Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/277/1 - 1926-1939 - Part 7

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First World War, 1914–18
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8.XL.35 Herr General von Tiechowitz, Friedenan Kirchstr,26-27 Sohr Geshrter Herr von Tieschowitzl Ich versuchte vor einigen Tagen Sie telefonisch 2n erreichen, was mir leider nicht gelang, Vielleicht ist es aber such besser, die Angelegenheit, die ich Ihnen vorzutragen habe, auf schriftlichem Wege sn erledigen. Uns ist Kurzlich der anliegende Brief mit der Bitte um Beantwortung der darin enthaltenen Fragen Ubergeben worden. Da der Briefschreiber als Eweck seiner Arbeit ein besseres Ver- etchen wischen Australien and Dentschland angist und die Bes- serung unseres Verkaltnisses zum Ausland nur arvunscht sein kann, habe ich Keine Bedenken getragen, su versuchen, der erwahnten Bitte in entsprechen. Ich habe mich zunkchst an Herrn General Wetzell gewandt, der mir den Rat gab, mich wegen der in dem an- llegenden Brief erwahnten PersUnlichkeit eines Generals von Roon an Herrn Oberst von Rauch 2u wenden. Beiden Herren war von einem General von Roon, der sich im deutschen Hauptquartier betktigt haben soll, nichts bekannt, Ich mechte nun nicht annehmen, dab as sich bei dem angefugten Zoitungsartikel um eine frei erfundene Mydtifikation handelt, sondern cher, das der Name des betreffenden Offiziers, der das Interview gegeben hat, auf dem wege von hier nach Australien eine Entstellung erfahren hat. Um der Sache auf den Grund 2u gehen, gab mir Herr von Rauch den Rat, mich an Sie au wenden, da Sle vielleicht in der Lage wareh, unmittelbar Aus- kunft 2u geben oder, wenn es Ihnen nicht an viel Mhe macht, im Reichsarchiy die notigen Feststellungen an treffen, Es wurds sich um die Beantwortung folgender Fragen handeln; Ex 1. Hat es im Kriege Uberhaupt einen General von Roon ge- eeben oder sonst einen Offizier dieses Namens in prominenter Stellunge
2 2. Lebt der betreffends Offizier heute noch und evtlowe, sodaB man sich direkt an Ihn wenden ksnnte 7 3. Sollte der ganzen Angelegenheit eine Namensverwechslung 2ugrunde Liegen, welches ksnnte der richtige Nanme des Offizieres sein 7 4. Ist Ihnen vielleicht Irgendetwas bekannt, was die tiber die Australier and Neuseeltnder behaupteten Tatsachen recht- Fertigen wurde 7 5. Gibt es cine Stelle, die darliber nthere Auskunft geben Kennte ? 5. Ware es nsglich, cinen Offizier bekannten Namens anzuge- beh, der im Kriege Australlenn oder Neuseelundern gegegnliberge- standen hat 7 Daf schon der Name dar’anxacs’ unseren Soldaten Furcht und Schrecken efzejagt haben sollte, scheint mir etwas stark aufgetragen. Eidine gefkllige Aushunft und die damit verbundene Mihe- walhung wurden Sie mich zu besonderem Danke verprlichten. Mit deutschem Grub bin ich Thr sehr ergebener
A0 12 January 1936. 4 M dear PErbs. i Just a note to send you my best thanks for ar trouble in checking for me that very brazen fake of Interview with the supposed ven Roon. an mest interested to hear o 50 2o0t ork, and hope to drey you a longer letter during Lew weeks whi 18 I am on holidays. Fours ever, Captain J.T.V. Herbertson, O.Be, s
FL.AIS) 5789. 8 May 1930. The Editer, smith's weekly- Sudnen. Dear Sir. in a recent article in saith's weekly, increply to state ments in recent war books, Sir John Monash would appear - I feel sure, unintentionally - to assume an attitude that cannot really express his feelings towards these British offiears who served in the A. I.F. The statement that General Maclagan was one of the few imported officers that we really liked seems to dismies under this contemptuous refer- ence all the debt ws owe to them. (The article says important, but the context and later reference snow that this is a misprint for imported.) such a generalisation coming from one in so high a position may be assumed abroad to represent the opinion of the whole RoLoFey and it seems so unfair to those - not of our country - who fought and laid down their lives with us, that 1 feel certain Sir John take an early opportunity of strongly correcting the impression. I am not so much thinking of the higher conmanders - although it would be absurd and untrue to say that we, as a whole, never really llked Generals Mirdweod, Walkar, Sayth, H. V. Cox, Royston, or Lesslie, 1 am thinking of the subordinates