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A BATTLEFIELD PICTURE.

LAND OF FOG SOWN WITH

RED-HOT GUNS.

(BY PERCIVAL PHILLIPS, DAILY EXPRESS”. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

I wish I could make the people at home sce this battle as it really is. Looking out over the Flanders plain from the low hills that mark the high tide of the struggle-bills that seem to rock under the thunder of the guns-you have at your feet a scene such as might be paint ed by an imaginativo artist seeking to over-emphasise the impressiveness of war Instinctively such pictures will come to mind, for there in the damp flats that stretch interminably to the south are all the elements of battle as they were vis ualised before this plague came on the world.....

It is a spectacle that fills every on looker with awe; the grandeur of it touches even the tired brain of the fight ing man when he is able to rest above the tumult of the plain, and the thought voiced by a Staff officer as he swept the smoke-ridden horizon has come uncon sciously to the lips of others."Yes," be said, lowering his glasses" it looks like Armageddon.

Beyond everything, you are beaten down and numbed by weight of guns. The land is sown with guns-red-hot guns and they have turned it into a furnace Look out and imagine that all the world is in the melting pot. There it is, the battlefield us have dreamed about and tried to picture for a generation, thrown across forty miles of ruined farms and Haming villages, streaked and blotched with greasy smoke (and yesterday over- laid with the acrid scent of shell, a battle veld as fat as a table, creased by canals and shallow streams, with lines of khaki melting into sluggish fog and tiny ton gues of red darting in every direction..

IN THE PICTURE..

JUNE STE,

MB. ASQUITH AS A MAN OF LETTERS.

AN AMATEUR'S HOBBY.

Many people were surprised, says a London reviewer, when, some months ago, Mr. Clement Shorter spoke of Mr. Asquith as one of the most literary of English Prime Ministers. A volume just issued, however, which contains a number of Mr. Asquith's non-political addressca on such subjects as criticism, biography, and culture and character, is a good witness on behalf of Mr. Shorter's claim. No one can read these addresses without feeling that Mr. Asquith has the same studied respect for the monuments of literary gonius that he has for the British Constitution. This however, does not sufficiently define his attitude. He dote not, I imagine, find the British Constitu- tion amusing; but it is clear that he finds literature vastly amusing. He is a good quoter, who loves an anecdote or a per. sonal remark no less than

a great thought.

He has found in hooks not public in- stitutions but friends, table-talkers, and companionable wits. He describes his literary addresses as the work of an amateur, and certainly they contain none of those interpretative sentences that sud denly put a crown upon an author's head. At the same time, they are steeped in the sincere pleasures of a bookish man, happy in their memories and happy in their form. They are in the nature or complimentary speeches. Mr. Asquith's compliments to literature, luckily are not merely the dutiful phrases of a public man, but an a part of his autobio- graphy.

Mr. Asquith has in so happy & dsgrea the gift for dignifying the occasion that his critics are fond of estimating him as

1918.

HONGKONG DEFENCE CORPS.

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS DY MAJOR H. &. MORGAN, ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT

BTRENGTH.

No. 051 Pie. H. W. Luck was enrolled on 31.5.18. and posted to the Mounted Section,

The Commandant records with deep regret the death of Private J. Hut- chings, "D" Co., on 183.19

ATTACHED. “

The following are attached to the Engine.

Ser. Company pee. No. 080 Ftc. C. A. Bennett, “A? Ö,

from 1.6.18.

No, 150 Pia A. D. Keigwin, "B" Co.,

from 4.6.18.

No. 730 Pte. W. B. Hind, M.-Gun Co.,

No.

From 8.6.19..

738 Pto. D. Muir, M.-Gun Co.

from ́V.G. 18,

TRANSFERS.

The following are transferred-to-the-

Artillery Company :-- No. 095 Pte. J. Evans, "B" Co., dated

4.6.18..

No. 297 Pte. W. 3. Dexter, "A" Co., dated

4.6.18.

