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No. 1,922. LONDO , FRIDAY, MAY 7, THE BATTLE FOR ·HILL 60: EXCLUSIVE PICTU
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STO YOF IN GALLIPOLI. owded Boats K ed By · d At Po.tnt Blank Mr. Hilaire Belloc Discuss The Trene hes Carr1e • . · ·To A d 1 »ff t And Maxim Fire. Range On Opea Bea:b. Surprise Offeu~ n _ts » ec • COLONIALS DASHING ATTACK. FAMOUS STRATEGIST'S VIE~5. THE Gl\LLANT AUSTRALIANS. M 'th . the following acc~unt in the Flags are Hying throughout Germany m cele- 4 8 tiO:~e • 0/~;om:.:ns yesterday of the storming oj bration of successes claimed on bot~ ~ronts . The the Dardanelles:- enemy are app1 ymg . the wo M "deCISIVe " to the Midsbipmite Of 16 One Of The · · t' th Eastern front and they are It. was decided to land at tl1ree mam pomts- opera IOns. on e . '. . ca Belles a.nd Sedtlul Bahr.-t-orthern making cla1ms nearly as b1g r«>gardmg the fightmg First Wounded. ~ . . Bel ' entrance to the Gtrait. m France and gmm. Gaba Tepe.-About 13 miles north of the I Briti..,h people whose anxiety i arou~se_d by these BATTLE IN DENSE SCRUB. !!ntr_:mce, but. on the outer ,;hore of the reports want a sound and reliable op1~on on t~e From a cable message f more than S,ooo Penmsula. meanina of the sudden Gf'rman offenSive, and rts Kum to the effect : the duration of the war. They could -; ·ords received late last 11ight aud early K~le.-Southern :n~r:m~e st.rai~ 0 . The landm? on tl1e A 8lde e not do bett-el' than consult :Mr. Hilaire Belloc, this momi1zg from I1fr. Ellis Ashmead 1at1~ .~as. ;sen~lal m order to s1lence the ho:tilc battene '\\'htch 1 h · d such a great reputation by his Ba.rtlett, the ::,pecial Corres pmzderzt in the waded asl1 or~. and, f, rming rome smt of a rough interfered with the landing on the Gallipoli WilO as game ._. knowledge of strategy. Dardatzelles, 7.Ve are able to git'c the fol- line, rushed straight on the flashes of be e.IM!my' P eninsula. lo·wiug graphic accoutlt of the Tanding of rifiThes.. b __, th At dawn on April :..J-la t Su~ulay week--:-a NEWEST WAR PHASES. t"U, Belloc is that he . . . ~ . . e1r magazmes ere not even c Cl.I' 0 so ey landing took plal' of troop , makmg nsc of SIX Mr. such a busy man cannot tile BrtttSlz Army mzd tis tzrst pgl1t 'Wlfh 1 just went in witll t.he cold st.eei. ajye inter.ie ·s to people who want points eluci landing place . . the Turks. ' It was o,·er in a minule. The Turks in this first dated. But he can discuss the matter with you The 29th Divi ion dis mbarked nt •. eddul Bahr, trench were bayoneted or ran a ay, and a maxim on Sunday through the medium of the Illustrated was the ew Zealand and Au tralian Corps at Gaba H. L . I~ ndon, in th Dardanelle-, April 26. gun captured. Sunday Herald. He will deal with the new phases 'fcpe, and the Fr nch fore at Kum Kale. Throuuh the niuht oi April 24 our squadron Then the Australian· found themsel ·es facing of the war in an article written for next Sunday's '\\hich wa.~ to land the covering force of the an almost perpendicular eliff of loose sandstone Herald. It wi 1 be called "War's Alarms: Ex THE FIR ST D AY'S WORK. aggerated hopes and fea;rs," and it will be a con- Austrnli:lli ·ontingent just north of Gaha. 'ft•pe co ·erecl with thick :;hTUbbery, a.nd somewhere half way up the enemy had a second trench, strongly By the enming 2U,OOO n.en in all were diseru tribution of very great nnportance. . t>t.ca m'd tO\nlrtL its destination. Mr. Belloo foretold the new German offenSive; by ~uccessive .At 1 a.m. the ships arrived off their appointed held, from which they poured a terrible fire on barked. T11ese forces were opposed he told us where it would be ~na.de, and h~ was n ndez,·on:o, fi,·e miles from the landing place, and the troops below, and the boats pulling back to the lines of infantry and artillery l•ehind strong rioht. Mr. Belloc is thus the best man to d1scusso f'tl()pped. Ilw ol ARRANGING THE DRINK D'CTIES. Mr. Lloyd George in the Commons yesterday said he was sanguine that there would be an arrangement in regard to the proposed new duties which would satisfy all .Parties. Some progress bad already been made With the negotiation.;: He hoped to make a definite announcement to-d~y _Mr. Bonar La'! said he was prepared to fail in w1th the suggestion of the Chancellor. - KORE W AGES FOR MI NERS. DAILY SKETCH.. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. I'JliDAY, y '· 1915.