who, though they were not australians, fought and died as members of Australian battalions and brigades, and to whom we owe an unforgettable debt. 1 think of Glasfurd of the 12th Brigade, whose magnificent work along the firing lins at the Landing will never be recorded, simply because he was too modest to speak of it of Colonel Creshaw of the 53rd, of whom Father Kennedy (not his co- relisionist, but a fine and brave sustralian) says that he wasthe bravest soldier, the most God-fearing Christian, and the most perfect gentleman I have ever known; of Eajor saker of the 5th Battalion at Anzac, of whom every suatralian within range spoke with affection and admiration for days after his death on April 26thy of Major Higgon of the 32nd, killed leading the left flank at Fromelleag of Lieutenant- Colonel Gibbs on Corps Headquarters, brilllant, callant, and beloved by everyone that knew him, killed with us at Ypres. Did we on the whole serve better, die better - or were we better leved - than thesef Could we have done more for Australia than they? Among those who survive, one thinks of Major Clogatoun (of eysglass fame), and of Lieutenant- Colonel A.M. Ross, of whom a Victerian diggar and officer wrotes Many F. today still fael his influence and copy him as officers in the A.1 mich as they can. To hear him give a lecture was an educationccccccHe was the most able instructor Ld ever seen, and I've heard others say the same. one does not agree with the principle of enploying (except on exchange) British officers in an Australian force when ence it can do without them but that is a different matter, surely, from saying that we did not like the men who served with us. In some instances it was true, but in a very large proportion the real truth was that, when we got to know them and they us, the liking and admration were atrong, sincere, and mitual. then - in accordance with a perfectly sound principle supported largely by General Dodds - many of these officess had to leave the A. 1.Fe, many Australians, though entirely in accord with And principle, felt their departure keenly. Taken by and large they were a magnificant contingent, to which the A.I.T. owed a great debt; and to dismiss their sacrifice and service - which were certainy unsurpassed - with the remark that we didn't like them is untrue and surely not the real wish of their comrades in the A.l.F., or (one believes) of its great comandar. I an, Yours etc.,
ERCE Ad MIEAl WIEsl SCHE NUNUH HAM Not Sales Por len or souor sm 3. The 1 SAEOO Mic Caardian MoSPITAL tC O Vol. XIl. No. 9 (Copyri Aymmn M. P. BPANON Saturday, April 12, 1930 BRANOV DAMNABLE LIES! Says Sirj John Monash WRITERS OF VILE, WAR BOOKS SLASHED BY ARMY CHIEF ME Catchpenny Scribblers Brand A.L.F. as o Slack, Boastful, and Lecherous MR. SCULLIN buyS a tin hat. Not much GREATEST SHOCK TROOPSINWORLD in that. WILLIE SMITH oues MeCon By General Str John Manash, for Smith’s Weekly. achy for alleged assault Lindrum ought to charge him with toltering. MR ARTHUR PUGH, BIHSh SREAK the dience of dollian Ue, attcers and men of the AlF. for a steel trades secretary, favor very good reason I have never been a disdple of the carrying on of plece work, Others Pugh Pust Crlumphs; in this 20th century no Caesar has the right to artsa with his the Mea procension of slaves wan in bottle and parlands strewn before the paths ENTHUSIASTS Cam that Wi of the actors, except that he may be the means of giving food, or work or much cheaper to keep s gold help to the legtonaries who served under him. Ash than a dog. But much Apart from my own book, which told of our own part semtenidally, I have harder to make I attack a bur not arrogated to myself the right to speak of the triumphs my Australian Glar. Arms Corps in France wery or of their trials, or their sufferings, or their joye. SUGGESTED that annecessary But today, anddenin has developed a peculiar chain of drcumstances. In conversation be ent out. Germany, in Brutain, in France, have sprung up so called warwrtters whose Espectally How 4 K for. wan? paramount aim seems to have been the blackening of the deeds of men, and of their officers in the armies of their respective nations. I de not mind, that an exprivate of 4 MANS shirt was s clue to recent robberles, and thereby 5 the German army should cast a stigma on a rinal regiment. I de not object to a French