No. 304 Pte. F. E. Ranger, "A? Co,"

duted 4.0.18.

No. 381 Pte. E. Manning, A Co.,

diated 4.0.18.

No. 720 Pto W. Fraser, M. Gun Co.,

duted 6.0.18.;

No. 602 Pie. A. F. Goldfinch, "B" Co.,

drted 6.0.18.

LEAVE.

No. 36 Gnr: F. A. Britton, Artillery Co., is granted leave for the duration of the War, from 17.7.18. Lieut. H. "Kew, is granted 8 (1)

monthe leave, on the ground of health, from 1.7.18. Corpl. A. A. Bolton, M.-Gun Co., is

granted 2 months' leave on urgent business, to date from day of de- purture. Pte. Wm. H. Hewitt, Sig. Section, is granted 2 months' leave on Medical Certificate, from 17.7.18.

Pte. J. W. Gloyn, "D" Co., is granted 6 weeks' leave on Medical Certificate, from 15.0:18:

ORDERS FOR ARTILLERY COMPANY BY CAPT.

J. H. W. ARMSTRONG, V.D. Duties at Belchers Battery are discon-

tinued as from p.m. 5th June. Tuesday, 11th Juno-

7.30 am. Right Half Co. Parade at Belebers Battery, New Layers' Class only.

5.15 p.m. Left Half Co. Parado at Belchers Battery. New D.R.F. Class.only.

Thursday, 3th June-

7.80 a.m. Right Half Co. Parade at Headquarters, Full marching order, with ammunition but without great coats.

5.15 pm. Left Half Co. Parade at Belchers Battery. New Layers' Class only,

Friday, 14th June:-

į

5.15 pm Loft Half Co. Parade nt Headquarters. Full marching order, with ammunition but without great

conte.

ORDERS FOR ENGINEER COMPANY. BY CAPT. W. RUSSELL

The two most interesting addresses in: the book aro those on criticism and bio- graphy Mr. Asquith is not one of those who belittle criticism. He describes one of its chief functions as that of recal- ling the wandering crowd to the worship. of beauty and greatness," and scouts the It is all there, even to the general on customary separation of the great ages his horse sides a tree, moving batta of creation from the great ages of cri- lions with curt word and impassive faceticism. In regard to ust criticism, bow- It seems strangely familiar to the men ever, he is of the opinion thot on the who have never seen such a sight before. whole "it has a blighting effect even The wounded staggering drunkenly up a upon good writers," and pleasantly says country lane in stained bandages, the that it consists to a large extent in the cross-roads dressing-station, where a unilluminating discussion of unreal surgeon in shirt-sleeves stands at the head problems in unintelligible language. of a file of men like a ticket taker at a He is all on the side of those who regard theatre. The flash of bayonets in the criticism as is itself an art, an exercise mellow sunshinn, the rattle of laden of the imagination. He quotes, however, Fimbers going up and the ambulances as a vise remark on the critic's office, crawling back, the dusty ord rlica arriv. Voltaire's observation to Vauvenargues: ing with breathless messages in a stable It is the part of a man like you to.. yard, where officers stand around a kit-have preferences but no exclusions."

"It is intestating to find that among chen table--and fit naturally into the picture, and you are not surprised, Mr. Asquith's own prefereneos is De Even the infernal tumult around the Quincey. He maintains that a tired man can take down from his shelves any one: batteries, where men gesture curiously. because they cannot be heard, and the of the fourteen volumes of Professor admirable edition of De crash of shell against a road secr part Masson's of a dream come true. All around you Quincey's works, with the assured cer is movement swift or slow, but always tainty that, wherever he opong the book, methodical; a feeling of tension, but no he will be able to browse for half-an-hour. confusion. The men are tired. You can on rare and succulent pasturage." la it seo fatigue written on the faces of the really so1 Or are not those long pages Staff officers as they pora over their of De Quincy among the mirages of lite scarred maps in a wayside building a ratura Mr. Asquith, it is true, does not under trees and shells find them they set up De Quincey as a faultless idol. move again, yet never lose grip of the He admits that he had in him more threads that bind them to the front than a little of the literary coxcomb Molor-cyclists hooded and masked, and compares his prolixity to that of crouching over the handle-bars, flash into the long-winded advocate on whom the 7th the smoke with their despatches, weaving Scottish judge passed the comment that their way along a ranged highway neexhausted time and encroached upon mindful of the shrapnel in their wake. eternity." Another of Mr. Asquith's pre- Signallers-most imperturable of men ferences is Hazlitt. There one can go the

