Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/59/1 - September 1916 - Part 11

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I left my window wide
open, after case turning out /
light, in case there were
anything to see - but nothing
happened - so I supposed it
ws a false alarm & tt they were
taking precautions against
a thing wh never came.
In / morning when Bazley
came in at about 6 o'clock
(we had to catch the 7.50 train so
I got him a room in / Hotel)
he told me that the Porter told
him there had bn a raid.
Two Zepps had bn brought
down, one near the _∧East Coast,
one near London; & Brixton
they Zepps had made a
mash of Brixton.
So it was true a raid! What
a miserable style of warfare
it is, after all, tt sends tired
little servant girls from / top of /

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reinforce
20.250 ready
16.000 other
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house to shelter in the 
basements - It is just the
German all over; pull down
the cities & / monuments &
the clouds & the heavens themselves
in ruin all to obtain one
molehill of military
advantage - catch all the
little fishes in your net
& fling them out gasping &
dying if there is any
chance tt amongst them
you may catch one
single sprat in khaki. It
goes to / root of the difference
really, tt German tenet,
that a military reason justifies
anything.
On Sept. 15, while we
were in England, the British
made another big advance &
first used the "Tanks," or heavy
armoured cars. The press made

113
They were described as
monsters crawling over any
sort of shell hole, lurching into
the fight, leaning up agst a
house, pushing it down & climbing
over the ruins - fairly eating trees,
& finally perching fair across the
enemys trench & hosing his strong
points from xxxx on top of / very
trench itself w their machine
guns. They first message made the men laugh,
so says even when they men were
wounded, so tt they cheered
them & followed them waving
their hats. Phillip Gibbs wrote
a wonderful despatch about them
- his best so far, I think -
He sd tt an aeroplane wh
went over Flers _∧ to see / situation reported: "There
is a' Tank 'crawling up the main
street & the British Army cheering
behind it."
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a great point of the use of these
cars - especially in the capture
of the Sugar Factory of Courcelette.
For the fight has gone far
beyond our old lines .The
Pozieres summit is no longer
a pivot & centre of the front
line - The Canadians have
captured Mouquet & Zollern
& are behind Thiepval & Thiepval 
has fallen to / British - Mouquet
Farm held them for sometime;
but on night of 16/17 September -
exactly a fortnight after our last
attack on it - they took it. An
officer of the 13th Canadian Bn
who ws staying in the Windsor
Hotel in London told me tt his
Bn (wh came out very soon after
we did) had lost 460 men from
shelling alone without being in
any attack at all (exc. the
aftermath of our 13^th Bde's attack).
The actual dates of the British
& Canadian advance I have put
down on the first page of this diary
(this volume of it).

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Hughes; & Hughes wired Murdoch tt he knows
it will help him - that is
to say, the friendship of Cook
would be dangerous to conscription Hughes
but the opposition of Cook
will bring Hughes many votes;
as I know the Australian, nothing
is surer than that.

B  I shd have sd tt
/ vote on conscription here wd
be 95 per cent in favour of it.
It means some relief to the men
here - & others doing their bit.
I told Murdoch so. He ws rather
doubtful. He had heard in England
from soldiers - Australian soldiers - of a
certain undercurrent of feeling agst
it. The argument used ws: "We have
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Bazley & I crossed over to
Boulogne - a glorious sunny
silky day - & found Murdoch
on the boat, going over to stay
a few days with Birdie;
Fisher & Anderson, with Box &
Baillieu, had gone over the day
before to arrange about taking the
referendum on the Commonwealth
conscription issue. All the
troops are to vote who are
over 21 & are eligible to be
electors in Australia.
Hughes (so Murdoch
tells me) is very anxious to
know how the vote will go
here. The Labour Party in
Australia is hopelessly split
on it though how a Socialist &
a man who believes in
preference to trades unionists
can put it to his soul to oppose
conscription I cannot see.
Joseph Cook is urging Hughes to
go further than he does & so making
trouble for him - which will help

Diary No. 59: This letter (herein) was loose in
the diary. Placed in envelope for
safe keeping and attached to
diary
AWM AA 2.3.78
IF NOT DELIVERED WITHIN 7 DAYS RETURN TO
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
P.O. BOX 345
CANBERRA CITY. A.C.T., 2601
117
Capt. H Booth
PICTORIAL WAR
REPRESENTATIONS.
ADMIRALTY AND WAR OFFICE
RESTRICTIONS.
The following announcement has been issued
by the Press Bureau:
The Admiralty and the War office have decided that
on and after 15th September all new pictorial representations
(other than official photographs), including
picture postcards and cigarette stiffeners which
illustrate subjects of a naval and military nature connected

with the present war, as also illustrations of
aircraft and aeronautical subjects, should be submitted
in duplicate to the Press Bureau before publication.
Publishers should print on each picture postcard
cigarette stiffener, or other pictorial reproduction
a naval or military nature connected with the present
war which has been passed for publication by the Pres
Bureau the words "Passed for publication by the
Press Bureau on ------- (date)."
Unless the above procedure is strictly observed pictorial
representations which illustrate naval and military
subjects, if exposed for sale, are liable to seizure
if considered by the competent naval or military
authorities to be susceptible of conveying information
of value to the enemy or to be in any way prejudicial
to the public safety or the defence of the realm, and
the persons concerned are l able to prosecution.
Pictorial material that has already been passed and
stamped by the Admiralty need not be submitted
again to the Press Bureau.
This announcement does not affect the despatch of
illustrations and photographs to neutral and enemy
countries, which remains subject to the notice issued
o the Press on the 7th August, 1916 (C. 2,338).
As regards matters already published, representations
of his Majesty's ships and transports will continue to
be prohibited.
This notice amends all for r notices on the subject
of pictorial matter as issued  the War Office .

