The Irish Volunteer - Volume 2 - Number 58

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EDITED BY EOIN MAC NEILL. Vol. 2.

No. 58 (New Series).

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15th, 1916.

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IRELAND'S Increase of Annual Imperial Charge ~8,830,000. _ On January 4th MR. GINNELL aske_d the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will now state the estimated annual increase under each head of t'axation, with the total increase in the taxation of Ifeland under the Finance (No. 3) Bill of this Session, compared with the taxation of Ireland under those heads, and the total, in the last completeq pre-war financial year ? · · ' MR. McKENN.A.: The following figures (which must· be regarded as prov.isio~al oniy) will answer the hon . .

Member's question:ESTIMATED CONTRIBUTION OF IRELAN-D TO INLAND REVENUE. Estimated total yield m a " Full Year " (including normal increases and the Estimated total yield. increases under the Fiin last pre-war year · nance Act, 1914), the (1~13-14).

Finance Act, 1914 (Session 2), and the Finance (No. 3) Bill, 1915.

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Excess Mineral Rights Duty ... 'l'otal Inland Revenue

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£ 4,797,000 690,000 £5,487,000

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sterling per annum for every man, woman and child in Ireland, including . Lord l veagh and the most destitute and derelict orphan in the streets.

Saturday, January 15th, 1916. 'l'he British Premi'er';- nearly two years ago, broke his . treaty with M:r . Red:. mond and w~nt back on his pledge of Home Rule: embodied in his Hbme Rule Bill. Of course he did so with pain and sorrow ' and so on . witk equal · searching of his soul, he h~s obeyed the demands of the· whole ·re: actionary party in England and· has become a Conscriptionist. Mr. Balfour, his intimate. friend, has done likewise, and has given th·e reason with ·characteristic cynicism . The Government's Consc:ription proposals, we ·are told·, will really only affect a very small number of_ men.

It is a fl.eabite, not worth considering on grounds of principle or making a big stand over it. So Mr. Asquith and all the Whigs have swallowed militarism, introd-uced a revolutionary principle, and are going to force it through, just for the sake of this fleabite, and not at all because they belong to 'the privileged Oligarchy and are glad of the opportunity to get the democracy under military law.

Irish Unionists, -- no - less than Iri~h Will our Member& . of Parliament face Ho~e . Rulers, claim that the realisatfon of their political views is for the good these figures, or have they all ceased to of Ireland. ' The ordinary Unionist, if be representatives of Ireland and become you suggested to him that he took no Tepresentatives of the British Governresponsibility for the welfare of the ment in Ireland at £400 ' a year each? country but was content to be the blind Will Sir Edward Carson face them, will · follower of a faction, would deny the the Belfast '' Newsletter '' face them, charge angrily. The ordinary Home will the "Northern Whig" face them, Ruler of Mr. Redmond'_s following or of will the " Irish Times " face them, and Mr. O'Brien's, if you asked him was he discuss them honestly in the interests content to be a factionist saying Amen of their ·Irish readers? Mr. · Arthur to everything his leader said, right · or Samuels, K.C., is distressed because Irewrong, would tell you warmly that he / land has been dish~noured, because we was nothing of the kind. Now a test has have not received the honour of being come that will prove whether these men compelled into military service by the and their leaders and their organs in the Imperial P arliament. Mr. Samuels used to be greatly distressed abGut Irish Press are for Ireland or for a faction. finance.

