Ross Gazette 22nd October 1914 - Page 5
Ross Gazette 22nd October 1914 - Page 5
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| Date | 22/10/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 22nd October 1914 |
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DO NOT WAIT until you are really ill before resort- Immediate ing to treatment . attention should always be given to minor ailments lest they lead to more serious trouble . A bilious . headache , a tendency to constipa- tion , a feeling of discomfort after eating , impaired appetite : these are all symptoms that two of the most important organs in the body - the stomach and the liver - are not working satisfactorily . The right remedy to TAKE whenever there is the slightest suspicion that all is not well with the organs of digestion is Beecham's Pills . Those who have tried this remedy , and they now number a great multitude , are entirely satisfied that , for correct- ing ailments of the stomach and the liver , there is nothing to surpass BEECHAM'S PILLS . Sold everywhere in boxes , price 1/1 ( 56 pills ) & 2/9 ( 168 pills ) , BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE TABLES A Large Stock of New and Second - hand Tables lways on hand ; also Convertible Billiard and Dining Tables . Write for List , G.Elwards , 134 Kingsland Rd . , N.E Printed and Published for the " Ross Gazette , " Limited , by GoDFREY M. MORTON , at their Offices , High - street and Church - street , Ross , in the County of Hereford . THURSDAY , OCTOBER 22 , 1914 . Telep SECOND SHEET . ADDRESSES . HERBERT B. MEW , Telegrams- " Barrel , Rose BARREL BREWERY , ROSS . BRILLIANT ALES NOURISHING STOUT . A These Ales and Bloute give great entisfaction to those who enjoy a brilliant Beer , with delicate palate , and fall of life . This is accounted for by the fine quality of the materials employed , the delicious flavour and aroma of selected Hope being very noticeable . Light Ale ... FA Recommended for family use G.A. Sparkling Bitter Ale P.A. Very High Class gall , 10d . Light Dinner Ale - Half - pinta , per dos . 1- " 19 33 1/4 Nutritious Stout - Half - pinta 1/0 " " 1/4 Oatmeal Stout , for Invalids XX . ( Double ) Nutritions Stout XXX.B. ( Treble ) Nutritious Stont ( Recommended for Invalids ) . Casks of 41 , 9 , 18 , 56 , and 54 Gallons . Home - browed GINGER BEER , GINGER 1/6 9/6 " 9/6 Pinte " Pints Half - pinta Pints " 19 " " STOUT , and LEMONADE , 1 / - per gallon , in 1 , 3 , and B - gallon jars or 6 - gallon osaks . Stone Ginger Beer , in Sorew - stoppered Bottles , 1 / - per dozen . THE ROSS GAZETTE - THURSDAY , OCTOBER 22 , 1914 . The Ross Gazette . THURSDAY , OCTOBER 2nd , 1914 NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS . BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT We do not hold ourselves responsible for all the opinions expressed by the able welter of these notes . Recruiting for the Hereford- shire Regiment . COL . SCOBIE'S APPEAL TO FARMERS . WHY WE SHOULD NOT FEEL TOO SECURE At a meeting of the Executive of the South Herefordshire Farmers Union , held The Fall of Antwerp . A THRILLING WEEK'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE NAVAL BRIGADE . WHAT LEADING SEAMAN A. CATER WENT THROUGH . Probably one of the most exciting and even thrilling week's experience of some of LLOYDS BANK LIMITED . Chairman R. V. VASSAR - SMITH . Deputy Chairman : J. W. BEAUMONT PEASE . Capital Subscribed Oapital paid up Reserve Fund Advances , & c . ( Sept. , 1914 ) Deposits , & c . do . - £ 31,304,200 5,008,672 3,600,000 58,706,054 112,686,446 THIS BANK HAS OVER 850 OFFICES IN ENGLAND AND WALES . Exceptional facilities are at the disposal of Officers In His Majesty's forces , both at home and In France , where LLOYDS BANK ( FRANCE ) LIMITED BANK ( FRA has an Office in Paris ( 26 , Avenue de l'Opera ) , and Agenoles at Biarritz , Bordeaux , Havre , & c . HEAD OFFICE : 71 , LOMBARD ST . , at the Imperial Hotel on Wednesday , Mr. our Ross 1oys now fighting for their King J. A. Thompson presiding , a letter was read and Country , is that which Leading Seaman from the National Union suggesting that A. Cater , who formerly lived with his farmers should encourage their men to en - parents at Tudorville , went through during The attitude of Surkey continues to com- It had been proposed to raise a battalion of list by promising to keep their places open . the short visit of the Naval Brigade to Ant- mand the attention of , if not to alarm , the farmers ' sons , but it was not thought that ting hold of the actual facts associated with werp a fortnight ago . With a view to get- British Government , especially in the mat- ter of the notorious Goeben