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The Clinton New Era, 1914-12-10, Page 3THE CLINTON NEW ERA. PASSE THREE Thursday, Dec. 10th, 1914, lr e eral AIL t eTioted -to His Profession, This Great Cwvalry Leader Has a Positive Dislike to Anything That Smacks of Ostentation or Display. To Sir John French the repeated -writing of General Allenby's name .and exploits in his 'great despatches must have been the pleasantest of 'duties. It would remeel him of old :and arduous carneaignine with one of the fittest and meat thoroulb oilicers 41' the armies of the .allies, General. Allenby, who was appoint•' et1 leePe..•o.-General of Cavalry in England in 1910, is, and always has :been. a soielei tereueh and through. He has 001 watted for wars in order :to dent his quality and . sharpen his reartial wits. Circumstances, as well a.: preference, curtailed his activities in the world o' fashion. Ile is not society " man. So little does ae eviai amate his social or domestic 1 -concerns with those of hie proles - alien that many Of his military ae- ,nantances gcould not toll whether he Ls married or a bachelor. The tradition of his regiment hal been all against the mixing of the .etc ,aand marral careers. The In- niskillings were on the veldt for ,en years in the 'eighties, ani, though they grumbled. it made them very serviceable. Nor was that the end of their exile. When Allenby's division came homes at the close of the last South A?rican war, it had, been en foreign service for fourteen years. seeneral Allenby first saw active ,e, vice es the Zulu War of 1S78. u A Regiment of Fighters The Inniskillfngs were, from the pent of view of the smarter folk, a Lttle heavy. They were Hardly ad- mitted to the inner clique of the crack regiments. "Too heavy for their .horses; and their.mees port, like the wit that goes with It, not quite as -light as might be," was the old view -o, them, But the Boer War changed :the tone of their critics. Every reg'- ment that came in touch with them ; Conscription Methods of Various Gen - recognized their quality. The men,! tinentvl C iuntrlee Explained were splen'eid 1n 'layer. the ofllcere ter oing Pay For Prisoners' Keep An account is being kept of the Bost of the maintenance of the German prisoners of war in England. This Is very necessary, for when it comes to a question of peace the vanquished enemy will be called upon to settle this account, which as the war ad- vances, will become more and more considerable, P King George inn eating COLLECTING ARMY the Foreign Service Battalion of Honorable Artillery in London "thoroughgood sorts." But, if from. tum was b of Britain's troops and raiser, General r learnknby remainedGermany of course, that aline He never learned the arts ofjthose of t.e yIs, the ornamental soldier. I whereas Britain's armies are raised like f. even the most legiti-! ar cervico, Germany's Mate dislike n o by• voluntary mate form of military oettetatl^n vias, 6,400,000 men have been raised by illustrated at the entry into fighting Barbee. conscription Military service in Ger- that moment their social stn Tho reason for the great disparity the in the number the reserve, in which he serves for fifteen or fourteen years, undergoing during the, period two trainings of six weeks each. Having completed eighteen years in the first line and its reserve, he passes into the home defence until he has completed his forty-third year. Both -France and Austria have ar- mies of almost equal strength. The liability to service In France exists from the age of twenty to the age of forty-eight. For three years the men serve in the active army, and then go into the reserve for eleven years, thv terrl• finishing wished Allenby's division ,to lead the triumphal precession into the town; ending at forty-five. But actual seta It had taken the honors In the field vice really begins at the age of twenty. .and was to be seat to the top of the • 1 .The term of - service in the active t.ass. 