bangs a tall ledonary eaying that the African artillery were descended from backelors. A CLEROYMAN MyS there Fer in each case representatives of either corpe are able entirely to look after their I am doing thls edldy for no decent tectotal drink own interests. But I have the atmost contempt for the man, American, British or South the AAFr The publican does his best to Arican, who speaks of the Austrellan troope in the may war books have painted them. provide It when a whisky is or AAF Smks Veatty And because of the disgraceful references made about the officers and men of my dered. tAmD ny corpe by such gentlemen as Ex. Prtvate Nr; because of the atter lack of understanding DR PURDY EyS Wine Will a and perception shown by many of these past war descriptions of We among war veterans, stop stomachache, (newe 1234 I have dodded, almost against my will, to tell a more intimate stery of the AlF. Hem). He should have a pard, sood Mea Mn in the foretront as men/soldiers of certain other, of this tasuase was conventiona 10 100 erstood bet ban Caton He played like in h LCmphas Al Airty-mindedne AUO te Autal tocomon Midion M MHIE DL CMMAIREd ad Tout Fashien, the Fashton of The Australlen CADO WR 4.1 on the then Ihere as vallence to repeat deen The DIHEE AA A T M whet there cheap wrtters have More. In nenerous, Chivalrous and brave H at of the ALF. Taetr bart Nom To0 mon ot vi As horred M an was s man ever of independent pe Waw have bees merely comper t0 whom sonalliy. He reconstsed. thous been the dandor and ach abte with the German part of that absolute tear me of the Dlare was aoce Mads b An VMllO ary where perha the old days that the Australtan dividual effo r t ould heve been truilless look no arteners Alled s peor sae and a poades ls to L a MI EM NN TheO Ges me & fram tie Merest TO call the Ansralias witte Barhartan as Ald. N I rem ber arisht ExPrrats N t to a lnd in the rrened and and dam Hte in the werid - To call h sedas dd sever artera to to utter another disgrat (A calumny. Tecall him slact rude and Dombartie and ter tand toagain ibsolutely onedrrant And to think that Enslish wo have called bim these things wi the Germns on every band TALKIE Verston of Sherloct (inott MMrisl conmental dartes Holmeat The neatest soll war bistories as spplted to conunarum. Irtond, C. E. W. Bean, pra (as mexarable but human for. mal VISITOR says that Anstrallan the unhappier than I can ay Mortion ard t prone to be as I hane I toutt on Tewars my men of the ALF led like sheen A WEwel stell ofcer TrTea wnt Nent Net Tmon dins rngs the st MIIllthrousho answering to Wiss S certoa MAD WIIH DHRE Probab there was methe in the Madness MANE. prisoners write sood poetry, says wards, Gaol bara TIERALDT -Money t Ht That happens when the Treasurer takes too much BEAUTHTL AH Charged With brand Pretty crook MEDICAL Rerew asts wha are the salfent features o Ms Ase. Ar and So Cot. TARLOR dalms that ever well-dressed man should have ar least four dosen shirta I all were put on one horse ! would make a Hutter. NOW winter to here there ough my nat to be come enther colds cerrante of the FYFEDERAL ChISI In gets windfall from Joh Mn. John Brown's body le amouiding in the grave, but t coll soes marchins on AAF Ina
SathsEteeky S LIVING DEATH AFTER VEARS OF TORTURE:: -: REPRIEVED FROM DR. ARTHUR POURS MILK NTO GERMANDRUGGNES WOMAN NG OF MONOPOLY NEW. LEATE OF LIFE Distributing Co's May Swallow Lot Cured in Six Weeks for 85 CAY GHOSTS SE THAT HAS MERGERS OF BIG MILK BOSSES 1 remember OF N.S.W. EXPERTS our talke of Larry Foley reney may be surprised to learn, DuRE Ermr And Mit Camnn aithe Bhoaid Wich what a FitEdmnmono wnttnt aronte overed mes the Havin Cattnet will make to the NAW. MIL beas from which thomand of Goddard, Sla soad Oin, Jackson Dr. Richard Arthur, Mintstor A 2. rent b trying to oteM uch 5. and the others of that golden Dominant in the Cambns Will be Ih- MIIL Moanchs of the age of Rct. Recerte, Cston Cind Rghting. Peor mator oral Macart a to d Peter Jackson's ked te other Dr. Arther mane earliest ambt Ts Ondew Adstant Miniate M An M S tion was to be MlOW Mierens in te r & Morning Hernir on Aord 1h a Christy Min- A W ared. When 1 was with Tom orking ar M ANOR Rainsterds A SS 20 Co Operattve Mn Minstrels, a ior abvorbad tho Fn Tmes Co. There t no A the Academy of he three powerful interests Music (after. in these ar SISISNI