WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1931.
FEARLESS LEADER IN THE WAR
COL.
JOHN SHERWOOD-KELLY,
V.C.
WOUNDED FIVE TIMES
REMOVED FROM HIS COMMAND FOR
WRITING A LETTER.
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Lieut. Col. John Sherwonn-Kelly, who
was awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery and fearless leadership in the war, died on August 15 in Kensington nursing home, nged 61 years,
He had been suffering for some of time from the after-effects malaria contracted during his ser- vice in the Far East, and had been Lwo or in the nursing home for three weeks,
At the time Col. Sherwood-Kelly earned the Victoria Cross he was
an neting colonel of the Norfolk Regiment, but commanding a bat talion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Leading The Charge.
In announcing the award the London Gazette on January 11, 1918, stated that it was.
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"I saw British money poured out like water and invaluable British lives sacrificed In backing up. a worthless Government, and I be- came convinced that my duty to my country lay not in helping to forward a mistaken golicy, but in exposing it to the British public."
Arrest and Court-Martial. Intense excitement was aroused by the publication of this letter, and questions were asked in the House of Commons.
Mr. Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for War, stated in Parliament that Col. Sherwood- Kelly had been removed from his tommand" at Archangel by Lord Rawlinson for a serious offence
its
JAPAN AND HER
ARMY.
Proposed Increase of Korean Garrison,
OFFICIAL VIEWS,
THE
MAIL.
CHINA
CORONER ON DANGER OF KISSING DOGS.
Possible Fatal Result.
CANINE PARASITE'S EGGS.
Hints have been thrown out that,' The danger that people incur by whoever else may follow a cheese- kissing and feeding dogs white wae, the paring policy, fit, un doubt, for the having their own meals bourgeoisie in a time of economic subject of commont by the West stringency, the Japanese War Office minster Corener at an inquest on to Maria Linnell, aged 69, a widow, of bas more important matters
Rosebery Road, Exmouth. consider.
According to the recommenda- tions of the report of the Military System Inquiry Commission, which has the appyval of General Minami, Minister for War, General Kanaya, Chief of the General Stall, and General Muto, inspector General of Military Education, money may be necessary to spend saved in various directions, but it is beclutely
Leonard H. Linnell, of North Wembley, a go, said that when his mother came to stay with him she seemed to be ill, and she was taken to hospital for an operation.
At Exmouth his mother had a of which she wire-haired terrier was very fond. She would kiss the The medical evidence was that animal and feed it at every meal. every penny of it on "mechanisation" when the operation was performed and "chemicalisation," specific lines a hydatid cyet, the size of a coco mentioned being aeroplanes, manut, was found, and part of it was motor- removed. The patient died shortly field-gum, chine-guns, transport, armoured and other, and after, and death was due to hemor poison-yne equipment. On the other rhage following the operation.
Dr John Taylor stated that hand, the aa of a reduction in personnel or even in horses in con-hydatid cysts were caused by the demned as impairing the efficiency minute eggs of a canine parasite.
The Coroner: Could this lady of the defences, so eays the Kobe correspondent of the Manchester have got this lafection from the dog's mouth by kissing it? Yes, Guardion.
possibly.
Formosa's Needs. Actually, the heads of the army are prepared for some reduction in numbers in Japan proper, but they larger garrisons abroad. insist on As regards Formosa, they agree, that it must have a new battery of field artillery and another infantry regiment. This is simply stated, without any argument or explana tion. There are more details given in regard to the-proposed increase in the Korean garrison, though one might have expected more rather The Minister for War. indeed, took care to explain that it was not on account of any necessity for keeping the Koreans in order that the gar- rison was to be enlarged., Troops were wanted in Korea for purely
under the Army Act. He is now charged with an offence of a different character," Mr. Churchill for most conspicuous bravery said, in regard to which disci and fearless leading when
action must take plinary party of men of another unit de-
course." tailed to cover the passage of Col. Sherwood-Kelly wrote a fur- the canal by his battalion were ther letter to the Fress explaining held up on the near side of the his differences with Lord Rawlin- canal by heavy rifle fire directed on and the reasons why he was on the bridge. Lieut. Col. Sher-relieved of his command in Arch- wood-Kelly
angel. Shortly afterwards he was covering fire, personally led the placed under arrest for contraven- than less discretion on this point. leading company of his battalioning the King's Regulations by across the canal, and, after cross-writing, to the Press on military ing reconnoitred under, heavy matters. The same day he was rifle and machine-gun fire the released "without prejudice." high ground held by the enemy. On October 28, 1919, the Colonel
The left flank of his battalion.
was court-martialled at the Mid- advancing to the assault of this dlesex Guildhall, and pleaded guilty objective, was held un by a thick to contravening the King's regula belt of wire, whereupon
tions. He contended that the
al
oney
ordered
ha
strategic purposes, because, in the event of military action becoming
necessary in Manchuria or Mongo-
Or by handling the dog and then handling her own food? Yes.
The coroner said this was not the first case of the kind that he had inquired into.
