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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1949.
THE
ROYAL MEMOIRS
By H.R.H. THE DUKE OF
Wartime
WINDSOR
Weariness
How about a few castollated baitlements along the new Grest Wall in Nathan Road? Not only would it incronso" the #pathetic beauty of this monumental work, but on those special security machine, manoeuvres days, the dauntless 70 trundle (who have been screened) could then parade up and down the But on it pedalled hundreds, parapet pecking about for subver even thousands, of miles collective types like hotel residents, in material for reports, Inspect inge camps, and meeting thousands of people.
·
It was not until May 1915 | shrapnel over the car, Sir John, pany on my left had fallen back, heavy, 'cumbersome that I managed to shed Sir John French peremptorilly ordered me exposing our loft flank, a nasty which wan tough to French's cronica and join the back to headquarters.
business! I myself was wounded through the mod. staf of
Only after I had assured him But seizing the hunting horn Lieut-General Sir Charles Munro, commanding the that i was not in the car when the shell struck, but had, in fact, First Crops in the Bethune eft it some minutes before, dio
he rescind the order.
sector.
An army
corps headquarters was closer to the front lines than the Supreme Headquarters, but, as I complained to my father, it still fell short of a young soldier's idoni.
May 19, 1915. As regards myself it's always office work of various kinda, and I never ace cything or go near the front....
In Confusion At one stage during the battle I had the job of directing trafic at a crossroads in a forgotten villago just behind the front.
Ankle-doop In mud, I watched two grcan
divisions
Ko past during the night, clanking sloshing in the rain.
Next day there
divisions broke under murderous German ro and streamed back in con- fusion, throwing away their rifles and greatcoats,
anel
which I always kept strapped to my bell, I blow a blast which rallied my men and... But alas nothing so dramatic ever happened lo me.
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Can't Mandrake whisper'"Quean Eb-" to those Unofficials of ours?
of 34 countries, wre
My brother officers laughed at of gotting around, but they missed. So now we hear that 700 repre- me for preferring this hard way the point, Just aa had my first sentatives bicycle at Sandringham, my Army meeting for "tap secret? irado bicycle opened up for me an un- talks.
To think our grandmothers are! expected new world.
to say that even three mey eduld keep a secret only if two of them were dend....
officer can have his memorias, I even an insignificant staff was in Erypt in 1910: on the Somme
(once more under. Lord Cavan who had meanwhile been given conimand
XIVU of the Corps) all through the infamous
Vt 1910-17 winter, and through Pass- Italy for the chendaele, then in
asi yoar of the war.
I saw the routed Italion Second
streamly
from Caporetto, and at Treviso, aland. ing near Lord
I Hatened Covan. Then up came the Guards, in one of the finest exhibitions of Cadorna cursed Socialism as the talk so casually about global war,
with
fascination
General discipline ever seen on any battle-force which had rotted his army. fold.
two
KIERNAN to Olga and Bill on April,
Cy 14th Thursday, the
104, at the Kowloon Hospital, the gift of a son.
IMPROVED
GOVERNMENT
It is difficult to gauge the xtent of public interest in he proposals for govern- ment reform in Hong Kong, but there is no doubt that some citizens-most vocally represented by the Reform Club-are taking up
the matter with commendable enthusiasm.
I feel that in later yours I shall ever regref the fact that I was out so long in North France
and
pot Saw practically nothing of the fighting or get any pro.. per idea of what our troops had to go through,
I shall have to remember the war by the various towns and placen for back which were headquarters of general. I was attached to, of monis, etc. Bul I have said enough!...
Kept On Ice
Now, I have never been much of a philosopher, and perhaps on that account I was a long time in identifying the true nature of my frustration.
the original reason why I was not allowed to fight that I might be captured and thus provide the had by this time ceased to have enemy with a valuable hostage
Yesterday and today, our indefatigable correspondents "W" and Charles Loseby pro-validity. bounded their own views an the subject, and their com- ments should at least give their contemporaries to think. It is, indeed, most essentia! that citizens examine all as- pects of this matter with con- centration and care. One of hese days the bill for a Municipal Council will be announced, and it is impor- tant that the public be pre- pared to
their express opinions on it.
ww" queried the Gov- ernor's recorded remarks that any proposal which has he backing of the Unofficial Members will receive the fullest consideration. In point of fact there can be no doubt that an alternative scheme put forward by any representative body of people would be given just as much attention us one sponsored by in Unofficial Member. What is wanted is the honest view- points of the potential vot-
crs.