wards the Al- Maan hambre), Peter M was a hall fel- voner and CMMArT Mat. Wil M low, well met TW a it te comone wilh all of a 0 Ficcs Mi He. to Hcense day MSSNSN Me of Mllt in OvAT a d to A MOLDNSINA To wit h t ce a t) it M to NA. DASION think I can a MA Mar ta se Mr Forn ee aspeinted by oor Mr Tartors BA ent vint to 6 TtS TS SS and Rose artor Fnd Micante Ends plant & Rower or two in the great Garden beyond t the akies, those MIX. DI. fittle, offeringe T. SS 223 may well become sundowers of 9 dorv Or Wills Lother 200 20.00 238 1 No to wdor HARRY-HOOPER, OLD- TIME- NIGGER M Fn 5 MINSTREL, RATTLES THEBONES 129.223 Mi n A M From Shadowy Twilight Come Old Names TTO IMNSON 1 M Mie. A ESM GLITTERING DAYS OF THEATRICAL-LIFE Firs day of my treatment and white they way the e cot ara My mamo nnee a datrymen may And that the MII Rector Ari T Ahair B a TEE OAA C A . 47 2.0 andent man of Board through the Goven 20.0 Tt Firs SM naminees wipes out all the arad wot 2 o TO distribators and all the beal dury- to wi MAIO mny and have the datrmen M.M well as the patiis completety at the TMittnes wis aute 1 13 & M SaleMen ho merey of the Marre. Coton Mas i 2.9 Mnone Mistisstia S S Elt oot a Aot is on and Amekeey Me-bors and they Mere GNES THEM. THE HE DIREGI Effects Man an. M Mn M SANSSON T. MaS 10 Mre A.LE. Calumniators Trounced ar W Dor SIR. JOHN MONASHS TRENCHANT CRITICISM 2. toan. CONTINLED FROM PAGRI Fer Me iS S CPbtE TnderSt. And the Ing reterence to 7 Or the vage- w that most of the Digger o bond apirk to which he se touch— dillering days of had lived with the Dissers ingly retern? idous factor for personal & Cheatrical 111 O. Cronsing which meant the elficiency] These English writers made have long passe Well, some Here at Lyall Ba And H Meant not one Htom of lass of a AMaO I am well conter nige in an army of men. a him tha RAMMON se writers of blood a Wving as 1 de in var stories to day have no quiet backwat Agsmats that I 2.0023 ton of this A.L.F. sirit and force. How can te of LHe's streat 02.0 Mo Jolnor There are me n TAON old fellow mur a CMCSON mers of the .2 and moe bold burted in Karo M. s could n any of my officers Cametery, and the iet right dow who failed to re now closed buri-(to the Australia turn s satute, al sround in Sydlmarrow) 10100 6er00 Tittboro ney Street. 25 FOF IWeRly WOn D PAMI years 1 bav. He was arivt cave, a OCA.I one leaded thet Wasd ans 0 Ma and I graves 11 ts . over Coroo m e tabor of love. C. BoCaN Wes our var preter I to soing Morning a barians were i was im- to church. I go to the greates MS WFC oabins som IC human army l a chur at aaband w ii Chowas the world. H the rum wa doe dop he had the late, if the ston Loat MEN was cold, the they wer White man and M an and boy at heart was LADY. Did I hear yos m the deep end A the great prince of and rightly. But M MAI. THN D Teay to bad the Not of a ownd io to 1 aad; bu what was the rood of that the other Hoke had a as our organisa- AO in and hnd is keep the ball seition deretoped all those things Ireaeabe one 20.200 taton truck when old Harry Set. Cliaan Ms, Cis M.IBrtnk Of lear ASE, And SIN were remedied, and the Digger T. M AA Mtt Rator There was nothing but a/aid the 1ob given him botter ane whon the Curtier was londend the Ccheer and a fow remarke that lfthan oven Marchal Foch could paid a vit MAMAn. Mis aid Aan CA ms f pracuntanate maar was braan,/100, had come of a specialy ate nave hoped. How ho did th1 Te eant Md ors ho 00r M an an Anguished backelor family. to that the dacknow that Ex. (wllI coll 1ater. MO An as troch. (Next week—The Army Corps STT A Id SM S S A. 1 (Private N makes such touch-(by General Monash) Chote, An Thio Ad Kis new ap to Mr. Forta
April 19, 1930 SAINORAKEON MERGERS -PENNY DREADEULP IN SYDNEY EVENING PAPERS How Sun’ and News’ Shareholders Have Lost E1,600,000 in a Vear THE PRICE OF MEGALOMANIA Bandits Grabbed Hallpenny Bullion Box But Were Caught and Dropped the Loot No other big Anandal stracture in Australls, in recent years has been humillated by a collapse comparable with that of Associated Newspapers Ltd. in Sydney This is the newspaper Merger, Pool, or Combine, which moved by progreasive steps: hase of the Telegraph Pictorial; (6) the merger of Sunr and Assoctated Newspapers Ltd; (c) the purchase of the Daily. Ehardian, Fecdmit by the Comtine so tormed Market prices have crashed, to the dismay