'But, thoegh first In every a came is seven years—two years 10 the Tack, Allenby demurred when It came ranks and five in the reserves, ea - hi a parade of victory. His excused i cept in the cavalry and horse artil- ?1 e•f with "in men and horses are eery, in which the periods ,are three Cat gu?d;' and nems grietiy in .as Iyea•s and four yearn respectively. setvice Tender Verde to a 'leather ;however, the soldier is regarded as and partly by conscription, the latter ton, after desperately hard fighting 1 many, France, and Russia is oomAul after which they pass ,into under French. The general of brigade the liability in Ge many cern' [ tenial 'army for seven years + sory, nienctng at the age of seventeen and t up with seven years in the territorial reserve. . On the other hand, the liability to military service in Austria-Hungary extends from nineteen to forty-two, the men going into the various reserve forces after two, years active service. The Belgian army is raised in a rather curious manner, for it is re- d., after. re - ! During the period of reserve , cruited partly by voluntary enlistment 0f General Allenby's corelal rola- belo::ging to his corps, and is four junior officers no better to join it twice in the live or =inchis with his j Bich • ainin w period o P training car for a peri andleation can be given than the let- years weeks. wee •ter he wrote to 'Lady Champion de Is limited by law to eight he in t or four ears After five years Y 'r s i n de � e Lady P S Y inn "Dear Y res Y L p tiwhat into i rs ass the whole of the cavalry reserve, all soldiers a p —I and rel division svmnethlze with you, and. we is known as the Landsturm, a purely feel deeply for Norman's (Lieut. Nor• home defence force, in which they remain until they have reached the age of forty-five, force Russia, which has a fighting of 6,600,000 men, has a compulsory system somewhat similar to that of Germany, except that it extends to he completion of the forty-third -man Champion' de Crespigny) loss. Bet 1 must tell you he died a hero's death Borman, with a few :lien, was holding an important Cacti- ,tai point, and he held it till every :man was killed or wounded. No man ,could have'done more, Pew would Brave done as much. With deepest Year instead of the forty-fifth, Speak - sympathy, `yours sincerely.—E.H. H, ing generally, service in. the first line, three in e army, is for years Allenby." or aetiv Y, it is just because General Allenby the infantry, field and foot artillery, 1s a soldier through and through that and for four years in other terms. he is several other things besides, The soldier ie then transferred to to and can sit down while a battle, is 'raging to write a perfect letter of condolence. Ile writes on the field rather better than most men write in their studies, and Lady de Crespigny is consoled as far as it is in the power of anybody to console her. A Soldierly Speech In his ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington, Tennyson spoke of his spoke a "who nevera ainst ,aro as one vg. ea. •foe." Lord Roberts is evidently a soldier of the same type. Ile says: "May I give - a word of caution to my countrymen against the unsportr manlike practice of abusing one's moieties? Let us avoid what 'Kip- ling, during the Boer War, described as 'killing Kruger with our mouth.' 1 et tie rather devote all our energies to defeating our foemen :by the super- ior fighting of adequate numbers of British soldiers. in the open field." Three Devonshire brothers who went to the front returned (wounded) by the same train, consisting of 49 per cent. of the an- nual enlist- ment is retained for those who desire on the armya profession, make theP to fiveor ort for em'being first engagement gag not eighteen, r Eo r those en ea a sev Y ver rs for those o r flu e ea and three o Y that age. Conscripts serve for fifteen infantry or two years months in the Y in the cavalry, after which they are drafted into the reserve forces. GALLANT FRENCHMAN POPULAR IN BRITAIN General d'Amade, Recently Promoted. For Distinguished Service, Acted as Military Observer In War To the average reader Sir John French's description of the manner in which General d'Amade's cavalry relieved the pressure- on the English troops at a critical moment meant no more than that a French corn- wander had done his duty valiantly and well. But to many military lead- ers the name was already interesting and familiar. - General d'Amade was before in touch with the British army on active service. He went through the South, African War as French military attache, and though he es- caped the Boer bullets, he fell a