Poem ~ Eastern Front Antics - Monday, 22 January 1917

Source: File: Russian Infantry.WWI – Part Six: Tsarist Russia and the War. See an original image at: <http://www.marxist.com/wwi-part-six-tsarist-russia-and-the-war.htm> [Accessed 22 January 2017]

News via neutral communications

Of 4 and 5 January, seeped through

Into news print, to tell of central

Powers frontline antics.

The Bulgarian city of Sofia informed

Amsterdam that in Dobrudja regions,

Of Romanian front, made extremes

Of exchanges with Russia.

Bulgarians Fourth Preslav Division

Clashed with Russian forces,

With hand to hand bayonet

Exchanges at Lake Jijila.

There, on the edge of the Danube,

Russian resistance had become

Divided, making entry to Macin

Town taking prisoners.

Parallel to this the central powers

Edged into Dobrudja at Braila

And Galatz - the allies made

Some small progress.

German and Austro Hungarian

Numbers pushed through south

Of Latinul on river Buzeu, with

Many prisoners taken.

Further unfamiliar place names

To include Romniceni, where

German troops overran

Roumanian villages.

Harja, Soveja east of Negulesci

And NW in heights of Odebesci,

Allies made reports of success,

Fighting back the invaders.

January 3 1917, Russian positions

In Kotumba region had repelled

Eastern front enemy, about

River valley of Tatroch.

On a level above Chebonicha river,

Over five occasions the central

Powers pushed at Russian

Held ground, only to fail.

In the Roumanian coutryside

Of other river plates, Kasino

And Oitoz north and south,

Held back three attacks.

Near other water flows of Putna

Zabala, east of Toposchik,

Displaced the Russian

Detachments.

At Norucha 8 miles south east,

Roumanians were to be also

Pushed back by enemy

Advance attempts.

Though Romanian army, nearly

10 miles away from Focsani,

Pushed back enemy attacks

In the Koproria region.

With ebb and flow of the Eastern

Frontline, the Roumanian troops

Were being heavily affected;

200,00 wounded and dead.

Another 150 soldiers were taken

Prisoners, as areas of their

Country succumbed

To the invaders.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1917. Enemy Reports. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 6 January 1917. P.7. Col.1-2. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214075/Daily-Telegraph-January-6-1917.html> [Accessed: 22 January 2017].

Source: File: Bulgaria During World War I. Wikipedia. Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_during_World_War_I> [Accessed 22 January 2017]

Source: File: Romani During World War I. Wikipedia. Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_I#1917_campaign_and_armistice> [Accessed 22 January 2017]

Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 22 January 2017). 

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Poema ~ Vostochnyy front - ponedel'nik, 22 yanvarya 1917

stochnik: Fayl: Russkaya pekhota. WWI - Chast' shestaya: Tsarskaya Rossiya i voyna. Sm. Iskhodnoye izobrazheniye po adresu: <http://www.marxist.com/wwi-part-six-tsarist-russia-and-the-war.htm> [Dostupno 22 yanvarya 2017]

Novosti cherez neytral'nyye kommunikatsii

4 i 5 yanvarya prosochilis' v pechat'

Novostey, chtoby rasskazat' o

Tsentral'nykh sily fronta.

Bolgarskiy gorod Sofiya soobshchil

Amsterdam, chto v oblastyakh Dobrudzha,

Iz rumynskogo fronta sdelali kraynosti

Ob obmene s Rossiyey.

Chetvertyy bolgarskiy otdel Preslav

Stolknuvshis' s rossiyskimi voyskami,

S ruchnym shtykom

Obmeny na ozere Dzhidzhila.

Tam, na krayu Dunaya,

Rossiyskoye soprotivleniye stalo

Razdelennyye, delaya vkhod v Makin

Gorod prinimayet plennykh.

Parallel'no s etim tsentral'nyye derzhavy

Okovannyy v Dobrudzhu v Breila

I Galats - soyuzniki

Nebol'shoy progress.

Nemetskiy i Avstro-Vengerskiy

Chisla probilis' cherez yug

Latinula na reke Buzeu, s

Mnogo plennykh vzyali.

Drugiye neznakomyye geograficheskiye

Nazvaniya vklyuchit' Romniceni, gde

Nemetskiye voyska okkupirovali

Rumyanskiye derevni.