whole way with him, t go up and down the front trailing a new. wire, niending broken ones. Their blue and white arm bands are on every side a badge of courage not always remember. ed by the public when they praise thaa mastery rhetorician of platitudes. fighting_men.

The fields are full of wagons and tethered horses, little fines dot farms where weary soldiers are cooking their first hot meal in rest. You pick out familiar hamlets that look secure, hat they are strangely desolate, for their in habitants are scattered far and wide by the advancing tide of battle. Shell is breaking on sonic of them like white topped waves against a rock, and grad ually they crumble into shapeless ruins. It is impossible to follow all the thou sand and one incidents of battle that taking place around you. Eye and minds tura repeatedly from the carer scene to the indefinite waste dead ground draped in smoke of shifting hues, where hidden infantry are fighting, the undulating front pierced by thicker columns that are the funeral pyres of French villages. Yet all you see clearly hardly touches the fringe of the panorama of this battle..

The great agony is hidden yonder in the thick fog beyond, the gang that over. run the naked countryside. Only the airmen dropping down through the bot bardment can penetrate the heavy veil and see the German army longing for ward its dentacles striking at Bailleul and St. Venant, ita massive body spread across the plain to the citadel of Lille They follow the convulsive movements of the locked front lines and the fresh waves of grey flowing across the marshes, bunch. ing together at a canal bridge to spread again on the other side, er passing at a ditch for all the world like ants halted on a garden path. They see an army of roadmakers behind the storiu troops, the roads from Lille choked with wagons, and howitzers drawn by tractors and bridging trains crawling across the plaja, tho ant-like legions trying to turn Armentres into a storehouse under a storm of shell, piling ammunition, work ing furiously on a broken railway, carry ing forward baulks of timber and iron girders to be thrown astride the River Eye our guns, yo further back,

These quiet utterances on literature and higher education, however, ar as far fra the platitudinous as they are from the revolutionary. They manifestly ex- press the philosophy of life of one who, though not anxious to creep into the past as into a tomb and, to inhabit it, is a worshipper in the temple of tradi tion and pays his vows here in the same acceptant spirit in which he does the day's work. I can honestly say," he declares,that I bave never wavered in my allegiance to the great writers of hand, and no visionary on the other. In antiquity." He is no bigot on the one the result, for men have been able to keep their tempers so well in regard both to the future and to the past, He has the serenity and the good sense of a classic. That may be counted to him either for virtue or for weakness. Whichever it may be it is the mark and quality of Mr. Asquith.

amount of care could ease the suffering caused by the sudden loss of homes and property. Old women rode in carts piled high with furniture, but there were many in these mournful processions who had left everything save what they could carry. Women with babies in their arras tendged through the blinding dust, white with it from head to foot

At night every house and wayside es taminet for miles behind the lines was crowded with these hapless wayfarers. The people of Bailleul left as the German guns, ditw hear, and the old, white haired mayor and his dork, with the municipal documents, red, in a wagon to a town some miles away. In a famous seventeenth century ind he assembled some of his townspeople, and, as there was no room elsewhere, they passed the night sitting quictly around tables in the dining room. Yesterday morning the mayor opened his "office in one corner of the room, and conducted the municipal affairs until it conducted the netch resting place blink led

