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THE CHINA, MAIL,' - WEDNESDAY, JULY 25; 1956.
The Guilty Men Of Gallipoli
"I
By GEORGE THOMSON
go on a military expedition ship making a 5.000-word entry against Constantinople."
оп
SUDDENLY gomery." He allowed Junior uneasy, swept by rumours,
with the realise," wrote the commanders to change his plan, the edge of revolt,
and Young Turks (extreme nation- fost control of the batilo young poet, "that
falled to impress his will upon alists) ready to destroy the elly, the ambition of my life has Kitchener and the War Office, including St. Sophia, rather thin
two-to On a critical night in the battle, have it fall into Allied hands. been-since I was
Hamilton was on board a battle- In Petersburg, the Tear de- crees that no Greek soldier shall enter Constantinople,
the suggested. The city British had is Russie's to dispose of. In London, doubts and hopes fight a fluctuating battle. One by one the chief personages are brought into the beam of light.
NO IRON
named Rupert The poet, Brooke, spoke for thousands of his generation in the April dry
Fir those excital and of 1913 ardent young men th. Gallipoli expedition held everything that The sewer: war could hel Greek, the land were Homeric, the prize wue Byzantium; vie- tory could mean i swift ending to the war,
in his diary:
لالة
than Unk
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"Should the Fates 10 decree, the whole brave Army
during may disappear night more dreadfully that
Sennacherib, assuredly they will noL STAT
der,
selen
much * dark," etc., etc.
Enver, Taladt and the gûrish There
in fact. three Turkka adventures of the rul-
Goil- In the inspired leaders
ing clique; Wangenheim, German poll fighting.
Constantinople. Ambassador who (1)Roper Keyes, RN,
a man of truculent humour: пwore that The Navy alone, Hamilton, energetic and clever, "Should be a Traning accepting reasonable risks, could but without iron in his soul.
TURNING POINT?
wx
Pint M
Irvoice. be.
asked History?" sure that they would
Collpoll was the one mugins- dive project in the strategy of uie 1914-18 war Alan Moore head tells in Gallipoli" how the great design was botched--
a torrent of ineptitudes by. Bad security, Inadequate plant:
14
Fatty preparations;
And almost total
fanure
In
leadership.
A
Way
the through
Sca Into the
to Constan-
of
and so
batter Dardanelles Marmaro tinople und victory.
(2)-John Monash, Australion Jew and only soldier of genius thrown up by the whole British Commonwealth in the 1914-18
From the highest of the War Lords.
the battaliota down to commanders, it is possible
1
because
TOO TIMID
ok
WELT
מן
They are picked out in curi, Moorhead, emphal portraits.
graphic but highly self-
writer, conscious
« brillant reposter with a precious stylist at his elbow, can be tricked into phrase which catches the eye even if it cheats the mind.
well-managed
leיT
story
10
Kemal. (3) Mustapha Trankish divisional commander moves forward vivaciously
Mes conclusion. The Turkish fanatical Rghting spirit,
Runners fight with wild fang- Uclan, while on Iman chants the prayers. The young men of Allied nations charge with
REVOLT
Keyes, arguing his ease with the
the
10
The
New!
TEMPTATION OF ST. ADENAUER
IT'S
Warid Copyright by srinagement with the Muschener Quardian
NO
The Day L Threw The Milk At Matron
By Robert Morley *
HEN I
WAB
was at necessity of getting ow' facta school I
a right before starting a row.
I am reminded of this when I robel, although read of yet another school-
only a timid one. But I remaster who is struggling to reino member the burning sense the one of his school by weed-
Mr Bruce Lockhart, the head
of injustice I suffered in ng out his less-promising pupils, one matter. It concerned a master shortage of milk.
School
of complaining be-
in Norfolk, is
them- causo some of his pupils are end- and there ing their days in comfort in the
Tho profects helped a:lves too
Huernity
was never enough left for us third form--the lowest form of small dry.
the senior school.
Mr Bruce Lockhart is not im- pressed, as 1
I am by the ing of any boy who can make himself comfortable at a British public school; he is con- templating a purge. He alma to number of the and reduce the inefficient, boys in his charge by
We were not encouraged to complain
to the matron, but ano day, unable to bear it any longer guity
I must have been fonder of milk then than 1 am now - 1 waited until the barge milk jug arrived at ny and of the table edvanced and, acizing upon for
Irer. "Not
11 milk to sacking them.
go 4ound as usual,
told her, and then
the
+
direction with in her magnificent gesture of disdain
I have never seen a woman so drenched in milk before or siner.