Are we to suppose that, now • • Some months ago in .this paper I that the Empires have turned the world warned. my readers that Ireland was topsy-turvy, Mr. Samuels finds his prin~ being drawn into a most disastrous finan- ciple~ also turned upside down and finds * * cial_plight. I argued from the Imperial it an honour to be compelled to pay Nine Last summer I told you how I went to ta.xation figures and forecasts · published :Millions of increased taxation? Mr.John . a Volunteer meeting near Pomeroy, Co. under the heading "A Grave Warning," J. Horgan, of Cork; was a champion of Tyrone, how somebody got up a report by the London "Till).es." I calculated Ireland's financial interests in the days ' that the local Hibernians were going to from the forecast by a specialist in t4e before the Sharp Curve; so was Mr. E . A. create trouble, how District-Inspector "Times" that the Imperial scheme of Aston, of Dublin; so was Mr. M.A . Ennis, Banin-gton collected a . lar:ge force of war finance ~eant the imposition of at · of Wexford. The Irish " ·Daily Indepen- armed police and came to see the fun, least four millions sterling of increased dent" prided itself t ill recently on its how the meeting was successful, orderly annual taxation on Irela.n·d for a long vigilant care for Ireland's finan cial welfare and unanimous, how Hibernians -took a period, and I asked people to realise tha.t under the Home Rule proposals,. and never prominent part in it, and how it was fol- . any such permanent increase must be missed a chance to score off Mr. Red- lowed by a conference, which I attended, disastrous to Ireland, in~olving the ruin mond and Mr. Dillon. Messrs . Redmond in the local Hibernian hall (B. 0. E.). of her inqustria1 development, the cessa- and Dillon, for their part, told us that ·whoever it was that wanted and plotted tion of the remedial measures won by the all would be well if we only held our : mischief and failed to bring it off has sacrifices of her people in the past, a.n d tongues, voted confidence, trusted them succe_eded in 'another attem pt in the same the conti1rned depopulation and im- and Mr. Asquith and the British Demo- neighbourhood. A concert was held in a poverishment of the country. I asked cracy. Nine Millions additional taxation, schoolhouse near Carrickmore, in aid of the reader to believe that I was writing and all the spokesmen of our financial- a local Catholic charity. Some Irish pointedly and moderately and in po interests are fallen silent! What price Volunteers took part in the concert alarmist spirit, though the political Silence? arrangements . I should say that, since • * * heads and organs of parties were playing the Pomeroy meeting, I attended a meetThe Income Tax was imposed on Ire- ing ut Carrickmore, where again InspecMumm .

• • land by Gladstone. 'l'wo years ago it came tor Barrington and his forces were No one can deny, no one would have to nearly a million and n half. Now the gathered, at the public expense, to witventured to deny two years ago, that an Treasury expects nearly Five Millions of ness an orderly, peaceful, enthusiastic addition · o.f four milions to the- taxation Income Tux from Ireland . Two years and unanimous assembly in the public of Ireland would be ruinous to Ireland . ago the total Inland Revem\e from Ire- street. This was a seco:ad disappointThe most bigotted Unionist \ would not land was under 'l'hree Millions (Trea·s ury ment for Law and Order . Better luck have denied it . · Unionist or Home Ruler, estimate) ; now the Treasury expects next time. Before the Mullaghslin conif you had foretold to them that British nearly Seven Millions. In Customs and cert, the report of intended trouble was statemanship would succeed in manreuvr- Excise the Treasury expects to get about again circulated, and agajn General Barin.g or manipulating them into acquies- Four Millions extra from us. These are rington a.nd his forces were on the spot, cence in such a prospect of oppressive and " the Free Gifts of a Free People." and these guardia-ns of L aw and · Order calamitous taxation, they would have * had the satisfaction of witnessing the laughed in your face . . This week I preAs if this was not enough , Mr. T. W. actual performance about which the resent them with a carefully prepared ac- Russell announces, again in reply to Mr. port was circulated. An organised attack co1int;·not my own alarmist forebodings, Ginnell, that his Department proposes to was made, and the schoolho-qse was not the "grave warning" of the "Times" save £6,000, which will run the war for wrecked. The attacking party, having specialist, but an account drawn up by about two minutes, by starving for a year so far completed the programme drawn the Imperial Treasury and published by if not permanently the most necessary up for them, did not disperse until they the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The work of public expenditure-the training had very fittingly given three cheers for account is based on Treasury calculations of teachers .

He "could not state the police. and estimates, and may be considered as whether there was any British precedent * * * favourable to Ireland, as Treasury calcu- for the suspensio.n of these grants ."

In Tyrone, Nationalists and Unionists lations and estimates ha".e always been. There is._ Ireland is includ~c;l in the are almost equal in numbers, but this atIt shows ihat the expected perma_nent in- foreign policy of the British Govern- tack on Nationalists was not made by - crease of Irish . taxation is not Four ment, anehn time of war many financial Unionists. According to the Press reMillions but nearly Nine Millions . It is obligations to foreigners have to be sus- ports it was made by Hib'ernians. The an increase. of more than Two Pounds pended.

Press reports, however, have been care-

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Saturday, January 15th, 1916. fully prepared to create the impression that the Irish Volunteers and the Hibernians are two hostile factions in Tyrone.