Nor is the battlefeld at night a night ever to be forgotten. The burning barns An old woman, totally blind, led by or cottages set alight by German shells, her granddaughter, was among them de the flashes of guns and bursting shell fugees. They were very quiet and resign- under the clear starlit sky give one sed, all of them, and one did not hear sharp realisation of the grimmest side of any expressions of anger or grief at the WAT

calamity which had befallen them. Some *****PATHETIC SCENES.

of the refugees brought nothing but pre- The exodus of civilians from the battle cious family heir-looms which they were zone has been marked by pathetic sceneable to carry-in one instance a portrait, They have been cared for and transported and in another a piece of lace handert by the French authorities with all poe down from the time of the Spanish sible regard for their comfort, but no occupation that had survived former

invasions. (Continued at foot of neat column.)

to 14th June

Saturday, 18th June:-

Inter-Section Rifle competition at King's Park Range. Teams of 6 men und 1 N.C.O, (ns detailed by Platoon Commanders) from each section. Dress Drill order with pouches. Teams to parade outsido U.S.R. Club opposite King's Park. Range as follows:--

Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 Sections at 2.454

p.ra.

Nos. 9, 10, 11 and 12 Bections at 335

p.m.

No. 5, 6, 7 and 8 Sections at 3.15

p.m.

Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 18 Sections at

4.15 p.m.

Saturday, 22nd June:--:

Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8 Platoons, Judging Distance test. Time and place will be notified later.

·BACHINE-GUN ·COMPANY.

Sunday, 9th June

4

u.m. Hongkong residents will parade at Statue Pier. Kowloon --residents will parade at Kowloon Docks at 9.15 am, The whole Company: will proceed by launch to Kowloon City for the Gascoigna Shield Competition.

Monday, 10th June-

5.10 p.m. Drill at Kowloon Docks, Nos. 1 and 2 gune only. Hongkong residents proceed by launchTM from Statua Pier at 4.30 p.m.. Tuesday, 11th June:

7.10 No. 3 gün at Headquarters. Wednesday, 12th June:

5.10 p.m. Nos. 4 and & guna at Head-

quarters.

Thursday, 13th Juno:-

5.10 p.m. The following men will parado at Headquarters:--Ptes. Field, Irvine, Labrum, Logan, MoKerns, and Stapleton.. Beginners Class on Wednesday, 12th, and Friday, 14th June at 7.10 a.m. at Headquarters.

MOUNTED SECTION,

Monday, 10th June:-

6.30 p.m. At Jockey Club Stables.

Dress: Drill order.

Thursday, 13th June:

0.30 p.m. At Jockey Club Stablea

Dress: Drill order without rifles.

SIGNALLING BECTION.

Tuesday, 11th, and Friday, 14th June:-- 5.30 p.m. Parade at Headquarters.

Dress: Clean fatigue,

N'ote-Rifles (with. hores free from oil) and sidearms are to be brought. to the parade on 11th Juno.

STRETCHER BEARER RECTION.

Tuesday, 11th June:-

5.16 p.m. Parade at Headquarters.

RECRUITS.

Monday, 10th, and Friday, 14th June:-..

5.30 p.m. All units except "D Co. on Murray Parade Ground, under Sergis, Oxberry, Edmonds (Mon- day) and Meade (Friday). Dress: Drill order.

ORDERS POR. CADET ÇOMPANY BY 2ND LIEUT. J. E. W. HEARD. PARADES,

Wednesday, 12th June

6 p.m. Swimming Fall in at Blaka

Pior. Saturday, 15th June

1.30 p.m. Nos. 3 and 4 Sections fall in at Headquarters to proceed to Sai-Wan

GE. STEWART, Capt.,

Adjutant, H.K,D.O. Hongkong, 7th June, 1915,

HONGKONG, POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS ISSUED BY MR F G JENEIN, CHR

COMMENDATION;

P.-c. 513 Remedios is commended by the Captain-Superintendent of Police for the smart arrest of a snatcher in Cleverly Street on the 20th May,