of later bayers and the wrath of earlier holders; and the Penny Dreadfull histery of the six days from April 7 to April 12 ls in business management a classic of frensied hysteria Losses on the market, for Sun and Neme- Charchaldery, Mare amounted Mn A Vear tt te a/ Senday Memsr 10 M Worhebrrice Fror he dutable T Mtr A M JAMW EIAM N A.O And that is not all, because dur CDimmed that pertod Associated News rsr bought the Guardian TMMISMNCON aie. omonem 1 Mo Milnl o MS T Mt Sins an . SSON NSON Whatever price was paid, such a (property to at any rate worth 00 aore Mo; which K lose of E1 Mation of the t Maon ae the sude in values to a tolal of fne 21,800000. Sum LO0000 at to one ree Mtn MS S 56/02825,000 ro 1all 2 News 100000 at 000 S SSSSON wole 1 S Totat, both papers BAEAN IEMAS MCNOA 59 AcMRN On the strength of market valus t Hons af those As. ares for Agures approximately 5 equal to them) 3d the unr ex. 1 a Fan 1 3 y 0 Horer before pd was there 5 ender se t and s Te Ire ie 5 l W 8 Ca pw to a calemto io the Mitie Eendlders in in 50 on 15 sa cns to mnt ane a in on n a t OATEEENG OMOOEE W Ct A An of Cl S wre added the Daily and Sune tewo MI Prtto a 25 Cuardian to their lolnt proper holder T bAE 21 d count What root causes can b contine, found for this disappearance of 1 b0 coni market values_ especially in the 1 4 My Guardls Sum which seemed so Armly MhiS Preteren entrenched] the Mar in a sert CArc Tth this Cirtis CM Was a Ms 5 A to tate ned Re TON 5 randed a a 1. to te OrtCe MIS, TOE MSMATO. Aasd angans ins RIA H EETTER MIMKRON to4 M CA M Aoaniced AMies o. MancN C Mora. o of the Cam NL. PERPETUAL FORESTS LID. A MN News Holder The World's Largest Commercial Ferestry Co 20.0 ord Sunday Harbour Tourist Trip CCSE 3.088 10 BOr T Nat AMSABTETSGNDAY S Sn M D Ases Mrined t ns Aians From No 6 TETTY, CIRCULAR CUAY b any M 00 Jititte SSti MSN I CTNT Tho Rew Berow M, betos Mid Aarbor M M A. MO a IA CMlar C Aero Te e Beard 1. of Ttt F SIMM CCOrN Hoad Office: Kembla Bullding, Margard St. rect, Ordnes wso 10 ote Round the Harboar Trise-Tuesdays and Tharsdays D C nMNttt Ton Manan a o M, TA CMISIEN V. ANA EA. PE OTI-RI Lononno The Esection of a MeltRo F CARSENS NOTTL JhingN Mn, Fiain, M DS TA Te. TT TtT, Di t Ts Brtnt t Tameir WEY THHRIRS ID. Mahould Took. A a ad and Ftt-Fitin ad can C an no s maryto holders proper wen nar or WKFAINEN, VIL 50 Mn FAASSES KEEP FIT. Som the Healthy Happy throng—take TmrTS M M ralam aaynn MAYBE BLUES PSUNTLEP 26 Me WIS T 100 FI WTEE Conor POHR. CatE WTEFA AMo a Baa They stimulate the liver and keep you fit. Ar. M 278 277. 211, 6 1/ 17
April 19, 1930 BWeck Aabat JOHAOODO SS aseness at and to iert to nut dectolo to brutal, hopeless mob of Anstrallans Tace F and ME.-Arond ike to meet Er- BATTLE OFAMIENS aat pu a t n as d ot i not set The Feeding centrol deall with from 84 Joh Mone Connen of t s on lighting dispositi ntm That Dayfrom Dawn to ay that the Thedder to ecol Doo 100 or in e oher pund to the Brad A Empte on wmet ot home revelations from a wed commender, o Smtle Fetbr ane din Eod that sou suale D Ch. Dark was Australian ad Ht true only 9 to N ca. Todors Endalmens, The Auvattes tray Corm anfo Oister, who ough the banles, the work which we done Recdoming in sts aude St Joh Mon aow Ase abores for the Anscrelion oo a SAVING THE DIGGERS) same of the lestons of Rome, whose courage acsi the Porsim Lestes of Prence. TitttFiRictro lad Genord Monach to cours to Ands, and Ais Ach Brutsh &my cedition ondeovor No. II. Diviston, With Then came Br Hodguerer Sec. An enfor Tisto MN in the English Brtgedier Genord Coruc Tt Me A t crtl o bec a Shnhonach Litty, Ni How t Gros Doy a Anton on Augun a t apart from old from te potes of dow of Tay te Mata. Ja. IINK a o0 of MCrO Wintantry Ms or mane commend of the Ansrolton Gomer P knowa as Dirtstona Army Co eck r w Hindentos o 10 CCCESN MWOO had three briandes of ry to command, thre ales of En 1 CTIL Horse. trench mertars, and mi Ma Congenc of t addition huse and compact organisation to recng As a matter of fact, our corps! the control of the Aud was a most Encr complex or ad platoon Unit of cHons into & s n 1 sation, derilsh hard work (something like a great re But as to its ach way department under a Chi M Miile (Commissioner, a pulsing 2 hey knew that at of rast functions and dut Noers Hoated articulated like a hums antiringly with heart and arterl & stations and bilics a or with them, ralls ... The corps, ng strange oaths this vast unit of uni of or on motor ars, into the vold the Commanding of officer who comman artllery begns to /unlt, but a com abte to soll the in at Hmes(manding officers. thll Cne ed plans as I (had the honor to 1 11y. They ke Sometime ne I was not able. urvey troops, this Army WIIl be An AoF. Rad t Mn toll thes ich would Arprieed Milarious & te were tw em in any y hare embarran MinsE M O. W and Feeding would insect carth I know what rench deall with a ot or on our right no about the British would do on our left the week alle Chastl OiIS ed sary so1 abo way, as far no uch moves on their Han t MA icl where to 60 EONNCO real, human, and gallan] So we went on. Because we were from 11 person. done & Australlans, all manner of Bird with balloone in the Australlan Army Corps, from the War Office, birds who TeaN. the AA. and A.M.G. unfortu natety was not an Austraitan, Moulant hare begn afrea excess bring all man 11sbIfand was one of that officer were landed on me. Journalists, at unsers into troop omfortable casto! I took so much care (aches, Pliucans, How they dam. coves whose lock Holme ored for dinner at my not too plenti- to abolish in the A.LF. He was (an Board But H was all in the A a Brigadler General Carruthers Force a/of the English Army, and he Fording to the 1 found my Corps & was an extremely lary fellow enches Fer Gand in fact, he spent all his sparelless, and, CA cried to the time in writ- Mow the Med Carot I sct thet teof We (ing a book on Ocutre on Uhal lanted butters The Artillery 12½s0ll, which.! comfy pal No Dis O. Vo Louse Set ia to say the least, was not IT in accordance with the Austra Han Aghting spirtt. He was rather a fol te with my rough Australlans. A M a My chief of artillery was Brins Her General COKEN, a chap who nd one i 1000 one of IMtE O RAt M Ho a That iell the redon Easing on Licbancd Tie had son SARSOON O Siaes rrices Each General, I will my new to you Dir- NEXT WEEK-THE DIVISION adous force on the str -T REMEMBER Wen, & Mortancourt — became a Above Corps, h one rate General Head and then on to had wo MetN edadis ters, which would command up armies. But they did not co o corn the Anstralian Disser so much. WSt SI Corns was his piscon. We Mousht Chen, More orer that MISON NS MNMIMN IN MMNN new & to Commander of the Anstralian to which the Edeadyy ofthe Army Corpa I found myself a viz.; we had thought before, of our com tual governer ever Axed territory, Irades who were lying on Gallipoll of, course, was surrounded by gers that I never allocated by General Headguartern (I only they could have lived to have becn with as, as our own Corps, /Founger Staff Officers, but none of rre of t I had a certain frentage in miles to them represented Australlan types senisation f defend and from which to lranch /such ad with the 0/81 nat whic Ae aock Fad Bare Voc to W ON I had to control a certain dept T I IS a St of country to a railhend, as Mill And the result was shown in Masd. a Sie lary and Civll Governor. or E the battle of Amlens. Major AFOF CRCDI b an merase hostrabin onet General J. T. Hobbs (5th Div.) id not have dre neer, not knowing too much rang me that day. General about the wiles of the Continen Moan to DN Monash! he said, excltedly tals, 1 found myself administer ing justice to a Civil populs the trooms; and itovcande of German monon Hon, responsible to the Arm Ner i1 they had to mear a which Woul d Fring E aro coming back, but I can! Commander for crops droughts, and God knows what/ red iat or sa, or war nearer andIsee many of our wounded. We Mustranice must hare scored a great Nc rlse. No Red Tape Eenitor lad then tery Wich PiTling Posses. 1. a00. Wor 00/07 I was true. The Dissers had to AAC Mi Sanor waited their moment, with the penchology I had tried to teach o3 Sador them. Not one man was wast Sranes ed unnecessartly; we had gone Mcones coeded that of th J MiserSN seven milles forward, we had Foretrn Lesior captured 10000 prisoners. of France, whose and we had our stew up to the aptricuality was like anto that of the it sone over cas advanced position in good time. Crusaders without the pillage an That day from dawn to dark seven miles forward the herrom of the Middle Arca Fis was dustration Red man on carth, to. Lound mysell and I Grelmost plea Caltne

Berlin-Grunewald, 10.11.35.