That is not true . Many of the Hibernians in 'l'yrone are Irish Volunteers, and between the1 two associations there has never been any hostility, despite every secret endeavour to stir up bad blood among the Hibernians against the Volunteers. I see no satisfaction to be got from following up this mad and disgraceful episode . It would have been disgraceful between Nationalists and Unionists.

It is ten times more disgraceful,. because even the old foolish feud was not there to palliate it. To the Irish Volunteers of the district I say, make up your minds that you will not be excited over this thing, that you will forgive the authors of it because they are Irishmen and because you refuse to be their enemies-.

Hide away their disgrace if you can.

Show that you are men, with one cause and only one to fight for, and do not be drawn into any quarrel with any faction.

Don't pia.y the enemy's game. · Eorn MAc NEILL

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'l'he following extract with reference to the tactics of the German cavalry in the wooded districts of northern France eighteen months ago contains . a useful lesson for cyclists in Irel;rnd : "Especially in r ear-gua.rd work the absence · of mounted troops is likely to lead to infantry being intercepted by German machine-guns and smaU bodlies o,f mounted Uhlans, who hang on to a retiring force with great determination. 'rhese Uhla.ns are bold to excess and do a good deal of dismounted work ."

Evidently in a country with plenty of . roads an entei·prising cyclist officer could ' do much to demoralise retreating infantry in this way--either by direct pursuit, or by working around the flanks, or by both .

He is ~o much more mobile that infantry can never escape him. The hedges in enclosed country screen his cyclists just as well as the woods in Picardy screened the German horsemen. On one Volunteer field-day this method was successfully tried. A retiring infantry detachment was pursued by cyclists and compelled to fight. The infantry beat Q:ff the attack and inflicted heavy loss,but became' im· m-0bilisedi.

The result was that the infantry supporting the cyclists were enabled to come up and clinch the ma.tter.

In reading the accounts of the flight to Wexford after the storming of Enniscorthy and the subsequent retrea.t from Wexford to Duncannon in 1798, one can- · not help wondering what would have been the fate- of the English troops if the insurgents could dispose of a few score of cyclists to hang on: their rear and compel them to stand to be beaten.

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If you are of a hasty temper and quarrel with somebody, and in tlrn heat of the moment you throw a soda-water bottle at him you will proba.bly do him a serious mJury . If not, it speaks badly for your powers of throwing . The same will ha.p pen even if your adversary wears a military uniform, carries a modern rifle, and is backed up by high-class organisation and commissariat. If he comes within range your bottle will -put hini out of action.

'l'he point of this observation is that no weapon, given suitable conditions, is despicable. The oldest imaginable gun that can be made to shoot will kill a man if the bullet hits him in the right place. A well-directed stone or bottle will certainly put a man out of action. · "But shall we get ·a cha.nee to use them?" you ask.

Of course you will . Hand grenades are in constant use· in modern warfare, and you can throw a stone further. Of course a hand grenade does- more- damage, but still a stone does· damage, as ' much as ever it did. A Volunteer officer who had to hold a position would· be guilty of great negligence if, knowing his ammunition supply to be limited, he failed to collect heaps of stones in suitable positions . They would be used to great effect at close quarters . Despise nothing.

The Irish countryside is foll of things useful to the soldier. For instance, there is no la.ck of barbed wire which could be ~1sec1 for entanglements, and it. could be supplemented by .. great quantities of ordinary wire. The latter can also be used as a low~wire trip ent anglement on its own account. Ordinary furze or gorse is a formidable obstacle, but brambles are better still. Both can be used to eke out the supply of barbed wire. An abatis is an easily-constructed obstacle. It consists of branches of trees, about 15 feet long, laid on the ground, butts pointing to the rere,all small twigs being removed, and the larger branches being sharpened and interlaced.

cently the defending officer had fixed on a definite plan for the enemy, which the enemy did not employ; but on this occasion the defender discovered his mistake in time. As a rule it is best to decide your general position by the lie of the ground, and not 9ommit yourself to. any very definite arrangement until the enemy's 'intentions are ~ade manifest.

Of course, if you can compel the ene~y to any particular line of action against which you are prepared, au the better.

