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INDIAN
TROOPS OQPS { , rr
1.'IIE SIKHS ARE .ACHING FOR
:1. BA'I'1`LE. --
Pear That War Would Be Over Bee
folt, They Got a. (Mance .
at Germans.. .. -
The correspondent of the London
Daily Mail .at Marseilles in a de-
spatch, 'describes the landing of the
Indian troops, who, he says, are all
ardent for the cause for which the
:ding and his allies are fighting. He
sayse
Inspiring Sight.
"To ,see fully a score of transports
glide from the bay into' Oho dock
and moor at their appointed' eta;
tions -was an imposing, sight, anti]' at
the same time a splendid tribute to
the perfection of British organiza-
tion. BLIP the grand e:peetaele was
yet to come. In almost as short a
space of time as it takes to tell it,
the decks of this wonderful fleet of
ships were alive with soldiers and
in a matter al a .few hours the try-
in' work of disembarkation: had
been conipleied without slip or ac-
cident,
"The French officers were amazed
at the remarkable smoothness with
which •the operations ,proceeded and
were not slow in their :expressions
of profound .admit etion. -•
"The voyage from India has been
made under excellent conditions,
and the troops, who literally leaped
ashore, were fighting men 'to the last.
ounce, hard, fit and ready. Had
.the word of •command been given
to march straight from the quay to
the fighting line they were ready
to go.
Blick -bearded Giants.
"Not. a .few' of the Sikhs, lithe,
black -:bearded giants, were deeply
concerned to know iF 1 thought that
the war would be' over before they
could get to gips -with the common
enemy, and it was a burden off their
minds when I assured them there
was absolutely no likelihood of any-
thing' of the kind coming to pass.
Never has the ,port of Marseilles,
used as it is to cosmopolitan crowds,
and tib -e multi -colored habiliments
of Africa, witnessed a zeene so ka-
leidoscopic as that preeented'by the
defiling thousands after th:oitsancis
of soldiers down, seemingly number•-
less gangways and along quays lit
up by brilliant sunshine.
All' the troops are in khaki with
very little -perhaps a green- or
white intent/even hand in the head-
dress -to distinguish one regiment,
or rather one caste from another,
The stuff is lighter in texture and
rolor than that used in the equip
-
neat of smarter
home arm and imparts
it
tei alapeai'ance to the
wearer,
11 p -to -date Soldiers.
`The whits officers, nvho are in
eOln'mand are of the highest type of
soldier and there :was sornetthing
noble and delightful in the' officers
walking through Marseilles with
their troops, en route to the rest
eau -ins, when they aright well have
ridden.
One very nnporlant fact that
must not be lost sight of is that this
great expeditionary force tram the
Orient, is thoroughly mimed,ac-
cor itg to themo
t
nod in i
deas
and equipped
with fii si el
ti 5 ina-
chinery of war. Everything 1 ins has,
been brought from T.ndta,: cannon,
rifles, entrenching implern ents,
sleepisig rugs, tents and t'he lrun'-
deed and one necessaries of: an Tn-
dian army; down to the prayiilglust.
•"The scene in :town when the
troops marched through to the dif-
fmen t cram ping grounds, was u11 -
forgettable; L+rery man' `''woman
xn,l child ,ih Altbrseilles turned nut,
and ].heir ettnbevs were swelled b,i
people -who.had rusi-ied in lanai the
surrounding country dASteicts. In
fact i:hei ee
st Ls v l e
v e s.eelhm
s
]susses of highly excited Inti] alit}
• .lnmptd ior�ay.
'The • exci±etnenb of the lt.i.g'lt-.
strung Latins rapidly spread, to the.
