alien of the Feconstruction period but probably, the time would come when fighting, but other regiments not so them stayed alive, and many stayed dead.

famous are sacrificing themselves in their Allied shipping must be controlled and our two forces would Aght Logither.

desperate attacks against us, na on theT freights fixed. If that be done, are Those forces are now allied in a very last day of last month, when they came Our machine guns were arranged for neutral shipowners to be free to charge great cause, and I am sure that the more down, West of Bourlon Word shoulder to an attack like this. They had been wait what they like for the enrringe of goods wo see of each other, the better, we shall shoulder in massed Tinca, and were mowning frit They had arranged a direct They will possess a considerable amount like each piher (Hear, hear) American down by the machine gung and riffe fire barrage fire and enflade fire to kill an of tonnage, a good deal more than they Forces are coming over to take their part of our troops and by our field gans, who attack or counter-attack any way it should

supply their own in this great war, and I am convinced imum needs,

credit to themselves and to the great country that they represent. (Cheers,) His Royal Highness then dedared the club open, and called for three cheers,

will be thing. If the supply our Allies uncers of the United States lavage spirit. A few days ago when ourBapaume-Cambrai road, south-west of

to be governed by the ordinary rules. trad, prices will leap up to fabulous heights, all nations, even dinong the Allies competing against each other. The position will be complicated by the bids which enemy and neutral nations will mako The goods must be carried in ships:

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gunners have rarely fired before, in steady

require and for all the peoples we shall fnd that they will do.so with never had such human targets come And now on that Friday morning Meter McUOBT, LIKE TIGRP they let go and fired as our machine To-day's attack is another thrust. from sweeps of bullets, belt after belt, till each front extending between Vendhaille and machine-gun team bad, a great, litter of Epeby with its spearheads directed spent belts lying around them,⠀⠀ ̈ One

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of Europe the minimum must be a low one. Are these neutral shipowners to held us to ransom, and not only us, but ping Allies! How is the enemy'n shiit ping, or what remains of it, to be cm which were enthusiastically given against La Vacquarie Gonnclieu, and battery alone fred over 70,000 rounds ut GERMANY 8. SUESIDYVACIE agreat pleasure to him, in the name other places cast of Gouzeaucourt and no less than ten successive waves of Ger south of Masnières A new German man infantry. As we know from prison- The Reichstag has recently passed the officers of the United States Army and division has been brought down from erg they were Gerninne of the 49th, 16th.* bill for the restoration of the German Navy, and in the name of theit, Gevern-Flanders for this new attemp: to break and 20th Divisions. These men advancel mercantile, marine, The Government, inment, to accept the generous Hospitality curling. It is the sighth. The enemy's with more than Oriental dedication to Introducing the bill, declared that the of the club. When Lord Leconfield gave attack began this morning with a violent death The foremost lines were swept by matter was argent, ng it is for all our house by telegraphed the information destructive are on, a Wide front, follow machine gun, rifle, and artillery fire, and

and

that it did not brook delay his Government, at Washington, and in a storm of gas-shells but over during fell dead and wounded in the grass Under this measure, it is intended

although not really stimulats by grants the construction he was immediately ordered by the Army the night, sind n big battle is now in Uther men came behind them, and fell, now ships; every shipowner will receive and Navy Departments to express their progress with the most intense fighting others followed, and others, and others, Do you ever feel,

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Per on the and energe

exhibits. Government and, the American heeple, hebnek, but our troops are holding out were within about to thonsted cards of feel that you ought to heimore and

with which he obtains de Hanked his Royal Highness for having Tines with heroic valour, against enormous

Four machine guns, which were still sweep hand there 18 G

unro from yards. invol mythiasion kr., scently he had the pleasure of the battalions fight who stood scythe wheke rocked by sleep; lack the snap and

This decision will taken the presidency of the club. Her forces,ing them as say this sweep a line of wheat, depression; you may arise feeling £100.000.000.

Eating may #reat establishmentstrated thy taking taomie members of the American

of the country will Congress over the premises, and in the the first shock of the attack last Friday and fed, followed by all our fire, by heavy vigour of health, and yet you cannot

morning, when the enemy broke through artillery, as well as light artillery, and trace why this should be so. at or so be filled with by dorel Weichey of Sourse of conversation. I. Teu find a Gogrecourt. Bound by Gonnetiede-fire, and mare machine-gun fire, ter tudo con sickness, Diefies oce an ordeal and pain follows to

Dizciness occurs the Allies has taken aly step to en- Scratch an and you courage

shipbuilding indeed

Only on the German right and our left Flatulence is common... British Isles

we, in the hospitable gentleman. But one of the there are some Lancashire troops who had shops and hipstervine our engine visitors replied, You don't even have to fought must have lought like tigers, did the enemy enter, our line. That was comes irregular. No wonder you feel sat on the outskirts of of sorts, as any one of these symptoms. and scratch hini. (Laughter and cheers.) They must i la the trenches

miske 4

A man or woman feel 111. material. That is the contra on the two sides of the presented He congratulated the officers of the the verdict of the troops near them, but Mucqyres, just north of the Cambrai will