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Discipline being such an . iinportant point in military training, and ill-discipline being the principal cause of so many Irish defeats, I hope I sha.11 be excused for referring to the matter aga.i n. Direct breaches of discipline are rare in the Volunteers, but indirect breaches are as frequent as in other armies. On fielddays, for · instance, men get out .of hand, and it,is .quite excusable . In the open air and scattered over the country the sense· of discipline is naturally relaxed-. - It is then should keep the strictest .w.atch on oi'irsel~es, so as to 'acqui~e .th~ hab,i t of disci-pline in action, the habit which will. make it seem the natur\11 thing to obey an _ order instantly.

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It is also important that orders be . obeyed as much in the spirit as in the letter. An officer who has doubts about the wisdom of an order he has received should not on that account set about obeying it in a half-hearted way, and thereby making the failure of its object likely.

It would be far better to refuse flatly to obey, because then you could be courtmartialled and shot and be out of harm's way.

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A fatal example of this kind 0£ be~ haviour on, the pa.rt of a subordinate oc.: curred at the battle of Gettysburg. Le<:! entrusted the command of the decisive attack to Longstreet, who, not pleased with the plan, and angry that his own alternative had been rejected, delivered the atfack without confidence, having made insufficient preparation for it, and I have often remarked that a character- neglected to support it properly. The reistic of most Volunteer officers' plans of sult was total failure, in spite of the action on manoouvres is that they take gallantry of the attacking divisions. Now for granted a certa.in line of action to be had Longstreet carried out the attack' a.s followed by the enemy, and then set to . originally intended it might or might not work to forestall that. 'rhis is a. bad have succeeded. His doubts on that point thing to do, for it ties one down to a ceT- did not justify him in making failure, a tain position, which the enemy may be certainty .

• • * disobliging enough to disregard altoThis is an extreme case, but there are gether . Only when the nature of the plenty of others on the pages of military ground renders more than a single line of history. And ·if some 0£ us search our action impossible to the · enemy is this consciences we may find instances of simiprocedure safe . Nearly always there are lar behaviou on a small scale in ourselves. three or four courses open to him, and There is time for us to er'adicate the tendyou must be mobile enough to forestall ency now, and to . acquire that habit 0£ them all. discipline to which I have referred. AnySUBSCRIPTION.-Ta:E lRrsa: VOLUNTEER will * * * be posted free to any address for one yeat at a I mention this point because I heard way, it is always ·better to disobey openly cost of 6/ 6 ; for half · ·a year, 3 / 3 ; for the· that on certain battalion manamvres re- than the other way. · E. O'D. quarter, 1/8.

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GENERAL COUNCIL. The General Council of the I rish Volun111 GRAFTON St. 39 MARY ST. teers will meet at Headquarters on Sun35 TALBOT ST. 40 HARRINGTON ST. day next (January 16th) at 12 noon.

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Battalion if you- cannot get it together when yoli want it . These Notes dealt ·All ·kinds o{ Household Furnitureagain and a.gain during the course of last Irish Manufacture. year with the. importance of mobilisation 1782--1913. schemes. Such schemes must be perVOLUNTEERS' BOOTS. fected at once for every Battalion and for Best : ever produced for comfort and ease in every Compa.n y . A mobilisation scheme., marching. Made in my own workshops by skilled Irishmen, under Trade Union conditions. to be effective, must provide for getting Price 15/6. Reduction for Companies. into touch with every man in the unit in . .

J. MALONE, the minimum of time. The scheme must 67 NORTH KINC STREET, DUBLIN. be such that it shall not depend for its working on any one individual. It must DUBLIN COLLEGE OF MODERN not depend on the Commanding Officer, , IRISH but must be capable of being carried out 20 KILDARE STREET. smoothly and successfully even in his absence. It must not depend even on Section Commanders. If a Section Com. Session Opens September 23rd. mander is away or ill, is hi; Section to Fee· for Te@che,rs 5/· remain unmobilised? Obviously all such 10/· contingencies must be provided against, Fee for Non,.Tea.:hers " and they can be provided against if the scheme is carefully thought out beforeSyiiabus ·from Registrar, 20 Kildare Street. hand with all the local circumstances "Everything thal is not Irish must be fully in view. It is the business of Com' Foreign," pany and Battalion Commanders to set 0 right at once any defects which exIRiso~i:~ ns perience may have shown to exist in , lrl&h Voluniteel' Tallors and Drapers, their mobilisation schemes. The schemes 11- uPPER O'CONNELL ST., DUBLIN. should be t ested in practice at sufficiently frequent intervals, and after each t est ,:0- .-SM~'Oe.6.l.6., C.6.t'.>ttu151'0 le :S.6.e'Oec.L ! every partial breakdown should be careFor real Bed-rock Value in Groceries and fully noted and its cause removed. HeadConfectionery try quarters desires to impress Commanders of all ranks with the extreme importance M. O'RIORDAN AND CO., of the points here urged.