vic- tiei to a common - enemy—typhoid. In South Africa he made friends with several of the Brititsh generals now fighting in France. In all senses, even to the point of being able to amuse and be amused by his escort, he proved an exemplary attache, and when ho did walk alone he had a way of impressing the most suspicious healthy aristocracy is the sentry with his good intentions. An feel itself to be- not a function but the end and justification, be it of royalty or• of commonwealth—that it should therefore, with a good con- science, suffer the sacrifice 99 a countless number of men, who, for its sake, must be humbled and reduced to imperfect beings, to slaves, .to`In- struments." RECRUITS LEARNING FRENCH The Kiser9s Press Agent a�iufact� res 6erniaD News diers wbo are upholding the honor Dr. Etm..mn ie the man Who of France in the present encounter. His allies can find no fitter descrip- Originates the Stories of Up tion than that he is an officer and a risings itB British Colonies and gentlebian. 1 THE GEiZ1191t CREED Sends Out Glowing Accounts of rictitioria Gorman Victories. Who is the author of the astound. Here are two quotations from the ing reports which come"by wireless writings of Nietzsche;' the philosopher from Gcrmany'to Sayvile,Longlsland, h inspired Incpolitical creed now for American consumption. c o nsi It is Dr. Hamann, "the notorious current i Germany: made the State begin with a contract. man Foreign Office, as he was terms What has he to with contracts who by Sir Edward Goshen, Britain's Am - can command, who' . is master by bassador to Berlin, who sends out the nature, who comes on the scene with daily wireless from the Fatherland, violence in deed and demeanor?" telling of imaginary German victories 2, "The essential thing' in a good sad French, Belgian and British atro- t It should cities. The Press Bureau of the Wilhelm- strasse, over which Dr. Hamann pre- sides, has certain very definite ob- jects and duties in addition to other functions more or less obscure. To the German official mind journalists fall into three categorise. There are hose journalists who havebeenbought outright; 'hose who are anxious to keep on the right side of the Govern- ment, and, finally, those, mainly the • Berlin correspondents of the great foreign newspapers, whose goodwill it is important to secure by flattering attentions. The manipulation of these three classes of newspaper people involves a great dcal of work, and gives the chief manipulator, as is easily under- stood, immense opportunities for in- trlgue. That Is why Dr. Hamann 18 at the same time the most hated and the most feared man in official Ger. Many to -day. Be and his assistants, two or three in number, have to read and mark, first, the whole of the Ger- man newspapers for the Imperial Chancellor, as also to perf...lo,Ey,,� S -;ids c liperlairlif' pre -d a ell go t„,, ngws aper cut - tint 'T9"-'iiiai* be found su fable for he Emperor's erughfi-" T e detlY batch of cuttings" sent up to the Kaiser by''the Press Bureau during the past fdw months would melte est aordinar• 11y interesting reading! Vh'x z�r„•' . r a':_311_, his henchmen : N,,,uC t � Gslw's wtdirl t ' rs ” -..,RL_. s- Tress Bureau e e e I ha, tc vvI to in the-�' urren n erma . 1. ''The dream is dispelled which bead of the Press Bureau of the Ger- attache, let it be known, runs a risk of being treated as a spy 14 he shows the least disposition to nervousness. When he goes forth to observe the. country, he must never avoid the eye of patrols or let himself be merged for long in the landscape; it is not safe for an alien -locking gentleman of military bearing to appear too sud- denly round the corner. But it Is possible to go through a campaign without being taken for a combatant. General d'Amade's bearing is fit for all occasions. It is the bearing of a first -rats fen- cer. It has the alacrity and finish proper to an exponent of that politest of the arts. General d'Amade has clone a great -deal for the cult of the foll and epee to England. He has of- fered prizes at London clubs, and shown how usefulcompetitions ins spreading the displays may vogue of his favorite exercise. More than would be the case with most Englishmen, he is able to keep the martial character intact under a pile of social attainments. A