-hp •• I BR TISH RECAPTURE M.O E E CHES 0 6o.ll MORE LOST TRENCHES RUSSIANS' STUBBORN STA OOSEVELT DECLA ES FOR. Extra Late Edition. REGAINED ON HILL 60. IN WESTER GALIC A. T E ALLIES. Huns Held Up At Other Points On Furio s Battle Still Raging Failure Of America' Duty Aad ' ALL E GLA D HOULD The British Front. Carpathians-Viitula Front. onour To ards Belgium. K OW THE T TO.'' FRENCH SUCCESSES. Russian om;~a~~a:!: Thur Y HEART BE TS T ERE Agonies Endured By Victim Of In Galicia the battle between the Vi tul IS FRA 1CE. ,. ' Poisonous Gases. Germans' Night Attack Repulsed the Carpathians was continue ye' rday Ex-President Roosevelt, in a remarkable inter great obstinacy. view, declared that A. merica 1 ad failed in her " HE OST AWFUL FORM OF To The North Of Ypres. Covered by heavy artillery fire the enemy con· duty and honour to Belgi m by no inte"'ening tinned to concentrate force~ on the right bank of at the beginning of the war. SCIE TIFIC TORTURE.'' From Sir John French. the Dunajec. Ir. Roo evelt, with character& tic bluntn s , The ~nemy' main effort- were directed in he howed no 1te itation in telling where hi Doctors And Nurses Powerless To . . Thursday Night. direction of Biecz and Ja lo. sympathie are. There Is nothmg to report on the British Our troops were _everely tried o 'ing to the "Where my heart beat , there i France," he Save The Poor Sufferers. front except the recapture by us yesterday superiority of the enemy' heaYy artillery, but the said, and he expres ed with emphasi 1 i opinion The 1 hole of England and the (\Vednesday) evening of more of th- lost enemy also suffered heavily under our hrapnel that neutrality to be u eful mu~t be strongly and rifle fire whenev.er he att~mpted to attack. armed ci il~ ed world ought tQ ha ·e the truth trenches •on Hill 6o I south-east of Yprcs I and fightmg still continues in that locality. In the direction of ::try, during Tuesday, we PARI., Thur day. fully brought before them in vivid developed our succe :, in the positions on .lont Elsewhere the enemy has shown no dis Interviewed at Oyster Bay by l\L G briel detail, and not u rapped 1Lp a at akouwka. Alphand th sp cial corre pondeut of th Temp , position to attack. The numbe1' of prLoner we made in thi · action ~lr. Roo~ Yelt aid: p1·e, ent. amounts to 2,000 men anu 40 officer . NIGHT ATTACK REPULSED. The retreating enemy was thrown back a con "If I had b n Pre~idcnt I woulU have pro Thi · is the considered opinion of a British siderable distance.-Reuter. t~sted again~ t the violation of Belgian territory. officer erving in France who ha vi ited in All Day Fight Against Poison Fumes For "I wouhl have a. ked the L.nitell tate of ho pital some of tho unfortunate Yictims of tho NO VICfORY \VHATEVER. AmericL to take their place with tho Allies. poi onou gases u ed by the German~ to cover Trenches On Hill 60. "Perhap that would have prevented war, and their attack on Hill 60, near Ypres. French Official News. Rus~ian Denial Of '·Even Partial German tven on a lute a _\.ugust 5, when the Germann Vi its wero paid to the hospital on the two wcr~ before Liege. they would ha ,.e had time to Thursday Afternoon. Success Carpathians.'' days succeeding the German asc::ault. The officer To the north of Ypres wo easily repulsed a In reflect. write :- night attack debouching from Steenstraete [on Russian Official Statement. A !ERICA'S DUTY. " When we got to the ho pital we had no difficulty the Yser Canal]. PARIS, Thur,.,day. in finding out in which ward the men wer~. a the To the south of Ypres the Germans attacked, The Russian Embassy here says that the recent "On the contrary the Unih' l :;ta.to. of noi e of the poor devils trying to get breath was near Zwartelen, the trenche of Hill 60 captured Vienna and Berlin statements reporting a "great America have ealed the failut of their duty nnd ufficient to direct us last month by the British troops. victory" over the Russians in Ea:;tern Galicia (Car honour toward: B lgium. " We were met by a doctor belonging to our Their attack was very violent, in the course of pathians) do not in any way correspond with the "Our neutrality at thi moment should be a division, who took us intc the ward. which they again resorted to the use of facts. strongly-a! med neutrality. " There were about 20 of the worst ca es in the asphyxiating gas, which at first rendered them The fighting that has been proceeding in this "You cnn only be neutral to any n eful pur ward on mattresses, all more or le s ia a sittmg district gives no ground for the reports of any pose by being sufficiently strong to resist the most po:.>ition, propped up again:;t U1e walls. success, even partiaL being obtained bY. our powerful nation. enemies.-Reuter. "That is why I am rampnigning for an " TRUGGLINQ. S'l'RUGGLING.'' American army as strong a the navy that was " Their (aces, arms, hand ..,, were of a shiny grey HUNS CLAIM NEW SUCCESSES. created during my presidency. bla~k colour, with mouths open and lead-glazed eyes, all swaying slightly backwarus and forwards Austrian Official News. NOT EVEN THE PACIFISTS. trying to get breath. "It was the most appalling sight, all these poor VIENNA (via Amsterdam), Thursday. " I am for universal compulsory military black faces, struggling, struggling for life, what At- four in the afternoon the last Russian posi tions on the heights east of the Dunajec and the service, and so universal, indcetl, that even the with the groaning and noise of the efforts for Biala (Western Galicia) were gained by our troops. pacifi'ts would not ·cap , but would h forced to breath. Since ten in the morning Tarnow has again been eder the ranks of the fighting nrmy. "Colonel--, who, a c\eryone know, has had in our possession.