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THE GENERAL COUNCIL • The General Council will meet at Headquarters .on Sunday next, 16th inst., at 12 noon. tices weekly so much the better. And the men should get as much private shooting as they can . There should be frequent competitions in the Company, and interCompany and· inter-Battalion shooting tournaments should be promoted ~s often as possible. Well-managed competitions are perhaps the best way of encouraging constant practice among the men.

THE CARE OF RIFLES. Another very urgent duty of officers is to see that their men take proper cate of their rifles. li'requent instances have been brought to the notice. of Headquarters of rifles which have been kept ,in anything but a creditable condition by the men to whom they have been en· trusted. Rifles should be cle.a ned at fre~ quent intervals, and when not in use should be kept well coated with vaseline.

The number of men who have pullthroughs and who use them constantly is said to be astonishingl:yt small. Every Volunteer requires a pull-through. One elementary precaution which many men neg·lect is to relax the sp1;ngs of their rifles when they are putting them away.

A spring which is kept under a constant strain tends to wear out. The spring should be relaxed by pressing-the trigger. _THE SPECIAL COURSE. '.['he special course which will be given at Headquarters during the week Jan. 15th to 22nd, is intended for officers holding the higher commands or . for representatives nominated by them. The idea has grown out of the conferences of offic~r.s held in connection with the recent Convention . The course will provide a week's intensive culture ia the higher branches of military study. It is hoped that every Brigade District will be represente<l by one or two of its best officers.

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I GENERAL SIR IAN HAMILTON'S DESPATCH. I E very Volunteer officer should try to secure a copy of the London " Times " for Friday, January 7th. It has a supplement contai ning the full text of 'Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton's account of the last great attack on the 'rurkish positions in Gallipoli, illustrated by three admirable maps.

It is deserviri.g of the most minute and careful study : never again '"fill any officer be able to get S<? valuable a textbook for a penny . It is impossible, in the available space, .to give anything approa~hing a compiete revie·w of the document, but certain points of interest may be alluded to.

In the broadest sense we must acquit the defeated General of heavy blame. As far as we can judge he was· set an impossible task and made a beld bid for victory. Whether success in his design for the attack of August would have meant the fall of the Kilid Bahr forts is questionable.

Even had he secure~ Maidos it migl1t easily have become untenable: for it can be taken under fire by two miles of powerful batteries on the Asiatic shore between Chanak and Abydos, at an average ran g·e of two and a half miles . But, at all events, any other project was clearly worse- the att empt had, therefor e, to be made.

In the matter of organisation and preparation very elaborate ste:ps were t aken: in many respects the measures will serve as a model for all time. But a few points seemingly were neglected . For example, all three of the spheres of operations, Sedd-el-Bahr, Anzac, and Suvla were connected by cable with Imbros, the General Headquarters, but were not connected with one another.

There · seems no reason why this could not have been done between Anzac and Sedd-elBahr at any rate, both of which had been in English hands for months. Again, there was no certain information of the existence of a water supply in the Suvla r egion, : i. nd this entailed great complications of transport. Now, in point of fact, the water was there, and if reconnaissance were possible its existence should have been placed beyond doubt. Considering that the actual a.tfack . was largely a surprise to the Turks, it js reasonable enough to assume that recon- . naiss.ance was possible .

Briefly, the scheme of attack was this : In the southern area at Sedd-el-Bahr the 40,000 troops there were to deliver a holding attack, pinning as many troops as possible to that theatre and gaining all the ground they could. The main attack was to be delivered against the Sari Bair heights from Anzac with 35,000 men . . The. n~wly-arriving troops (30,000 strong) were to land · ~n the northern flank at Suvla and second the Anzac attack by operating against the Turkish right. At both Sedd-el-Bahr and Anzac the troops knew the ground well; at

to be blamed at all, then we must blame them for having been born such as they were . Only men of a truly iron stamp have ever achieved anything with raw troops-such men as W ashington, or Gorgei, er Chanzy-and everi they have not done it all of a sudden . For the Volunteers the lesson of Sir fan Hamilton' s despat ch is this one of discipline. 'l'he raw troops at Suvla accomplished nothing: the wa1;-inured men at Anzac met formidable difficulties in a way well worthy of careful study. Many of the minor tactical incidents of the four-days battle are also most instructive, and ma.ny practical hints are to be gained from them.