Hohenzollerndamm 91.
Sehr geehrter Herr v. Freyberg!
Die in freur Preiben vom 8. dv. gefellten Fragen
darf ich wie folgt beantworten:
Zu 1 un. 2 Von der Familie v. Roon haben uur
jüngere Mitglieder am Kriege beilgenommen. Der
älteste von ihnen ist als Major gefallen. Ein General 
v. Roon hart gar nicht im Fade gestanden.
Zu 3, 4 und 5. Möglicherweise liegt eine Namerkwechslung
von. Vor dem anbei zurückfolgenden brief ist auffer
ficft, daB der vermeintliche General v. Roon den Kaiser
über die Heignisse informiert habe. Da ich, mit [[?]]
Unterbrechungen dush Frochfellunger, während des
gourgen Kriegel dem Groben [[?]] us altin,
lungsfch des Generealstabes angehört habe, bin ich über
die dortigen Personalverhaltnit und die Arbeitsverteilung
Genau im Bilde. Dem Kaiser hielt uur der Geneachtatt,

 

[[?]] [[?]].  [[?]] [[?]] über die [[Lorgu?]] Grim [[Fiure?]] [[un?]],
[[?]] [[?]] den [[?]] der Abtielung "[[?]] [[?]]"; [[?]]
[[????????]]
[[?]] v. Rauch die. So ich [[?]], den [[????]]
[[???????]]
[[????????]].
[[??]] möglig, [[?]] Roon und Rauch
- [[?]] und mit "R" [[?????]] 
[[?]] wir [[????]], [[?]] die [[?]]
[[?]] [[?????]]. [[?]]
[[??]], [[?]], [[?]] Rauch im [[?]]
[[?????]] möglig, [[????]]
[[?]] Nicolai - Herr, [[?????]] 26, Telefon H.6 6731-
[[?]], [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]], [[?]] [[?]]
[[?]], [[?]], [[?]] [[?]], [[?]]
[[?]].  [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]]  [[?]]
[[?]] [[?]].
Zu 6.  Einen Offizier bekannten Namens, der im Kriege
der Australien gegnübergest, [[?]] [[?]] mich anzugeben.
[[?]] [[?]] für [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]], [[?]] [[?]]
uber [[?]], [[?]] im [[R?]] zur [[?]].
Mit [[?]] [[?]]
Ihr sehr ergebener
W. Tieschowitz [[?]] [[a.d.]]

 

8.XI.35
Herrn
General von Tieschowitz,
Friedenau
Kirchstr.26-27
Sehr geehrter Herr von Tieschowitz!
Ich versuchte vor einigen Tagen Sie telefonisch zu
erreichen, was mir leider nicht gelang. Vielleicht ist es aber
auch besser, die Angelegenheit, die ich Ihnen vorzutragen habe,
auf schriftlichem Wege zu erledigen.
Uns ist kürzlich der anliegende Brief mit der Bitte
um Beantwortung der darin enthaltenen Fragen übergeben worden.
Da der Briefschreiber als Zweck seiner Arbeit ein besseres Verstehen 
zwischen Australien und Deutschland angibt und die Besserung 
unseres Verhältnisses zum Ausland nur erwünscht sein kann,
habe ich keine Bedenken getragen, zu versuchen, der erwähnten
Bitte zu entsprechen. Ich habe mich zunächst an Herrn General
Wetzell gewandt, der mir den Rat gab, mich wegen der in dem anliegenden 
Brief erwähnten Persönlichkeit eines Generals von Roon
an Herrn Oberst von Rauch zu wenden. Beiden Herren war von einem
General von Roon, der sich im deutschen Hauptquartier betätigt
haben soll, nichts bekannt. Ich möchte nun nicht annehmen, daß
es sich bei dem angefügten Zeitungsartikel um eine frei erfundene
Mystifikation handelt, sondern eher, daß der Name des betreffenden
Offiziers, der das Interview gegeben hat, auf dem wege von hier
nach Australien eine Entstellung erfahren hat. Um der Sache auf
den Grund zu gehen, gab mir Herr von Rauch den Rat, mich an Sie
zu wenden, da Sie vielleicht in der Lage wären, unmittelbar Auskunft 
zu geben oder, wenn es Ihnen nicht zu viel Mühe macht, im
Reichsarchiv die nötigen Feststellungen zu treffen. Es würde sich
um die Beantwortung folgender Fragen handeln; xx
1. Hat es im Kriege überhaupt einen General von Roon gegeben 
oder sonst einen Offizier dieses Namens in prominenter
Stellung? 