United States Army and Navy on having the story of their last stand cannot Jet road where we held a German com Strange, isn't it that people will go sm socalled National Shipyards a matter such a tlub, out of which mutual ac be told. Before I could mention our munleation trench running up at right suffering in this way ich troubles caus of the indefnits future do not affect the quaintances would spring that would withdrawal from Manieres on Sunday angles from the old Cartman trench system. Now the cause of such

out of ten, be directly traced anomaly that our resources for merchant in the peoples of the two comtries night. I gave a few details of the last now in our hands Our men here had nine

derangement of the diges hipbuilding have not been fully more closely together, (Cheers, fighting there, and that also is a wonder to retreat from that isolated bit of trench to ployed since the war began and are not fully employed to-day We cannot

had to encounter ten German attacks in old Jarman support trench, but not with If there, important organs are unable to ignore the significance of Cormany

great force advancing into the suburb of dut hard fighting. It was fighting with do the work required of them offciently. plans at a moment wh

when the boat is the use which shall be made of those a

stomachie, remedy continuing to sink not only Allied but vantages in order to protect the world a frightful bombardment. They repulsed with bayonets and bombs, for it is going gyruption, removing headache, benvi ads Hues Vertes under the protection of baronet and beats, and it is still fighting you are bound tedy is Mother Seigel's It mildly prompts the liver to Germany intends to from the fruits of chaos, the grasping these attacks ten times with machine gun on now, as for three days past, and any take the sen an

raton 19 surely demands of profiteers, or the machinn and rifle fire, until the enemy officers Be men say they have been killing Germans drowsiness, depression and nervons impossible that

will permit our enemies of bo-day to prout by the very cons of date stamp cards in the War pick borde untenabe and had to retrect there is a litter of cond, but more where nots. It gently correto vaste and poison

Ameri- back that their in this that front of these trenches brutality of outrage, the illegality and which will follow this war, but it

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the long lines came over west of Bourion als matter which 10 175on other Inhumanity, which they have practised at are to play them effectively in the Bat by this time Masnieres was at the Wood, and like water, instead of human cessnes

be end of a sharp salient formed by the life, followed in waves, and were spilt But there is another question which investiny, the whole problem must

enemy's gain of the ridge below, and upon the earth, Thirty prisoners have cinal possess splendid shipbuilding faciliti present ficiul war prosperity, our men withdrew unknown to the enemy, enemy pebetrated. They talk of their tone, strengthen and stimulate the organs tthe seeds of trouble are during the night, according to order, been taken in the trenches where the of herbats of more than ten varieties

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activity, and with who were busy with their dead and losses like meri who have seen a great of digestion

order, you tr- working

of wounded. Even on Sunday morning the tragedy incredible losses, if one did not these in proper tierraans did not know that not a single know the truth: They believe that the sure good digestion the foundation

gho have every English soldier remained in Masnières, German High Command will not order and they bombarded it snow befors send another attack like that because of it mending Mother Seigel's Syrup to suffer of pen to be built aftar unthagian purn to normal conditioning forward more storm troops in the the time there they have groundnd

been and abandonment. Yesterday afternoon, at than experience warrants, or the law of plainte. For many years I had

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pub

Those

will not by neu- the trals, who will have prouts made fun

the crisis the same time they made three separate war. Perhaps the enemy has not aban the

mazte be fulfilled. On the contrary, t

attacks on La Vacquerie, but each was doned his original hope of regaining all tion, and amongst the most distressing during the present

of high of the war will to come until after shattered by machine gun and rifle fre, the ground, we took from him when the ptoms were sick headaches, pains in chest, back, and sides, these being freights to invest in fresh tonnage! Not war has reached its end. Then full-r

so that the ground is strewn with their tanks and troops broke the Hindenburg especially acute after and upon re only in this country, bat in every Allied alisation will come to the whole family read Fighting just as hard and just as linca, and will go to for lengths of sacri tiring for country, will surely be necessary to of nations of what the war has involved exercise, long futer the end of the war, in

invalid, had lost all energy, and control over all shipbuilding operations reduced tonnage, in restricted food terrible made a horror of Gonnolieu, and fice anhood and agony to achieve this rendered me po rent

in limitation of raw materials. the streets of that village are littered with purpose,

me

Tof

In the past fortnight our troops have had begun to despair of aroure, and to capital gone beyond

done so many marvellous acts of courage sent for a bottle of Mother Seigel's develop a feeling of morbidness Ab lust It is difficult to calculate the German that I despair of ever giving more than run and it did me 80, much good

