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THE TIMES TUESDAY APRIL 10. 1917. ry- Cpmmiasions Din Sir Frederick in VaV Bishop St. 567 Ltd as Commerce 8 8 a 4 4 3 2 2 THE TIMES" FUND. 1:11,124,9 dtodtte.

6451990 911 Listson pate 9. The Battle of Arras. are Lied with a trained attention vth kifh hops upon the' great attack ca DOCGU HMO launched against tk jaosa in the dawn of yesterday morns ghting is going on on a front of bon ft auk roughly- from Lens in the north to Qototia In the south and south of St. Qpaoa train the French hammer continually mob' retiring German forces. But tb eon i the or tta fe is around and north of Arras giyaitioilariy against that Ridge of' Limy 44 fzzsp its two span west and west fet lacy rins in a a ries of heights that the western plain.

Ever sine the of the war the enemy has held fat taffeta. They are. admittedly the great sod fortress of his western lines. What- has hem allowed to go. he has held kfeTosy Ridge with a grim resolve his lord upon it all thee vta of fortification and frr" tad defensive skill that war ape- bat ttiE1 him has never hesitated 4 the Allies threatened to shake hi hold yat Ridge to sacrifice the lives of hit teen i attack upon.

counter-attack' to pre-- aw it. UN Allies a much as German ten moo the strategic value of the Vimy Up. the French have tried to take it again ajtpin. la December. 1914 they made their WIUIek and held to it in vain all through isaey HIS.

la May 1915 Gamy. Fore nisi iajtha region the great offensive which srasi the Fort and Chapel of LorrUe. But Qtl Germans held the Heights. In Septem. ms.

while we fought at Laos. Get. Pa spin tirade at the Ridge of Vimy and jn fated to tike it though the holding of it tht Germans some 60000 men. Acauvtthis1 cat btttrfy contested and stained area WW Western front the British troops at in lull battle array for the first time Jtiedty morning. The issues that depend tieb tinetlaa are immense.

The Vimy i fe sot only an immensely strong natural tech made as impregnable as possible by Gaca ikil It it far more than that. Upon liars the whole strategy of the enemy's th West With Vimy firmly held he Mie his line farther south slowly hack and ten each put of it reaches the position tai a mind to stand. With Yimy line will rover the French in. towns and districts upon which lie taoeh for hit supplies. nut with the fenee of these towns and i vams and can hardly hold.

With Viroy pivot of th whole retreat rlufts and Wkrwds its timing is thrown out of instant risk of fracture. wP ndnt British Ileadgnarters to-day the opening of the attack. that put of the enemy's line against troops were to go up the British yesterday morning a bombard. rier aryl more dreadful than any Jn war has known. lie tells of Lung is such numbers that their Lk the chattering of machine-gums pp 3in rattle punctuated by tile ro nng of the heavier pieces of Ute In breaking into flame in the grey a tempestuoui da of his rockets muhiLlMjjncua help upon horizon.

The trenches for the attack he could cane flight keeping low and going the storm as if there was nor death ahead. Satur, had beta fine with the weather in Iivuur of the attack faun. Mw Wn change and when time drizzle wnitLened later on to a heavy term hampered the attack Lot at least Ul rain upon Sin Dovcuut exceeded the Our new line tuna from ne five mill'S vaithrast of i arid TWIos. to rU of Givenehy. jut south.

vTa 4 iu yn i e. hold the limy Ilidge whit Canadian troops a very splen- The prisoners collected up to 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon were 816. inndud In. 119 officer Many more remain to be counted. The enemy's loss both in men and material has been exceedingly heavy as was inevitable in such a sudden and weeping ad.

vane This great Initial success in the Arras region thieved according to our Special Corry tpcindent with casualties far less than might have been feared tbould not blind us to the in. portanee of the offensive farther south. In tbe Arras region the positions on both sides were old and well-established and here the concentration of our heavy guns that his overwhelmed th enemy has. no doubt beta long inpreparation and has involved no special speed of artillery movement Farther south where the enemy's lines have gone back continually it must have been most difficult to get up the heavy guns. Evidently the difficulty has been surmounted with splendid efficiency and this must rank among the greatest of the feat that have been thieved by SUt DOUGLAS IIua and his magnificent men.