-Reuter. as wide an experience as anyone all over the avage [Tarnow, east of the ltiver Dunajcc and 50 miles The nation's worst t-nemit:R are the n~en with parts of Africa, told me tq-day that he never felt ('ast of Cracow, has bf'en held by the Rus ian incc long hair and the women w1th ~ hort hatr-;-those sick as he did after the ~cene in these ca es. the early months of the war.] who won't make homes and those who won t take "There is practically nothing to be done for them a rifle to defend them. Ie . ·cept !O give them salt anu water to try and mak The Au trians say the Ru:.sian prisoner taken " My system of military cn·ic would rope in them s1ck. . . it We.:tet~ Galicia now number 50,000. ·, G :\ .· ,· . tC'rm in de d I "The effect the gas bas 1 to fill the lungs w1th :1 a 11 e~·mart-. mci Icnn - ' 1 1 watery, frothy matter which gradually increase ncl G ER~IAN G EN f1JRAL C A.PTURED. don't qmte under tand. rises till it fills up the whole lungs and come- up to the mouth; then they die; it i :uffocation; ...low PARIS, Thur day. WHICH ARE THEY? drowning, taking in some cases one or two day'. The Temps learns from Petrograd that Gen ral " uch men are C'ither Americans or Germ. n . "Eight died la.St night out of the 20 I ~aw, and von Wedel commanding a cavalry division, has most of the others I saw will die; while those who masters of this position. Our Allies afterwards been taken 'prisoner by the Ru ians near 0 soviecs "'Vhen I wa. President one of my orderly get over the gas invariably develop cute counter-attacked and captured a portion of the (... T.E. Poland). The General attempted st!icide. but officers wa · a de cendant of Blucher. Another pneumonia. trenches lost. was disarmed.-Reuter. wa~ a descendant of ono of • rapol on'cs brother . At the wood of Ailly (in Eastern France, near Both wero loyal Americans. AN UNCONQUERABLE TERROR. '' If I I St. l\lihiel) the counter-attack made by us at the ULTI~fATU~I become Pre ident again will change "It is without doubt the mo t awful form of end of the day slightly progressed, and we retook JAPAN'S TO CHINA. the naturnli ation laws in such n way that our ~cientific torture. immigrant. cannot continue to live with u as a "Not one of the men I ~aw in hospit 1 ha a fresh portion of the position where the Germans scratch or wound. had gained a footing in the morning. Mikado Gives His Sanction To Tokyo's separate body while continuing. ~o u. o the "The nurses anrl doctors were all working their During the night tho Germans counter-attacked lanrruaoe and cu'toms, and even hvmg the very Demands. 0 utmost again t this terror; but one cou1d ee from on the Mamelon, east of Sillakerwasen (Alsace), TOKYO, Thursday. lifo of ~mother nation. the tension of their nerves that it was like fighting of which they reoccupied the summit. The Emperor has auctioned the ultimatum to a. hidden danger which was overtaking everyone. All the rest of our gain in the direction of the PLAIN TALK TO DERNBURG. " A German prisoner was caught with a re pirator Fecht has been maintained and consolidated. China.-Reuter. WA HL-GTO~, Thursday. "I yery clearly told Herr Dernburg thi when in his pocket. The pad was analy·ed, and found Exchange. to contain hyposulphite of soda, with one per cent. PARIS, Thursday Night. A messaae from Tokyo states that the .likado h~ vi ited me at Ovster Bay." sent an cltimatum to China to-night. . It w!ls of some other substance. The day passed calmly, and there is nothing to In conclu ion :\i'r. Roosevelt s:1id :- "The gas is in a cylinder, from which. when they report.-Exchange. officially stated that China ha been gtven till Sunday to reply.-Exchange. " In 1912 a German hot at me in • tilwaukee. send it out, it is propelled a distance of 100 yards. "The bullet remains here (pointing to his right It then spreads. The German official report claims that in the breast). _ " THB LI ARS. •' Ailly wood (in. ~t. Mihiel) the French were .driven WILL CHI NA YIELD ? " Germany i therefore there, but on the other out of their pos1t10ns and that 2,000 French pnsoners PEKI.