Bisbee daily review., 1915-09-14
BRITISH REVIEW IS
DESCRIBED AS SCENE
COMPELLING WONDER
Eye-Witnesses Talk of impress
Sive Scenes as EngIand's Sol
dierS Parade Not Far From
Fighting Front.

flgntlng FRONT.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, Sept. 13-Omcers who have
been through the campaign since its
start at Mons a year ago speak of the
recent review Of the British troops
at the front as one of the most com
polling scenes they have ever witness
ed. The spot was parade ground not
many miles from the trenches. Three
battalions of Guards made a wall of
Khaki which melted into the back
ground of sward and hills. At a re-
view in England they would have
formed a most brilliant display in
their gorgeous parade uniforms
these famous crack regiments officer
cd by sons Of the famous families of
England. Again and again their ranks
had been thinned and refilled officers
of the old regular army who had come
as spectators recognized familiar faces
of the survivors among the officers
and saw many strange faces who had
taken the places of those who HAD
fallen.
"But the Guards are still the Guards
Scots or Irish or Grenadiers or Cold
stream, said one of the officers. Lord
Kitchener and NJ Millerand the
French minister of war who were see
ing the British front together were to
review them again It was the second
visit to the front paid by k as every
officer calls him.
Sir John French appeared first
walking across the parade ground TO
the reviewing station where he wei
coined Lord Kitchener and NJ. Mile
rand who arrived I'm a big limousine.
Perhaps there were i'm all fifty spec
tators, mostly officers stationed in the
neighborhood, of a scene which had a
thrill for an that no review in Eng
land watched by a big concourse in
Guiding gaily dressed women ever had.
Not woman wa spresent, not a civil
ian except the correspondents. A
bright sun was shining Five or six
thousand feet overhead a British plane
was patroling the air in a great cir
Gle throughout the ceremony
AS the secretaries of war of Eng
land and France faced the Guards
their bayonets rose at present arms in
cleaning rigid lines Lord Kitchener's
Khaki made him hardly discernible
against the wall of khaki as the party
walked the length of the front ranks
in formal inspection NJ. Millerand in
his black suit With short coat and his
SLOUGH travelling hat and trousers
tucked into a pair Of CATERS was a
distinct moving black point. When
they returned to the reviewing sta
ton the band struck up the Marseil-
laise and while Lord Kitchener and
Sir John and the other officers stood
at the salute that one civilian figure
i'm this military scene stood uncovered.
Then with the march past the band
played six airs associated with the
regiment whose companies were going
by. One officer at the head of his
veterans was conspicuous because he
saluted with his left hand. His right
sleeve was empty Guardsmen must
/ be tall; and some of the giants were
taller than Lord Kitchener himself A
number of the men in the ranks had
fought at Mons and on the Aisne and
survived, too, from the first and sec
! ond battles Of Ypres. Others had yet
to see a battle. Every rife, every hand
that held a rifle, every foot as it was
lifted seemed perfectly in line
1.-THE Guards still know how tc
march past though they have been tC
war for a year" said a staff officer
who had been in the Guards.
AS the last company was going past
another kind of music was heard. Al
the chauffeurs Of the party were crank
ing up their cars It is well known
that *" wants no time wasted be
tween functions and inspections wher
ne is at the front A volley of clicks
as limousine doors were closed and
the two war ministers who are at The
head of the armies of France an,
England were away TO other scenes
] Naturally they also inspected portions
of the New Army--which the Frencl
peasants and villagers all call tn,
"Keecheenaires"
u had always heard of X as I
grim stern sort of man." said a lieu
tenant of the New Army but he wa
smiling and genial 10 us-quite differ
, ent from what we expected We wer
a little frightened when we heard h
was going to inspect u.s."