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 ase 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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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 justifes
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
 

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a great point of the use of these
cars - especially in the capture
of the Sugar Factory of Courcelette.
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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
caro - especial in the capture
of the Lagar Dactor of Counilitte.
As the fight has sove bas
begond our old lines The
Pozieres summel is no longer
a piost ocenl of the front
line - The Canadrans have
Captured Monguet & Gollern
I are behind Theipval & thispoal
has fallen to British - Monguet
Farm held then 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 B3t Cnadian Bn
who wa staying in the wend or
Hotel in London told me to bes
Bn (wh came out very coon after
we did) had lost 460 men from
shelling o without being in
any allack at all (sxe. the
afternath your 13th Bde's attack)
The actual dates of the British
& anadin advance I have put
down sa the first page of the deary
this volumedi
 

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Huhes; + Hughesf knows
it will help him - that 1s
to say, the friendship of Cook
Hugh
would be dangerous to conscription
but the opposition of Cook
will bran Hules many voled
as I know the clustialion, nothen
is surer than that
tI shd have
vote on conscription here wd
be 9/5 per cent in favour of it.
It means some relief to the men
here - & others doing their bit
I told Marcloch s. He ar ratin
doubtful. He had heard in England
from soldeers - tnralian soldiers - of a
certain undercurrent of feeting agst
it. The argument used was. We have
 

Barlys I crosned over to
Boulogue - a glosions sunng
silky day - & found Mardoch
on the boat, going over to stay
a faw days with Birdie
Fisher & Anderson, with Boxo
Baillen, had gone over the day
before to arrange about taking the
referendum on the Commonweal
conscription issue. All the
troops are to vole who are
over 21 & are elegible to be
electors in Hustialia
Hughes (so Martoch
tells me) is very anxious to
know how te vote will go
here. The habour Parly in
Anshale is hopelessly split
on it though how a societist I
a man who believes in
preference to trades aniovests
can pab it to his soul to oppose
conssription I cannot see
co argiy Hughes to
Joseph Cook
go farter than he does & so maken
which will help
trouble for him
 

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