117a
Brentwood Bank
Katies card & Souvenirs
My Souvenirs
Mr Fisher. Dr Norris' post.
My Photographer for [shorthand].
Paymaster - abt Col. Farr..
War Office: abt films
abt Passports
Bazley - Classify my photos.
Pick out ones for Gen Hobbs
Monks, O'Gorman, Ramsay,
Peter Schuler
Smart ask abt Gullett L.H.
Croziers [shorthand]
Photos & films
War Office. Passports. J Buchan
Janet Burne. Cocky. Lawrence Aitken.
See Mrs Ross.. Girls theatre
Aunt Katie Herbertsons Mac
117b

Cooks.
Cassells. {9 alex. ✓ New Books  List.
{Lists of books from G.
Duckworth 3 Henrietta St.
Curtis B. (abt Cassells)
(Salisby S. Hely Wilson.
Peter)
Col. Anderson.
Car
Bazley.
1/11
Anzac Book  4.
4 for O'G. ✓
20th Bn. see B plate Nos
See if these have arrd?
1/11 ^how Regt.
Lt P. Anderson ✓
1/11 Lond Regt. E.E.F.
Hutchen have Otago Rifles ever
returned their copies
See Evans abt 53rd Div. & London Divn
Pay dept. Leo's P-book.
Anzac Book

117c
A6 missing !!!! on

(Bombt?
 S.bs.
Draft letter for Col. Ald.
abt Car.

Cassells

89 books to be deld
to A.I.F. HQrs here

Q
Alex. B

Zlel H          565
2                    199

54 Division  878

           1642 Shd be No sent
to Egypt before

1 A LH Bde 575 : will be sent forwards

Shd be sent to
Eg. now

38 Bks to be sent to NZ MR Bde

Fd Anzac Mtd Divn.
[*1950.  Ask Smart
abt freight -

Govt steamer?*]

177D

Capt Collins
49 Oakley Street (Chelsea Town Hall)
Tuesday 7.30

See lists of my records.

9.15 Bring Photo refce Book.
Instr. Bazley.

Tues. 10 a.m. Evans. Bring 
Pay Papers

11 am. Bailleau

Bring Car 
papers

? War Office abt films & photos

? Woollery Passports.

Evans. abt. morning lift w Col Farr.

Arrange to make comparison

53rd Div.

Delivy of books in Eqypt?

Pay

Cite

Abt 2500
in stock

Anzac Bk Cent. Ctee

Hotel Vict.
Cairo.

 117E
Cassells  Hutchens
Smart     Cl. & M.
Wright   Buchan [brotherly?]
? Aitken
Meg
Eileen
And Katie.

Mrs Young

City 1120
10.30 a.m. Thursday

117F
Exs. £1. paper etc at Amiens
3/- fare Amiens to Calais
3.6 }Cabs in Lond

2.6 } 

4/-  Porters

2/- Taxi

2/- Train

See YMCA centres abt
Westbrooks Book.
H.J.Cape esq

3 Henrietta St. Cov^t. Gdn.

Deceased officers 5 mens' kits Effects.

Hutchin Cab fare to Euston 3.0
Sept. 20 Return fare to Gl.
& Sleeping Berth £3.13.0

Edin & Glas 5.0

Porters 6

  "           6

Tips       1/-

6.0.04

117G
Eileen 2 Lond Gen Hosp.

Kings Rd
Chelsea

Capt Silver RN.
74 High Street,

Harrow.

Lloyd & Mason
Hutchen - Name of
NZ secondary

2 [shorthand]
Photo for Peter
Fisher abt Crozier's letter
Def. Dept

Clare & Mostley
before 1 pm.

117 H
Commonwealth Shipping Representative
C.S.R.
72 Victoria St
SW.

Anz. Bk {*Inform Evans*]

NISS
Anz Bk. AG list of nos.

Photo of Leo's grave.
Photo of Birdwood. Pozieres.

Write to Evans abt 575 } Bks

                                      38 } for Eg.

Books are being sent you by
them but still [shorthand] later.

3 articles - Can-Aust.
Pos Runners

The Diffy of distributn

117 I
 Mel. e.g 39 Manor H. Marylebone W

S. Plain

H. Eley. Wilson

Peter 22 AASC

J. Burne

Mr & Mrs Ross 61 Marlow Rd Kena W.

Cocky

J. Buchan

Lawrence *

Aitken
Girls' theatre

Herbertson's Mac

117 J

Birdwood

Bank

Souvenirs
Katie's Souvenir

Classify Photos
"Mac"
66 Lupus St.