Mr. Loseby probably voices the opinion of a largo sec- tion of the community when he repeats his claim that the scheme Municipal Council
hould be scrapped, and that nstead the existing Legisla- tive Council should be re- vitalised and made "demo- cratic." He admires those representatives of important business interests, Mr. Morse and Mr. Landale, for coming out with similar suggestions. Such
would, of move course, incur another pro- tracted delay, but as we have already waited a century, a few more months would be well spent if it resulted in
the formation of something
really worth while.
The assertion by Mr. Loseby that the present legls- lature does not enjoy the confidence of the public gen- erally because they represent only vested interests may
My first
back
Even now, after three decades, still meet men who will aud denly say: "The last time I saw you, you were on your bicycle on the road to Poperinghe," or Mon tauban, or any one of a hundred French villages.
i a amazed when I hear the young veterans of this Inst wat
In Right An airplana rushes acrosa ridge, was over the lines near Ypres,inents.
Topping the flaming company by company, in tended order rifles alung, moved into the attack down the had shrapnel-raked bill before Loos, as unconcerned as if on training manoeuvres at Pirbright,
ex Art in an observation post alop they the rubble of Langemarck Church my closest call, being suddenly bracketed early one qules morning by two nonr misses and diving to safety as the third hit en plutn.
slugging
10
Pounds taken lable to be impounded.
Britain are
That Swiss bear töist, "I give you the foam," should find favour with our local Caledonians,
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with its whirlwind seops and Oceans and con- The
war which any generation tought, and in which more than breakfast
If you don't like "Smokies" for (nce advt.) stick to 1,000,000 Britishers perished, was "bacies" and "oggles" and "as- a different proposition relent- ess
ties." match, contented with congestion and In animal-like
Strango luminous objectă ste fall the reported shooting at high speed first day on the Somme; the neross the US. aklos. Probably In a field near the flouthular slaughter went on at Arras and just the world's biggest long-range Forest 1 crouched for an hour
Paaschendaele.
Braffics. Whether this cold and high- with the Welsh Guarda whilst a I have only to close my eyes minded Scot became too absorbed French battery shelled us enthu to see unce inore those awful
My Friends
December General Sir Douglas Halg succeeded Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces.
It Taught Me
which
shall removed
over
1.000
dackboards winding
When you see saucers you are
in his strategic planning to worry siastically in the belief that we carred bat:lefiokla; miles a liable to do in your cups. or whether it was because of my standing over the safety of a more Prince, were thu
miles of enomy misunder- | **
of mud: column was happily across a son a fine dine ni
of heavily
indel
anen trudging up to the front: columns of men trudging back, their vitallly gone, their eyes dead.
continuous "needling,"
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AFTER THE WAR was over my public duties as Prince of Wales Increased and my visite to the slums began to open my eyes to social problems.
never know, but thereafter, except the battery commander's for a hard-and-fast directive that that night. I was ander no circumstances to rejoin the Grenadiers as a com- bat officer, the policing of my movements in the forward aress was relaxed.
Manifestly I was being kept, so to speak, on ice, against the day that death would claim my good father.
But in the midst of all the laughter of the Western Front, I found it hard to reconcile myself to this unique dispensation.
My generation had a rendezvous with history, and my whole being Inelated that I share the common destiny whatever it might be.
At Loos During this period I had been in the practice of slipping
waiting my friends in the various Guards regiments, and matching quick glimpses of the war.
the front lines on my own,
well be true, and-whatever Guderick
Lambart,
mess
I remember the blood-stained ahreds of khaki and tartan; the ground grey with corpses; mired horses struggling as they drowned In shellholes.to
My being a staff officer did not Inake me immune to the combat soldier's fatalism. On the Somme in 1910, watching the Guards move up to the attack, I had burned with desire to be
with chom:-
Oh!
to be Aghting with those grand fellows and not sitting back here doing so little as com- pared to them who are sacrifle- ing their vesi There could ba no fines death and of ons was spared, how proud. one would feel to have been through it.. "
But after seeing the great offensives begin with opilmism
Soviet cracks down on jiva.