-G, Thursday l. ight. "Engli h people, men and women, ought to were taken. The Japane~e Legation ba received instructions _ide, where my heart beat., i France." know exactly what is going on-al o member' of regarding the ultimatum. It is believed t~t the ~xchange pecial. both Houses. The people of England can't know. Chinese Cabinet, in the event of the presentation of "The Germans have given out that it i a r pid, 35,000 GERMAN CASUALTIES. the ultimatum, \dll yield to force majeure. painles death. PARIS, Thursday. Reuter. THE GREAT TH U -DERSTORM. "The liar I An official note states that the Germans have been " ... o torture could be worse than to gh·e them unable to break through our defensive works despite dose of their o ;vn gas. PEER'S O .. T W O NDE D. the most violent efforts. During the last fortmght Many Train Held Up : Street! And "The gas, I am told, i chlorine and probablv they 1::1ave lost 35,000 men.-Exchange Special. Lord Loughborough ha been woun ed whilst ~ome other «as in the -hell they bur~ . They in action with his armoured car during the Hou es Flooded. think ammonia kills it." Dardanelles campaign. POISONED WORDS FOR ITALY. His lordshin, who i: but VO TIRPITZ'S DAILY RECORD. A l TERDAM, Thursday. 22 rears of age, is the Tl~e Co~ogne Volkszeitmtg commenting on ~he elde.::t on of the fir2t Itahan s1tuation, says it seems that war w1th marriage of Lord Ro~ · Italy is una,·oidable. lyn. Hi mother '·a a daughter of r. R. . de If it comes t-o blow~ ( ay the German journal) one ean . be sure that Germany's anti-English Grey Vyner, of Gauntley. h tred ~nll be a nothing to what her hatred of Before he joined the ltJllY l\;n he f<>r her treacherou~ conduct. It i armoured c.ar section of wtthont parallel in hi tory. the R.-T.V.R., of whieh The paper adds that the Italian decision can he was sub-lieutenant, . not be delayed longer than two day .-Exchange. he was 2nd lieut. in the Dragoon Guard . Lord I..oughborough . AISER'S DASH TO BERLI • ''a recently som w ha f'OPENHAGEN, Thur day. before the · public 'Ih Kai r the 'l anc:ellor, Herr \On B thmann wh n he figur d a the Roll \eg, and the For i«n lmt.ter, Herr \'On J gow, defend, nt in a 1 r h f:' ani u.l in Bellin m c nn ctton '1 h the ' hich he atten It i I I talian qu st on. l!.xch ng pecml. Ju l •ment ' a g1 er Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. -DAILY :B. ••oNE BOOK STANDS OIJ'I' OOVB 0 EVERYTHING ELSE I BAYB 8BAD. TBIS IS NELSON'S •BJSTOD OP ATHERED] TBE WAR,' BY JOBB B11C:BAN."-Mr. C. K. Shorter on War Histories in Tlu Sj}u,.e. NELSON'S HISTORY of the WAR By JOHN BUCHAN, is being published in Monthly Cloth Volumes. Vol. III. NOW READY. 1/- net. Major • General Sir ~~CIS ~OYD, Commanding the Londo.n. Distnct.. s~king at a largely attended Recrwbng Meetmg m EAST LONDON on April 14th, n:entioned the graphic d scription ~f the fighting in Nelson's "History of th War " and sud, " This book ought to be in th: hand~ of everybody :;I in every public library.'' This i Jack Norwortli as he appears A new linen collar bas eccentric. turn-back wings, in 11 Rosy Rapture" at the Duke of and i llut d nearly all the "ay round.-Wrancois.) York's.-{Foulsham and Banfield.) A SERGEANT AT THIRTEEN. A NEW ELSIE JANI~. Ensure Good DIGESTION and a Healthy, Active LIVER. 01 Clumists throughout llu world, 1/1! IJ 219. ~AIIEI COCIL£ & Co.,4 ll'tlt Or111ontl Street, London.\ 'A window-blind beading appears on a gathered Sergt. Nicholas Smirnoff i · only thirteen, &kirt, which also shows a transparent lace but he has boon ''oumled twice, and wears hem.-{Francois.) tbe Cross of St. George. CUTICURA SHAVING Is u,.to-Date Shavint ftr Sensitive ~kins. Trial Free. Prepare razor. Dip brush in hot water, and rub on Cuticura Soap LET Ha.rdcastle's Ba:Im cf Gilead relieve you of the tort!U'e .a.nd sufienng cau!!Cd by £ore a.nd tender !.;oet.. One application. roothes and heals, a.nd .daily repttition for r. Ehor~ penod altogether cures you cf that uhin eoreness whtch makes walking a toil iD&tead o! a p'ea.sure.1 Send your soldier friends a boL · HARDCAS~'LE'S D ILY SKETCH. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. FRID Y. THE T EATMENT OF PRISONERS. HERE will be so many scores to reckon T up with Germany after the war that, 1 am afraid, many accounts "·ill n-o un paid, or will be written.off as bad debts. But we must see to it that the case of the Briti h prisoner~ in Germany is placed prominently on the hst of debts. to be paid at all costs. The situation has been confu ed by German trickery. \Ve only hear a few revelations of the awful things that are going on. The later w worst deeds ~re. cunningly cone a1ed, and tr ge A Strl I r H trey Part. mhany of the b\'JCtlm~ may never li\ e through done. -- ~ i,n ct h ~ / P ~~P~~ 1 t e war to ear Witness against their tor-~ Lord Hardlnte's Cballenre. ho writ plays pro turers. AFTER 1u.:: · re overy f rom t 11e tnJUn he d u c e d b Y l1 r 1 f JN treating with German atrocities it i- a receh·ed in Delhi • Bomb y journ list c ble hom H •trey never t ke their safe rule to a ume that they are officiall that L~rd Hardinrre '?uld have tor tire. A month ' R c:rulta" To Fall Back On. ye off the principaJ inspired and that thev ar xt .. ~~ later, m -peech, ht E.