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The Exeter Times, 1919-3-6, Page 7^cgsegym a s.4teNone,ii‘elsoNSe�.wleiNmnmI Rheumatic Pains Are relieved in a few days by t taking3Qdrops o Mother Seigel 's (® Syrup after meals and on retiring. e` It dissolves the lime and acid 0 accumulation in the muscles and 64 joints so these deposits can be e expelled, thus relieving pain and soreness. Seigel's Syrup, also known as. "Extract Of' Roots," contains nodopenorother strong e drugs to kill or mask the pain of r rheumatism or .lumbago, it re- moves the cause. Stec. a bottle tifi at druggists. xi c SINKING THE CAP • TRAFALGAR LGAR 'SIr'•NDING A GERMAN PIRATE DOWN To »AVP ,ZONES Extraordinary Duel Between a, Brit isle and a German Cruiser Known as the Battle of the Haystacks. Of all the naval engagements that occurred de ring the war none perhaps was stranger than the fight between the British ship Carmania aid ttat,% Orman -ship Gap Trafalgar. Bo were At'wantie liners of the floatin palace type •eonver.�ted into auxiliar cruisers; they met by •chance whe no other ships were nearby and en ' gaged in an extraordinary duel, whic been called the Battle of the Hay stacks. Never have two Ship's wit such towering upper works stood o and tried to batter each other to pieces with gunfire. The -first news we had of the en- gagement, says the captain of th ,British cruiser 'Cornwall, was 'aa. wire less that Capt. G----, sent out sayin that he had :sunk the Cap T'rafalgar but that as his bridge was burned, hi steering gear shot away and all hi navigating instruments destroyed, h would bo glad to have some one corn and tell him where he was and lea tin to a spla:ce where he could, so t speak, 'lie down •and lick his wound -for a while. It took a jelly bit o searching to find a ship that couldn't tea any more about itself than that, but we finally sighted her ragged sil- houette and led her to •such a haven as our rendezvous afforded, Poor.,•Q— had lost a good <leal more than his steering gear, for the fire that dyad- consumed his 'bridge had also gutted his cabin and reduced everything in it to cinders except an old Norfoil, jacket. As G— was of about 'three times the girth of any other British officer in those waters at the time, the wardrobe we tried to get together for him was a grotesque combination. He cut a weird figure on the battered old Germania, but there wasp �t one of us who wouldn't changed places with him --Nor-• € 'c and alt—if we could have had ht his luck. MARSHAL FOCH -. HIMSELF "THE PRINCIPLES OF WA•W 73 ' THE ALLI ,la CHIEF Some Extracts From the Most Remarkable Beck On Tactics the War Has Produced Aftor the Franco-German War, young :Frenchmen named I''oeFoalsre- turned to a university in a district e occupied by German troops, to re- htne his interrupted studies. Had g the Gerinan troops foreseen that the y knowledge which the young student nwas acquiring would, forty -,:even _ years later, disembowel the Gerinan ch Empire, it is possible that a stray bullet might have ended Foch's ca- h reer. "The Principles of War" is, in effect, the story of the German defeat, for in it Marshal Foch explains the philo- sophies and strategies • which have e guided him during the great test. - He lays down a thousand and one mili- g tary laws, but behind all is an eas- e, ticity which perhaps is the real root s of his genius. It is said of cricket s that nothing is as certain as- its un - e certainty. So, of war, Foch writes: e "There is nothing absolute in war. d The best plan will go wrong, and the o most complete organization will break s down if it is not, applied by a man with f skill and determination to take advan- tage of the changes and chances of the moment. "The unknown is the governing con- dition of war. The best commanded armies have marched, have manoeu- vred, amidst the unkown. It was un- avoidable. They have, however, got the better of that dangerous situa- tion; they have come out of it vic- toriously, by resorting to security, Which enabled them to live, without suffering damage, in an atmosphere full of dangers." The Outstretched Arm What is the security of which he speaks? How, as he himself frames the question, can we master that un- avoidable unknown? How shall we contrive to see through the thick fog which always surrounds the situ- ations and actions of the enemy? The answer is by utilising:, the advance guard—which, in human forms,• fin plies the "blokes" who sacrifice their' e ' A Fight to a Finish. Both ships, according to G --'s account, began firing as soon as they came in range. In the midst of the fight a German shell struck the cap- tain's cabin and started the fire that spread to the bridge, destroying the navigating instruments and ultimate- ly made it impossible for the com- mander to remain there. To reduce- the educethe tremendous draft that was farm - 'lag the flames, Ga -----headed the Oar - mania "down the wind." Nothing else would have .saved her. Except for one thing, drat- would have enabled the now thoroughly worsted (al- though G— ddn't know it) Cap Trafalgar to withdraw from the ac- tion. The German ship herself was on fire and had to take the same course willy-nilly. From that moment the battle was as irretrievably joined as one of those old Spanish knife duels in which the opponents were locked together in a room to fight to a finish, After being driven from the bridge, the British captain, one of the big- gest men in the navy, and not very "shifty" on his feet, had to keep the ship going by running here, there and everywhere. With the battle going on all the time, he had his men rig' up a jury steering gear, and then, as he ne longer had any pipe communi- cation with the engine room, he had to dash back and forth between two or three commanding positions. "If I wanted- to open the range a bit," he said, "I had to nip for'ard•, wait till there was an interval in both gunfire and shell -burst, and yell down a. hatchway to the engine room to "Slow port!" Or if I suddenly found it imperative to open the distance, I had to make the same journey and pass word down to 'Stop starboard!' I was racking my brain for some plan of action to follow when our failing sup.t"''rof shells became exhausted; sudyg the Cap Trafalgar began to heel sharply and started to sink. It was our second or third salvo, which lead holed her badly at the water line, tthat did the business." Down in the surgical room the sur - aeon had just finished amputating and Illandaging a gunner'swhen , hand someone shouted tanto the door of the dressing.station thaa the German ship was going down. The wounded sailor eowded to port just in time to see one of the last salvors from the Ger- mania go• erashing into the side of the heeling enemy. "Huropr, boys!" he srhouted. "If I 'ad as many lands as tan oktypuss, I'd la' giv'n 'am all fer the joy of putth3' I1&nt blinicin' pyrit down to Davy Jones." Eighteen member of the British $Fontes' of C•ornmons loot their fives in the recent vox A Two cars .of ilex seed have bean shipped from the Tilbury district in Ontario, to Belfast, Ireland. Six trawlers are operatting in Can oda, four on the AtIantle and two en the Pacific. • Ai; the beginning of 1914 '1 eiser Wilhelm was the richest Penn many, with,a fortune of over t9$,. 