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THE HOSURŐNG DAILY. PRESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH 1919.

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DRAMATIC SPEECH BY MARSHAL FOCH

SO WE STARTED AFRESH."

A large and comprehensive body of the French colony in London was addressed carly JIS Elmasay French 117 The

camber, by the French Premier and Marshal Foch.

3. CLEMENCEAU'S REVELATION. Clemenceau, refering to Fuch, maid:

M

THE REVOLUTION

GERMANT

IN

A BARBAROUS ORDER.

FROM LEONARD SPRAY.} There has come into the possession of the Berlin correspondent of a Dutch paper military documents which reveal, for the first time, the desperate attempts made by high military authorities at Ber- I 1. Marshallin to kill the tiernan revolution.

appears that the main efforts were direct No one had to preventing the revolting sailors from Kiel and Hamburg reaching Berlin. An atteript was inade to cut off all rait way communication between the north west and Berlin, but this, as indeed all Το the efforts of the authorities, failed. what lengths, however, the Berlin fam Band was prepared to go is shown by the orders which were sent to the officer was to pre at Neustadt, whose duty it I was

I have seen him at work. se him more closely than 1, and it is

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14 Kreat satisfaction to me to do him

his 3 tier before this asseblage of

low-citizens of the French colony in London. We have sen each other an the woral days and in the finest. I sat Marshal Foch our day when Suddenly and with out any reason to had been thanked and placed on the unemployed list

a day I shall ever forget when he came le the and raid,See whni has come dat He did the hogear to sak my Ge hon So advice. 1 said to him: recriminations, say nothing, and, before will be many weeks liave pussed, you

anted. He had no need of my advice. Perhaps

hhad already guessed what it would be.

His conseieater would have sufficed to prevent bin running the risk of adding quarrels to the great national crisis through which the country with passing at that sad hour. He went home i without a word of cecrimination, sud 1 believe not a fortnight, had passed before he was thief of Staff of the French army.

We had won him on the Yer, we bad een him in the Saint Gond marches, where we enn only say by the single effort of that valiant soldier the enemy was stopped and his soldiers, who were not all French soldiers,

were constrained,

AJAN

Up

He

in the task

as the his

When the

when they appeared to hesitate, in march to the attack. It was in these Fireum- stances that, when they can and told bim General, we can hold on," he I cannot spoke those splendid words:

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Well, then I attack. attacked and conquered. We are already

and in Jong way from which was ngain confiled to him he said that his actifn Hurked by atversion of victories tory of war has never known. Grunns hesitated betwe tuwing elves best on Acicns, I shall never forget the meeting at that mu men at Doublens with all 1 Allied generals and heads of Gos.ruments, at winch Grperal Foh that was then his title, told us all, fishy before Amiens. I fight in Auriens, I first behind Andes, I fight all the trane,“ and he has kept his word. It is true that he bed war veljens sidies, a good soldier u

unal chiefs. The gend chief in turn

kaklier. help to create the good

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vent. the mutineers reaching Berlin. Although these men were known to be travelling by ordinary passenger trains, which were bound to contaio, as was in- deed the case, a large number of women and children, orders were given to derail the trains and fire upon them with guns, until a cessation of all

PROD" showed that everybody in them

was dead. The history of the event and copy of these orders, which the correspon. dent describes as the most gruesome of the war, is as follows:

On Novesuber 5th, a lieutenant, with Twenty seven nuen and two machine guns, was sent to Neustadt, with orders to hold up all trains from Hamburg and Kiel, and send back all soldiers and Kailurs travelling. When the lieutenant arrived at Neustadt, however, he was told by new order and the station guard that been received, that the men in the train had leave passes and must be allowed to proceed. The lieutenant neted accord ingly, but next day orders came rom the Berlin Command that the original in structions must be obeyed in regard to any further trains. The officer obtained reinforements, and mounted machine. guns in the station windows. When the train arrived, however, the officer saw it contained

number of women and child ren, as well as sailors; so he did not fire, persuaded the sailors, who

and vertely hungry, to return to

Hamburg, after I had provided them

a itti

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In the evening, however, things took dramatic turn, for there arrived at the station reinforcements of 120 soldiers, with no fewer than fourteen machine guns. Just as they arrived, the lieuten ant in command received the following message from the Command at Berlin:

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A Frain is cutning from the direction of Wittenberge with mutineers, well arm. Youed. You must derail the train and imme

diately shoot upon from all sides with machine guns and whatever other pons you have. You must continue bring while there is any sign of life in the train. This is a fight for life and death." Accordingly, wachine-guns were mou

e and see the pila in the trenches, ye en talk to him of Marshal Foch, and you will see what he has to say about him And then you can go and see Marshal Foch in his offer at any hour of the day and talk to him of his poles, and you will see in what fir ** be sil sing their praises

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Alter a few very modest words th to his own services in helping to save most beautiful country there has ever ben. M. Clen encena declared that the best way to honour their dead was to taka kuat pente which should be the Are daoghter of the great war-- peave they would give the great French mother- ind a fresh chance of developing and becoming still greater, if that were pos kible.

