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Shanghai British Chamber of Commerce.
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Kiachta Conference Ended.
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THE PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.
[BY a. VALENTINE WILLIAMS IN THE DAILY MAIL."
"
I believe
mon were going back. The road to Calais was open and that mighty, swing rouai from the diane to the sea had been in vain, None can say what passed in the mind of the Commander-in-Chief during th hour of droad suspense. By never a sigu ho betrayed the awful anxiety he must- haye folt.
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was to those around him the same as ever, calm, confident, com petent. And then the relief came, a mes- Yun-who-read with quick pulse of the sage telling of the rally of the 1st Division. splendid temper of our Army in the fold, and of the heroic assault on the village have you ever thought that its qualities of Gheuvelt by the Worcester Regiment The day was won of undaunted courage and over-failing The crisis was over. optimism, to have barned so brightly all Yet the Field Marshal made no sign: through the weary months of the cam-
I might remark in parentheses that the paign, must have been fed from some capture of Gholuvelt by the Worcesters is You know what the pre-one of the mysteries of the war. The dash- steady souros? sance of Corporal John "meant to Marling attack delivered by this splendid regi borough's Army in Flanders; you havement at the crucial moment in the whole heard how Wellington's soldiers declared gigantic battle-literally saved the day, yet that the sight of "old Arty's long nose in no one as ever been able to discover who a fight was better than a reinforcement gave the order for the assault, of 10,000 men; you have seen how the calm. steadfastness of le père Joffre has braced the French Armies into a methodical, businesslike organisation. In the same way the spirit of our Army in France is the spirit of its lender, Sir John French It is not in the hour of victory that as Army turns to its hond for solace. It was when the fate of the combat hung in tho
"HEAD LITTLE AND TINNK MECH.”. balance at Malplaquet that Marlborough's
The deep eyes of the thinker, the cryg troops derived fresh heart from the sight of their lender thundering to the charge at tal-clear gaze of an honest man and a good the head of the British and-Hanoverian friend, a fighting chin that is the last word- in pugnacity, a sunny smile betraying a It was in the dark days in cavalry. Spain that Wellington's hard-pressed youthful nature in which the love of the legions took comfort from the presne beautiful and a taste for mischief pre- of the imperturbable Englisionan in their dominate these are the traits of counten. Bearing a mide. This war has shown that Britonsance of Sir John French. have lost nothing of the fighting qualities of their fathers. But there are times in war when, with disneter lowering, men in the stress of battle become automala. Then it is that they lean on their lender. Then it is that the lender's character is testri.
This
Thas it was at Mons and after. it was at Ypres, Those who lived with Sir John French through the dark days
am right in saying that the Commander- in Chief personally instituted the rasst exhaustive inquiries in order that the man whe saw the right thing to do and did it He Eas might be suitably rewarded. never been found. He is thought to hav been a staff officer who may have been killed in the attack.
name which is that of one of the tribes of Galway, he is Irish in his snowwhite hair and moustache and fresh complexion, but also in his quick temper, his intuition, his magnetism.
.
He is quick in speech as he is quick in action. His thoughts lie very near the tongue. He has n babit of saying what he thinks about men and matters. He thinks To quotes with ap much and deeply.
of the great retreat will tell you that hemoval, a saying of General-Wolseley ́s. almost alone of all men there, never lost that a soldier should read little and think heart. He maintained his brave con much meaning thereby that in his mili fidenco in. God, in his men, and in hini tary reading he should read slowly and self throughout, even when, as he after absorb and apply the knowledge thus uc wards admitted, he was looking for a spotquired to his own military experience. where the British Expeditionary Force Few soldiers have studied the great mili For the little tary writers as widely and as carefully as could make its last stand.
This habit of thought ver Army that Sir John French originally Sir John. took out from England would never have him a detached air which is his most mark surrendered. So the Field-Marshal haded feature,Silent French," they called him is South Africa: He knows how to decided. Such is the spirit of the man.
keep his own counsel.
wont.