Khar'ya, Soveya k vostoku ot Negulesi

I SZ v vysotakh Odebeski, soyuzniki

Delali otchety ob uspekhakh,

Bor'ba s zakhvatchikami.

3 yanvarya 1917 goda, rossiyskiye

Dolzhnosti v Kotumbe otgonyali

Vrag Vostochnogo fronta, okolo

Rechnaya dolina Tatrokha.

Na urovne vyshe reki Chebonicha,

V pyati sluchayakh tsentral'nyy

Polkovniki proshel zemlyu,

Tol'ko ne poluchilos'.

V rumynskoy coutryside

Iz drugikh rechnykh plit, Kasino

I Oitos sever i yug,

Uderzhal nazad tri ataki.

Ryadom s drugimi vodnymi potokami Putna

Zabala, k vostoku ot Toposhika,

Vytesnil russkiy

Otryady.

V Noruche v 8 milyakh k yugo-vostoku,

Takzhe dolzhny byli byt' rumyny

Otbroshennyy vragom

Predvaritel'nyye popytki.

Khotya rumynskaya armiya,

V 10 milyakh ot Fokshani,

Otbrosil vrazheskiye ataki

V regione Koproriya.

S otlivom i techeniyem Vostochnogo

Frontline, rumynskiye voyska

Byli sil'no zatronuty;

200,00 ranenykh i mertvykh.

Yeshche 150 soldat byli vzyaty

Zaklyuchennyye, kak oblasti ikh

Strana ustupila dlya
Zavoyevateley.

ot Jamie Mann.

Anon., 1917. Vrazheskiye otchety. The Daily Telegraph, [onlayn] 6 yanvarya 1917 goda. P.7. Kol.1-2. Dostupno po adresu: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214075/Daily-Telegraph-January-6-1917.html> [Dostup k: 22 yanvarya 2017 goda].

Istochnik: Fayl: Bolgariya Vo vremya Pervoy mirovoy voyny. Vikipediya. Dostupno po adresu: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_during_World_War_I> [Dostupno 22 yanvarya 2017 g.]

Istochnik: Fayl: Romani Vo vremya Pervoy mirovoy voyny. Wikipedia. Dostupno po adresu: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_I#1917_campaign_and_armistice> [Dostupno 22 yanvarya 2017 g.]

Mann, J., 2016. 100 let nazad - Stikhi Dzheymi Manna. [Pis'mo] (Lichnoye soobshcheniye, 22 yanvarya 2017 goda).

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Poem ~ Sergeant Flora; Serbian Fighter - Thursday, 11 January 1917 - Monday 15 January 1917

Source: File: Private Flora Sandes. See an original image at: <http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sandes.html> [Accessed 11 January 2017]

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There was a girl Flora Sandes,

Born in 1876, North Yorkshire -

Flora was a daughter of an Irish

Clergyman Samuel Sandes.

A middleclass background

Of likely genteel upbringing,

Did nothing for the determined

Young girl, who did not favour

Girl's dolls or sewing - to only

Wish she might have been a boy.

Formative years of Flora Sandes

Saw her family move to Suffolk,

Where she favored hobbies

Of shooting and horse riding.

Dreams of adventures filled

Her young mind, as she charged

Across fields on horseback with

An imaginary sword of Crimea

Status to attack Russian rank -

Her father loved Flora's spirit.

A proper education for a young

Lady could do nothing to stay

Victorian values of feminine

Pursuits, to favour masculinity.

18 in 1894 Flora undertook

To train as a stenographer -

A drive for adventure became

Funded by money left her from

A wealthy uncle, allowing her

To undertake travel passion.

She took a route through Cairo,

Across the Atlantic, to travel

To Canada’s British Columbia

And Unites States of America.

Here the gun totting Flora shot

A man - the act she described

As self defence - returning home

To London she learned to drive

And bought a French racing

Car, while joining a shooting club.

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Flora by 1912 was in Serbia for the

Brief Balkan war - where a league

Of Greece, Montenegro, Bulgaria

And Serbia faced Ottoman Empire.

The First Aid Women’s Yeomanry

Assisted to bring aid to wounded -

Originally from Omdurman battle

Of 1898 - here a wounded sergeant

Saw how many died from lacking

First aid; his idea was a new corps.

This would be mounted nurses,

Who could ride onto the field

After battle, to render first aid -

This evolved into the Yeomanry.

As war ended in 1913 Flora was

Back home, to live with her old

Father and nephew Dick, where

Her boredom was evident from

Chaotic household, until August

1914 - a fresh war had emerged.