 

-2-
2. Lebt der betreffende Offizier heute noch und evtl.wo,
sodaß man sich direkt an ihn wenden könnte?
3. Sollte der ganzen Angelegenheit eine Namensverwechslung
zugrunde liegen, welches könnte der richtige Nahme des Offizieres
sein?
4. Ist Ihnen vielleicht irgendetwas bekannt, was die über
die Australier and Neuseeländer behaupteten Tatsachen rechtfertigen 
wurde?
5. Gibt es eine Stelle, die darüber nähere Auskunft geben
könnte?
6. Wäre es möglich, einen Offizier bekannten Namens anzugeben, 
der im Kriege Australienn oder Neuseeländern gegegnübergestanden 
hat? Daß schon der Name der"anzacs" unseren Soldaten
Furcht und Schrecken eingejagt haben sollte, scheint mir etwas
stark aufgetragen.
Für [[?]] eine gefällige Auskunft und die damit verbundene Mühewaliung 
würden Sie mich zu besonderem Danke verpflichten.
Mit deutschem Gruß
bin ich
Ihr sehr ergebener
[[TF?]]

 

12 January 1936.
My dear 'Erb,
Just a note to send you my best thanks for
your trouble in checking for me that very brazen fake of
the interview with the supposed von Roon.
I am most interested to hear of your present
work, and hope to drop you a longer letter during the next
few weeks while I am on holidays.
Yours ever,
Captain J.J.W. Herbertson, O.B.E., 

 

FL.4151
5789. 
8 May 1930.
The Editor,
"Smith's Weekly",
Sydney.
Dear Sir,
In a recent article in "Smith's Weekly", in reply to statements
in recent war books, Sir John Monash would appear - I feel sure,
unintentionally - to assume an attitude that cannot really express his
feelings towards these British officers who served in the A.I.F. The
statement that General MacLagan was "one of the few imported officers
that we really liked" seems to dismiss under this contemptuous reference
all the debt we owe to them. (The article says "important", but
the context and later reference show that this is a misprint for
"imported".) Such a generalisation coming from one in so high a
position may be assumed abroad to represent the opinion of the whole
A.I.F.; and it seems so unfair to those - not of our country - who
fought and laid down their lives with us, that I feel certain Sir John
will take an early opportunity of strongly correcting the impression.
I am not so much thinking of the higher commanders - although
it would be absurd and untrue to say that we, as a whole, never "really
liked" Generals Birdwood, Walker, Smyth, H.V. Cox, Royston, or Lesslie;
I am thinking of the subordinates who, though they were not Australians,
fought and died as members of Australian battalions and brigades, and
to whom we owe an unforgettable debt. I think of Glasfurd of the 12th
Brigade, whose magnificent work along the firing line at the Landing
will never be recorded, simply because he was too modest to speak of it;
of Colonel Croshaw of the 53rd, of whom Father Kennedy (not his co-religionist, but a fine and brave Australian) says that he was "the
bravest soldier, the most God-fearing Christian, and the most perfect
gentleman I have ever known"; of Major Saker of the 5th Battalion at
Anzac, of whom every Australian within range spoke with affection and
admiration for days after his death on April 26th; of Major Higgon of
the 32nd, killed leading the left flank at Fromelles; of Lieutenant-
Colonel Gibbs on Corps Headquarters, brilliant, gallant, and beloved by
everyone that knew him, killed with us at Ypres. Did we on the whole
serve better, die better - or were we better loved - than these? Could
we have done more for Australia than they? Among those who survive,
one thinks of Major Clogstoun (of eyeglass fame); and of Lieutenant-
Colonel A.M. Ross, of whom a Victorian digger and officer wrote: "Many
officers in the A.I.F. today still feel his influence and copy him as
much as they can. To hear him give a lecture was an education......He
was the most able instructor I'd ever seen, and I've heard others say
the same.
One does not agree with the principle of employing (except
on exchange) British officers in an Australian force when once it can
do without them; but that is a different matter, surely, from saying
that we did not like the men who served with us. In some instances it
was true, but in a very large proportion the real truth was that, when
we got to know them and they us, the liking and admiration were strong,
sincere, and mutual. When - in accordance with a perfectly sound
principle supported largely by General Dodds - many of these officers
had to leave the A.I.F., many Australians, though entirely in accord
with that principle, felt their departure keenly. Taken by and large
they were a magnificent contingent, to which the A.I.F. owed a great
debt; and to dismiss their sacrifice and service - which were certainly
unsurpassed - with the remark that we "didn't like them" is untrue and
surely not the real wish of their comrades in the A.l.F., or (one
believes) of its great commander.
I am, Yours etc.,

 

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