·celleucy challeng the ONE OF TH ST F dealin with torm ent in figure - H tr y hi! ' . • e . · en. 1.' ~ } writer to undert ke the ~ame trenuou time in to the Parli m nt ry RecruitinG' Com 1ittee ha e 1 f. For H t r e l ad.opted. ~hus tf .we hear ~f a smgle Bntt h port and \ ·ark th t b h put in during the been telling me of om of the humour of the al · ys i him elf,' nd ' pnsoner betng deltberately Ill-treated we can preceding fortnight. Th ch Uenge w not work. On one pnper, un er "Remark ," 1 ngthy \'ery charming lf, to . conclude that, a far as is conveni ~nt for accepted. account •a given of an "unkle" whe>--apart from o this sort of thina German purposes, this is a general practice the bet th the ·as in pri-on-was "fine fightin really doe n't matter at officially sanctioned. It is on thi · ba is that Barley \Vater. f an." Another ultra·patriotic hou ehold r enwred I all. He i invari blJ the Briti h hoYernmcnt must e. tabli h it. THE BI;;HoP oF WILLE nr.N mu t k ep n Pye as willing to enlist his grandfather, ged venty-1 the man of gr at f -cination and many lit.t.l( system of punishment. In tead of directin~ on that £5 \ i h \ ~tich he b upporting hi- opinion Ieight, and g andmother, ge eventy-thre . f. nings which only erve to enh nc th t. fa cin OJ that men have uot got run· on ginger be r. bon. For years H wtrey had to be a h r. He attention to the stupid minions wh ~ auto- rea'ler who appear to know-I can't say how- 1 Lady \Vinifred Oore. do n't li much in "Striking." the new far<;e of matically obey the most infamous orders, a~sures me th t ther j- p enty of home-brewed NoT ur. the am teur nur es th wnr has Paul Ruben an Gl dys ng r, which gav me we mu t aim at the author~, and we mu t ginger beer c>ontaining a much alcohol as ruin- brought forth d erve the bard things th t have an mu ing hour or t o at the AI ollo on Wedne · aim very high, . o as to get at the prime nes~';,; .stout. r cour e, this cannot purcl1 d be n said of them in d Y night. . movers in this crime. from a re 1 ectaLle m ker who mu t not certain quart rs. 1 ny . . 13 per cent. ·Hut th E ·cise p opl , I am of the e l di have JT wtll really be a ca:e of settling accounts have often f md a_ much 11 P r cent. highly tee mi 1 know- I 'STEAD, he i the lazie t man on arth, an( with the r ais r, hi staff, and the Ger- l __ - ledge and pr ctical x- a p er. He can't do anything f r him If, n c 111 man Government. In this re pect the pre- A '-Blues" Book. • perienc in medic 1 weakly for hi \ alet, naith ( plendid name- 'll d · naith), at v ry po ible moment. Aw y from a 111 1 sent war wt stan out strange contra:t THE DIFFERENT OPI."IO ·s e ·pre. ed as to the matter~,1 an have tel phone he i perfectly mi. rable. w' h other wars. '1 he enemy who stooped to harmfulness or otherwise of whisky remind me of tl lOUgltt::. far above being · the torture of prisoner , to the murder of the e. pert evidence given on t?e AdulteratlO~ Com- photorrraphed in a In "Shorts.'' non-combatants, to the u e of suffocating mittee ~ome years ago A wttne·s- purely tn the I nur e's umform. L dy BuT .o fETRING come:. nlon to bu k him up, · · f · interest of .ci~nce, of cour e-sampled all the good Winifred Gore, for in- and it i love. He propo es t n liUle • cotch girl gas, to t h e potsonmg o water-1s no ordi- and bad liquor he could procure, including Ameri- stance, 19· a hig1 lly (Hilda Trevelyan-who bring:3 with her a whiff of nary- enemy,- and the Allies should make it can "forty ro " whisky, "BntLs· · h b ran d y, " capa bl e nurse. I 1tear "What Every Woman Know~"), aud i refu~ very clear that e.·traordinary treatment will .. Jamaica rum" (made in Germany) and "Derby she is at pre ent nursing 0 h& starts doing things for him:: I£, and a ge&lert.l be meted out to him as punishment after the Day champagne," and carefully noted their effect.~ , the ~oun~ed at .Prince s strike do sn't make this very difficult. Hawkey war. on him ·• on the morninO' after the night before. Henry of Battenberg 9 hospttal 10 Htll-street, running round a table in •l short "-h wa sup· BUT meanwhile the case of the British These experienc ' he related. to the sympatll tic . Berkeley-squar~ Previous!~ she w~- busy with posed to have been a Cal!lbridrre blue iu more . . h committee. who ~rnacked their lips and burier\ the, the· same ~erctful work down at Gutldford, where active day -got a huge laugh. pnsoners IS so urgent t at stronger h h account of his sacrifice in a blue book. · er orne IS. pressure must be brought on Germany than A Lottie Venne Part. that resulting from after-war threats. The A Serbian Claim. FoR THE rest " Strikin •· do . n't amount to enemy is by no means at his last gasp, and Mlllionaire Captain Wounded. IV!.... "'I{ ME HTROVITCH, the great S rbian much. But it is full of witt; line , and .. 