Lodi ns, ereclit Was 0 [due et iii
epee see :hundreds ,ofMartial
w iri For s, boarded [sten whose hair
wits. shot with •„ray and heard].ess,
venths jump a y aitd high in the air
F:r' sheer jot_ Old 'women ?Fought,
with the mora for the houee of shitic-
ng hands with the rb'7oneed soldiers
and -ote]g ,girls threw sweet -smell
i:nfg Newel's in their,, path or Pinned
pink roses oh tiled; tunics and tur-
bans, and even stn'ek tahe'm into the
Indians long hair.. In 'response the
dark Eastern eves :beamed their
great cohtent and rows of white
teeth flashed -from laughing mouths,
"By evening they 'were all en-
,camped inthe Picturesque park with
reeky heights, .remini'scent, of their
far away hills, around them, and in
the moonlight groups of Marseilles
stood on all adjacent roads watch-
ing ,with unflagging' interest, the
strange Eastern 'rites -of these mag-
nificent fightingnnen from Britain's
great dominion." •
STRANGE W.EAPOAS.
'British Soldiers Fought 1VitI1 'Their
Bare Fists.
In all ages theuse of primiti
means of defence and Offence h
been a mark of 'warfare, Wh
'Vat Tyler's men of Kent march
over London Bridge and seared t
City and Court almost to dent
their arms were sickles and bi
hooks and .scythes, and -a few bloc
smith's tools. The same rem
applies to the arming of the m
of Devon and 'Somerset at the .13
Ile Sedgemoor, the last real 'iso
rte fougthb en English ground. B
even in these days of arms of. pr
cision 'there have been many Cas
where these scientific tools ha
been discarded in favor ;of som
thing much more primitive, -
Por instance, at the Babble of II
iet•man, which was a soldiers' b
tie, fought in a'ntist ain'last witho
leadership, many cit the Englis
soldiers, finding their fire ureic
and their bayonets nntrustworth
and .bent, went in with their fis
ie. true British style. Biluejacke
have more ,than once tenoned th•
example when a punitive force ha
been landed to punish :the native
The tars have gone Inc them wit
fists and :belaying pins, possilb
feeling that' anything more dead]
would :be more than the oceasio
required.
The band has on many occasion
joined in the dray. It is reporte
to have occurred in the late War
the Balkans, during:�the later fight
ing 'which took place between tis
late allies, Bulgarians :and Sery
Maas. The former were greatly out
numbered,' and seeing them getting
the worst of it, the band went into
the melee with their instruments
and many a Servian was laid Joe
by a blow from the butt -enol of -a
carnet, opheeleide, and trombone,
not to mention the formidable bas-
e:MD. -
There is a 'stony about a peasant
who defended his hearth .against' a
horde. of the enemy: with a three-
legged stool,. end another of a WO -
man who rotted the enemy on the
double by overtti.rning a, stand of
bee hives in her garden, :but cer-
tainly one of the most onear'kable
weapons On record was the big.
saucepan which itis creditably said
a lusty Turk (brandished ',Atli great
effect at the .Battle of Widdin.
Since i
Sawn
SUll
s use. of the ,ja'lbone
of en ass thele has never been sere-
ly a stranger weapon.
In one of the fierce actions in the
Peninsular Wal' arnniunitlon ran
shot t, and many shifts were resort.
ed to in order to make up for the
lack of .bu1'lets. The chief meins
were buttons, There were net molly
lett on ,
fisc
.soldiers' s uniforms
when
the fight rL v
g Was ore, To-day,r4�
f
course, 71 oldie: could not do this,
for all the rifles are breech -loaders.
13th .iti those days it was drfferent,
.thus in this very. same
Mettle r' '
u ,S
reporl:acl•thata soldier took, a 1dz-
or from his haver ael-, ta•mened ,c
down, acid feed it after the flying
French cavalry. Evidently thee
cavalry hind a -close shave,
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Leaking Ahead'.
"I have just telephoned to our
new neighbors to tisk them if there
is ung
i
tr
ca
n lend
them,"
,„
said b15 5Cir1prnS
"Aren't *you getting ;wonderfully
generous ' as1 ed.her• husband.
