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THE STORY OF THE GREAT CAMPAIGN.

As Seen from the German Ranks.

MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921.

THE PRUSSIAN SPIRIT. plenty, that the German profiteers, | We soon began to realise that agrarians, and industrial mag- [the enemy were stronger than we nates were responsible for the

had thought. The war became famine (far more than England); 窳 matter of everyday life-theso were the things that!

with rather a short span to it,fdrove the patient, sorely-tried and rather dangerous as well. German masses to a fury that If you had seen the German The spirit of Prussia perniented was bound to explode in a re- armies marching to the front in the ary, Prussia with its volution. Then when the peace August, 1914, you would never three-class voting system, and its of Brest-Litovak revealed the have dreamt that they would first, second, and third class true character of the war, when return with red armlets and with-subjects. The army, too, could hundreds and thousands of Land- out princes, dukes, and rulers. [be divided into three classes-sturmere were held up in Cour- Thanks to the skilful and dis-officers, a propertied class, and a land and Livonia just to guard honest propaganda of the General class without property. The ducal estates, when the last hope Staff, thanke to the censorship, longer the war lasted the greater was destroyed on the western thanks to the semi-official tele-the class distintiions became.front, then we knew that all our

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entire Tho common soldier did not dead had died in vain, then we Six Brown Brothers German people were kept in the exist so much to fight the enemy knew that we ourselves would firm belief that Germany had as to work and slave for the have to bring the war to a violent been attacked and that the war officer and obey his orders. The end. Six Brown Brothers was the last link in the chain General Staff did all it could to The hosility between Bavaria |

with which England had been restore the old Prussian spirit of and Prussia became intense. encircling Germany 80 as to discipline by intensive drill Bavaria had stopped sending Smith's Orchestra dostroy hor. This belief lasted behind the front. The man who foodstuffs to Prussia long ago many months after the war began cased his collar without orders) Bavarian transport drivers even That is why the German army on a hot day was punished. If refused to take Prussian wounded. Smith's Orchestra marched enthusiastically into the an officer saw a man fetching The Bavarians did not regard

“inevitable war." That is why his dinner in the trenches with France but Prussia as the enemy. ↑ one and a half million youthful his greatcoat unbuttoned the Entire Baverian regiments volunteers filled the barracks, the man was punished. The N.C.O's] mutinied as early as August and | schools, and all the public build- were forbidden to converse on September, 1918. Troop trains ings requisitioned for war service familiar terms with the món. arrived at the front half empty, The soldiers of the propertied for half the men deserted on the by the military authorities, writes

Germany soldier in the class got money from home journey. Soldiers in barracks Manchester Guardian."

and could buy ali they refused to obag orders. Every day None of those who marched wanted in the canteens. They we felt the final catastrophe come gladly to war had ever seen a war. were able to influence their nearer and nearer. The thunder- Few had ever seen a dead body; superiors with money and storm drew up black and dense. still less had they seen men lying presents. The company sergeant The first lightning came from the dead on the bare ground with torn majors in the barracks at home navy, and on the 9th of November, limbs and lacerated body.

had always been corruptible; now in a single fight the ground Belgium was overrun. The they became corruptible at the odifice of the strongest militarism wounded home on sick leave were front as well. Leave could be and the greatest army the world stared at as though they were bought, so could light duty, soft had ever soen was burnt to ash strange sea monsters. The Battle jobs at the bases promotions, and and cinders. of the Marne was colebrated as a Iron Crosses. great victory. But when Parie. The class without property-- simply refused to fall, and when that is to say, the proletarians- the trench war in the west cried slaved, starved, froze, and died, "Halt" and when a war Christ Their mothers, wives, and chil mas was at hand--then, and not dren wrote of similar woes in till then, did soldier and civilian their letters from home. Every begin to doubt. The delirious Alsace Lorrainer or Pole WAR enthusiasm bogan to abate. suspected of espionage. IU. Soldier and civilian began to treatment of soldiers was so com- criticise, the officers and the mon that the Social Democrats Sir Hamar Greenwood, reviewed General Stuff to teel nervous.