and Breslau the War Office would favour the idea , as that memorable week , our representative had 1/6 sale . Last week the ships which fled from many farmers ' sons and labourers were in the pleasure and it was indeed a great H.M. light cruiser Gloucester were reported one force or ether , especially the Yeomanry pleasure - to lave quite a long conversation Col. M. J. G. Scobie had been asked to with Mr. Cater while he was at home on in the Black Sea , with their original com - attend the meeting and address the farmers furlough . In a very graphic , manner this plement of German officers , under a brand on the question of recruiting in the rural old Ross boy told the " tale " from begin- - new German admiral ; and although the news requires confirmation that an attack on the districts . He remarked that he wished to ning to end , and thinking it may prove in- Russian fieet is intended , it may be assumed constilt them as to the best means of further teresting reading , we give a summary of his that the Ottoman Government , neutral in ing their own national interests . The fact experience as follows : - name , has extremely elastic views on the that Lord Kitchener had asked for 1,000,000 Leading Seaman A. Cater said he was a Bass's and Worthington's Ale and Guinness's Stout un into any other neutral port , it is receiving help from the Colonies , all proved Brigade , and they were at the time the the roofs of the carriages ; others rode on of all the spare biscuits we had . We billet- Had these men besides Territorials , and that we were member of the 3rd Battalion Second Naval subject of a neutral's duty . clear that their crews would have been in the grave position in which England was . " call came to go abroad , in camp near the foot plates , both on the carriages and ed our prisoners at Braine Gendarmerie terned and themselves " held up " so long He wished to make a special appeal on be- Deal in Kent . Their Brigade consisted of on the engine , some even sat or laid down on Station . About 9 in the evening more pris- as the war lasts . A simple transfer by sale , half of the Reserve Battalion of the 1st Naval Volunteers ' Reserves , and some of the coal on the tender , while the engine it- oners arrived , under an escort of British and that a doubtful transaction , cannot Herefordshire Regiment . At present they Kitchener's Army , which was attached . We self was so packed that the driver had great cavalry . They were mostly Infantry , and avoid the consequences of surrender , and they had 800 odd men , but 200 of those left Dover on October 4th ( Sunday night ) , difficulty to drive the engine at all . There were tired right out . They had surrendered should they venture into the Mediterranean would be drafted off to the 1st Battalion and crossed over to Dunkirk , arriving there were some if our men , together with a few sooner than face a cavalry charge . On they will probably have to deal once more The Reserve Battalion stood , therefore , at early next morning . From Dunkirk we of the Belgium Army , on the foot plates of numbering them , we had 300 all told . The with the Anglo - French squadrons , about 600. Of the 400 men still required , went by train , travelling all the next night , the engine . I never saw such a thing in all sergeant sent for a stronger guard , and an Radnorshire ught to supply 100 and Here to Antwerp . Altogether there were two my life . We had to pack in anywhere . That officer and a company of men were sent fordshire about 300 . brigades of us , some 4,000 strong . On arriv- was a lively journey , and we had to travel from the Battalion , although I don't think ing at Antwerp , we were given a great re - like that all day , and until we came to a any of them seemed anxious to escape . Next ception by the huge crowds that had assem- station called Bruges , where we stopped the day ( the 13th ) we handed them over to the were very kind , and gave us anything we bled along the streets . The people , too , night . Here we were made most comfort- 7th Brigade , and continued the advance to- able , and very welcome by the inhabitants ; wards the Aisne . We had only got a wanted chocolates , cigarettes , sweets , bis- in fact , they did us real well , bringing us quarter - of - a - mile out of the town when we broken English some nice bread , tins of sardines , and var - were under shell fire , and had several wag- billeted cut in various Schoolrooms . ( own Bottling ) applied at moderate prices . Familiesand Private Customers supplied with High - class Wines and Spirits . ROSS & DISTRICT Sanitary Laundry Company ( LIMITED ) . Ladies Blouse - Robes and Lingerie , Gent.'s Tennis Suits , & c . , AND LACE CURTAINS A SPECIALITY . DENTISTRY . For Natural looking ARTIFICIAL TEETH and PAINLESS EXTRACTIONS VISIT The German sneers at the Allies who fight with the yellow races , the negroes , and the Indians comes well indeed from the people who enlist the South and East African na- tives to fight their battles . The armies of In- dia , of Japan , of Algeria , and Senegal are or- ganised and conducted on the same lines , and respect the same principles , as the older states of Europe ; they are as civilised as the Germans and Hungarians themselves . On the other hand , the white man in South Africa has refused the aid of all savage tribes hitherto . We scrupulously refrained from accepting the loyal offers even of the Basutos when at war with the Transvaal , and the Boers observed . the same restraint . Now , on the authority of the London Mis- sionary Society , we know that German East Africa has raised the blacks against the British , and a warfare even more horrible than that in Belgium is the result , The world has received an object lesson of the value of sea power since the war be-- gan which should not be lost also upon those captious armchair critics who seem to think that , because the Royal Navy has not demo- lished the German fleets wholesale , its uses are doubtful . The transport of British troops to France , of the Indian contingent to Marseilles , and now of the Canadians in locker . " RECRUITING STATISTICS . Some distrits had recruited better than others , and he wished to tell them whence the men already enlisted had been drawn . Some had recruited splendidly for Kitchen- cheered with a " Hip ,, hip , er's Army , int not for the local battalion , cuits - and the Belgians in Hurrah , " and ious other eatables . At Bruges we were gons smashed up , and horses down , and The various districts had sent the following wished us " Good Bye , " although somewhat numbers to the Herefordshire Regiment : in broken English as we passed along the Bredwardine Rural District Bromyard 10 Dore 40 Hereford Rural 123 Hereford City 300 Kington Rural -15 Kington Urban 21 Ledbury Rural 82 Ledbury Urban 26 Leominster Rural 13 Leominster Urban 15 Ross Rural 99 Ross Urban Eardisley Weobley and Staunton - on - Wy 33 Whitchurch 9 22 36 49 1018 Ruardean Radnorshire Addresess unknown Total It was extremely desirable that the local force should e put on its legs , as it were , We had not AT OSTEND . drivers killed and wounded . Our artillery pounded away in reply , and after the heavy 4.7 guns had been used for a while , we were On the following morning ( Saturday ) we able to go on again , the enemy having again made our way again to the station to take retired . We then advanced through a train for Ostend . When we arrived there , wood to the left of the road , and again we found the town all safe , good order pre- German shells whizzed about , some expldoing vailing . For our meal we had to go on in the wood , the sound , with the timber , board ship . On the Sunday morning we being almost deafening . The captain's horse again visited the town to get our breakfast , was killed : nd the man leading it wounded . but on our return we were placed on another We then came out in the open , and skir- ship which took us down to Dunkirk . We mished through ploughed fields . Most of left on the Sunday night to come to Dover , the shells fell either in front or behind us .. but on the way from Ostend to Dunkirk we We then came to the road again , the enemy's found that our boat had got stranded on a infantry having meanwhile retired under sand bank , and there we had to remain until cover of their guns . We halted in a column three o'clock in the afternoon of Monday , at the side of wood while the Engineers when we floated with the tide . At Dunkirk pulled down a corn barn . The Colonel told we were transhipped into cross - Channel us the wood was for bridge repairing . The steamers , and we were then run straight enemy was across the Aisne , and had de- across to Dover , reaching there at seven stroyed the bridge . It was then getting o'clock on Tuesday morning . On landing at dusk . It was decided to cross the river . Dover - which only the Sunday week before The British cavalry had to swim through the we had left for France we had to march river , and immediately charged the Uhlans , back to camp , a distance of about eight routing the enemy and capturing four miles . But on this tramp we were allowed machine guns , One arch of the bridge was camp just about dinner time . I myself was side holding good on the other bank . Long to take our time , and we managed to reach completely destroyed , the girder on the left not feeling at