1i Lottie the men responsible for the cruelties to THIS r. C ptain J. A. Morrison, of the Grena culptor, has arrived from Pari . He hn come Venne is, a usual, an immen e asset. Like dier Guards and great 1v'ealth-you remember the to London to make his work known to the English Hawtrey, she s ems de tined to play th same type prisoners probably feel quite secure from _lorri -on million -whose nation, and intends to give an exhibition at the of part to the end of her days. The reception was reprisals which will hurt them personally. name figures in the list end of the month at the outh Ken ington very friendly. Lady Alexan er was in a bo and There is a good deal of selfishne -s in the of wounoed. Before be Museum, which ha been placed at hi di posal larie LOhr, with her hu~band, w~ in the stalls. German military caste, and its self-con eit retired ami was for a by the British Government. The erbi n claim So much for " triking." I wonder how many is very strong. To bring these men to any time M.P. for uth that the work of their sculptor is econd only to people thought of Gal worthy's ~trike play, "Strife." sense of fair treatment .for our prisoners we Wiltshire and Ea. t 1 ot· that of ichael Angelo. tingham, he saw much require to exert pressure on them as directly Tbe A. 8. Club. active service. He was The Lonely Soldier. AN ARTHUR BOURCHII:R DRAMATIC CLUB has just as possible. present at the battle I MY YOUNG FRI'IND Paul was winged at Neuve been formed, and it hdd its inaugural celebration THE British Government is in the difficult v.:hic~ ?verthrew the Chapelle, and is rather unbearable in his anxiety a.t the Eu:;tace files Restaurant one night las~ position of not being able to apply this Khnltfa m the ndv nee 1.o g(!t back again. But his story of the spare time week. I understand th burly A.B. was not pr ent direct pressure. \Ve cannot compete with on Khartum, and in of his servant Ginger fascinated me. Ginger was himself to give the function bi bl ing. I can't outh Africa in the interminably writing, until Paul a ked him wbat quite picture him wrestling with nut. teak or Germany in a tit-for-tat contest in the torture M~~ersfontein action. He ever he was about. "Well, you see," ;,aid Ginger, dining off a couple of proteid bi cuits nd a of prisoners. Germany would beat us hollow ~eJOtned from . the "I'm a lonely soldier, and my private cotrespond- banana in brutality. But it is strange that more is Re erve of Officers for th1s war. I met htm at ence occupie:; all my spare time. not done in the direction of exerting pressure dinner once or twice three or four years ago. My Ciro's And Its Music. through the wealthy and influential Germans chief recollection ib a tremendou hand gr p. I Bright Idea. CLOSE UPO. my c mment on the deafening din feel it still. UP IN •ORTON FOLG n:-I wonder how many of the mu ic at. Ciro's comes the statement from whom we have amongst us. It is not a "somewhere in Orange- treet" that Melville matter of torturing these men, but of giving of you know vhere th t is-they have a recruiting "Zangwill, Junior.'' idea which is quite bright. Gideon will play the piano at dinner-time nightly them plainly to understand that we hold on nd after next Sunday. Thi is good ne · . For I cALLED IN the other day at the Prize Court to them and their property in bail for the good one thing, one man at a piano can't po ibly make see how the Opheli case was getting on. am "Change H re For The Front.'' behaviour of Germanv towards British very much noise. For another, Gideon i a really Evans "':as bland . and courteous. and. full of 0 R THE DOOR of the recruiting offices is a excellent piani t when he w ut to be. But the prisoners. A. earnest of . Sun v. ensor. e mg oroug , as restgned ts position. HERE's A m rr for the Cen or' department. it upon my friend, and fled I He reapses ?OW that there i only one way The other day a letter was received from a neutral of dealmg wtth Germany. . To talk of settle- country. t had been ceo ored but it h pp ned T~ ncb Dlaners. ment by ~utual consent ~ tth a .rae of mur-~ hat the letwr was read out of doors, and t~at the I THA'f the ontmartre rest ur teurs are waking up, and de\ising novelties. One fello' has derers, pOisoners, and torturers 1 to c nd ne y w bright and sunny. Un er the un rays h d a r ncb dug behind his place, nd for t o the abominable crime they h vc wrought, the censore~l p ~es were . ily deciph r bl . and are till planning. '!hey ' r n nythm very tmpor nt-but they fr ncs one may dine in the tr nche , and by THE AN IN THE STREET. mtgbt ha be c ndle-lighl Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. HE 6LORY AND THE DANGERS IN Captain Herd, of the 2nd Welsh, sleeps side by side with Private Murphy, of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. The two soldiers had just placed fresh flowers on the graves. HOW THE Lieut. J. Nicholls, Queen Queen Victoria Rifles- Londun Territorials- wash in a stream near Hill 60. Victoria Rifles, wounded at They are in the thick of the fighting. Hill 60.