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IT IS DIFFICULT for Hong- kong radio listeners to put themselves in the position of the German people, in whom years of spoon-feeding on the thin fare of official propaganda has. induced a positive hunger for objective news.

The fact is that there is a wide gulf between the attitude

"Underneath the Spreading Chestnut Tree"

Mr. R. S. Hudson is in Moscow with a trade delegation.

General Gough-the Truth

HE attack represented

THE

Ludendorff's last bid

for victory.

No attacks on so vast a scale had ever before been planned. The staff work of the Germans

was beyond al praise. Despite tured the element of surprise, which had seemed almost ex cepted from the tactics of this

its vastness it actually recap-

war.

The attack failed-a failure which was the prelude to Ger- many's final defeat,

The principal force of the at- tack was delivered against the British Fifth Army, under the command of General Hubert de

The Late

Lord Birkenhead

At one point labour battalions were brought in to help stem the advance; a corps of "Ameri- can engineers, building bridges over the Somme, first blew up their bridges and then took part in the defence of the line

wrote this article and died before he could of Villers-Bretonneux.

Correct the proofs.

Twenty-one years ago this month the . was greatest military attack in history launched by Germany upon the British Front in France. It was destined to decide the Great War".

By April 4th the Germans had penetrated no fewer than 38 miles behind the original British front; they had cap- tured more than a thousand

guns and over 60,000 men,

But their attack had lost its

momentum. It was now flag-

·ging and nagging.

GOUGH called up Sir Hubert Lawrence, Haig's Chief of

la Paer Gough, who took com- vital portion of the British line, GOUGH realised that thero Staff. He anid that, in his mand of the Fifth Army in pely, that which covered the 1917.

nannel ports.

But there is a considerable drove in the Third Army at the

Insuf- an

As the weather improved the difference between a bare sufficiency and

point of attack to a depth of retreating British were able to fielency; and Haig would seem fenders were able to put eight ing its first hopes of triumph 5,000 yards, although the de- oppose an enemy which was los- to have approached perilously divisions into action on this and was dismayed and per- near to leaving Gough with front of ten miles. The Fifth plexed by the continued opposi insufficient troops even for the delaying operations he manned, lost in depth about the

Army, overwhelmingly out- tion offered to it. was to undertake.

same amount of ground.

ол the

could be no hope of holding opinion, the German attack had or regalning his front, and that spent itself and was exhausted. On December 18, 1917, In view of the fears that Franco Gough's Fifth Army took over a buffer to any German attack, by the almost entire absence of three fresh divisions he was It was Gough's duty to act as a serious menace was presented If G.H.Q. could send him may join the Rome-Berlin Axis.at the extreme south of the to delay it and exhaust it, reserves to man his weak de- sure he could throw the Ger-

British line-thirteen and a half swinging back ng slowly as pos- fences in the rear. miles of front from General sible without losing contact with

mans on his front back across Byng's Third Army, which re- the rest of the British forces on as he had no reserves, was to 15 miles:

The main object before him, the Somme, a distance of about mained on his left flank

his left.

maintain a line, however ragged The line was thinly held. Gough's task being to fight a and thin, always facing the Get- But no fresh divisions were

The trenches and defences delaying action, the forces man advance,

sent to him, and the Germans were in many places almost placed at his disposal should ad-

were not. thrown back over the derelict. Very Bttle wire mittedly have been as few as fighting both British armies

As a result of the first day's Somme until our great attack in existed; and in some places possible. the Third Army had actually

August.. were driven in. The Germans demolished the wire of the Conditions were little better defences in the rear.

on, the 28-mile front which General Gough also took over from the French on his right at the beginning of the New Year, Every Thu, & Sat. from Hanel to Kunming

this long front of 41 miles op-

Gough's whole force to hold.

The attack ceased. And Ger- Every Sun., Wed. & Fri, from Kunming to Chungking

He thus threw an immense,

many's final defeat, six months Every Wed. G Fri, ... from Chungking to Chongtu and rotum of the ruling Nazis to world posite St. Quentin consisted of an almost impossible burden on NEXT day the Germans con-

later, became almost assured. Every Mon., Wed, & Fri. from Chungking to Kunming

14 infantry divisions and three the commander and affairs and of the German people cavalry divisions. General Byng, officers and men who bad to both fronts. The Fifth Army tinued their advance on

due Every Wod, & Frl. **** from Kunming to Hanol

THAT this result was themselves, who are showing an on Gough's left, had no fewer

principally to the courage Kunming-Chengtu-Sian-Lanchow Line Every Thu. & Sat, from Kunming to Lanchow via Chengtu & Slan enger desire to learn the truth than 19 divisions to hold a front eventually this great, and what was driven back and back, fight and determination of Gene

eventually turned out to be, de- ing with desperate courage. of about 26 miles.