all fresh , for during that planks were laid across to the broken girder , memorable week I had not even had the and , led by the Colonel , we crossed over chance to shave or even have a wash . The man by man , eight paces apart , and one at Monmouth when on my way home . first wash I had after going to Antwerp was section at a time . The shells came over SENT HOME ON LEAVE . goi streets . We were marched straight through Antwerp to a situation some three miles out of the city , arriving there on Tuesday night , October 6th . We expected to go straight away in the trenches , but we did not get that order until the next morning . Billets were found for us at which to sleep , and I had to sleep in a stable with about 100 others , and we were told to keep as quiet as possible . We were there for about four hours , for on Wednesday morning we were called up , and had to muster in the streets about 2 o'clock . After assembling , we were marched straight away into the trenches , where the first thing we did was to have our breakfast , which consisted of biscuits and corn beef . Nearly all day we were digging shell trenches , so that we could take cover from the shells , which were going ' over us nearly all day . We could hear these shells coming , and we had to duck down in the end of the trenches to get out of sight . On the Wednesday evening we had to line the force to Plymouth , without the loss of a because Lord Kitchener had distinctly stat - trenches to repell any attack made by the single ship or nan - and in the last two cases ed that no foreign service unit of Territor- been in the trenches more than about ten German cavalry , and infantry . across seas where there are still warships of ials would be allowed out of the country un- the enemy at large - is surely the best testi - til its home service unit was fit to take its minutes , for it was practically night fall , when away to our left our rifles began to mony to the power of the fleet . And this place . That was only common sense , we all successfully accomplished without a must not leave England denuded . If the fire , and they were banging away for all they moment's relaxation of " the silent pres- farmers would help him to obtain a couple of tack , and the order came along the trenches , were worth . We began to take up the at- sure " which has made the quays of Ham- hundred recruits , they would be doing a dozens at a time and rifle shots , but the " All turn your rifles a quarter left , " which whole of the 8th Brigade got over . I burg and Bremen as empty of trade as those great service to their county and to their of Prussian Antwerp . Nor are we likely to could not say what cesualties we had - it was country . " Ieed not tell you , " Colonel was done , and we had to fire in a slanting We could see nothing of the be troubled much longer with the antics of Scobie proceeded , " the extrême gravity of direction . As soon as we arrived at camp we were a dash , and I was one of the lucky ones . now that the coal supply ships are being in such a situation . Everybody has got to all as black as could be . Still we blazed stores completed again . During the whole and occupied a position about a mile and a the Emden and other commerce destroyers , the present suation . England never was enemy all the time we were firing , for it was sent home on leave until we could get our We pushed en through the town of Vailly , hunted out and consigned to " Davy Jones's make sacrifices , both old and young . Sir away for all we were worth for about an week the anen did remarkably well , and , half up the Liver and near a sugar factory . John Cotterell , the Lord Lieutenant of the hour and a half , when everything seemed to under the circumstances , came out of such a The Engineers made good the bridge dur- Nothing else happened trying ordeal auch letter than was expected . ing the night . On the 14th the fighting county , has set a good example by rejoining go a dead ca'm , his own regiment . " The Colonel explained then , but occasionally the Antwerp guns There is one thing we were on the " ship is to deceive the enemy , the enemy must that it was absolutely necessary that the answered the firing of the German siege nearly the whole t'me , and it was a week I their best to destroy the bridge by shell fire be more gullible than the British reading Territorials should be used to release regu- guns . Except for the sentries on guard , the slept like a top , " with our blankets wrap- public , who have been fed up with Wolflar troops for the front by taking up garri- rest of us laid down in the trenches , and shall never forget in all my life . to such an extent that we be- son