-(Claudo Harris.) The Scots Guardsman take, a glimpse of the famous hill. Private Tucker, RUle Bri gade, miped 00 Germans at Hill 00 before being l ll that was leftr of a farm wrf8ted from the Germ&DI. The bottles do Do\ mean oar llleD Jaaye had • ·cooi time, but are the accumulatioa of a,.. wo=~~'t ~~fW- It is .war, aDd the church .aa well u the .hmre17 is lffl!Cked by Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. DEADLY STRUGGLE fOR THE 0. Among th rathetic si Lieut.-Col. H. L. 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FRBB.-.. What to Eat" is the lli1e of a helpful · et book free to ~:~.11 who send a postea.rd to- Ofter pt., 48 Holbom Viaduel, London.-Ad.t. 1/- PUBUSHED ON 1/- ET MONDAY NEXT NET ORDER AT ONCE Printer ' Pie A CHEERY DI R FOR "HO B AND DUTY." JIUYAYS :MERRY .liND FRIDAY, KAY 7, 191~ 10.-DAILY SltETCH. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. MR. C. P. TREVELYAN 0 ROYAL HU T CUP WHERE DO~S THE 2/- GO? EXPLAINS HIMSELF. THIS YEAR. II "No War Ever Settled Anything" ine Races Cut Out Of Ascot He Tells His Constituents. ' Programme. POLICY THAT " INVOLVED .. US. A THREE-DAY MEETING. ..1\ir. C. P. Tren'lyan, who resigned his post as Parliamentary 1.: ecretan" to the Board of Educa Ac~ t oi And Passport Have Great tion on the o~tbreak of ~·ar, has written to his old supporters in the Elland division of Yorkshire Race For Dee Stake . explaining his ,·iew . What would happen at Ascot and what will happen at Goodwood have been important topics Replying t{) the official intimation of the Liberal of conver ation for a long time. We now know Aswciation in his constituency that it would be lVhere we are in regard to Ascot, for nine races futile to adopt him again as their candidat~ at the have been deleted from the programme, and the next General Election, he expresses l1is profound <}oubt I expressed last week concerning the hold regret at this decision _. and his satisfaction that no ing of the Goodwood meeting still holds. personal discord should have accompanied the It was common property that an intention was to curtail sport at Ascot, and to-day's Racing difference of judgment, and goes on :- Calendar cont=;ins the following announcement : The present time I consider to be uns~itable for the discussion of the long course of pollcy which ASCOT, 1915. involved Great Britain in the war, but I have from The fo ll owin~ races will not be included in the the earliest moment been aware that no one can program t'0 e th1s year, viz. : Ascot Stakes, Gold expect popular approval in time of war who Vase,. Tnal Stakes, Royal Hunt Cup, Visitors' does not accept without reserve the view that Hand1cap_, F er0: Hill Stakes, Wokingham Stakes, British policy was above reproach. Ascot H rgh-we1ght Stakes, and King's Stand Stake ~ . DlliTRESS AND lfEACTION. The meeting will be confined to three days As to the future, no certain prophecy can be Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, June 16, 17; made, but all great wars have led to economic dis and 18. tress and political reaction. It is probable that Racing will take place during th& ordinary the present war will produce these effects on an hours. unprecedented scale. It certainly will unless the The arraagements of each day's races will be nation begins to think about national policy with published lat-er. the same vigour and devotion with which it fights for its existence. THE 103rd DEE STAKES. No war ever settled anything. The good or bad Of the eight starters for the 103rd anniversary policy which makes the peace and succeeds the of the Dee takes yesterday Passport and Miletus war secures the good or bad results. are the .only ones not in the Derby. The questions arising out of this war will domi '!he dBtance of the race was a mile and a half nate politics for the next generation. I have no eo that it could be considered quite a good test doubt that as it becqmes apparent that Liberal for the Ep. om classic and democratic policy is more than ever needed There was no dawdling, Passport setting a good during and after the war, it will appear also that pace to the finishing straight, where he was we shall not have ceased to share many common joined by Achtoi. opinions, even thou,sh you have chosen this Then began a stirring struggle, and the pair moment to sever our close political connection. !an home locked together. No one except the Judge could say which had won, ana a big cheer RECOGNISED FROM DAILY SKETCH went up when ~o. 7, that of Achtoi, was put in the frame. Mr. .Mortimer Singer's colt had won PHOTOGRAPH. by a short. head. Brown Ronald was a moderate Though she had not heard from her husband for third. six months, Mrs. Bird, of Hucknall, Nottingham, Achtoi L certain to stay the distance in the has had the satisfaction of recognising him from Derby, and though he may not be of such good the group of prisoners published in the Daily Sketch ~lass as Pommern he will have to be respected, on Tuesday. 