man of about fifty, with grey moustache and grey -blue eyes, a brilliant horseman and of established valor, he is the best type of the able and active §gl: British Soldiers Abashed When Told to Try It on Comrade3 In the intervals between drill and route marching and the handling of a rifle, the new. army recruit is pluck- ily learning the French language. He wants to be able to "parley VOUS" with a sporting chance of being un- derstood by his red trousered Allies when he goesacrossthe Channel to take his place in the fighting line. But in a. characteristically way he Is shy about it. I met (says a representative of a London paper), one of the ladies en- gaged in teaching him, and site told me about the work. "It is awfully interesting," she said enthusiastically. "We go to the schools and barracks where the men are and take different groups of them. They are so keen about it all—almost as keen as they are to get to the front. But their shyness! -I mean their shy- nessto each other in a inspeaking Ness foreign language! This is the most world for them the bin in ult thing g When I sa•. Now let over. say, , to g seakt to each other in you LearA me would look as if they -wet d h' the French,' y 3 rather be shot. You can't imagine come to their the expressions that c er, faces." Prisoners In Resale' Russian tolerance towards prisoners of war' is astonishingly illustrated at Kostroma, where a: number of Aus- trians permitted to interned w e Saes into A tr lease a picture theatre, white another formed a band groupof prisoners which plays Czech ,airs in the streets: United France "You will scarcely. believe, my dear sons of France," writes M. Ernest Lavisse, the eminent historian, 1n letter to the troops at the front, "but Royalists, Bonapartists, Radicals, So- cialists, Revolutionists, the Arch- bishop of Paris, the Grand Rabbi, Protestants, and Free -thinkers are all in perfect accord. Their hearts beat as one for our native land, and for the men who aro ready to die for its defence. It is the first time in his- tory that. the. whole youth of France has joined the colors, and that the entire nation is at the back of the army."rr 20, Eleven members of the Imperial Family, the Czar's nearest- relatives, are at the front, ober S of d i ers Demanded • By � ; ritain (3!ndK s s i I the articles they are entttted to insert . at biose German and foreign news- t'5,,;(;aaa,ll1,asa‘^•••,•^ Pape re lrini; , German subsidies,, Very often these articles take Elie drinking of vodka In camp. Further- form of "telegrams" dated from one more, officers are ordered to set an or other of the foreign capitals in - ver largely to Lord Thanks y .Roberts, drunkenness in •the British army has been daily growing in dis- favor. So much so that one might spend weeks in a large garrison with- out ever seeing -a drunken soldier. Both in the officers' mess and the barrack room, the man who drinks to excess eine against the unwritten law, and is told so in terms that are ue:mistakable. And apparently Russia's eomman- dere have taken a leaf out of Lord Robert's book and resolved to copy his temperance .crusade. Orders were issued a short time ago forbidding the Two ,hundred thousand Welsh -min• ere agreed to a weekly levy of 12 ,cents per man and 6 cents per boy in aid of the Prince of Wales' Fuad. Orders for 100,000 tunics for the Russian army were placed with Leeds firma. a thenavyceased t,. Pr -ens in es B g exist, after the Napoleonic wars, ift'is Not the English Custom To Murder Helpless Prisoners 0 t '4' 41:44 0®440' 00 0©004 04.® 8' Field Marshall Sir Evelyn Wood where, 884 close up to one face of one of you say why I should not hill the wag0 ns behind which ourmen you?' Said a young giant, snt May I toldsome interesting stories at a who had stood. When the was over should Master? You askWwhy you meeting which he addressed in London I desired a few -frienlly lly Zulus whshould not iti11 us; I answer, because it were attached to the companies under is not the English custom.' recently. Referring to the charges or brutality made against the Germans, my command to collect men of every "This is the character our race, he said: regiment, promising for each uninjured bears in the North South, East and got fear that the British man a'stick' of tobacco. Next morn- Weet Africa, and I hope it maty ever 'Weneeding there was a group outside my continue, for reprissee are not only al fn would lessen the soldier will ever. descend tom g tent Of magnificent specimens 01 girl useless, but w Y reprisals. Thirty-five years ago 1 was ':inanity. When I got all the inform- grand fighting value of our soldiers.' 