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joven asked questions about it in the troops of the Auxiliary Force I passed through Belgium to the Reichstage. We had the of the Royal Irish Constabulary Northern France with my com rights to complain, but no one at Beggars Bush Barracks, pany on the 8th October, 1914. ever dared to make use of Dublin, recently. We did not sing. –German soldiers his right. We all submitted and Sir Hamar, who was accom- going 10 war had stopped swallowed the bitter pill unresist-panied by Lady Greenwood, was singing voluntarily as early asingly, for all who showed the received by General Tudor, October, 1914. We detrained at slightest defiance were select Police Adviser to the. Govern- Nosle, near St. Quentin. This ed for the most dangerous work ment, and General Crozier, com- the first welcome we go or were transferred into the "fly-manding officer of the Auxiliary from the adjutune when, we in. division." which were always Cadots. paraded with our regiment the sent to the hottest parts of the Addressing the troops after following day: he kicked five or front. Wherever the third-class the inspection, the Chief six men and clouted two or three, soldier found himself he was Secretary said: -I want my first because he had heard them talkniggerdriven, kicked, and bullied, word to be one of profound regret, ng, in the ranks. Of course, we ROAST MEAT AND WINE FOR and I am sure you share it with vere ashamed that such thinge

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me, at the murder of some of your wore possible, but we excused

As for the governing class-gallant comrades in the months them by attributting them to the the officers-every lieutenant had that have gone, and to express, hardships, and the nervousness his batman. A company com-jon behalf of the Government and which both officers and men had mander had two or three. The on your behalf, our sympathy

o undergo in the front line. But soldiers had only a little black with the bereaved. if any one of us still had any bread to appease their incessant Lot me say that His Majesty's war-enthusiasm it froze all of a hunger, but the officers had white Government is determined to sudden and remained below agro bread and special meals every crush out this conspiracy, which from that hour onwards.

day. While the common soldier has for its object the smashing up: There was the greatest confu- fainted for sheer hunger in the of the United Kingdom and our sion in the villages behind the trenches, the officers had roast- Empire, front. One night at Roye we moat brought to their dug-outs,. No Government can tolerate discovered four infantrymen be-where the wine flow ed plentifully assassination or condone it, and bind doors bolted from inside. They had casinos furnished in in this matter we feel we are the They had been in hiding for the most elaborate fashion. They custodians of civilised government week. The mon of my company had their cows and their pigs, and indefeating a conspiracy which were unruly and deeply depress with the profits from the soldier's depends not upon, argument but ed. One of them deliberately shoi canteens they paid for their upon the rifle, the revolver, and his finger off as he was cleaning banquets and for the women they the bomb. his rifle. On parade the sergeant kept at the bases. Of course

"THE AUXILIARIES' DUTIES.” major tried to "improve the there were distinctions amongst Proceeding, the Chief Secretary moral" of the troops. Wo were the officers also. The higher said that in their duties as mem- inexperienced green-horns, and rank, the further their base, there of the Auxiliary Division that is why we listened to his worse they became. The most they had three great and inspir-to the end, the gallant forces of words. He said that the present amazing conditions began to pre-ing traditions to remember the Crown in Ireland, but I have in Ireland politicians who abuss There are in England now and deadlock meant nothing. for vail. Shirking, corruption and First, that they were associated asked for, and will insist upon, a you whose every word is n tremendous things were in pre. uxury increased to an apalling with the historic Royal Irish Con- paration, things such as the world xtent. Many an officer always stabulary, which had a record for discipline worthy of the great and encouragement to the assassins had never seen before. The old had a batman on the way who discipline, courage, and loyalty honourable cause that you and I You have newspapers that insult

It is your you. are fighting for.