duty in various parts of the Dominions , ped round us . But when we woke in the lieve nothing in the way of news emanating and added that they were not the disping morning , we were stone cold , and it took us from Berlin or Vienna . We are also not a body people used to scoff at , but were really little bewildered by the contradictory re doing good work . We had got to win or go quite an hour to get warm . ports scattered broadcast through our press under , and therefore we must have the men . GERMANS SHELLING ANTWERP . - AN in London . The censors of Whitehall have Germany were not likely to give up , they put a stopper on the energies of war corre- were fighting for their prestige as a nation . On Thursday the shells from the German spondents , and the result is that , while we Everything was going on just as usual . guns came thicker than ever , and the enemy get much less false news than other conti- Why ? Because the Navy had done her duty appeared to i.ave got the range of Antwerp nental capitals , we are absolutely in the so well that they had lulled the people into very nicely ; but our trenches . were in be- dark as to the movements of our troops , and a feeling of false security . The farmers , tween the city and the guns . We expected their several and many achievements in the like everybody else , would have to make to get a shell put amongst us any minute , The staff in Whitehall has latterly sacrifices . We should have to do more than for they were dropping all round us . In the been recruited by military officers who date we set out to do if we wanted to keep the evening we nad ammunition and provisions Though Germany was Seryed out as we did not want to leave it be- from the pre - South African period , and ap- old country roing . pear to have an exaggerated idea of what is fighting in France , and had devastated Bel - hind . Every man had to carry two days ' Had it not been for the German heavy bivouacked for the night , but towards mid- expected of them at headquarters . Some of gium in the way they had , the real objec- provisions , for we were told that we might siege guns they never would have shifted us night a heavy rifle fire was pounded down on us , and bullets seemed to rain down like a hail storm off the hills . However , the them are obviously incapable of distinguish- tive was England . " Don't you make any not get the chance of any more . The shell- from the trenches . Their firing is very ing between military and what may be term- mistake about that . That is the final , " Col. ing of the city began to get quite hot , and deadly , and their shells do a tremendous Scobie exclaimed . It would be a couple of shells were falling thicker and thicker . We ed " family " intelligence amount of lamage . They fired them at the enemy fell back without doing much damage , years before we saw the end of the war . We had to line the trenches again , but we did rate of eight to ten a minute , and one shell suffering heavy losses themselves as must not be satisfied with the idea that Ger- not fire shot . Night had now fallen , and is quite enough to blow as many as 200 poured in a lestructive fire at close range . Two further and important Metropolitan many was going to be starved out . We had though still in the trenches , we could see chaps up in the trenches at the same time round my feet , and I was wounded in the that something was going to happen . Shells provided the shells are properly ranged . police regulations have come into force dur- to rely upon the men of Great Britain . ing the current month . The first relates to Mr. Rees said he thought Col. Scobie were dropping within 100 yards of us , both These big guns were also placed some three left foot , the bullet piercing boot and foot . a more stringent system of " lights out " should be invited to address the farmers at after nightfall ; the second to the sale of in- their quarterly meeting , when they would toxicating liquors in pubs . , clubs , and re- have a much larger attendance . Mr. Murdoch said that without waiting other palaces of the West End thus faring for the quarterly meeting , Col. Scobie im- the same as the humblest beerhouses and pressed upon them the duty of enlisting all cafes of East end Central London . The ex- the young men they could get for the Here- tension of the rule to West End clubs , which fordshire Regiment and the Army Service are not drinking dens in disguise , is a Corps . novelty , and in some cases bears hardly up- on members . For instance , some of them are D. 