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FRE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDIN-
TARS GENERAL MEETING of the Company, adjourned on 29th June
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ant will be held at the Offices of the NORTH General Managers, Messrs. JARDINE, HITUMSON & CO. LTD Des Voeux Road, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, Ist November, at Noon, for the purpose of recairing the Report of the Directors,
the Arcounts, and electing cture and Auditors.
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the German offensive which was to end What has Sir Douglas Haig not done the war. There were more dark days in his four tears and mors in France for a British Army overwhelmed by nurs that an accomplished and intrepid sol bers. The Back to the Wall" order AN AMERICAN APPRECIATION.dier should do? With Sir Horace Smithheld its ranks Jaciniabic.
Dorrien, his fellow coryn commander, hg
One of the ablest soldiers the war has produced dices not speak for himself, or about himself. He praises others, and
PERSONALLE.
more than vace saved the British Army This Scotch geatlom son of Mr. on its retread frata Mons. Its historian, John Haig of Ramornic, in Fife, who idjor Ernest *. Hamilton, says that commands 2,000,000 British and Colonial one hundred Victoria Crosses were cat troops, is in the prime of life at 57, ed on that glorious retirement for every tall, the, well kalt, consumate is slow to censure. Sometimes his one given. Dae-third of the expedition-horseman, fair of complexion, blue of Government his failed to send him reinary army sleep the Tong sleep in France eye, in manner gracious, reserved, but forcements when his need of them was Smith-Derries, whose health broke down kindly I Have rarely seen a mascu- sore; but he has not egmplained. Inler, the strain, and Haig, the man of line face so handsons and yet so strong,
iron, vied with each other in fighting says ous who tried to interview him. more than four years of war he has rearguard, actions until flesh and blood He shuns publicity, An industrious siways been at the Front, engaged with could endure no more. The escape student of the profession of prms, it is rare respite in what may be called inten-remnants of brigades bordered on the said the he never commanded a larger sive fighting, often of the most desperate miraculous. We shall have to hold on body of men than à regiment in battle character. The wonder is that he had Sir Douglas Haig on one desperate the genial Duke of Cambridge secated her's for a while if we all die for it, before the great war. The infrence of gone through the ordeal with a sound occasion. The British Army was always him a commission alter be, had been p brain and strength apparently unimpair holding on every extrication from thejected for detective eyesight. Sir John ed. There have been three commanders German envelopment was like a foriors Franch ved him from drowning in the of the French Anues since mid-Decem bops Smith Darien, be of the eagle Midder River in the Boer War, ber, 1915, but only one commander of and massive jaw, was never hupel Lacky Hnig hebas always been the British
again. Sir Douglas Hug, who did got called. Fife predicted, the war with Get- take life so tragically, lived through many in a letter to Field-Marshal Sir. Has any other softier in history been many dark days with pipame of glory.
Evelyn Wood years ago. He has refused exposed to a greater strain" upon his
The first Epres battle was as touch-and- Iscuitica thon Sir Douglas Haig has a go a business anything experienced is dures and triumphed over in the last the retreat from Months 7th Dizisica Urder of the Thistle. He has owed mach three years less three months? Yet all 13,000 strong when it left England, to pristocratic connections, but in- that is known of him by Americans, and lost 13 ofheres to 400 and 9,864 finitely more to the virtues of his rore | by most of his countrginea, for that mal-med, On the darkest day, when all and to inherent scldierly qualities. He in hsdlines. It is imposible to doped Sie Dargles Haiz and ter, is that his name Agures a good deal, seemed lest, down the Menin road galas keen sense of humour. He is bever visibly angry.y:Hom, In the purple and sociate him froin the British Army On escort of the 17th Lancers, shells falling soldiers saldier Thare are many favourite at Court and Mayfair, he is September 10 Field Marshal Haly in an thick about there to encourage the falter Hairs on the British Army List, but only order of thy day thanked it for ite valobing theps-for no other reason, the Sir Donging, Modest, and indikerent and devotion.
General's place being behind the Une to fame, he will be reckoned acc The rupture of 75,000 prisoners and
as at Chelavethe
the great commander of the greatest 750 guns in the course of toli veeld
with Sir
war in history fighting speaks for the magnitude your John French, who had given an order efforts and the moguli-dace of your for the Army to fall back when a courier. achievement sage fra Wigan todete up to way that the Germans were retiring. Bir Charjes zclorence, an
On another day. stord on a rond
his smart
For orce 1 Haig, so be signs hip Irish Dame showed more emotion than wan
the enemy's dine and aver wrong, from him belgre by Auscem turned. tide of bat or failure:
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