E. L. Manning Nightly-Parades as per rosters posted at Headquarters, Kngina Drivers at 6.40 p.m. Elce- tricians at 7 p.m. Officers next for duty. Beloliere, Lieut Hall; Losun, 2nd-Licut. Hill Stonecutters, Lt. Stevenson Instruction for higher ratings and N.C.Os and men of the Infantry Battalion attached for duty.-Class 1 at Belchers "at 8.30 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays for all who have not passed the "Prof- cient' rate (1) exam. Class 2.at Belchers at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesdayo and Fridays for all NC.Os. Rad ren of higher ratings, under Staff. All Bergts Ovendene and Parsons, B.E., and Sergt. Day, H.K.D.C., Class 3 at Lyocmun at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, under Staff. Sergta. Barclay and White, R.E., and Sergt. Williams, H.K.D.C. N.C.Os and men residing at the Peak aro informed that a special tram leaves at 12.10 a.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays (.e., for those coming off frst relief on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights).

1918.

POLICE SCHOOL.

ranks below the rank of Inspector ate required to pass (not merely attend) an examination on Police Duties and Conduct as laid down in "The Pocket Policeman."

Members (except those on duty) will

attend as indicated below. Uniform optional. The examination will tako place at Headquarters Club at 5.45 sharp each evening.

Monday, June 17thWater Police and

Mounted Police.

Tuesday, June 19th-No s Platoon. Wednesday, June 19th-No. 1 Platoom

(except Water Police).

ORDERS FOR INFANTRY BATTALION BY MAJOR Thursday, June 20th-No. 3 Platoon,

A MORGAN. KARADES—" A” COMPANY.

Friday, June 21-No. 7 Platoon. Inspectors of units are required to be im

attendance in uniform with their re spective units.

Tuesday, 11th June--

5.30 p.m. No. 8 Platoon at Head Dates for other units than above will be

quarters, T.E.T. Dress: Drill order. Wednesday, 12th Jane:

5.30 p.m. N.C.Os. of Nos. 3 and 4 Platoons (as detailed by Platon Commanders) at Headquarters, TET. A

5.30 p.m. No. 1 Platoon on Polo Ground: Hongkong residents will parade at the Cricket Club at 510 p.m.and proceed by Train to Causeway Bay, T.E.T. Dress: Drill order.

Friday, 14th June:-

5.30 p.m. Nos. 3 and 4 Platoons on Murray Parade Ground, T.E.T. Dress: Drill order.

Saturday, 15th June:--

Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 Platoons, Judging Distance test. Time and place will be notified later.

COMPANY.

Tuesday, 11th June

published.IN BA

AMMUNITION."

The attention of Riflemen (ie., men whờ have passed Part 1 of the last Musket- ry Course) is drawn to Departmental Order 113.

ACCOUNTANT.

The rank of Sergeant Accountant is abolished. The officer in charge of accounts will in future be known as the Police Reserve Accountant and will rank as an Inspector.

By Order,

T. F. Houon, ASP. (B) and Adjutant Hongkong, June 7th, 1918.

THE MAN WHO STAYED, 5.30 p.m. Nos. 5, 6 and 7 Platoons on The remarkable waz record of a private the Border Regiment is related in a Polo Ground Hongkong residents

list of winners of the Distinguished Con. will parade at Cricket Club at 5.10 duce Medal. He is Private G. Davis, of him, and proceed by Tram to Cause Bishopetoke, and the reasons for which way Bay. Open order movements. Dress: Drill order. In the event the medal is awarded him include the of wet weather Quarry Bay resid- following: "This man has not left the ents in No. 7 Platoon will parade battalion for a single day since the out at Taikoo Dockyard. The remain-break of hostilities: When the battalion der of No. 7 Platoon and Nos. 5 and was without either a quartermaster or a 6. Platoons will parade at Head-regimental quartermaster sergeant, be carried out the combined duties with quarters.

5.30 p.m. No. 8 Platoon at Kowloon Ereat ability and success. He has set

magnificent example of faithfulness and Docks. Open order movéments...

loyalty to the battalion."