I was, of course, soundly and deservedly logged and I learned But valuable basson. me Important, I demonstrated in front of the whole school the
a
vert
FUN
BEING A DUKE
I
If there is one school to which
I would never send a child It is the one presided over by a hand
master
who Imagines he CITI distinguish between the sheep and the goats and then proceeds
the goats. discard
to
Not that I should worry it any was mistaken for a goal.
child was
I Ben concerned for
T is no fun being & the Paarl Club when they reached England...and found that sheep who are left
duke and #L large sent for me to the land-owner. Back in house. It was a newspaper
1953
was happily reporter on the telephone the responsibilities I had inherited father, the 12th were far greater than I had anticipated
Į
and He said there was a report apricots growing peaches one moment on my that
my
the poor
The
in the flock. Obedient shop; diligen stacep above all, uniform sheep. schoolmasters particular paide It, damn let's face it, Joy, but,
to set dull sheep, with no one them the bad example, to show them how easy it is to jump the gate or stand up to the sheepdog.
and
to bitter vehemence to the verge an exulation soon to be stifled
Put you don't want and never to be regained. truco a chain of responsutrally of ineuit
10 repulse, stajemote for the disaster Morehead your share of the glory, there end
fur are some soldiers who do") was changed counsels, the arrival of Lo speak leaves the facts
overborne by timid superiors. Humilton's replacement General themselves,
$4 Churchill Perhaps he should have said Monash was a brigadier-general Monro, who was
said, "an officer 0 quick and still unknown the naentive Perhaps #nore should include u
Mustapha Kemat took contrul decision. He came, he saw, he resonant cheap-
is f which
critical capitulated, Judgment
battle -ኮ
NO CAMBLE measured out to the guilty Hus moment, when Anzac troops had a key ridge iri the the
Moorehead Forty years after, forical justice seems to demand reached
Gallipoli hills Nothing in the
sees Gallipolt, not as # reckless Turk 13
Moors- tinn head's accoun
the berserk Barnble, but as an imaginative which, had it have saved would Gallipoli, it is clear, was tot Turk's inspired response to the exception "I don't order succeeded. extreme períš. shaond
three Lo because
of slaughter. yours tuit his attack," he
million lives. Perhaps Russia generals sendingt imen inte hope you less slaughter 1 was lost - not troops, "I order you to die. once but several times over- They died, and the Dardanelles would not have signed a separ- Perhaps there would peace.
farm in South Africa, when Duke, was missing. Was it and was saved for Turkey. Kenerals
in Revolution TO have been
I suddenly found myself true? Petrograd in 1917. The Turkish and not
the into
nothing I said I knew The judicious reader going pitchforked Iratzah leader of getS
the further, will say that Gallipoli,
thousands about it, I did not believe on the sxd, and had
given reasonable
competence peerage, heir to
and 1 true, power and the will to act
tradition, to be allenced by his With speed and skill Moore and courage in the high com- of English acres, a historic it could be
seat and a load of worry, went back to my
game of
elders or even to agree with hi head sets the stage for the great mand, could have succeeded.
1 in 1915 the British did
But the biggest headache be the private preserve of
he hos will, it trama, the ene romantic, lolalel
It was an October day. I golf. the selence of
Here is land owner. That evening my brother of all is Woburn.
But I wonder if our visitors courage to stick to his gims, be an intolerable nuisance to him- Alon Mourehead serie of a dreary war. Behind not understand
Constantinople, war. They learn the hard way. was placidly playing golf at
in Devonshire called me up one of the finest private realise that we have at Woburn self and everyone the fighting Zi, 384 miles)
sise and of to say that father was in parks in Britain, maintain 00 men doing nothing else but
the end
of his schooldays be· stocked with all look after the timber? doedd missing. I was airborne ed and
Even the carp in the lakes worth any number of his con- for London
learned their day. sorts of interesting animals
who temporaries Somebody hus to lessons but not to reason why paid to do it,
only the pious and it la not ing accident near his Devon muis.
nc help from the Government, successful whom we remember
There Gre 3,000 acres at when we look book on And that was the home.
the wall and end of my comfortable, well- regulated little world.
elderly were
urte
In the นก of decision?
it the who
was
k slute Admirals acute timidity over their losses of men and ships
Sir
Tun Hamilton, Com- mander-in-Cauef of the expedi- tion, broke all the rules "sutse-
evolved quently
lay Moat
Chillpot,
fidmat Hamilton
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THE GIRL WITH THE THE PRIMROSES
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Paris
Paris "i am re +1 would be
ma.