At two points on the St. Quentin front they lure made a deep impression. The first. is crws the main road from llapauxne to Cambrai. Here the Australians have pushed down' from the west towards the great Wood of Uurinrourt which is now closely enveloped on the west north.

and south and into which the British troops are pressing. The other point is dose to St. Quentin itself. On its north. western side the British advance has gone for.

ward and now holds all the hamlets outside a radius of about three miles from the town. Thus on the whole long front attacked the day goes well for the Alliance. The beginning of this great offensive justifies our sanguine hopes. They may yet be falsified. as all human hopes may be.

The. enemy is known to have reserves at hand. and an iron compulsion binds him to make every effort to Did defeat. The country will do well to await the event in a spirit of sober expectation. This is no time for premature re joicing or for exuberant boasting.

The spirit of naUonthould march with its fighting men as resolute as courageous as cheerful as they. Grotius and War Crime. The tenth of April ought to be a red letter day in the calendar of civilization or it was this birthday of the great thinker and scholar who framed as a practical and connected system what we now call international law. GROTIUS himself claims to have but" laid the foundation. in the hope that others would build up a statelier edifice.

In a sense the claim is as just as it is modest for it is on his great book that the statelier edifice in dlfence of which the civilized peoples of the world are now fight ing his been slowly reared by the labours of over three centuries. It not however strictly accurate for others- long before his day and some of his contemporaries devoted much thought and study to plans for such a work. The revelation to the West of ARISTOTLE'S Politics in the. thirteenth century and the revived study of the Corpus Jam" led the of the schoolmen to examine and debate the law of nature" with their accustomed thoroughness tradition" VaS carried on by the learned Spanish Jesuit SUXEZ in GROTIUSH lifetime. W.

have the high authority of PROFESSOR HOLLAND for the statement that the writings of ALBERICO GEvttu the ItalianProtestant who found a home and a Chair at Oxford in ELIZABETH'S reign were tire sera incunabula" of modem international law and the Judicious" HOOKER in hit Ecclesiastical Polity" about the same time. touched upon the possibility of such a code. But it was GoTlis with his wide practical experience as a rtaUxman and a lawyer who first brought the vision into the light of common i day. He has himself recorded in a well-known in tie Prolegomena to the De 1' I Belli et Pari1 that it was the horrors of thee warfare of his own day which led him to fk i for a moral ba is for the relations of combatant i States. I saw ailing he says through-1 out the Christian world a licence in making i war of which on barbarous nations would have been ashamed recourse brm had to' arms for slight reasons or no ria- nn and when arms' were once taken up all rocrence i for divine and human law was thrown away i just as if men were thenceforth authorized to commit all crimes without restraint.

Though GROTIUS had thought out the main features of i his system wleim he wrote the DC jurt- Prrda" in 1004 these words were written in the midst of the abominations tit the i Thirty Years' War a war in which the un- i speakable inhumanity of Germans to' each other I I threw bark for rations the 11 nation of I itlieir common country. 1 hunger wntrsj I PUJUOs. the Prussian historian in many place forced intn to cannibalism and he i mentions a Sil i ian leader IKW band were said to have lulled and eaten 500 men. What happened in Silesia ie adds happened in mort other German lands. It was against this" that tile Dutch scholar who at our Allies remember.

er. had French blood in his I veins sought to erect some barrier for the protection of humanity. lie' found it in Natural I Law which he describes as the' Dictates of Right Reason in other words in the general moral sea. of mankind. i GROTHS was no pacifist and that no doubt.

was a condition of the urp of absent' which his tfo ctemmaridc He had been Limwlf engaged in civil trifk and the story of hit escape from the lifelong imprisonment to which Ills enemies condemned him i almrrt as romantic a that of the escape of LIYAIZTJE. The good seed did not at once take root. The tack of Magdehurg by Titter and PArrrRtax in 1631 sent a rhudder through a generation which had supped lull with orrors. But already' one of the greatest of warriors and ttatt mcn was studying the new doctrine. UCSTAVUS AOOLPHCI tlie Lion of the North and De- fender of the Protestant Religion is said to have been greatly struck by it A ropy of IGROTICSH book we are told.

was found under his pillow after his death at Lutzen. If i Army Regulations may hue Leffi dictatrU ratiicr by regard fur military ttiacipline than by romidra lions of humanity but they had at rant scant tendency to restrain the lust fur plunder of his soldiers in the lint heat of victory. In the. eighteenth century JonEDEnlOo II. reintroduced frightfulness at a principle of war and Prussia lias faithfully dung it ever since.

while doing lip- emce to th teachings or GttOTjf at The JlUtIe sad in diplomatic dorumntil in tended to plate prop vktima 11 their guard. It is chiefly her fault and the fault of the Germany hl has corrupted by her depraved ideal. that the stately edifice which GROTTCS planned la not nearer completion to-day. THE' BATTLE OF ARRAS. D.