00h, it's lust es well to he neigh-
borly. Most
of o rt stu'F ' •
1 1 is pretty
well wort,. a
id as they moved in I
saw a lot of thing's that will be
worth having when tL .comas our
turn t0'boirow:"' ,
Ot1d. '
Itis oticLthab the Iran who speaks
without t'hinkinig .is the olio most
'apt to say what he thinks.
1tR:I:1•'ISJI DECmltlTtIQ)N-s.
-17utperor 'William and German
•
Princes Re11111i ons 7'hen1.
1± ns' rather ,:,musing to note the.
alacrity 27'it11 }vhieh German: prince-
lings and German professors have
followed 'the Kaiser's example in
renouncing tdle honors which the
peeplo of Greal Brite in in their
good nature and -fwd fellowshsp
have so lavishly. bestowed on them.,
aieet William led the way and sold.
his 'British .1eooratlons for the bend
tit of the.1Berlin Relief nand.': We
hope that 115 got a good deal of
rnoney for 'them], bec,uwse'tlie Bee. -
lin peotiile seem likely to need all
the relief -they can get. After Lou-
vain and a fele other incidents M.
Belgium we feel very glad- that the
Kaiser has divesibs(1 himself .of these
honors, forotiheiw$se we Might hams
been under: the painful necessity of
reques,timg him not to disgrace
'fish decorations by retaining them:,
. Now the Duke of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha has intimated his resig-
nation of the Coloneley in .Chief of
the'Saaforith Highlanders on ,the
ggr�oo sod that "it is uaisti:table for a
German Duke to be chief of a regi
--
anent that h?ts shamelessly fallen on
Germany.", the, Sea -
for -the wild bear with the lose of the.
Duke's -patronage as beat they can
and continuo 'to fall isthamelessl•y, on
the Getinanis, But it may be re-
membered 'that only four; year's
agoethe Duke visiitedt the Sealbrthe
at Fort George, where he inspected`
the' regiment and ,eonfeered n num-
ber of German decorations and or-
ders on the officers and India. Thee
recipients are no doubt too . busy
hammering their. foes to bother
about these :trinkets, but if there
are any lying about it might, be well
to sod them on to Berhn, also for
the : benefit of theirr relief fund. We
Want no orders from Germany for
the present.-Scotoh Paper.
'DISHONOR Olt DEATH.
Brutish Soldiers Preferred Death,
But Were Rescued -in Time.
The remarkable asoape of a num
her of Ileitis'11 prisoners, after they
had been :threatened with death by
their Getman captors if they re-
fused to give information as to the
positions of the leritisih and .Erenoh
forces, was described by Corporal
F. O. Toovey, of the 1st Battalion,
Gleueesiterelare Regiment. Toovey,
who is an offieer it the Reading
(England) police' force, fought in
'three battles, and has returned
hoine wounded.
In the course of one engage-
ment," he said, "I and about thirty
others belonging to different regi
ments were mut off from the ambu-
lance wagon and taken prisoners..
We were conveyed to a 'mansion,
where we remained for eleven days.
The food was very scanty, -and we
lia(1 to live principally on apples and
pears•.
":9.'t the end of the eleventh day
the Germans requested us to divulge.
the position's of the British and
French. This we declined to do,
whereupon our captors said that
they would give us four hours in
which to reconsider our positions,
and if we still refused w•e.ehon1d all
he put to death, We. replied that
rather third give the information de-
manded of tits 017 would prefer
dead]':.,
'Soon afterwards we witnessed
six French and Belgians, who had
refueed to comply with a similar re-
quest by the Gelnoans,'being march-
ed from the mansion. Atter being
cruelly :tortured .they were killed.
Several of those who had been
taken prisoners with me ivere.:then
tied to trees. When the time limit
given us had almost elapsed, French'
artillery raided the building and
rescued us, the Germans escaping,"
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ENEMY .HAJJNTED
BY- 70 CRUII ERS
Capture of the "Karlsruhe a Matter
of Paticnec 4511[1 Good
Lueli.