8-000 men who fought ation I required, I said, 'Two months The troops at the assault of Delhi in I 3,0 1 , five ago, when after a skirmish our doe- 1867, when embitterel by.horrible againet 28,000 brave '. Zulus for g hours and a half: Theyattacked with tors cared for your wounded, and a .stories, many exaggerated, and at the not re .ed courage lett savages' oho few -clays later you overwhelmed' You lur v ensi liftfnii 1358, Somen were idseen little eeivldren he, effect of modern camp, killing 1,600 of our men.. g did not realize t had been otic of the lino of fire. Suck conduct ennui we did not':spare those who d fa vast morning and the g es national inheritance." riffon .otr own brothers. Twill 1s a part of our rat a (buried', b esidos a vast number else- attending your 66 example of sobriety, and the most strict rules and regulations now gov- ern the conduct of the soldier in re- gard to drinking. No man who Is known to he addicted to drink is allowed to receive any money from home without the express permission of his commanding officer. Commanding officers do their best to improve the lives of the men wi- der them by the introduction of games, the promotion of libraries, and the giving of facilities for studying foreign languages. HOW THE GERMAN SOLDIER EARNS THE IRON CROSS �y( v +i"1 J J Uu l) 6 eee tended to produce some carefully cal- culated effect. The modus operandi of the Press Bureau, with regard to its personal relations with journalists, is as s fol- lows: Every morning Dr. Hamann h a an interview with the Imperial Chan- cellor and settles with him the tone of the reply to be given to journal- istic inquiries on the different' topics of current policy. The "line" is then passed on to Dr. Hamann's hench- men, to assist him in receiving the Press, so that a set reply is forth- coming, generally in identical words, to each inquirer. This, then, is the intricate machin- ery over which Dr. Hamann presides. But his immense power does not lie M these outward duties, but in the tortuous intrigues g nes which he spins scenes. At his beck and behind the h call he has innumerable nn um e r able servile ink• mini e swho`d'Ycool their heels fox�oursin tfieante-rooms of the itnxa t curt w! o "y Wi1hc nislr.:sae yqx withtheir editors t ^ itatg,_dQ a.e, incre o oY the" iff1 i ! ` ilF tlii11 ! be and,' d T�� m " in "®t anther - o chin j,� in t 9 o chem decoration to tinkle musically oa their manly bosoms. These tools he" can use fosiJ piring mean little at- tacks on foreign dt pmatfats in Ber +n or ittttesmeb'" abroad who have e""p055 Germany's. i hted and silent- 1 Mort s Tall, pale, s B n of his coune a even to millions unknow trymen. Geheimrat Hamann, though actually, only a subaltern official of' the Wilhelmstrasse, did much, It is believod, to bring, about the present war. r oases, which are decorations for cod During the war hundreds of iron e the Kaiser to his solders in France valor, num. been distthe sort by thio those soldiers have. sand Belgium: This is the g �`I b been doing to earn thele' crosses.—By Mr, W. K. 13aseldpn, in The Daily Mirror. ee n. eeseeeseeeeiseie-aeeeeeeesi,...,,gee deo.. " A British Bayonet Charge There was ;a great feat of arms at Solesmes, east of Csmbrai. A num- ber of English infantry regiments— the East Lancashires, the Middlesex, the Rifle Brigade, the Harepshires, the Dorsets, and the Essex, but it is difficult to confirm with absolute ac- curacy—held an exposed position. They were expecting support all day, but this support was delayed, the enemy crept .round, and the British force, to avoid being encircled, charg- ed the gradually closing German ring with the bayonet. The men went at it, yelling and shouting, and they got through where there was a gap ' of no more than eight hundred yards between the en- veloping German forces. On this gap the German ' artillery was trained With its unfailing regularity, and the loss of all these regiments was great.