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Our artillery bombarded the enemy about how the brigades were equippet and The big guns of the enemy began to smash Asked if would like to say anything unmercifully , the 4.7's again chiming in . up the town of Vailly , setting it on fire . sent over to Antwerp , Leading Seaman Cater said : " We were not properly equip- However , all the inhabitants had gone to ped We should have been in khaki but were Braine , where they would be safe . Night not . They did serve us out with a khaki came on again , and during the hight the The men acquitted them- Germans sent , on an average , a shell every overcoat . quarter of an hour . On the 15th the enemy selves admirably , and through our going over They seemed to have chosen their to Antwerp we delayed the Germans some again tried to bombard us out of our posi- considerable time and thus allowed nearly all tion . the stores , etc. , to be removed before the position weeks in advance to have a strong place to etire on . We were told to hang enemy entered the city . on , as , owing to the enemy's strong posi- tion , we could not advance further . We IT WAS THE GERMAN BIG GUNS . we In this action a whole heap o shot fell or four miles away , and the light from the sheltered behind a corn stack the rest of bursting shells at night was a sight . The the night until daybreak , when I managed devastation they caused , too , was really ter to get to the sugar factory with difficulty , my foot feeling very painful . My boots rible . The forts at Antwerp were fine , and were cut from my feet and afterwards a field in giving à detailed description of how the forts and trenches were arranged together dressing applied . I was then helped by a with barbed wire and electrical entangle- comrade to the Vailly Field Hospital . The ments , Leading Seaman Cater said the Ger- enemy's shells fell all around the hospital on the 16th , and on the following day it was mans had to thank their big guns for getting decided to move all the patients over the us out and doing what they did . AN AEROPLANE INCIDENT . WANTED - MEN ! # I " For God's sake men get along the bottom of the trenches and get away out of it as quickly and as quietly as you can ! " This we did , but as soon as we left the trenches , we were exposed to the open fire river for safety . We had to be arried one We had to run for our man at a time by the orderlies , and every The Chairman said they all must réalise of the Germans . engaged all night in Fleet - street upon the that they were faced with the greatest crisis very lives under the cover of fruit and other Continuing his experiences Mr. Cater told few minutes we had to drop to the ground press ; others belong to the dramatic pro- this country had known . It became a duty , trees until we reached the main road . Why , how they had some fun on Wednesday , Oct. as a shell whizzed past . The distance over the river was about a mile . I reachede the fession , and are kept late at their work . a duty of self - preservation to make every the only glimpse I got of the Germans was when we retired , and that was just the mere 7th . " Of course , " he said , " there is a With regard to the latter , however , it looks effort possible to get the men to lick the forms of them in the distance , and under humorous side of life in battle , and on this ambulance safely , and arrived at Braine tem- On the as if it will soon be a case of turning night Germans . We had prided ourselves on our the bright lights of the bursting shells . It particular day one of our English aeroplanes porary hospital the same night . into day . Many theatres , in view of the re- voluntary military system , and did not want was a night , one I shall never forget . One was flying over us . As soon as ever the 19th I was sent down to Havre , the journey luctance of the public to use our darkened to have to say now that the voluntary fellow came along with me , we used to call Germans spotted it they at once tried to taking two days and nigile .. I reached the streets , have inverted the matinee system , tem was at fault . They had done fairly and are playing only two days a week in the in his district , but there were more young him Mahoney , and as we were leaving the shell it to fetch it down . But you should the river was about a mile . evening . Unfortunately for the success of men in Woolhope capable of serving , and he trenches , I said to him . " Look out , I expect have heard how our boys cheered each time and left on the 22nd on the S.S. Royal If you will have to run ! " It seemed strange , the shells missed it . Try as they might the David for Southampton , where a train was the scheme , two - thirds of the play - goers are had sent to ach an appeal to enlist . business men and women . they did not