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BEFORE ST. QUENTIN.

Cavalry Charges that took Villages.

War Correspondents' Headquarters,

France, April 2.-Our troops have advanced, since, yesterday

BURNING WAR

BONDS.

In Honour of the Dead and te Help the Country,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., MONDAY,

1917.

WOMEN AND THE WAR. DAIRY FARM NEWS.

A Hangkong Lady's"

Observations.

Trustees have been appointed on to a line of high grand over-for the Northumberland Boi former lady resident of looking St. Quentin and sweeping Cross War Memorial scheme for Hongkong writes fron Home sa Mr. Nevills in a curve round the wood of the public burning of War Lose follows: Since Holnon, which is the last strong bonds in memory of the dead, Chamberlain said "The woMER point between us and trenches socording to the Daily Mail power of the nation, properly can ... give us the Glimmediately before the cathedral The trastees are the Master of organised,

This morning our Jesus College, Cambridge, and strength which will enable as to Seatposts warn in Bibsocart Mr. W. Moorhead, of Broomhill run the last lap and secure fat and Villechollen, and advanced The memorial has been en jourselves and our children an to Maissemy, thereby holding tablished to follow the example honourable and lasting psaer," all the rosds except one of the King in giving £100,000 it

has made

ชุด women more fully ibe on the western side of the for the war instead of lending it realise yet Hindenburg Siegfried line" at interest. A committee of necessity for one and all doing between Peronne and St Quentin, working miners, soldiers, and their bit. Mrs. H. J. Tennant, Our enemy is shelling the tradesmen has been formed, and Director of the Women's Section. villages from which he has lately the Dake of Northumberland of National Service, pe king at retired with long-range guns, will set as the medium of com- the memorable meeting bold at and we are now drawing very munication between the tractees the Albert Hall on Tuesday, March 19, stated...that the close to his new line of treaches and the King, and fixed positions.

It is proposed to have the first obj et of the meeting was rather North-east of Bapaume we have" public barning" in the course to give direction to the universal Women had whowo made to-day a heavy and success- of the summer, and a brazier will energy ful attack south-säst of Croisilles be erected upon a suitable site in than to make any appeal for as where a few days ago there was memory of the deed. Tus bonds increase of that energy; there had ebarpfighting and several German destroyed will be registered, and never been a shortage of national counter-attacks, because the His Majesty will be informed of service. Which all provee how positions threaten that sector of the smoant which will cease to women have worked and still; the Hindenburg line which is a liability of the country. Sobre working for their country. war, women bare immediately behind the village, scribere will receive an illuminat Since the

every post striking dowa at an angle ed certifioste stating the fact that filled practically south-eastwards io front of they have destroyed War Loan held by men in pre-war times. Queent, from which we are scrip in honour of the illustrious They are now to be fcand in less than three miles distant, dead and to relieve the taxation Our attack to-day was preceded by of the country. great gunfire, and the enemy has defended himself with desperats

courage, noting upon Hinden- was directly in front of the Ger- borg's orders that the position man machine-gun emplacements. must be held at all costs. We The other gully was to the right, have brought back over 103 and it was through this that prisoners and have inflicted great the cavalry rode, sweeping round loses upon the garrison.

io a corre to Equancourt in parties. Before the

The Indian Lancers.

two

Ore of the most interesting charge a third party was posted and extraordinary features in on the left of the rising ground all the fighting east of Ba- and swept the wood below Equat paume has been the work court with machine-gun fire, and of our cavalry equadrons in smaller body of cavalry to the reconnaissance and attack. I right cccupied the attention of confess that after two and a half the enemy in Sorel in the same year of trench warfare I was way.

Government office; in munition factories; they have entered engine abopa and dock-yarda; they aasiat in agriculture; they' have become conductors of busses and trame, ticket collectors and porters on the railways.

Osë sometimes wonders what

more women can de, bat what we now have to realise is that it is not only service directly bearing on have been told that all are needed; the war that is of importance. We

the educated and the uneducated,

the skilled and the unskilled, and it is our duty to do our best, however small and little it may seem, to help in this great crisis,

Life is very real for most of us just now, and the war is making us Isad much more useful lives.

atterly sceptical of the valus of, Then the two attacking parties mounted hoops, in spite of the were launched and rode hard at We are gradually stripping our "little stunt" (as they called it) in a pace of 23 miles an hour. The selves of irksome little conven- Jaly Isat. Eight villages have enemy did not stand. After few tionalities, and wo none of us to- been taken by car mounted baista of machine-gun fire, which

[day feel sahamed of doing and troops, and they have captured a only hit a few of cur mounted saying what we feel to be right. rumber of prisoners and machine-mer, they filed behind the shelter Vany silly duties which we need to tans They have liked their of a railway embankment beyond perform before the war, because hunting. I have seen the Indian the village, and most of them they were expected of as, have Cavalry riding Вегобя the escaped.

disappeared, and we now please fields with their lances high,

This cavalry attack is typical of ourselves more and are less bens- and it Was great sight the others, and one strange revelaitive to the criticism of others. and no strange be an Arabiac

tion of them is the comparative Let us bear Mr. Chamberlain's Night's tale in this land of France to see those atresma of brown, bearded men, se handsome 88

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scarcely expect to escape, from ed villages, and come back with All our cavalrymen have a time to time, sufferings which wen eir news of the enemy's where poor opinion of the German Uh are not called upon to endure. Bat abouts. A week ago one of their lens. The latter are heavy and not all women know-though the patrols went into the forest of slow, and avoid ancounter, sp-fact might easily suggest itself Holaon, and listened to Germans pearing only in the skyline a dis- what is really behind all these talking. Our men were andintance away, linking into ruius miseries is something wrong with covered. They took the villages at night, and riding back at the the blood.

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by sweeping round on both sides first sight of British troops. They Most often, especially when a in a great gallop with their seem to have no confidence in the girl is entering womanhood, the lacoes down, and the enemy dad lance us a weapon, alaeping it one cause of pain, low spirits, it the first night of them. like a red-hot poker if they come backacher, and elow development

to close quarters with any of our is armia. This miserable con- Hongkong, 26th May, 1917. Charging Machine-Guns, · When the cavalry charged at men and using pistols before they dition of health-too little blood, Equsncourt, a body of British get away. In one village car or blood that is thin and poor-is infantry who had come on to the troopere picked up twenty lanoes sometimes the cause of decline, MARINE INSURANCE ASSOC-

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