LIGHTNING DECISIONS,
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"A strange mixture of a schoolboy and Through alcopless nights, through days a great generat is a description which when une message of bad news succeded hits him off very well indeed. For all his Another, when regioents were being cut sixty-three years, he is the youngest mera up, when the men were so dog-tired that ber of his entourage, never depressed, foll they staggered as they fellowed the long of high spirits and possessing a most live road towards Paris, Sir John remainedly sense of the ridiculous." calm and confident, No outward sign Efficiency is the foundation stone as I
is th pinnacle of his character. betrayed the anxiety that must havo de. voured him, bordened with the awful re-hearted and holding high, as something sponsibility of the lower of England's sacred, the duties of fritralship, he has Army confided to his charge. He wore navor been known to allow any considera- his field Marshal's cap with the sametions other than those of efficiency and the jaunty rake as ever. He was scrupulously. neat in his attire, is his invariable on good of the Army to sway him in his judgment on matters concerning the He has the Whenever the accommodation forces under his command. allowed, be would sit down to luncheon gift of attracting about him the men best at the appointed hear as placidly as fitted for the posts they are called upon though he were at his London house. And
to G. Que hay only to look around on the talk would be of pleasant English the smoothly running organisation of our topics, club gossip, home politics, the Army in the field to perceive how happily then, the Field Marshal has realised the ideal of latant number of lunch luncheour over, back to the maps and the the right man in the right place, not only reports and the onward rush of von with regard to himself but his licuteradis Kluck's columns. Sometimes the Field- Marshal. would break off work and an-
Sir John is a just man, but not in the nounce that he was going for a walk. He
problems incessantly confronting one who would stroll away, a depper, well-galtered sense of the letter that killeth, On the little figure, chatting with a companion holds in his hauds the destinies of bun about such things as caught his eye on the dreds of thousands of human lives he road, the fields, a good horse, a garden brings to bear the ripe judgment of a man But when he returned it was with his of the world. No one knows what sa ita- mense influence is silently exerted by the mind made-up about some knotty point to solve which he had thus sallied forth.Commander-in-Chief over all rants of the Then would follow one of the Field-Mar Army because the outward manifeststions But the shal's lightning decisions: Iwill do this of this influence are so rare. and that," a general fetched hot-foot from Army trusts him. It knows that, efficient here, a message sont there, all the appar himself, he insists on efficiency in all tus of General Headquarters set a quiver ranks. It has implicit faith in his sense ing in a flash.
af justice.
You can almost hear him say I will not dine to-day; I Toust rite any You can almost soo him, despatch." scated in his roon among his maps, build ing up, sentence by sentence, amid the bustle of Headquarters during a great advance, the deathless story that shall make an Empire ring,
BS well.
If the Field-Marshal, finds or a sense of duty and relieves hun of his. that a man has been wanting in judgme command the Army does not question the measure, for it knows that it is taken in the common interest.
Read his despatches (written entirely by himself, let me hasten to say, to dispose of that idle hypothesis so often heard when his reports are praised, "if he writes his own despatches), dispassionate, calm, and admirably lucid, written in the very
DEATH OF INEFFICIENCY, Mark the idst of the turmoil of war.
And the Field Marshal is death on in- date of that splendid story of the great
Woo tide the retreat, September 7th, or two days after efficiency. It goads him to quick anger the French and British Armies had gone and swift punishment. cer from the defensive to the offensive offer who may appear in any way to have neglected the care of-his-men. Boli rind were in the act of driving the Ger
Note the and fearless.ns. he is and, like all great mans back across the Marae. strictly businesslike account of the opera generals, reckless of tosets where the price tions, the almost cold language only must be paid, he will never forgive th warming when the writer pauses to speak man who will saerihee unnecessarily the For Sir John ten- ef "the glorious stand of the British lires of his soldiers.
He knows the Bri- troups" or to bestow praise on his officers derly loves his men.
tish soldier, his virtue, and his vices, his and reginents by name,
felbles and his eccentricities. And to know the British soldier is to love him,
"A great English gentleman " was the the met: of one. Who
thy
tíme. for
first rerdict Field-Marshal and, like all who approach him, promptly succumbed to the personal charm of the man. He radiates about him that indefinable atmosphere of good breed, ing and courtesy which you find in Eug The plain villa ju See him during the battle of Ypres, lish country houses. This is his version (despatch dated which he lives at Jendarters the house November 20th, 1914) of one of the must of some local notable is impregnated dramatic moments of the war, that criti-with this atracsphere.
No better representative of England -cal-hour on October 31st, when literally the fate of the British Empire trembled in than-Sir John French could have been. the balance. "I was present with Sir chosen to command our Armits in the land- Douglas Haig at Hooge between two and of a chivalrous race like the French. He three o'clock on this day when the 1st Divi- unites in himself all the qualities of the sion were retiring. I regard it as the English gentleman which the French ad- most critical moment of the whole of this mire, ERTO only that marque anglaise great battle. The rally of the let Divi which they can never understand and sion and the recapture of the village of ever forgive, and which has made us Ghelprelt "t such a time was fraught with more enemies in France than the Hundred momentous consequences. If any one unit Years' War ever did. The Field-Marshal's can be singled out for especial praise it is adapt bility of temperament, his quick the Worcesters."
pereeution, his instant appreciation of In those brief sentences is contained u the chivalrous, appeal intensely to the chapter in a man's life. That man is Sir French general, with whom he comes in John French, To him standing on the contact He, artis side, cannot find Chelave't read by the ride of Sir Douglas words in which to express his admiration Haig, his faithful comrade-in-arms off the gallantry and tenacity of the. South African days, there came a mud French Army and its traders In the nl-shed gall per with tidings of disaster.north of France, which is now a land of One line bad bent before the bludgeon solders. he is truly a great gentleman in
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