BUW THE TIDE WAS TURNED.

Marshal Foch then stepped forward. Speaking of the last year of the war, he said:--

After the magnificent Words which you have just heard it is very hold on my part in speak, but I should like to give You all know a few explanations.

through what vicissitudes then you

mount

ed on all the buildings at the approach E the station, and even on the roof, and soldiers were posted ready for action." Then came to the officer the station-mas- fer, wringing his hands and saying that also in the train were large numbers of શ.,

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traig Wig women and children. stopped just outside the station, and the officer tried by telephone to communicate with Berlin, but failed. until dawn, when the

It was there from it,

and women suddenly nors soldiers.

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For

and saw themselves faced by munchine-gune in all directions. There was a panic, but eventually two sailors restored calm, whilst the lieutenant explained his orders In the that the train must not pass. confusion, however, the people re-entered the train, which resumed its journey. Shortly afterwards came a rebuke from

officer the

having Berlin "negotiated" with the mutineers, and a fresh order: A new mutinvers, is on the way. Regardless

train, with shall not recount them.

bo who may be in this train mast it. know them as well as briefly over the last phases in order to derailed and everybody in it mercilessly

We also had to draw up bad contained two thousand

shot down. tell you this.

Knowing that the earlier travel train The sacri our balance-sheet for 1918 fices to which France had consented were

lers, including many women, the officer, colossal. Ou: dead were reckoned in

on receiving this barimric

command, col millions. We all had dead in our fami lapsed, and had to be carried away un- That you know as well as I do. conscious. There was nobody among the

towns destroy

military on the spot who would under. take to carry out the brutal order, and so the train passed through uninterrupt-

passed.

lies.

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The regions aried away into slavery

train

ed, the people

all the atominations of barlaris let loos-vas all that to go unpunished?ed to Berlin.-Daily Telegraph. No! We owed it to war dead and to our people that our losses should not be in win and that they should be fittingly

atoned for.

When the enemy appeared in March, in April, in May, 19 march on Paris what did we do? We agreed to this first, the French, then the British and the Americans when they had arrived-and "First we shall stop them at

we said: we end.

Over

330,000 prisoners and captured 6,000 guns. If it had been necessary to continue, the position of the enemy was daily becoming very rapidly worse. Victory, I have already said, is an in clined plane. The ball starts slowly on

L

al! costs." (Cheers.) And, when de veloping a sudden and furious offensive, the entuny fell upon troops worn out by four years of trench warfare, we stopped his march

7 Amiens, his march upon Paria

is the formula which we startling regularity carried out with Wa succeeded.

We then made up our Are tired and worn out, but who are still could not but sign an armistice.

The

but it increases rapidly in speed if it is not stopped, and we were going to accelerate the movement. We had start ed on th. I plane. Our offensive, more and developed, becoming greater and greater, was about to incrense still more in force when the enemy stopped us by We laid down requesting on armistice. the conditions of that armistire.

conditions. We enemy accepted our

Wall,

these results are duo to the re-awakening of all the energien Kards our Allies the British Armined which united to work together when they Buffered formidable disaster. We said the found a leader to conduct them to vic- same thing: We shall recuperate and make a fresh start and the fresh start bory. That is what we owe to our dead. Was that fresh start mande That is what we owe to our country. was made.

And it is that which has permitted, us with a distant object in view?

accounts, and said, "" We have troops that

expable of indisputable energy. As re

No.

It was made to assure communWN COZIA GR3 prove that Franco in still capable of)

indispensable to the life of the

landing the armies which come to rango themselves-under her banner to victory

to set free Chateau Thierry, to restore against the common enemy the communications between Paris and Both speeches were received by the Nangy, then to assure the communica

M. company with Intense enthusiasm. tions with the north which were still Clotheneenu's statement that bad it not very precariouent Amiens the attack

been for him Marshal Foch would have of August Bah

Rawlinson Generals and Debenegand to free Amiens at all had no command was greeted with orie

astonishment and consternation.

oosta.

Black

with

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of All that came off. Then the Arras obriety and smocrity of M. Cleinction'a

British Armies.

spooch skeply

ply impressed his hearers, And then, seeing that all this was

Marshal Tool'a dreen, although couch going badly, the offensive war extended, ed in simple terms, was none the lean and we Anished by tres, in whites every eloquent, especially herds the

front of 400

in graphic body was engaged French, British, Bel, efforis of the Allies to stop the Gering, ginan and Americans, itemember that runs in pham And so we starte In these offensives we tank more than aber, we not with a storm of•Kp

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