HAIGS NEW OFFENSIVE. VIMY RIDGE YON GREAT GAINS ON WIDE FRONT. MORE THAN 5800 PRISONERS. The following telegraphic dispatches have bun received from General Headquarters in France dated April 9 1125 AM We attacked at 530 am. this morning on a wide front.

From south of Arras to south of Lens our troops hue everywhere penetrated the enemy's lines. and are making satis factory progress at all points. In the direction of Carnbrai we have stormed the villages of Kennies and Boursies and have penetrated into Havrincourt Wood both villages are south of the Cambrai Road. in the neighbourhood of Deaumetz. and north of the wood In the direction of St.

Quentin we have captured Petit two miles west of the St. Quentin Rood and have advanced our line south-east of Le Verguier nearly four miles west of Frtsnoy No estimate of the prisoners taken can yet be given. but considerable numbers are reported to have been captured. 956 P-M- Operations continue to be carried out sucessfully in accord- ance with plan. Our troops have everywhere stormed the enemy's defences from sur Cojeul to the southern outskirts of en to a depth of from I two to three miles and our advance continues.

I The enemy's forward defences on this front. including the Yimy Ridge. which was carried by Canadian troops were captured early in the morning. These defences comprise a network of trenches and the fortified localities of YitasIe Telegraph Hill Tinoy Mofilaines Observation Ridge St. Laurent.

BlangyLesTillenls andLaFolie Farm. Subsequently our troops moved for. ward and captured the enemy's rearward deface including. in Addition to other powerful trench systems- the fortified localities of Feuchy Chapelle de Feuehy Hyderabad Redoubt. Athies.

and Thelus. Up to p.m. 5816 prisoners includ- jing 1119 officers had passed through the I collecting stations. and many more re- 1 mained to he counted. Off these a largo number belong to Bavarian Divisions i who have suffered casualties in to-day's fighting.

The captured war material includes guns and numbers of trench mortars and machine-guns which have not yet been counted. In the direction of Cambrai further progress has been made in the. neighbour- hood of Havrineourt Wood. We have captured the village of Demicourt. In the direction of St.

Quentin we have captured the villages of Pontru and Le Verguier. The aerial activity of the past few days was continued yesterday with great energy. Several successful bombing raids were carried out by us and our machines cooperated with our artillery with excellent results. Two hostile machines were destroyed and 15 others were driven down and probably embed. Two' German kite balloons were brought down in flames.

Ten of our aeroplanes are missing. The measure of yesterdays success rosy be gauged by the fad that in his night dispatch of July I. th first day of the Battle of the Somme. Sir D. Uaip reported that" up to date.

over 2000 rman prisoners have passed through our rot- letting stations end that it was not until July 4 that he able to state that the total number of prisoners now exceed 5000. The from sur south. east of Arras. to the southern outskirts of en west of Lens and north of Arras. is about 12 miles.

Demicourt is south or the DapaumoCambn Road and about twe miles north of UnrillOurt Wood. Pontru. south-east of Le Verpiier. ii the mules from the outskirts of St. Quentin in a northwesterly direction.

BATTLE ON A GRAND SCALE. FIRST STAGE VIVIDLY DESCRIBED. From Our Special Correspondent. WAR CORRESPONDENTS' HEAD. QUARTERS Arru 9.

A new battle on a grand scale began this morning and our troops have had tile oppor tunity for which they have been waiting all the winter. At past 5 when it was not yet hall- light. we attacked the Germans on a wide front between Lens and St. Quentin. I have just returned to the telegraph base from seeing as much of the opening phase of the battle as it is possible to see of an action on so wide a front.