voluntarily , it would become but I had hardly got the words out of my German attack on the aeroplane failed , and waiting , and I reached the Eastern General the duty of the nation to force men to join . mouth when I saw the chap regularly spin we cheered iustily as it flew away in saftey , Hospital , Cambridge , the same night . and to think that the Germans had wasted was granted sick leave on the 8th inst . , and am now at home . I consider myself very He hoped , however , that compulsion would round two or three times . He said , " I am It is well indeed for Sir Edward Grey and never be ecessary . As employers they struck . " He put his hand up to his face , such a lot of ammunition for nothing . As for the men who were interned in Hol- lucky . My leave expires on the 25th , and Mr. Winston Churchill that hard words would have to make sacrifices , and he urged and although dazed for about a minute he break no bones . Otherwise the animadver- every brother farmer to do all he could to came on . We afterwards found that he had land , said Mr. Cater , they were taken over if I am considered fit , I hope I may be as been grazed on the side of the cheek by a the frontier oy a guide and that was how lucky again . " sions against them in Austria and Germany get recruits . He had a stepson holding an would have a serious effect . Amongst the official position at Keil , who for the last ten bit of bursting shrapnell . It just marked they got there . We were very near to the more or less accurate items of news from years had urged him to support compulsory his face , but it loosened two or three teeth Dutch frontier , but these men were behind Vienna comes the intelligence that " Grey military service . He had said over and over in his lower jaw . He escaped all right after us . All this liappened in the short space of a and Churchill are cursed by all civilised again he was fully convinced that Germany that . When we were told to get out of it as The Germans did all their chief humanity . " If " civilised humanity " meant sooner or later to fight , and he knew quickly as we could , we did not know how far week . means the apostles of Teutonic culture , our they would lave to attack France before we had got to go . Half the city of Antwerp shelling at night time when nothing could statesmen have every cause to be glad to they could attack England , but England was in flames , and it was a sight . In order be seen of them , not ever their infantry cavalry . As for Ostend the Germans were hear it . They certainly do not stand in need was the nation they meant to subdue . They to escape we had to make a dash . able to march in there without any oppo- of encomiums from the destroyers of Louvain had been false to England for years , and THROUGH BLAZING PETROLEUM sition , for here was nothing there to stop and Rheins . Mr. Churchill is further de- looked upon England as a nation that was them . nounced as a " mischevous adventurer " in always trying to thwart their schemes for Two at a time . The poor refugees had to Berlin , but we veature to hope he will sur- extending their territory . His own son had do the same . We had to go for all we were GERMAN DISLIKE OF COLD STEEL . vive the shock of learning this . But Sir joined the army , and had he ( the speaker ) worth . That was the only way we had to I am quite ready to have another " go Edward Grey has the lion's share of the at- been young enough he would have joined escape . We also had to cross a pontoon at the Germans . if our fellows can only get tentions of the caricaturists on the post- long ago . bridge , and rhe Belgium army were with us . at the " bounders " in the open and show cards both in Germany and Austria , and Mr. H. Weston expressed the opinion that " Oh , " said Leading Seaman Cater , " It the Germans a little cold steel they will these are reported to be of audacious coarse- the young men in the towns were not re- was indeed a sorry and heart - breaking sight turn and run for all they are worth , for they ness and brutality . We are not making war sponding as they ought to do . Their work to see the poor women and children rushing don't like cold steel at any price . We came with pencils and colour boxes on this side of behind the counters could be done by women , along the same way as we were going . They across several ots of French soldiers during but the agricultural work could not be done were hurrying as fast as they could go with by women . what belongings they could carry . Some of our travels . We started from Dover on the one Sunday , and we were actually on the Mr. E. C. Edwards also expressed the them had dogs harnessed to trucks to help ships