faint, far-off glimpse of the grent sim

310 no further inducement to continu of valeur revealed in all these attacks and

The result to far excred my counter-tacks. I wish I could give the most sanguine expectations, and I re names of all the battalions engaged and covered my health so rapidly that in less of many single men, like one brilliant than a month's Live, not only had the sung soldier who now lies dead, and symptoms disappeared, but I had entirely whose life was a great promise of genius recovered my strength, hive, singa to our Army, but the miles are against then, been in perfect health. "Mrs. J. it, and even in the time I have writing M Richards, 6, Gates Bret, Uitenage,

and another, I can C.P between the battle a only scramble down a few broad pictures of all the struggle,

THE ONLY REMEDY CONTROL OVE K The position, fortunately, is one which

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we can face with confidence, it we faceation of employment, and bodies, and the place must be a shambles BEDIC BRITISH TROOPS, o nervous the least sound startled

the various

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A page could be written on cach one of those subjects, but a moment's con it in time. Unless all estimates which sideration must bring conviction that the losser since that hour of half-part seven can now be formed prove fallacious, master problem is ships

on Friday morning when they made their we shall emerge from the struggle the Europe consumes more of all the pro- tremendous attempt to revere our victory possessors of about half the world's great ducts of the earth, with the solitary exor November 20th and recapture their I reduced volume of merchant shipping ception of Our Allies will have

it produces or can fost ground. We have inevitably unfared C considerab amount. It must of course he kept must be losses, too, in this enormous struggle to COAST Hnd it is very unde central control. populations are to obtain full advantage

sea in steamships What does that can bear back the enemy a massed forces and of such control steps must be taken to clusion suggest if hot that when at length to held our lines against great fire. But dawna" Europe the whole of the enemy's lots in the attack must be prevent neutrals or enemy countries put Europe will be on the verge of economic fantastic in their tragic numbers Our ting up freights, The Allies will not starvation 1 Food will have been

re-machine-gun Fre has swept their ranks time and line again, mowing down long only be the owners of a large proportion i used to a bare minimum and the Rines of men, and in the northern part The spirit of our men in this fighting, high ground which nad been lost in Bour

it of the attack especially on artillery had.

ent swathes in their battalions

world

ownershto can move

Then

bas never been more audacious in attack on Wood by heavy counter-attacks, wired

or more enduring in defence. In attack it that night, and made

secure in

of the tonnage, but they will also be sumption of other

(a)-The great shipbuilders." of the to the meanest level And

will be announced that peace is at The great exporters and reporters coming

the

We will

1 have described in as much detail as (e) The possessors of the coaling any event, testing every after war

stations and harbours, without and the very fibre of the war-worn possible what happened at Gonzeaucourt which no ship of enemy or neutral peoples: It will be necessary if disorder and in the neighbourhood when the eneily is to be arrested that some authority, re- drove in our line and swept forward over The keys to the after-war situation are presenting the Allies, and armed with suno of our newly gained ground, bat shall exercise association with the United States, emp

of that attack, the most ambitions part plies practically all vesels of every without excepti

exception, all shipbuilding and of the attack on the northern side of the description

with fuel, and without fuel all supplies of food and sow

and the night it had been quiet about Bourlan American

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practically, all the plans prepared well in advance then it Wood. At 130 before dawn our men essential raw materials the abaclutely will be a case of ure pus pe involve there and on the left by Tadpole Copse resential things for industry-needed by ing untold loss and suffering, and it way and the troops to the right of Mosure the manufacturer. These are arresting be producing evil which generation reported all quiet. It was not until

garmount Daily Telegraph.

several hours later that one or two abrupt and then no more. The enemy is

(1) goods and (2) coal. This countrim alirent control over, alla sinone are not yet told much about the beginning through the enemy's barbed wire by and then collapsed after banding in his

and

is shown, one example out al-defence. It was a Yorkshire officer who bandred, when two ungYorkshire esemed the East Surreys left in Bourlon tucers on the night before Sir Julian village 500 of them, with seven officers. Byng's historic victory went out in Aignaller came back through the advance of A tank in trouble, crawled enemy & lines with news of their plight, Havrincourt, and reconnoitred the message. Au officer volunteered to go into ground so well that many lives were saved the village and guide the East Bu had written, about there North Country enemy a line, through streeta of

roops who fought through Bourlon German machine gun posts an village on November 27th do no justice his guidance which helped to to the most anaring, fight in which they East Burreys London mon bent back the enemy, trem buried houses, hire men have done acts as brane as

they cannot merge The British and that responsibility is 21 Inalier that same morning. All through by their guidance and the few scraps, hack. He went an righ thro

considerations. They suggest utha that is necessary is an agreement

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