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1930.

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TRUTH ABOUT THE WESTERN FRONT.

RECENT WAR BOOKS SHOW WRONG PERSPECTIVE.

[BY SIR PHILIP ĠIBBS ·

War Correspondent "for the duration?" on the Western Front).

It seems from certain war-books fecently published, and from one just published-"A Brass Hat in No Man's Land." by Brig.-General F. P. Crozier, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. -that that is the truth about our officers and men whose names are written од the war memorials throughout our country,

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When we stand bare-headed in remembering how these masses of of frightful things. They made grim the Two Minutes' Silence, are we | young men were cut off for months jests with roars of mirth. They étoilé, as the honouring the memory of men together from the kind of life they became a little whose courage was due to excess of had known and liked shops, light-French say.. But there were no alcohol, who could only be kept ined streets, women folk. home. life, drunken orgies. They maintained the trenches by the fear of being personal liberty-it is not extra the demeanour of officers shot for cowardice, who lost all ordinary that many of them should gentlemen down the Rue des Trois. moral discipline in France and have gone back to billets behind the Cailloux, as far as my experience Flanders and were drunkards and lines with a yearning for any kind goes, once encountered a drunk- debauchees behind the lines!

of drink, or dope, or counterfeit of en "officer. quite helpless, late at love, which might make them for- night, and dragged him back to my get the unpleasant side of war, own billet, where I hid him from The extraordinary thing is that staff officers, but he was the only cities like Amiens and Bailleul one I encountered among many were not crowded with drunken thousands. soldiers, and that month after For four years and more I went month and year after year their into dug-outs, front line trenches, streets were as orderly as the observation posts, battalion massé Or, at Strand in peace time, with Tommies in Ypres. Arras, and all the area this will appear to be the truth,ing through the plate glass win. Quentin, before battle and after. and the most startling and impres dows, and officers, enjoying a fete hattle, and only once did I meet sive aspect of truth, in the minds days rast between boe battle and an officer worse for drink. I heard of the younger generation and other another, buying soap and writing of one who was being court- generations to follow, without any paper and small. useless things for martialled for drunkenness when I first-hand knowledge, to correct the sake of a few words in bad happened to call on him one day. false emphasis or to see the right. French with bright-eyed girls be- but I failed to see him. I never perspective.

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Viewed in that way, it is a slan der and a libel upon the army of our youth which left these shores for the most desperate ordeal men have ever faced.

Realities of War.

I do not believe in hushing up the realities of war, however painful or terrible. On the contrary, I was the first to write a book ander that title setting down starkly the abominations, the agonies, the Alth, and the temptations through which our men passed, and it stands on record, I honestly believe, a faithful picture of the war in France with nothing concealed or suppress ed. But in that book and through- out the war itself I never failed to marvel at the decency, the good nature, the self-discipline, the real nability of the battalion officers and men, from first to last, in conditions of life when it was hard, to be de cent and undemoralised.

The astounding thing is that men who were called upon to abandon the civilised ways in which they had been brought up for this life in trenches and dug-outs should have retained the manners and instincts of their old code-as most of them did. It is not marvellous that some of them became degraded and de based and brutalised. It is mar- i vellous that in the mass they utterly refused to yield to those influences and were untouched by that "blood Just " which General Crozier em- phasises as the chief quality of the good soldier.

The Real Marvel. Looking at the hazard of death from which their chance of escape was a disabling wound, knowing the nerve-strain of holding a forward position under heavy shelling, and the endless fatigue, discomfort, and beastliness of a spell in the trenches in foul weather or time, of attack;

Decent, Orderly, Good-Humoured.

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One of the few times when I sw brandy being consumed in consider. able quantity was in a trench mor- I am not saying that other things tarposition in advance of our in- did not happen in Amicas and else- fantry line, when the officers had where, as they happen in London discovered, severn! hottles in a Ger- and elsewhere in pence time: 1 am man dug-out. I helped them drink only insisting, what I believe can- it, and stood out in the open and not be contradicted, that the mit felt nusually brave when cle of the war as far British friends gave a special strale" of Army is queerned was the decent,rench mortars at the enemy posk orderiv, good-humoured" and tion four hundred yards away. Wa brutalised character of the encr- were not drunk, to the best of my

belief, mous majority of British soldiers, not only in the front line trenches. where discicline war severe, but behind the lines, where the tempta some officers whose nerve was wear- There is no doubt, I suppose, that tions to drink and debauchery lurking down under constant shell-fire ed in dark alleys and back streets.

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It would be absurd to pretend that we had an army of saints out in France and Flanders. They were of ordinary human stuff in un natural conditions, with the mente of death very near to them. In the darkness of Amiens nights there was the flash of little torches in the faces of young officers, and their shoulder-strans were grabbed y girls who offered them the chance of a passionate hour, the lure of feminity for which they crayed, the other side of life from that desert to which they would of death return.

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"Journey's End."

and war-strain propped themselves up by as many nips as they could get out of a fair-sized bottle. I do not doubt for a moment that the End" is strictly true. situation described in "Journey's Again, it would have been miraculous if men had not found this way to give them

mask of courage when they were nerve-shattered and shell-shocked. I do not blame them. I do not blame any man who fails to perform miracles, But I admire and salute those millions of men, those hun- dreds of thousands of officers, who kept their nerve without alcoholic sedatives, who were able to face the most frightful fre by some spiritual valour which was in their souls and not in their flasks, and who_with- stood the ordeal of the most dread- ful war in the history of mankind and remained both kind and sane.

The "Blood Lust" Training.

No Drunken Orgies. Some of them took the chance and risked the Consequences, which sometimes were tragic. It was wonderful how many preferred quiet dinner at the "Godebert or the Cathédrale," and context- ed themselves with a smile at the roguish face of Marguerite, who I agree with General Crozier that flirted with each one of them with the Brass-hat mind," of which he infinite vivacity. At Charlie's Bar is a notable example according to officers down from the line would his own admission, established an bave three "egg-nogs" or four intense educational training in champagne cocktails. They laugh- "blood lust" for the young soldier. ed a good deal. They talked loudly (Continued on Page 4)

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To-day. (May 22,)

Queen's Theatre: "Locked Door." World Theatre: "Girl on the Barge."

Star Theatre: "Wild Orchids." Majestic Theatre West of Broadway."

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Queen's Theatre: "Locked Door." | Lawn Bowls 1st Div. Kowloon World Theatre: "Girl on the Barge.

Star Theatre: "Wild Orchids." European Mails-Inward: Siberia (Mantua); Europe vid Outward: Europe Vid Siberia (Ranpura), 8.30 a.m.

B.G.C. C.S.C.C... Craigengower C.C. v. Police R.C., Recreio e. Kowloon Docks R.C., Taikoo R.C. . Kowloon C.C. 2nd Div.: C.B.-

CCC.C.C, H.K. Electric R.C. Taikoo R.C. Royal H.K.Y.C. v. Kowloon B.G.C., Kowloon C.C. v. Recreio.

Tides: High, 6.59 am and 5.51 Reunion Dinner of past pupils of at Lane, Crawford's; 7.30 Low, 12.08 a.m. and 12.33 | "Ours"

Lammert's Auction of Household ip.m.; Furniture, 1 moter cycle and p.m. stamps, Salesroom, 2.30 p.m.

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