Trae Reda renounce the pumba, And tangos are taboo, Such forms of fascist bunndhugs Good_party_mon eschew,
Joe Stalin loves not jitterbugs, Nor, when he's near, do you! A cautious comrade always will Such wrongdoing" be wary at Low terpsichorean tricks which
Become the proletariat, Let decadent democraclos Adoro such dervish calfa. In figure walls and polka, fret The Leninite exults;. For should his fest forgetful
stray
To foreign steps inferior, They load him very far away Tp, somewhere in Biberia)..
Actor wants to be pilot, To from mumming to humming?
When Count Sforza mentions
and valour, then fizzle out into Abyssinin," it always sounds nothingness from sheer loss of "goodbye" to the Ethiopians-the
life and human exhaustion, I in
time shared the weariness and way he BAYS 11.
cynicism of the front line.
By
Passchendaele, a
of
The amount theso Shanghal
the general
your later, disillusionment. the Buckers sink in "Fairypool is andlessly repeated scones
certainly fantantastic... carnage--not to mention several narrow escapes of my own-had done their work.
"Dear: Papa,
A big push is on toward the Steonobeck River and Lange- marck village....What the ground must be like tonight I shudder to think, and we have completely obliterated all roads West of Pilekem be shell fro... I'm writing this in the office
"Mayday" no often in hot looking What warlord who has bollard forward to this one?
in combats one 'dosa apprecia their combat when one hĩa bean forward and seen, what it's - Niken in the line now The nearest thing
possible
hall, whatever
that is!"
ما
major attached to the Canadian Armistice Day found mea as I'm on watch, or night-duty, Corps at Mons, where the British very cold Forces had met their initial re-
as they and
call it
it, and it'
a
de-
other
damp, and still pouring in sheets, the rain making
verse in 1914. My mind had al- prossing pattering noise on the early begun to turn to
roof of the hut!
matters: telephone is ringing fairly often, so I don't suppose I shall get much sleep tonight.
"But how thankful I am to think I am not living forward tonight and am sitting back here
Un
T
yot my
war
And, neodless to say, I got my first lesson in crap-shooting from the Americans on the floor of the mess at General Pershing's headquarters at Chaumont, though I was happy with the Guards- not from the CONTA himself. as happy, anyway, as it was pos- I have no desire to enn
to emphasise sibio to be in war. Many of the my obscure, and no doubt super- young officers were my friends. I duous, role in a great war; knew them from the children's in a manner of specking parties at Mariborourgh House, or education was completed in from Oxford, the Bath Club, and if not exactly as my tutors had
| Intended. West End parties.
It was completed not by book ΑΒ I wrote
my father:-
theory, but through the I am.
very pleased to experience of living under Join this magnificent DIV. kinds of conditions with all sorts where are all my friends and, of men. what is more, the friends of
my friends at what I The Guards
me
You know
Was
or
Memories
บ
But these aurreptitious vinita proved unnecessary after Septem- bor 1915, when I was appointed
But I learned about war chiefly to the staff of Major-Genera:
great elub; And If tinged with on a bicycle. I was constantly (later Field-Marshal) Lord Cavan, Anobbishness, it was the snobbish back and forth between various commanding the newly formed ness of tradition, discipline, per- headquarters, and although en-
Division,
fection, and sacrifico.
titled to scheme is eventually adopt-
staff car, I seldom feel that I was one of uned one within our area.. ed, it is obviously imperative tenth Earl of Cavan or "Fatty" them--wore the shock troops of The motor cars of the bra55- that the unofficials must be
to his
brother officers-Was a the British Army; our prestige hats hanked infantrymen off the popularly elected. It might Grenadier of my father's gen was purchased in blood
road into dilches, splashed mud, Clearly, tho wall-established and, even under the best of eir Well be that the big business eration, a gentle man in the best
sense of the word, deoply proud traditions of the houses could be granted re-
story-book cumstances, word an irritating
tions of his life, 'commanding the at this point: It was on the of staff life. 1st Battalion of his regiment, and | Fiera-Lesbooufs road; being Master of the Hertfordshire Hounds.
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