Details the progress of the righting after our first assault are yet lacking. but know that we have broken. the German lines everywhere and that prisoners in good numbers art already coming in. It. was like the days of tile beginning of the Battle of the Somme again.

and the Battle ol Arras if that Li what it IT to be called may prove no less disastrous to the Gtrmans. A FRONT OF FLAME. The opening of the bombardment in tile grey of tile dawn was as stupendous a spectacle as anything ever seen in war. The heavy shelling to which we have subjected the enemy during the last. few days combined with the immense activity in rods and aerial fighting had por tended the advent of operations on a really large scale but hardly anybody and.

we hope. not the Germans was prepared for the magnitude of the artillery concentration which we brought to bear this morning. From where I watched. the German reply seemed quite overwhelmed in the roar and flame of our attack. It was too dark nor was I near enough to see the infantry actually going over but though one had to imagine the dim figures in the grey- ness down low the sight was very thrilling.

Ve have hart two line days or Ka tcr weather but last night the wind shifted into the writ and at 3 o'clock this morning the' 1. was full of driving clouds and a bitter wind was blowing. Shortly after 4 a light drizzle began to fall. and the wind increased blowing from us to the man shelling was desultory and spasmodic and was confined almost entirely to" oar puts before the hour set for the lifting of the curtain. Then in an instant hundreds of guns broke' on the silence of dawn at once the rattle off the field guns like the chattering of machine-1 guns being punctuatedby the rhythmical roar- in of the heavier pieces.

In an instantit seemed the- whole of the enemy line broke into flume. Beyond the flicker of our guns brilliantly visible in the light and' amid the flash and swirl of our bursting shells tilt enemy's rockets calling for kelp rose fromI the whole circuit of the horizon red and white I and green and tall orange fountains of golden rain. One could not guess what the signal meant but plainly the German infantry everywhere were shrieking for aid from the supports and artillery. Between our guns and the front trenches from a small wood a great flight of rooks rose into the dim air and twang in panic round and round silhouetted against the background of Saints like a dual' dance above the eternal fires. Then other birds came slowly droning from behind us flying very low.

and headed straight for the. enemy's country our frorran their outlines hardly visible against the grry iky but going serenely through th storm as if there was neither wind around nor death ahead of them. As daylight grew the outlines of Arras on the right and the vague line of Vimy Ridge on the left began to define themselves bdthe face of all the stained country by Xeurille St. au to Thelus and La Folilie Farm. Before 6 o'clock however the light drizzle changed to a heavy storm of rain.

which later became mixed with snow all the battlefield was sheeted in flying ntiet driving before the wind. It was not the weather for the attack we had hoped for and the drying surface of the ground again became slippery and shining with I moisture. BuVthe consolation was that the. rain drove on our men's backs and in the enemies' faces. STRENGTH OP ENEMY LINES.

Besides the power we know. also. what defences the enemy has perfected here in the last two years. Behind hit front line system I strengthened in every pos. ible way extends a network of trenches and strongholds line yond line.

to the new and very strong line. being an extension of the Ilindenburg line. which runs from Drocowt to QuFant. The named is about 4 miles south-east of Lens the second 11 miles south-east of Arras the distance between the two is nearly 15 miles running south by east We are undr no misapprehension as to the strength of the position which we are attacking. Such a battle as has begun this morning cannot be fought.

without heavy casualties. We oust Le reconciled to that In advance. But the enemy will suffer' more than we and we shall break him here as broke him on the Somme. I The Army has no doubt or misgiving. Its worst fear is that the enemy will not stay to fight.

CANADIANS OVER VIMY CREST. A TANK IS ACTION. LATER. From all parts or the line come reports of brilliant successes. During tile afternoon I have been vi itmgVie TILE GREAT BATTLE EAST OP ARRAS.

RocUeirt On a front of 12 tnilrt from the riqhoourlood of na to Con ul Rr tun Iroop in great battle ttrday captured tin cnrmf front mid rtarvard position including tlo Piney Ridge. TM village et tevchy JfAw and Tulu on leitkinour lints. Contidcrablc gains were eke made along the Rapaar mn i tnrfvrfw the rtflarfu of Ii rurn Drmtc frt end iknnua. headquarters varioos units Home troops and Cantdi wounded in the clearing stations. is the same note of tnnmphv It is only- the beginning and it to speak of a great victory but so tar won a success much beyond what we to hope at a cost in casualties whkh as known.

is very smalL i On tb southern line between Arras and St. Quentin have continued too gain ground driving the enemy rearguards ahead of us. I But it is from" Arras northwards where the Germans were on the Co which they have held for two years that our success was greatest and I most immediate. At some points just outside Arras itself there was hard fighting. notably in what is known I as the Railway Triangle being the angle of I the railway lines to Douaj and Lens.