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A
next
By
THE DUKE
OF BEDFORD
Father had died in a shoot by A man who loved ani- must be fed.
be
Modest income
JCTCS
are
33
And there is
.
self-esteem.)
war
18
Second year
father
The Rent
Restrictions Acts
Schools are made sa much by dunes as echolars, un more by rebels than either. The boy who refuses
intimidated bằ 10
It
w.d
be
པ་
UNFAIR
schoolmaster
THE remember
Der
whom I most gratefully was always a little drunk, and to disguise i would saturate himself
de cologna, with ea
Brossly unfair,
I now must find a way to Woburn within
On these schooldays, but also the fools and satisfy the death duties and 17,000 acres outside.
the knaves. On the whold we about
thousand learn just as much
from bad still make something of the
Some are
emply examples as good ones, and this Woburn estate in
collages. the For the rest can only charge is true of the musters as well as future.
on average of 1s. lid. a week of the boys,
rent. (The 11th Duke
she tells
When I came back from charged his cottagers a nominal HE primrose was great success here,"
I had never been a rich South Africa Woburn Abbey shiing a week in rent because Lord Beaconsfield's
Grand Guignol is 80 years old.
for he thought it would add their favourite flower. The The same old formula of alter- man, but the farm, 40 miles had not been lived in
with shudders Primrose
belly from Capetown, provided mo 15 years. The Government League was rating laughs
used today. and with a home and a modest had it during the founded in his memory. Madame Machard intends to income. I knew that one M.1.5 headquarters, and
He was bad tempered, Why did he prefer the prim- stick to it.
ned, impre my are day I should have to face afterwards
dictable, and But nowadays the plays rose to all other flowers?
on modern themes, like call the fact that I was heir to knocked down half the
that making no secret of the fact he found some children Mrs Agnes Pinder-Davis, girls and space travel,
the Bedford estates. But it house because it had dry rot prevent me from raising the amusing while others bored him. But to celebrate the 60 years from Mortlake Road. Kew
was a prospect which lay and because he was not very rents or from letting the empty packing of
The punishments he inflicted 'em
Madarne In Gardens, who is staying in Machard is at present showing comfortably in the future interested in the house. coltages of more than 18. lid.
were alarmingly savage. You would
prepare an essay for hin, with her cousin, Mr four pieces from the early days to be worried about in 15
I could and tenants of which you were mildly proud, I found neglected paintwork E. T. Lambert, the British of Grand Guignol
or 20 years' time.
everywhere, and the place plied for them at much higher and he would bear it across with- but the Government won't let Consul, told me the roman-
And then the bolt high from floor to celling with
out a much as giance and drop tic story.
from the blue. It came as furniture and pictures from me.
it into the wastepaper basket. Somehow or other I want to Valuable training Indood for a was 22 at the ONE of them has
aptness today. It is aboût a ja shock for my wife, too, wine hours, including two in Belgrave Square. The business
Next time when you had beginning of his career, Disraeli beleaguered French consulate In For her it meant a totul din of getting part of the house try and keep Woburn. This is would-be writerl and another young man
second year of opening to
oopted out a few pages invited to a ball at a house at Peking during the Boxer Rising organisation of our life, a straight so that it could be
the public. Already receipts from the book he would The Consul shoots his daugh- wandering about the world opened to visitors was a matter how an upward curve,
Per- Highgate There Diratii noticed ter to prevent her a pretty gid wearing primroses torn to pieces by the Chinese for much of the year. All of physiend effort which my haps, this will prove to be the invite you to read it out to the
wife and I could and did tackle answer. Who knows? fanatics. The shot has hardly our friends are in South ourselves.
He taught English and a great In the "He was introduced to her- Bnished echoing when reinforce Africa. Our children were
dining-room I stand in the midst of one of the fincat time. The sort of things you 20 many other things at the Baine she
Miss Deane--and ments arrive and the consulate being brought up to lead The cost
rollections of Canalettos in the to school to lean but not out of world and look out on to a lake, text books...things about men Lowers were real. This Does Grand Guignol pay? " the life there. amused her and she took some certainly does." says Madame When I reached England
It is a magnificent view. „* (and aberat life, and above all from her corsage and gave them Machard. "We take about £230I realised that the reapon-
about yourself. would like to think I was in a night and there is a demand
my own dining-room at home, But I have no home in England world."
Basically, we are still living in South Africs. .*
"When be
in her hair and corsage.
STAL
a
Kere
STRANGELY APT
a strange
they danced. Disraeli asked if is saved.
the
to him to prove it.
MADLY IN LOVE
"DISRAELI fell madly
in
love with the girl. It was
a one-sided passion. She wrote
many letters to a guardian de-
from being
She wants to start a Grand Guignol theatre in London.
BARNSTORMER
Most pressing
I know
our
I
class
On the last day of every term he would come into the clası-- room with a book of poetry or short stories and read them to I must not apend more than
I don't think many of us understood the poems (although 90 days a year in England, also have a house in Jersey, the way he read them mode us Both those facts have to do want to understand them) and with saving tack. Can you the stories were stranZTÓ and
I
We shifted things around all for our players all over the sibilities I had inherited day from six in the morning til were far greater than I had late at night, taking our meals
in the "local," anticipated.