28 July had seen Serbia invaded

By Austria Hungary - within

Seven days Flora Sandes had

Travelled into the danger zone.

Led by Mabel Grouitch, a unit

Of St John's Ambulance made

Of 36 women in Kragujevac -

On the front line Flora nursed

In varied military hospitals; within

A year she could speak Serbian.

In October 1915 Flora joined

Serbian Red Cross, alongside

The Iron Regiment, the Serbian

Army’s 2nd Infantry Regiment.

With odds against them Serbia

Was being forced to retreat - escape

Could only be by Albanian heights.

Infantry and the Red Cross made

It to a stage where ambulances were

Unable to pass - Flora took decision.

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In a declaration, Flora stated

She would become a private

In the 2nd Regiment, taking

Off her Red Cross badge.

A report of a wounded soldier

Brought to notice the unusual

Wounded fighter, in a Salonkia

Hospital filled by male soldiers.

12 December 1916, reporter

F. Calvert met the brown eyed

Fresh faced, cropped grey haired

Lady, at No 41 military hospital

Camp, to accommodate 1,600

Men; Flora Sandes sat up in bed.

Lying in the nurses ward Sandes

Smiled to explain the bandages

On her right hand arm - along the

Shoulder to knee - had been injured.

Broken bones and torn flesh were

Result of Private Sandes encounter

With a Serbian hand bomb - when

Assiting Serbes clerance of a trench;

Her bravery had been rewarded

Given by Prince Regent of Serbia.

Days before on behalf of the Prince,

A Royal aid-de-camp visited Flora,

To ceremonially award her a gold

And Silver Cross of Kara-George.

In Serbia The Order of Karađorđe's

Star was that country’s highest

Decoration - for bravery in combat -

Flora Sandes reached under her

Pillow and held up decorated cross

For inspection by the reporter.

Flora’s story was relayed to say

How she had first entered the war

As a nurse - by the autumn retreat

Of 1915, she was rear guard private.

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Private Sandes actions led to gain

Of promotion to Sergeant Sandes.

The army reached Corfu to find

Recuperation - Flora was involved

Next on Macedonian front to fight

In campaign; 12 September 1916.

More than ninety days passed as

Sergeant Sandes fought alongside

Serbian men, every hour filled

With frontline acts of gunfire.

High ground made the front,

With foe of Bulgaro-Germans

In fight north from Gornitchevo

And Kaymakchalan, to Hill 1,212.

Snow lay on ground- they waited

For order to rise up and attack.

Flora and her soldiers paused

For some time, when order came

To attack at 7 a.m. - as officer she

Led the way, but admitted a flaw.

Her men were faster to arrive first.

Sergeant Sandes closed as fast

As she could to the Bulgarian line

With some others when a grenade

Was thrown into their midst - two

Others in explosion fell wounded.

Close by an officer saw her fall

And crawled across snow to Flora

And dragged her back to rocks;

Pulled by a broken arm caused pain.

Dressed on field and taken away

By stretcher, she praised her rescuers.

Grenade splinters had caused some

25 wounds - with some yet to be

Removed - reporter Calvert spoke

Of her high spirits and her request.

Asking Calvert to gain her a volume

Of Rudyard Kipling especially to read

'If' again; 'the finest poem written'- words

To challenge a son to become a man.

by Jamie Mann.

Calvert, F., 1916. Woman Soldier - Fought In Serbia - Scottish Lady's Medal. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 30 December 1916. P.11. Col.1. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214039/Daily-Telegraph-December-30-1916.html> [Accessed: 11 January 2017].

Source: File: Flora Sandes. Wikipedia. Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Sandes> [Accessed 11 January 2017]

Source: File: Flora Sandes. Ellen Castelow. Available at: <http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Flora-Sandes/> [Accessed 11 January 2017]

Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 11 January 2017). 

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Poem ~ Czech Censure - Wednesday, 6 October 1915

Source: File:  Milan I de Serbia.jpeg, [online] Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_I_of_Serbia> 

Accessed: 6 September 2015].

Based in Sofia the Sobranje, legislature

Of Bulgaria, was to receive a telegram

By a British based Czech National Alliance.

The Sobranje President heard concerns

From Czechs, residing in the countries

Of Russia, France, England and America.

Those who represented Bulgarian people

Would hopefully hear and listen to those

Voices from their Czech Slavonic Brethren.