He recorded a verdict of death by, misadventure.
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SAMPAN MASTER FINED.
(Marine Court). The master of a passenger sam pan was charged this morning by Junk Officer Brett with (1) falling to take out a licence for his boat, and (2) having an unauthorised He denied number on the boat. both charges.
Evidence was given by Mr. Brett that a licence, which the accused
SCHOOLGIRLS OF TO-DAY.
Freedom's Gift of Self-Reliance.
A GREAT CHANGE.
Proin schobla all over England girls have corte home for the holl- days and have dispersed with their the seaside. They are parents to prepared to be kind to their parents, who, in return, will treat them as rational creatures and not attempt to order them about without a clear understanding of the why and wherefore. The old parental "Be- causa 'I say to" is dead as the dodo, writes O. M. Green in the Daily Telegraph.
Were'
Of all the changes that have England in the past thirty or forty years the handling come over of schoolgirls shows the greatest. Even in the nineties many girls never went to school but Laught at home by governesses. Games on an, organised scale were but more or less casually. Girls had hardly known. Tennis was played, begun to bicycle, and hockey came In at the end of the century. But at many schools in Brighton, East- bourne, and elsewhere, the prin cipal exercise was walking on the Front in u
"crocodile." Bathing was strictly secluded, and still prac tised in the stufflest costumes. The notion of mixed bathing would have given the 'nineties fits. .
I was invited not long ago to a display at a girls school, They fenced like Cyranoa, danced with the grace and agility of young pan thers, and wound up with an exhibi- tion of swimming and diving. 'Bare legs and feet, shining limbs, and costumes of which four together. would not have made one for the Victorian girl. How their grand- up mothers would ance have held their hands. Yot even grand mothers can be educated, Several of them watched the display with evident, pleasure, and some of them smoked cigarettes as they watched.
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As for the girls education, there can surely be no question of Its
crossed to that flank, and with a offence was purely technical, and is, they could be dispatched with produced and which correspondèd vast improvement on the ways of
Lewis gun team forced his way, under heavy fire through obsta cles, got the gun into position on the far side, and covered the ad-
vance of his battalion through the wire, thereby enabling them
to capture the position.
General
correspondence was produced to much more promptitude and celerity disprove the suggestion of insub from Korea than From Japan pro- ordination in Russia.
per, and without exciting the feel- "Loyalty to the Throne is withings of the Powers." me a paramount ideal," he said. Kanuya, in endorsing this view, also "I have sacrificed everything to said that now was the time to do
It, while General Ugaki
carry those ideals into action.
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Later he personally led have nothing left but a soldier's Governor General of Korea.
honour, so I plead with you to believe that the action I took was
charge against some pita from which a heavy fire was being directed an his men, captured the pits, together with five machine-guns and 4G prisoners, and killed a large number of the enemy...
The great gallantry displayed
by this willeor throughout the day
An Expensive Plan, The Military System Inquiry
to protect my men's lives and to Commission were unanimous as, re- eave the country from squandering gards the necessity for transfer- wealth she could ill afford."
ring an additional army division to
some
with the number on his boat, was
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the past. Charming the Victorian
issued for a simpan measuring 14 girls indeed were, perhaps not least feet 3 inched, whereas the accused's for a certain mystery surrounding boat measured only 11 feet 8 then which this practical age dis- dains. But they had to go through inches.
The accused said that he had the twp or three very awkward years, boat built for him at Shaukiwan about the time when theft frocks four years ago, and took out the were going down and their hair for it. He going up, and the still prevalent licence (produced) renewed the icence three months idea of marriage as the only career for them necessarily narrowed their outlook. The fact that practically every girl now trains for a profes sion has a great influence on her mode of thought.
ugo.
Was
It
Was the boat The Magistrate:
you measured when casured then Yes
And the year before that? No.
By order of the Court Col. Sher Koren, but they expressed wood-Kelly was "severely repri- doubts regarding the possibility of renewed it last year?—No.
But all this gym., Girl Guide
manded." A few weeks later he, carrying through in its entirety b
a major, relinquished expensive a plan, and alternatives It was measured when I first took werk, mime, and especially the
until then
inspired the greatest confidence his commission "on completion of have been suggested. Even the out the licence, and again three superb discipline and stimulus of
service," and was granted the rank most enthusiastic militarists can months ago on renewal.
of lleutenant-colone).
Tackling A Heckler.
ed in despatches. He had four him out of the, hall. clasps to his Queen's Medal and two clasps to his King's Medal,
British Lives Sacrifleed.
