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Temuka Leader, Issue 7662, 31 December 1914, Page 4

}h,v» 4 i >-'£[ ! ' '►'v > sj li, i |Vi' ■■ I ! • " m / „-‘.Oinp ■/Sr, 1 */ . couu ' ] i' -00 surifj'hjjl j ,-pon of AVilssi J f.owu author tUj story of the i'lj- Jews.” for<way many And general ! « hows howi Iff ! r L : invaluable % | ;• if were dr .fggccl up ■■jj? from Lorraine, aud from the lino of . Aisne; ns many first line troops as could be got together wore pushed forward, Mingled with them were the men., the men who had takf all the volunteers Lwho 'A li,! i Vie assembled! roung boys and Uj I !./ j v—all were formed into corps jy lu- 1 Tof which had never been seen (j i ,vi Ll\ ofliccrs gathered from f!M -I; iii . tl ay| , v terogt*noous mass, tinned jtl 'i Jinstnnccs with obsolete wea- , ™ l . jj; ‘- e Hung against the British jl u forces, which were acting )|j }'■ a to UunlurK, Calais, aud | %. rhe assault was made A£• Jut; luryf; in the history m | tore has noun nothing to com |9fi i it i; not open tuu onrusn pi vs at G'englus ivhan was com--1 B mry and utter recklessness. | wen a cnuracuirislic of iG.er- | in tins war that loss oi j Vs “no I lung. Their theory is Haul Sfi I >iug can be done without lIP 1 j‘, UiiA mtn are cheap, that f! 11 1 ■■ hard at wimtevur cost, as ■II. II i %goeu during the lighting on lil If I % and back to the Aiane, 1 vl l • in the closest lIU ,i \ \ dtltr to shoulder, into 1 and steel. TA 9 V J ,"’*V\\;is nnerel.v afore r i 'done among tin; H|\ and the sluices \untry guarding idea of "the IHSr •jiiiicultics facing the Germans by ui C ~i'itf description of the country they b— — nad to traverse. Jiight across It the dykes, rivers, and canals have served 1 natural fortifications behind which V the Allies could ho, with machine gnus T ready and the big guns in good posies nous behind. Between one canal and next. Ihe distance would be por- ■ a mile, there are practically no M¥i Arcs, and the canals and canalised •JnJi \_.uru too deep to be fordable. IJ.I ( if country can bo. Hooded as Wt ; ) j > resort, and, as was reported, *||| jj. night, some of it has been M Raided already, compelling the Gors to retreat. ; t' ht have been said that the '’wMl which the Germans embarkP toml ■' ”“ , m J ;iossi r^’ ne. \’ct to the I Vil the troops i™Br sucond liue ' ’TOw* . and i|t •* '

tainly that liiu lido has dolinilely turned in uivour ol Hie Allies ; to them the Uemum c<haus»iou means meviliiblc victory. And tide, t ma>, jierhaps, say a low words respecting tile glorious ucluc- ciiicuts ol tue Beljj'jan soulicrs. luu cru.Tji.st 0.deal Unit troops coulu )>e c.titoU upon to stiller, beaten baric 1 rum point to I pumt by ■ o r.cri'. iietmmg uuiii.-ers, then, country m tin; iinuas ot tuc devastated and wrec-cu witti a brutal malu'e uni ivaiied t>ui bv me ituus ol 0,..' v. ui. u;i ;r people savagely nmiircaUd and ori.eli into e.s'uv, Willi inoir ruiiivs d.ie.tmu-p-.i - - ■ irightiul losses, tile BeJgn.us yet preserve their souls iiijeojiipiera,ole, and lik'ir' glorious record is one of wlweU e.uy nation in the world might well be proud. In the lighting of Uie past w ewe they, have come unshaken through an oi> dcal n hit'll v.ollid Ji,lb; LlVit the IiIH'SL troops the world iuts ever s-.-en, and lhoy hii\e been Sjileudidly suceessm.. Uie Belgian soldier, alter all I,nut tie has gone through with his fortitude unshaken and hr- heart and soul uioh than ever Idled with the desire to avenge Ids couui r.v’s wrongs, is 10-day periiaps lac ’. cry best the Bon- i timmt of Burope possesses - i Jill. I'l-iL rem .i.c iiii-i .iiATi'Bis Bi-di. T'iie essence oi ue-s .o ...ay t'-ovem-ber i) is tuy \ romcadous cuccs to Uie Uuman advance. i.uut is tlie mum (actor wlnen uoairiaies the entire military stliiuUoii- the pat I in iront may be said, in a sense, to run irom tno Aorth Hea to .vtueriaud. In the narrow cr, but real seme, the actual * ‘l*l mi th

were able to Labe must have been an overwhelming surprise to the Herman commanders. The explanation was simple ; it is be found in I lie fact that we had been building three for Brazil. Brazil is a great country, with a great river a s its principal highway, and keeping order in .Brazil is largely e. luattoi of patrolling the river, -with its vast shallows. To me,el the peculiar needs of Brazil ,in} this respect we have , been building for that country three warships of an entirely new form. They. have, a Hat pontoon kind of hull, drawing very little water, they are strongly engined anti well armoured, j and t hey carry thy upper w orks oh H considerable gunboat. r l hey have a speed of -.eleven knots, quite as much its ts needed in ,r»Ver, watersi and. prac■■leully its fast as cavalry can gadop. j heir guns correspond to the ' cry best type ot howitzers usually brought into the held. These gunboats, which proved simply invaluable m checking the German an- j pance, were sent, tar up me i scr amt j up tin; canal, and they virtually performed tile UmeUuu ol trawlnug lor-picss.-s, which no i.icrmiui guns ham: ’ yet ijeeu able to ileal w,m occoose ’ .nev iravd so quicmye U Wrs urn tiouuitdly these new snips which aw yd I the siUiatiou cany in Lae week fori the Belgians, and the student ol war , iu !ho Uiuu'l* will have iu mom- j lots a deal Lo tluni\ auout. in many ways tncy perioOn Llio timciJon.s ot’!cavalry, owuijj; 'o Uivir apccU ’oi movement lim wuoU; | ;p y Ap-•/;,. ■ ; <J r p• or. :_i■ ( mG att" |