Gough and his Fifth Army Every Sun. & Fri. from Lonchow to Kunming via Slan & Chengt Some German listeners, a B.B.C.

cisive task. In other words, Byng had

The Third Army, too, had to would seem indisputable. On By the middle of March it be- withdraw from the whole of the them fell the brunt of the at- Lanchow-Ninshia Line

pamphlet received from London almost double the strength of came clear that the Germans Flesquieres Salont.

Gough and was,

tack. of course, were about to attack in enor¬ yesterday claims, even go to nearer to such reserves as mous strength on the front held Fifth Army was established be- not hold as firm as they might By Sunday, March 24, the The Armies on his flanks did bed with their sets left on so G.HQ. disposed of in the north. by the Fifth and Third Armies, hind the Somme. Gough had have done.

On Wednesday, March 20, at last received two divisions of that they shall not miss any. WHEN Gough took over his

now front he quickly came Gough visited his four corps the reserves. These two divi- Gough had neither adequate thing of the B.B.C. broadcasts.

to the conclusion that there was commanders, warned them of ions were all that Halg found rear lines, of defence nor re- These B.B.C. broadcasts have an imminent possibility of a the imminence of the attack.

strong German attack-called Shortly before dawn next Army, though, by this time the

himself able to send to the Fifth serves.

Yet with such tenacity and fully justified themselves, and his subordinates together and morning German artillery set Third Army had been reinforced courage did he contínuo to op

urged upon them the importance up the most terrific barrage with four divisione.

pose and muffle the enemy's of endeavouring to dig and wire which had ever been experienced as much as possible, especially on any part of the Front since the Third Army had fallen back terrible fortnight was passed, By the morning of the 26th advance that, after the first behind the front line.

the beginning, of the War. behind the Ancre and was six the front still stood, and Luden- In January he sent à mem- They brought over 5,000 guns miles in the rear of the left of doriff's last throw had patently, orandum to G.HQ, pointing into action, not counting a large the Fifth Army, which had, failed. Amiens was saved; BO out the Fifth Army's deficiency number of trench-mortara, in men, labour, and materials to By 9-30 their infantry began therefore, to fall back again was Paris; so were the Channel some three miles to prevent the ports. So was France. So was to come over to the attackt.-

new. salient becoming too pro- England. It is a matter of satisfaction

He had, in fact, paper

The morning was misty, a

Whereupon Gough was recall- that the advantages of being a strength of about one infantry- circumstance which has usual, nounced:

By the 28th the Third Army cd in disgrace.C man per yard of front in the line ly been regarded as one of the free people can be pressed home and one infantryman to three causes of the early success of had fallen back still farther.

On his other flank Gough was to the Germans without re- yards of front in reserve.

the German attack, for it pre-

Tho courso to propaganda or any G.I.Q. replied to his urgent vented the British defenders hardly more fortunate. doviation from the plain, un-sence of effective reinforce-

memorandum that, in the ab- and many machine-gun posts French, In circumstances of nd- from putting up a more effec mitted stress, fell back rapidly. varnished facts. The German ments, the Fifth Army, if at-

over 12 miles of country in a

The official letter concluded news bulletins, from Zeesan, tucked by the Germans in The German attack consisted single day. Not the least of

Gough's anxieties was to retain with a personal compliment to which we hear in Hongkong at overwhelming strength, must be of 64 divisions,

prepared to fall back fighting; As many as 40 of these were contact with his retreating Gough and the statement that ten o'clock every night, are so but he was supplied with some thrown against the Fifth Army neighbours.

"The gallant fight of the Fifth The Fifth Army, shattered Army against such heavy odds, grotesquely coloured and unfair additional labour corps, includ- (with its 15 divisions and 41 that it seems impossible that ing Chinese, miles of front) and only 18 but not defeated, continued to and in circumstances of extra- OUGH'S front was weakly against the centre of the Third fight what must be regarded ordinary difficulty, will always Any person can mistake them Hold because it lay thus Army (with its 19 divisions and

as among the most herole rank as one of the most noto- for anything but propagal la of farthest from what G.H.Q. 20 miles of front) north of the rearguard actions of military worthy epleodes in the Great

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if they are continued on the same objective lines they may ultimately drive a wedge be- tween the German people and the rulers who seek to keep them in the dark.

bold so great a front.

tive resistance.

Although General Gough continued to press for an In- quiry, he was informed by the War Office, six months after the Armistice, that none would be held. ·