Suvla the me;n were absolutely new to the terrain, besides being quite raw troops. 'l'he preliminary movements wer e all successfully carried out and a certain measure of success attended the operations in all three theatres. In a sho~t r eview, however, it would be impossible to go into any details about the fighting.

One noteworthy feature of the attacks is the very small propo;tion of artillery to infantry . For exainple, at Anzac Gen. Bir dwood had only 72 guns-about two per 1,000, " with naval support from two cruisers, !our monitors, an-d two destroyers " ; and naval support under the circumstances has only a very limited effect.

At . Suvla only 20 guns went with the l~nding force, but it was not expected Sorp.e very interesting infoi·mation on that very formidable resisia-nce would be the question of armament in the infantry encountered here. But upon the whole warfare of to-day has been recently given it is clear that the artillery support was by Australian officers, as the result of small against very f_ormidable positions. their e;x:periences in the Gallipoli camEven so, the resolute night attack from paign. The views of these. officers are Anzac obtained a complete measure of particularly instructive and encouraging success up to a certain point. It is to the Volunteers.

First of ~;all the opinion. was expressed possible that a better result at Suvla might have clinched that success. that to arm the bulk of the infantry whh About Suvla Ge:n. Hamilton's despatch rifles was not the best way at all. In is less illuminating than the other opera- their view the most profitable· method was tions. All the same it is possible to see to give rifles to snipers only . These the germ of failure in some poil).ts would b~ '- picked marksmen, adepts at touched upon. There certainly was in snap-shooting and trained to take the the command the old sequence, " Order, fullest' advantage of cover. ·These men Counter-order, Disorder," whoever was would not, in the usual course, be risked to blame for the mistakes. Quite possibly in the assault at all . On the other hand no one in particular could be singled out they would be kept in. action in their own as responsible. Commanders unfamiliar special way for long spells at a time. with the ground; . assisted py raw staffs, A different armament was suggested to manceuvre raw troops over difficult for the remainder of the infantry-the country-in all conscience the task was cannon-fodder . Their weapons and train· hard enough for everyone. In many ing would be designed for hand-to-hand places the troops were out of hand. "In combat. Their ideal firearm is a pistol some cases the hose had been pierced by of some sort, a weapon suitable for individuals wishing to · fill their own . handy, quick, rough-and-ready work bottles; in others lighters had grounded at short range. For bayonet-fighting so far from the beach that men swam out a handy pike was recommended~ to fill batches of water-bottles . All this one not too long. It was found that had added to the disorganisation inevit- the ri:B.es of the cannon.~fodder were able after a night landing, followed by merely used as handles for their bayonets, fights here and there with an enemy and besides .being expensive they · were scattered over a country to us unknown. " in other respects not the best handles .

This was on the night of August 7th: Another recommendation was that the while the advance parties were engaged pike-head should be detachable so as to in a series of bitter little fights with the be capable of being used as a dagger upon Turks in the hills, the bulk of the com- occas10n. mand was disorganised on the sea shore.

These suggestions largely agree with The result was that next day, August the French methods in their great attacks 8th, was wasted, and the Turks, weak on the W estern front. There the troops enough in numbers up to that, were · assigned to the . duty of clearing out the heavily reinforced. When the attack was trenches and dug-outs in an adva.nce are finally launched it was too late for it to armed with revolvers and clasp-knives. succeed.

For more than a year past Headqua:rters It is all very well to say, "General, have pointed out a general similarity bethis should have done such-and-such," tween modern trench warfare and fightor "General, that should have done the ing in an intersected country like Ireland .

9ther." The real question is: were the It is very gratifying_ to find the theories courses suggested physically possible? put forward for the guidance of the In one word the cause of the Suvla failure Volunteers directly confirmed . by officers was indicipline, neither more nor less. H having several months experience oi con'G eneral Hamilton or General Stopford is 'tinual desperate fighting.

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tween which they must pi.·ess on. In that case they can easily be fired into either by flanking men of units still in position, or by small pa.rties pushed forward from the rear.