Unification had been in existence over

Many years, both intellectually, as well

As in previous alliance against Turkey.

While emphasis was to wish Bulgarian

Nation well, they found hard to conceive

How they might raise arms against Slavs.

They had made themselves believe that

Bulgarian Government's view was tactical,

But dangerous, due to prior experience.

Bulgaria was aware of Slavs treatment

By Germany and Austria-Hungary -

So why align selves with those nations?

Had they forgotten Austrophile Policy

Formed by King Milan? Bulgaria would

Merely become a tool of German allies.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1915. Warning From Czechs. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 6 October. P.10. Col.3. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11902203/Daily-Telegraph-October-6-1915.html [Accessed: 6 October 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 6 October 2015). 

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Poíima ~ Ellinikí Ypostírixi tis Servías - Kyriakí, 26 Septemvríou 1915

Pigí : Archeío : Ellinikó Strató Kinitopoiiméno 1915.jpg , [ se apeftheías sýndesi ] Diathésimo sti diéfthynsi: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Army_mobilisation_1915.jpeg > Prospelástike : 26 Septémvri, 2015 ]

Mia synthíki pou ypegráfi to 1913, eíche

Symfonitheí gia tin parochí voítheias Servía,

Eán dechthoún epíthesi
Apó to Vasíleio tis Voulgarías.

Pémpti 24 iméra tou Septemvríou -
Athína, i protévousa tis Elláda ,
Epikyrónetai to mesiméri éna ntoulápi
Synántisi - syzítisi sta sovará.

I anánki ítan chóras Asfáleia -

Elláda éprepe na dei na energísei -
Tin kinitopoíisi ólon ton dynámeon tous.

Aftí i krísimi katástasi metaféretai
Me Ypourgós Venizélos, o opoíos
Odigíthike me to aftokínito apó to Tatói,
Milóntas stená me to vasiliá.

Sto 16:00 Premier Elefthérios
Venizélou me ton vasiliá, dílose
Óti i Elláda chreiázetai na kinitopoiithoún.

I syzítisi aftí akoloutheítai
Me synántisi tou Vasiléos Konstantínou
Ypourgós tou polémou, stratigó Danklí.
Aftó odígise stin diatýposi vrády.

Diafygón sympérasma emfanístike
I móni dynatí apántisi se stási
Tis voulgarikís diadikasía gia pólemo.

19:30 Pémpti 24 Septémvrios,
Ótan stin Elláda tou vasiliá Konstantínou,
Me tin ypografí, édose to vasilikó diátagma
Gia tin kinitopoíisi tou ellinikoú stratoú.

Argótera ekeíni tin iméra, 22:40 eidíseon
Éftase stin Athína, méso tou Týpou
Tis voulgarikís kinitopoíisi.

Me ekdoménon efimerída ekeíni ti nýchta tou,
I prósklisi gínetai gia ólous 21-45
Etón oi ándres na anaféroun, entós
Entós 48 orón apó ti dimosíefsi.

Eíkosi táxeis kaloúntai na tous colourso
Entáchthike i ektísei poiní tessáron?
Étsi ellinikís gis dynámeis kinitopoiíthikan.

I telikí apófasi emfanístike
Stis afíses, topothetoúntai se paráthyra
Tis efimerídas grafeíou tou opoíou
Apotélesma anadévetai stous drómous tis Athínas.

Makriá apó tin patrída, énas Éllinas
Apoikía sto Londíno exéfrase tin ikanopoíisí
Eidíseis apó tin enthousiódi lógia.

Énas ánthropos pou syndéontai me tin politikí
Tis patrídas tou, se dílosi
Na poúme to stoicheío tis pro-Germanías
Exakoloutheí na paraménei sti chóra tou.

I parousía aftón ton anthrópon
Sképsi episkiástike apó
Kómma Elefthérios Venizélos.

 apó ton Jamie Mann.

Anon., 1915. Vasilikó diátagma ypogegramméno. I Daily Telegraph, [ se apeftheías sýndesi ] 25 Septemvríou. R.9. Stíli 4. Diathésimo se: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11885769/Daily-Telegraph-September-25-1915.html [prospélasi: 26 Septémvri tou 2015 ].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 chrónia prin - Poiímata apó ton Jamie Mann. [ epistolí ] ( Prosopikí epikoinonía tis 26is Septemvríou 2015).

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