Tin Triangle hovrevori is ours. I hear- that a Tank is sitting calmly in possession of it. and the number of German dead here is very large. Just to the south there an elaborate network of trench and. stronghold which from its chape is known as The llazp.

had been expected to prove very serious obstacle. but it fell to us almost without resistance and nearly the strength of a whole battalion was taken prisoner. IN MAI SECOND LINE. One of our units fighting alongand around the flats of the Scope Valley beyond Arras took. as prisoner 25 officers and over.

1100 other ranks. There aw in fact many fewer rats behind the arras than there- were. North of here we have broken. through and captured the German first main. line system over the whole from Arras to near Souchez and.

as I write we are at many points established in the main second line. It seems that tile whole of Viray Ridge is ours for certainly the Canadians hue gone over the crest and prisoners have come back. We hive a looting at least in Thelus north pf Arras and south of there we have pushed through and beyond the position known as Le Point du Jour on a line between Thelus and Agues north-east of Arras It is impossibloyrt to be precisely accurate as to our guns beeause they are increasing every hour and everything is in movement. All that is yet clear is atUe have met all long tile attack with more rapid success and at a cheaper price than it had seemed reasonable to hope. The prisoners are known to number and there is every probability that they win be half as many again by this evening and more.

to. morrow. Nearly all the prisoners were taken in their outs where they had either hidden from our guns or fled to avoid our bayonets. Our artillery work- appears to have been as it looked magnificent at all points and the enemy trenches were shattered and the wire admirably cut for our infantry. GAINS IN ARRAS SECTOR.

The success is so much more sweeping than we had ventured to expect at this early stake of the battle that the only feasible explanation i appears to. be that the Germans were. in truth. surprised. They knew as they must have known that great attack was coming but they sppcar to have failed entirely to be ready at tb.

necessary moment. as was proclaimed in the panic of their rockets which I described in my earlier message. At some points the machine were trouble some but only to a very small degree and we have been happily spared any. uh heavy casualty list as we suffered on the opening' day of the Somme oitd4lie lot year. Themajority or our wounded seem to been hit with' shrapnel and a largo proportion of these were not in the actual attack but in the desultory shelling which clan enemy tad been indulging ia during the night and early rriorninr.

Whether we shall hold all that lint won. always uncertain and it seems irwredibln that the Gentians should iui such a position as the 1111) Ridge with so little re and. without desperate efforts ti it tack. Hut every indication points rather to further success than to any Lilting back. At the moment tar gain in the Arras sector.

app. to an average of about 3000 ands un a milt front with sonic indefinite to the fouthward In all it probably represents a minimum of from :5 to 30 more squat. miles of freed from the trLarin The weather this afternoon has again turned keen. and clear and the wind wloeh is working mf re and more to UK- north is once mom drjing the ground Last It is good iiehting weather and. kern what 1 have seen of eur Armies' today we are dii ow to take every a advantage of it.

BATTLE GROUND OF' HARD FIGHTING. THE xClf OFFENSIVE IV 1015. By Our Military Correspondent. The Lens runt upon which a net- was launched by Sir Douglas lIil yestrr day morning. ha.

been the acne ol the hardest fighting of the war. The Germans established themselves in 1914 upon the heights at La LUee aVXl upon tl os from Notre Dame de Lurctle. wcst uf Lens to the region of Amax and it war froci the northern part of tin sector that the French tnd3onrrd in IV" trlier 1914. to dri th enemy out. Tin- hunting Continued throughout the tint months of 1915 and though the alance of advantage lay with 11 French the Germans continued to irild the riUccs on tbc etlce of tll' pUm i.

tl Scheldt as well as many and intricate syttemk of trenches the IV It ws this portirln of tl front that rax v- lcetad tin- great French offensive of tar cnera Ff eli. whose chief exeentix nt wa i ral dlrtwl eunmndiftg the rticli nt terntit nytitthe attack bt an on Ms- 9. and succeeded in h. akins ii inrs cap. turing 3000 pruouersaud eral guns.

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