But rolling up one's sleeves does not dispose of the problem of certain harsh financial facta which store us in the face,
For instance the wages bill blame me for trying to save alarming and quite unforget- The immediate and by far at Wobum is £16,000 a year, something for my hele, for try- tabla.
ΟΣΟ faithful former ing to keep the link between As we latened to him on that every term Wo realised not only that there was. In world elsewhere but'albo'shati
he wanted to help us find t
in
An-
HOW LUCKY
WAS, always on the point of being superannuated, amit But when I finally quit at 16 I-
scribing the endons courtship of PIERRE Poulade is off on an- young Mr Disraeli. There may other barnstorming tour of have been some prejudice against France in an effort to rally his him because he was a Jew, drooping anti-tex movement, Anyway. he was considered His party originally mustered, the most pressing problem There $18.00
18.00 wrong for her and she married 52 deputies but 11 of the seats was to find about £5,000,000 servants at Woburn who cannot the Bedfords and Woburn if not one day in
be cast aside. Their pensions with Devon and London? a Mr Wright whose gister was have been "invalidated."
death duties or my cost. £9,000
Rents a your. Efforts to form parallel 15.00 my grandmother.
"But Distrell, never forgot the canisations of farmers, workers the task was easy.
father's estate. Part of come in from Bloomsbury, but 25.00
and Government officiols are a
There £124,000 a year goes in income Who knows? 8.50 girl with the primroses"
Until some time ego Miss flop: an appeal youth like was no difficulty in selling tax. 25.00 Deane's Jɗftberz....written in wise failed; only a few Right the Chenies estate of about At Woburn there are many It is too much to hope that 35.00 alegant Victorian handwriting wing students joined the move-
1,700 acres in Buckingham- stables. The roots need repair the Bloomsbury estates wil 7.50 were among family papers kept ment.
ing. The cost? £40,000. by an elderly ount, of Mra Saya Poujade: "We must close shire. Part of our Kent es other £5,000 should be spent on stay intact. Much may have to fused to be called 'nt my school. 7:50
be sold, A million has been in up our canks to fight all threats tates was also soon sold. rostoring the Old Masters at the found for the Treasury. There ke to think that it was neither Pinder-Davia Avho Ilves Wales,
There is no great difficulty Abbey, and there is £9,000 5.00 But my aunt got tired
them, and 4,00 wading through
in finding a buyer these doing up the monework of are those other millions to be the school which had triumphed
got somewhere. It is possible nor the boy but a bit of both, BTC only that
I hop with negotiations
hope Mr Bruce Lockhart wili, a few house
ho stys Mrs threw them away,"
specimen items of expenditure. National 1,00
before he goin Pirater-Davis. "From her I have FRENCH pelloe photographers days ready to pay
Trust may come to change his minel
and that
too many of are now using colour Bims hundred thousand for 3.00 theory, My ount and I are
ས Woburn rid of too truo It la JL' is
that money has
hot have to be sold up. antistactory pupils. 1,50 the only living people who at the scene of murders. The valuable property.
results are described as highly when you get to the really 28,600 last year, and this is a
como
Like matelages: (to quota that in well from viallon something 1.50 know it
big estates that it is hard useful
I am not
Bernard Shaw), complaining, only great rebel Mr contribution towards meintaining Woburn but it explainine But 12 anyone Ex“ · food from time to time you
they often. Lanni out very wall [·to deal.
pects the landed aristocracy to
never can tell. their The Bodford' estates' of benefits me not at all.
9,000 acres near 1 love Woburn, and I am gind for
face
30
9.30
to us."
of
COLOUR FILMS
realistic,
QUOTE
+
Tiuona
.on
Who knows?
We grosirs, in tho
responsibilities
The how fucky for Mr, Lock-
NO REASON JACK SPOT THEME
\UOTE of the week-Father TADAME Raymonde Mochard, 80 Movellet who runs
M. HP. Tucker, Prince Rails about the
oslood tiny Grand Guignol Theatre in Jer's chaplain, Paris ( holds only 200 people). Princess is expecting a baby!: "Tavistock were recently that thousands of people can of present and hart that he was not head master might “have “ moked Churchill,” to find, un author who have no reason to think she input in the market. It may come and enjoy the park and crippling catate, duties, with no Harrow round about 1890. He SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. WI write one or two set piny not. But, dust, because two be some time, before they see live animal believe that financial aid frompthe State, I w
OWLOON on the theme of Jack Spot and negatives
· HONGKONGTM
the
make an affirmative,
don't twist my words."
are sold.
ertates Uke this should be can only, any that 12 la Ric shared by the people, and not possible,