400,000; next canto the Grand Deka E0Meeklenbure -Six to With $89,r 9,00o, nand then Pratt Krupp yen mwfta AA�a pooo 4) .'-1�i •r 2 e atJon 'British troops taking bank the civil population to their original homeE, immediate comfort frt a nd often their lives in order that they may hear, see, feel, or smell something which will convey what the enemy is up to. "When one moves at night," says Foch, "without light, in one's own house, what does one do? Does one not (though it is a ground one knows well) extend one's arm in front of one so as to avoid knocking one's head against the wall? The extended arm is nothing but an advance guard. "The arm keeps its suppleness when it advances, and only stiffens more or less when it meets an obstacle, in order to perform its duty withoat risk, to open a door, etc. Iii the same way, the advance guard can advance and go into action without risking de- struction, provided it uses the sup- pleness and strength, maoeuvring power, resisting power." Marshal Foch does not, of course, suggest that knowledge of a danger necessitates running straight into it. Among the considerations which must be weighed—sometimes with lightning . rapidity—is one's capacity at the tirne the danger is sensed. This applies equally to small and large manoeu- vres. To know one's capacity exactly requires very considerabe skill, as the following illustration shows: How the laegiment Dwindles "One regiment of 3,000 rifles, if s always - food will play bi6 part 'As a man eats so is he:' r ts a foo , for bodyand brain Conitains the buF 1din1 j phos- phates of the liked tires'aIreasoi C oda Food Board �csnse tCo. rii26 The River Scheldt and broken bridge at Tournaai, well cared for, represents, after a few days' campaigning, 2,800 rifles; Iess well managed, it' will no longer in- lude more than.2,000. The variations in the moral are at least as ample. How, then, compare two regiments- ! with each other? s Under the same name they represent two utterly dif- ferent quantities; illness, hardships, bivouacking at night, re -act on the 1 troops in difrerennt ways. Certain I troops, after such an ordeal, are soon only a force in name. They are noth- ing but columns of hungry, exhausted sick men. Or you may have a division ati11 called. `a difiision,'. (though it shall have lost part of its batteries, etc." By exhorting, nevertheless, the "hungry, exhausted men" may re- gain their full fighting zest, and in this connection ire quotes an inspir- ing exhortation of Bonaparte to the Army of Italy when passing the Alps: "`Soldiers, you are naked, ill -fed. The Government owe you much; they can give you nothing. Your patience, the courage you show amid these crags, are admirable; but they secure no glory for you, no splendour shines on you. I will lead you into the most fertile plains of the world. Rich provinces, great towns will ase in your power. You will find there honor, glory, and wealth. Soldiers of the Army of Italy, can you now lack courage or steadfastness?' "He knew well the French weakness —lack of steadfastness. And then,. from the summits of the Alps to the Apennines, comes one answer, shouted by the depleted battalions of our hungry soldiers: `Forward!' The new war is launched. Henceforth it will be waged with the soldier's heart." The wisdom of Napoleon is fre- quently quoted" throughout Marshal Foch's book, although the modern genius generally seems too add some illuminating thought to the ideas of the genius of a century ago. Von Moltke and Clausewitz have also been closely studied. It is by pouring over every important military axiom, ac- cepting some, improving some, re- jecting others, and himself adding to the list, that Marshal Foch has built up the military code to which he owes bis extraordinary success. He has not committed the cardinal sin, born of intolerance, of despising his ancestors or belittling his foes. To do such things is to make an impene- trable barrier between oneself and true greatness. -Foch on Discipline, Oii the subject of discipline he has se particularly interesting passage, showing that discipline is of the blind, unimaginative quality which some people imagine: "To be disciplined does not mean that one does not commit any breach of discipline; that One does not cern. mit some disorderly action. Such a definition works for the rank and idle, but not at all for a commander, placed in any degree of the military hier- ii ° least of all therefore arc y ,fox those who (trod themselves hi the highest places. "To be disciplined does not utean, either, that one only carries out an order received to such a point as ap- pears to •be convenient, fair, rational,. or possible. It means that one frank- ly adapts the thoughts and views of the superior in command, and that one rises all humanly practicable means' in order to give him satisfac- tion." There may be some who will ques- tion his view that the whole respon- sibilty of winning or losing a war rests on the shoulders of the comman- ders. "Great results in war," he says, "are due to the commander. History is therefore right in making generals responsible for victories, in which case they are glorified, and for defeats, in which case they are disgraced. With- out a commander, in battle, no victory is possible. The will to conquer, such is victory's first condition, and therefore every soldier's first duty, but it also amounts to a supreme re- solve which the commander must, if need be, impart to the soldier's soul. A battle won is a battle in which one will not confess oneself beaten." In that last remark Foch truly re- veals himself. With e-- With the Fingers! 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