to come back to Dover on the next . The " instruction " recently issued by the view that farmers , as a class , were being them along , sides which some of our fel- We are deeply indebted to Leading Seaman Home Office relative to the spies under ob- asked to do more than the townspeople . He lows helped them all they could . By this Cater , who returned to camp on Tuesday , for servation and under lock and key does not had persuaded every young man in his em- time many parts of the city of Antwerp an account of his interesting experiences . appear to have carried conviction to the ploy , of suitable age , to join the army . were all ablaze , and our stores where our heart of many people who are pondering the Col. Scobie said he would be willing to ad- clothing was , were reported to be on fire . fate of Antwerp and Maubeuge . In the case dress any meetings which the farmers might All our kit hags were there , and about 30 of both the Belgian and the French fortified hold . or 40 bags of mails were destroyed before cities it is stated , and in the case of Mau- He was heartily thanked for his attend- we had time to get them . After we landed beuge was stated two years ago in the Paris anee . across the other side of the pontoon bridge newspaper " Le Matin , " that platforms and we had to trudge or . It was the intention other conveniences " for heavy ordnance that we should go to a place called St. the Channel . FIELDS . had been surreptitiously prepared against Horton's BENEDICT PILLS Nicholas to catch a train there ; but as we " the day " for the enemy's use . It would be well , therefore , to ascertain whether any Free to Ladies . WHAT A LYDBROOK MAN HAD TO UNDERGO . " 1 . WOUNDED IN THE AISNE BATTLE . Another interesting account of the Battle were tramping along the road , we were in- of the Aisne has been told during the past formed that a German patrol was there . Of week by a Lydbrook man , Pte . Walter E. course that made us alter our course , and Hancocks , of Warrall Hill , Lydbrook , who On , on , ye sons of Briton , To uphold England's name ; Let not this generation Be looked back on with shame . You country now is calling , For able - bodied men ; So just be up and doing , Our homes and hearths defend . For if we have conscription , You'll have no chance to lurk ; You're comrades now are fighting , So when duty calls don't shirk . The French have lost great numbers , So Britons do your best ; For the Germans we're fighting Are cruel atrocious pests . They have burnt the homes of thousands , And slain the innocent ; Can we who love our country , Look on and be content . Oh , rol we're off to - morrow , To join the fighting lines ; To fight until we conquer , The Germans and their crimes . Then peace will reign , in Europe ; " Britons will shout for joy ; Nations will be united , With the Kaiser out of employ . A. C. , Ross . such unfriendly action has been taken by In a few days correct all irregularities and gentle Germans in our midst during the remove all obstructions ; also oure Anemis , and we made for the station at St. Giles . We was attached to the Middlesex Regiment , many years in which they have done us the cause no injury to the married or single are tramped all night , covering some 32 miles , but who got wounded in the Battle of the honour to accept British hospitality . There avaluable . From most chemists , or by post , landing at St. Giles at 7 o'clock in the morn- Aisne . He says : are plenty of villas with gardens on the ader cover , 1 or 2/9 , from Horton & Co. ing . There were several trains there , but " The 4th Middlesex Regiment reached The Ross Gazette , Ltd. , heights of happy Hampstead , for example , Ohemista ( Chief Dispenser from the late these were all packed with refugees . Braine on the evening of the 12th Septem- where guns would certainly be mounted by Birmingham Lying - in Hospital ) , Dept. 10 , Auton an invading army , were it ever to get within striking distance of the city which drew from Blucher a century since the historical " Was fur plunder " Manor , Birmingham . Bold over 50 years . All Sadies should send penny stamp for a free sampla of Pills , also Improved Banitary Towel , and b teresting booklet post free . A LIVELY TRAIN RIDE . ber . I was detailed off with eleven other men and a sergeant to guard sixty German There was Lo room in the train for our prisoners . The German Sergeant could fellows , so our men , together with a number speak a little English . All of them seemed of the Belgium Army , jumped on the top of both hungry and thirsty . We soon got rid STATIONERS , BOOKSELLERS , PRINTERS , PUBLISHERS , ACCOUNT BOOK MAKERS , & o . HIGH STREET . ROSS . |