A despatch from: London sage:
The -Admiralty iias issued a.'stalte `
ment outlining the :slteps that are
:being ,taken to round up :the eight
or nine German cruisers :at large
in the Atlantic, Pacific and :Indian
Oceans, These' cruisers include the
Esnnien, which fies stink oi• captur-
ed 20 British vessels to date in. the
Indian Ocean, and :the Karlsruhe,-
'typic]] has taken, 12 British ships in
the Atlantic. The statement says:
"Searching for 'these- vessels and
working.. in concert under' various
commanders -in -thief are upwards
of 70 British, Australian, Japanese,
French and Russian cruisers,
Among :these are a number of the
fastest British -cruisers. The vast
expanses of seas and oceans and
the many thousands of islands of-
fer almost infinite choice of move-
ment ;to the enemy's ships. In
spite of every effort to out off their
ooal ,s -apply, it'sas hitherto been
maintained by one means or an-
other. In the ,face of . increasing
difficulty the discovery and destruc-
[tion of these few enemy cruisers
therefore is largely a matter of
time, patience and good lack, The
public should hate confidence that
the commanders -in -chief anti the
experienced captains serving under
them are doing all that is possible
and taking the beet steps to bring
the enemy to action,
MAECHAND'S We UN D SLIG1i`1'.
Faslwda Ilfero Strnek in Leg by
Shell Splinter.
A deepattch from Paris •says: The
wound of CoL Marchand, of Fish-
oda fame, is less serious iihan was
at first reported, A shell splinter
struck his leg. He is in the :St.
Maurice Hospital at Epinal.-
� FIGHT.
CLUB MEMBERS
Six Hundred 011,000 'Under .Oolors,
300 at the Front.
A despatch from -Paris says: The
Jockey Club, the emantest French
club, has 000 of its thousand mem-
bers under the colors, 01 'these 300
are on the firing. line,
A girl who is kittenish during
courtship may develop into a cat
after marriage.
RIOT BOTH THE OFFICERS �ERS
Clever Schelne to Ambuscade the Allies' Ammuni-
tion
tnlnulai,tion Convoy. Failed
A despatch from Paris says: Two
officers in British uniform brought
to a halt the motor' belonging to
an atnunition convoy as at was pro-
ceeding to eh•e Britsett linen at Ar-
mentieres with supplies. ''Halt,
you are running right into German
trenches," was. the -command given
to the convoy. The captain in man
-
:nand went ,and tprke to the fee
oilieersy who were driving, a British
-aiitoinohde, After a few weeds
passed :the capt'a-in noted thea the
man who 11 ad iseucd the order spiels
with .a slight accent; whereupon he
drew Isis ,evolver and shot both his
supposed comrades. At the sane
moment a squadron -01 German cav-
airy tip -peered a s:hott distance
away. The British •cap:badn then or-
dered the track 'drivers, meet of
whom were London motor buts
chauffeurs, to .thstin,oten:t with their
rifles and take apes -Won in a. ditch
beside the road an :order to defend
1120 COnvoy, The Germans were
about to charge, sant]] 1, detachment
of German infantry had arrived 70.)
the scena, but frcw, the other side a
French battalion -appeared, A
sharp fight ensued, and the Ger-
mane retired eitih heavy louses.
The ambn:sca•ale had b-een well pre-
pared. -
Airship Bombs Killed Many ih
The Moscow corespondent of the
Dial Lel n 11 has sent the Uo'1-
} egap n t
fol-
lowing Iowv rg do match
"During their nmsu00essf0l march
on bVa.rsaw the Germans sent goer -0 -
planes daily to -*17005 bombe into
that pity for the perprose of t sri,fy-
arsaw
A despatch front London 0x355:
ing the
popu
lae
e
,
Ver
Y
little m
a
-
teriaJdamage wets done, but `num-
ber
of people ,, -
U }}ere '•j
1 1 1, 1. wound-
: , •
clot.
tvann_
l ed, On October 19, no fewer 'then
11 b-ondes vera throm'n., killing nine
pe o l.and w
oand
inP
others,
.41-
'0111(U ng wonen and•children. "
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