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Greek dancing, have done wonders in his men, and it was mainly
Was the number burned into. It for the schoolgirl. The late Mme. by his example und devotion to
hardly hope for an increased Budget
feeds the mind" is "justified in duty that his battalion were en-
allotment unless there is some im- when you first took out the licence? Pavlova's dictum that "true dancing abled to capture and hold their
In giving his decision, his Wor-every one of these delightful chil- In 1923 and 1924 Col. Sherwood-mediate danger threatening: but-No,
a hodily poise. They objective. Col. Sherwood-Kelly, who was. Kelly unsuccessfully contested the the presentation of such a formid-
correspond with the movement. educated at St. Andrew's College, Clay Cross division of Derbyshireable list of expenses necessary for ship said: "I cannot imagine that dren. It has given them a mental, Grahamstown, joined the Rhodesian in the Conservative interest. At the adequate defence of Japan may the officer lecusing the boat took as well as
at least to keep the wrong measurements, and furthermore gracefully and their mannera
Even if such a Police when he was 17. He after-one of his meetings a heckler call be expected wards served in the South African ed him a liar, and when the man estimates from being cut down. failed in his duty by not burning After the dancing and swimming campaign, and for his bravery was refused to withdraw the epithet the The army is in a very strong posi- in the number. promoted on the field and mention-colonel thrashed him and threw tion owing to the Minister for War mistake did happen it could not have described above, the girls handed and the Chief of the General Staff been repented when the licence was about tea and showed us over the
ticular hostess of the afternoon:
* this licence being for another boat. In 1927 he was sent to Bolivia to enjoying equal rights with the renewed. Everything points to school as if each one were, the par- report on the affairs of Bolivia Premier of advising the Throne,..
The talk of the prompt dispatch You are convicted on both counts." On the first count accused was Concessions, Ltd., of which Lord
for themselves, and say it with Aakwith and Sir Martin Conway, of troops to Manchuria or Mongolia times and mentioned five times in M.P., were directors. He opened has rather sinister auggestions. fined $1 or four days hard labour, despatches, and in addition to the up the country with a view to the Relations do not improve, and the and on the other to $15 or V.C. was awarded the C.M.G. and settlement of British colonists, rising tide of nationalism in China weeks' in jail, the terms of impri- much freshness and force. Book- the D.S.O. After the Armistice he Roads and railways were built, and covers Manchuria, also, leading to sonment to run consecutively in the learning seems to be rather a commanded the 2nd Hampshire for the first time direct communi- demands, for the economie circum- event of the fines not being paid.secondary consideration, unless they Regiment in Northern Russia, and pation from Buenos Aires was vention at the South Marichuria on his return to England in 1919 established up the Paraguay River, Railway. At the same time, there he wrote a letter to the Press and a new port was made. 1,000 in a decreased willingness to accept strongly criticising the conduct of miles inland. Later, however, the the help of the South Manchuria colonisation scheme was abandon- Railway in constructing railway military operations there.
lines for the common benefit. One sent' ed. He suggested that troops for relief purposes only "were After the King had completed from Tunhua to the Korean border, at Craigwell which had great, possibilities both being used for offensive purposes his convalescence
In the war he was wounded five
two
A WEEK'S DISEASES.
Another Imported Case of Typhoid Fever.
60 TUBERCULOSIS DEATHS.
Easy and natural, without being
forward, they have plenty to say
are cramming for the matric. But literature is evidently well taught..) All the girls I know-and. I do not think they are exceptional really cularly Shakespeare, and the best delight in the old classics, parti- moderna. Curiously enough, Dickens appears to bore them. Is it that their selftrellant young natures con- The official return of diseases not. endure the stained glass. Jächry- on a large scale and far in the House, Bognor, Col., Sherwood-economic and strategic, the Chinese interior, in furtherance of some Kelly became the agent of Sir have refused to go on with, notwith- and deaths during the week end-mose heroines whom bis age ambitious plan of campaign the Arthur du Cros, the owner of the standing much pressure, Shared September 19, is as follows:
house, and made arrangements for disputes; in which Koreanim- 31 showing it to visitors. Under his migrants to Manchuria are the Typhoid fever.. guidance some 15,000 people saw catspaws, are frequent and disturb Cerebrospinal fever. the rooms which had been occuploding. The appointment of a veteran Diphtheria by his Majesty, pota
nature of which we were not allow
ed to know. A
"My personal experience of those operations," he said, "was that they were not oven well conducted, and that they were not calculated to benefit in a military or other, senen a sound and practical British policy in Russia,
CABLE RECEIPTS.
any
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One case of typhoid fever was
diplomatist, Count Uchida, as Tuberculosis Col. Sherwood-Kelly was an in-president of the South Manchuria trepid hunter of big game, a keen Railway is regarded, pa specially imported.
significanti horsemen, and a skilled exponent
of tennis, cricket, Rugby, and golf.
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£934,326 Receipts. August, 1080 -£411,090.
Aggregate Receipts, January to
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Canes Deaths In a word, education for the modern girl seems to have its pro- per sense of drawing out, of teach ing her to think for herself, 'to know what she likes and why.
Withal sho.is.nothing of a príg.. She has in her all the original sin that girls have ever had and more. She loves pink sugar, cakes and murreptitious chocolate when lights are out in the dormitórys Outward ly matter-of-fact, she is as feminine at heart as girls of the past; and if she knows more than they did rather startlingly more perhaps 28she is the better able to take” car
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On Monday two cases. of typhoid fever and one of diphtheria were notified.
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