1f only because of his Rtamma. Being a reservist in the Gloucester Regiment, he The ex-jockey, Otto Madden, won the Great went early to the war, and communicated with his Cheshire Handicap with his own mare Madame wife every few days. In November all messages Louise, at the nice price of 10 to 1. The tdp weights ceased, and the only information obtained from Outram and Evett, shared fa vouritism, but wer~ the authorities was that he was posted as beaten out of the places. "missing." When a Daily Sketch representative A flne fini sh for the Earl of Chester's Welter saw ca:led at their home one of the boys, about four Fakir III. beat Velociter by a head, and Marchetta years old, exclaimed: "Yes, I picked out my daddy filly won the Ormonde Stakes cleverly from Ali from the Daily Sketch." Bey. DEATH OF TOM WATSON. THE PROMISE OF KEMPTON. Tom Watson, secretary of the Liverpool Football South Country sports~n will be well catered Club, formerly of Sunderland, died vesterday after for at Kempton to-day, for there is a good all-round noon. programme. · 4.30-WALDEGRAVE HANDICAP of 200 sovs.; 1Y2m, The 'orbiton Handicap will take some speedy TO·DAY .A.T KEMPTON. Draughtsman • . . . . . 4 9 1 Wavestar ...... 5 7 1o The famous Parisian actress, Mlle. Eve Lavalliere 2.0-FULWELL SELLING PLATE of 200 sovs..; 'lL Ragtime King ...... 6 8 9 Dick Deadeye ...... 4 horses to the post, and Morton will probably have Berrilldon ...... 6 9 3 Da.tsy Ring ...... _ 3 7 B 7 7 makes her first appearance in London at th~ Ultimus •...... a. 8 0 Chateau Vert • . . . . . a 7 4 Ambassadors Theatre to-night. a fancied candidate in Golden Sun or Parhelion. Brya...... 3 7 11 The above have arrived. The Angel dan is such a consistent sort, and The above have arrived. Kniy.ht's Key ...... 5 9 1 Fair Trader ...... 4 7 7 cannot be left out of the reckoning, and Mofa.t • ...... • . . . 6 9 3 Spoofer ...... 4 811 Ear y Hope ...... • . 6 9 1 Lady Doreen . • ...... 4 7 7 The Bos· is a smart customer when at his best, Ranga.g ...... a 9 3 The Butler ....•.•••• 3 7 11 . Asparagus ...... 6 9 1 Hero ...... 5 7 6 Ouraga.n • ...... • 5 9 3 te Maure II.. .• , .... 3 711 Ra.dway • ...... 4 9 1 Wolfaline ••..••..•• 3 7 5 ' THEY SPARED HER LIFE.' which he is reported to be at present. Bachelor',; Tax ....•. a 9 0 Llanthony ....•••••• 3 '111 Whroo . . • . . . . • ...... 5 8 7 Bordello • . . • . • • . • • . . 5 7 5 Sadler has a likely pair in Coronis and Show Gui card ...... ••• 4 9 0 Bursar ...... 3 711 Serlby Drake ...... 6 8 5 Courtlands ...... 5 7 3 Girl, but I prefer Speedyfoot, who ran well at Diableret ...... a 9 0 Peter the Piper ..•••• 3 7 8 Cock of the Rock . . .. 5 8 1 Ghent Azalea ....•• 4 7 3 Lox wood ...... • 4 8 11 Bridgement ...... 3 7 8 St. . ~leliuan ...... a 8 1 Canidius ...... •. 4 7 2 A REMARKABLE PICTURE. Newbury, and now app-ears to have the better of Ktllanna...... 4 8 11 PLadhihppe • ...... a 8 0 Bidevor • •...... 3 7 2 the reckoning with Roi de C from Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. Pace 12.-DAILY SltETCB, FRIDAY, HAY 1, 1915. Illustrated Sunday Herald For Best War Pictures. EXCLUSIVE PICTURES. . The Picture Paper for the week-end 11 the ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY HERALD. It 15 there that you get the latest and 'th~ b:st. Be c • certain of your copy on Sunday by orderm&: 1t Now. • LoNDON: Shoo Lane, E. C. MANCHESTER: Withy Grove. A r: ER Telephcnes-8 Lines_-_E_ditoria~-~~-d_P_ub_i_is_ht_n_g-_H_o_Ibo_rn_65_12_. _____B_R_I_T_A_IN_'_S_B_E_~_T_P_IOT __ U_R_E __ P_.l:U._~ __·_-----..------j LONDON SCHOOLBOYS HELP TO MAKE TOMMY'S RIFLE. Boys attending Ponder's End Trade School, which is close to the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield, are being employed in the manufacture of parts of rifles and in making other munitions of war. The lads are proud to help the men who are fighting for them.-(Daily Sketch Photographs.) I . FAMOUS WOMEN IN THE THEATRICAL WORLD ENTERTAIN CHILDREN AND HELP A GOOD CAUSE. Lord Gerald Fitz-Gerald, ::>On of Lady Edward Fitz-Gerald. Mr5. Le ~·iwhn (Edna by}, Miss Kyrle Bellew, Miss Ella Retford, and Mrs. Harry Grattan. A ,, Children's Afternoon in Toyland" wa held at Murray's ( lub ye terday. Famous actresses attended and heleed to make an enjoyable time for the kiddies A collection takPn during the afternoon was handed over to the funds of the Actors' Benevolent Association. ·