The same newspapers and soldiers of the unit laughed when ook food and other things, to his surpassed by no force of the duty and mine to the parade was over and called family at home. Health resort Crown in the history of their Ireland from the dupee of you during the war and were rescue the same politicians were against the sergeant major a swindler. A and watering places swarmed great Empire. few days later we heard of the with majors, captains, and lieut-

agitators who look to violence, to the champions of the consolen- first Zepplin raid on London.

nants. Most of the rations mean vivors of that great army which the bomb, for remedy, rather than tions objectors and of every shirker throughout the broad We were in the trenches soon for the front remained at the base,rew from sit parts of the Empire to argument and to fair play. after. At night-time, the now

I am sorry to say it, but you dominions of this great Empire. The longer the war lasted thand was the decisive factor in the

BREAKING THE TERROR. arrivals were sent out on patrol. more its hopelessneak was realised. winning of the Great War. In are up against som dirty fighters,

General Crozier-You have a When we observed that the oldShirk and get rich" was every. that army they were associated but remember those dirty fighters soldiers" dodged the worst dan body's motto. Soldiers louged for, with the pick of the Irish race respresent but a small minority fine corps d'elite in this barracks gers we followed their example. prison, for prison meant safety. from Ireland, from Great Britain, of this great historic race of Irish under your command. I am sura Bread and soup were brough The prisons were not hig and num- and from the United States, and men and Irish women. However every man will do his duty. I from the field kitchens every erous enough to hold all the sen- he wanted every act and deed of great the provocation, never forget I am also sure we are breaking evening, but we lived chiefly on tenced non. Men were tried only heirs to be worthy of the Irish-you are officers of His Majesty's this terror, which has nearly the turnips that grew in the fields. for the gravest offences, Deser-man who sacrificed themselves in Army again serving the old flag in ruined Ireland, and that before long there will be a new and Wo suffered acutely from hungortions increased. Those who had the great cause of civilisation in this distracted country, and we all had stomach trouble. money or influence shirked or got the Great War.

You are policemen whose first happier Ireland; thanks largely Terrible things went on in the jobs as munition workers. In Thirdly, they represented the duty it is to prevent crime and to the forces of the Crown, who one object in this field hospitale. Whoever was re more than one factory the real tradition of friendship between to maintain order, and I hope have but ported sick was abused in the workers threatened to strike if the the peoples of Great Britain and that before the last auxiliary country, and that is, to relieve vilest manner by the sergeant bakers, butchers, business men, of Ireland. None of us, he said, man leaves Ireland the people of Ireland from the great and awful major and then chucked out as a and members of the upper classes have any quarrel with the people Ireland will realise, and from terror of assassination, and to shiker by the medical officer, and other "indispensables

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your conduct, courage,and help her develop her destiny as whereupon moro abuse from the not sacked.

Our duty is to see that the chivalary will apreciate, the fact a part in the great Common- sergeant major would follow. Then there was the useless people of Ireland are freed from that you are here to rescue wealth of the Empire,

On the call of General Crozier, The private soldiers had only one slaughter of entire regimente, the the terrorism of the assassin and Ireland from the assassin, to save topic of conversation day and Government's broken promises, the intimidation of the boycotter her from a small, misguided three cheere were given by the A few drops of this wonderful Essence sprinkled on the nicht: "Shall we have peace by the untruthfulness of the official ap that the majority of the people minority of her people. You are troops for the Chief Secretary Handkerchief and inhaled, Cures Colds, Banishes Headaches, Christmas, ?"

bulletins, and the ever-growing here, who devotedly wish for here to maintain the United Hay Fever, etc.

Our postal service worked very distress of the masses. The peace, may have the opportunity Kingdom intact, and to break up AN ADMIBALTY GARDEN CITY, VAPOLINE INHALANT possesses one unique feature-on well, and brought us many letters words "Equal food and equal pay of expressing their views free that conspiracy that has for its Arrangements have been com- het contact with the air it develops & gives off antiseptic Vapours increased,

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object the smashing up of the pleted for building a garden city which gradually gain in strength, hence it is very economical in brought no peace but many Iron wall

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Government and on the Chief | live in? Elinburgh, and the officers' batman, who could lead desperation. But that the childrenTM In the House of Commons, as Secretary to champion you in the Admiralty pays about £130 daily an easy like, were particulary at home hungered while the Chief Secretary for Ireland, I House of Commons and to reip. for travelling money, in addition well rewarded,

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