COUNTER AT.T ACKS. One ·way in yvhich :-a counter-attack CHAPTER IV.-OFFENSIVE could be made in such a case would be as ACTION. follows :-It 'might happen that a drain GENERAL REMARKS. a.f fording suitable cover existed inside the Altho~lgh the infantry attack in very position of the firing line and running intersected country is certainly very di:ffi. back at right angles to the front. Men cult, it is still possible, and would somearmed with pistols and pikes could be times have to be carried out. In some -held in readiness ·here with .their pikes ways the nature of the country might ' be lyin . U' ~fl.at in front of them. So posted turned to good account. ~ they c121uld spring quickly to their feet, For example, it will often be possible and firing a volley, charge home. They to manoouvre considerable bodies fairly would be where supports should be-close close up to the enemy and still hold them up, and flanking the enemy's advance: safe from fire. The fences will prevent they could thus attack with great speed. a very extended field of fire. But a neAs a matter of fact, in Ireland the at- cessary precaution will be scouts pushed tacker exposes two flanks for every sepa- out- ahead of the main body. In this case rate field he ~dvances across. He cannot the main body might easily be safe from avoid ~his because the longitudinal fire though not at all out of range-for fences sp, lit up his advancinu' line. ~ two or three thicknesses of intervening Another possible situation for pikemen fence might be ~vailable as protection . for the counter-attack is in front of their I n one impor · t an t respec t th e c1ose riflemen-where a trench exists on that fighting in Ireland would differ from the side of the hedge . In this case a good Flanders fighting-it would often be posstandard ()f discipline would be required sible to manoouvre against a· flank, to to steady the men while being fired over, bring enfilade· fire to bear, and thus to especially at first. Men so posted should facilitate the advance of other sections of only charge when success was practically _ the line. assured, as they absolutely mask the fire of their firing line.

COHTACT BETWEEN UNITS. In addition to counter-attacks by . a One of the greatest difficulties attendcharge, many oppor.tunities for counter- ing an advance across .c ountry in Ireland attacks by enfilade fire will present them- would be that of keeping contact between selves. Hedge country will always le.ave the several positions of the attac;king hedge screens on t he attackers' flanks be- force. For this reason it is most impor-

tant to have a sound syste~ of common · training to get the men to think , ~like.

Then ea.ch man would know what to expect his neighbour to do, and for h is own part w)+at would be the likeliest way of coming to his neighbour's assistance. In the case of an attack on a large scale a rough general unity could be restored by the merging of the foremost lines in successive waves. Only a portion of the force should be engaged at first, a large proportion· being held in reserve.

Commonly a force moving across country will lose touch with the bodies on its flanks , or e;en with its own. flankers. In such cases it may be necessary to throw out connecting files or parties to prevent hostile bodies penetrating into the gaps between the forces. When .the original . bodies again come into contact these parties should be withdrawn.

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CONTROL OF A UNIT. When 'possible a gateway sho{ild be used for fhe passage of the troops : if possible the gates should be taken off their hinges to prevent delay with ~ud­ ceeding bodies. A responsible officer or N.c.o : should remain at the gate to make sure that everyone has passe.d through.

If no gates 01~ gaps exist a gap must be made. Masonry walls must be cli~bed. : In the case of fairly small bodies it might be possible by ma-king the flank of the unit correspond to the flank Of the field to preserve control. In this . case, the entire company, section, or as the case might be, would be all in the same field and so under immediate supervision·.

This will. naturally call for a high level of tactical ability on the part of the section leaders . ' .·COVER, The men should be compelled to make the utmost use of cover . Otherwise sudden-though slight-losses might cow · and demoralise them.

The varying heights of the fences would often call for different ways of advance. Someti~es the men could sprint, sometimes crouch, sometimes crawl, sometimes roll over and over. The danger spots are the gaps and gates: Thorough combat reconnaisance will save the men from being suddenly fired into at close range. The need ~f taking cover can be impressE)d on the men at manoouvres if proper supervision 1s exercised.

POINTS OF DIRECTION. If the advance is to be Cl}rried out for any considerable distance a distinct point of direction should be indicated. · The formations and mode of advanc~ dictated by tactical considerations might necessitate the temporary loss from view of the original point of direction.

For this reason it might become necessary to assign a new point of direction until the former one should be recovered to view.

In suclf an advance there might also arise the further difficulty that units might cross each other's line of advance; especially if the country were very close and the several units made different rates ~f progress.

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Special terms to Irish Voluoteer and .Gaelie League Concerts.

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