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PAYING FOR THE WAR CRITICISM OF GREAT PLAN"
PROPOSAL
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19TE, 1918.
PERSHING AS A CADET COMMANDER.
WITH THE FRENCH FLEET. IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,
JOS JAMES HONE.}
(7 B Granville, writing in the Berang Standard, Bays the article from the pen of Sir Conan Doyle, recomment ing for consideration Mr. Stilwell's book (West Point). in 1888, he saw service for have not shrouded it from the friendly.
appears to sufficient ex should like results which the adoption
called The Great Plan," have been written without ammation of the subject to draw attention to some would surely follow upon
of weasures proposed.
For the sake of brevity. I will deal only with one or two points on which 13 mistaken and "The Great Plan " harmful that it is not worth one moment's
consideration.
The saving expenditure by the abolition o great reduction of all armies and navies would be an excellent proceeding if only it were possible. It is a matter of opinion whether or no that course can be taken.
DISASTROUS INFLATION.
[BY G. DABIL BARBAM.] After John Joseph Pershing, Comman der-in-Chief of the American Expedi tionary Force in France, graduated with honours from the U.S. Militare Academy & few years on the Indian frontier, in the Apache and the Bioux campaigns, He then returned home with the rank of first lieutenant, and was appointed com mandar of the Lincoln, Nebraska,
Universities had, ander the Cadets. terms of their charter, to maintain cadet battalion under the command of an officer of the regular army, and the cadets had to attend drill three times a In addition they had to study, week in their own time, military engineering, theory of field operations, and field tactics, as well as going on regular guard duty.
Lincoln University had taken things easily until Pershing came. His pre- decessors had maintained a battalion, it is true, but-Pershing bad different ideas As to what constituted "maintaining.'
aner,
worn,
THE SECRET OF CALALS. HUN BLOW THAT NEVER CAME.
nesault of
A vital fact of the history of the war which need no longer be kept secret has ON A FRENOR Battleship. Visita to the British Grand Fleet, bave been brought into full light by our advance and investigations (writes Mr. The northern mists not been uncommon.
W. Beach Thomas). The enemy had pre observation of British and Allied jour-pared for July 23rd (five days after naliats. But a visit to the French Grand Foch turned the tide) an Fleet in its sunuz recesses is a different colossal dimensions that was to ensure matter, and it has been seen by fow but the capture of Calais. Its start was his professional eyes. It was the special pri-salient on the Lys from the bowed line vilege of the small party of British jour-that encircled Baillent nalists who have been touring the Medi- I have myself seen his relic dumps and terranean to star on board the foot for his graveyards, for it cost him at least several days, and to see the ships at their 120.000 casualties to hold this deep salient exercises, to take part in the ordinary for three months against our concentrat life of the service, and to enjoy the very ed and most expert artillery. About 43 cordial hospitality of the French we divisions were punished there, and 13 per vent of the artillery and its personnel cotomaad. The fleet is based on Corfu,
was knocked out. Dumps were going up one of the most beautiful islands in tho
to
The pinn suggests that all war loans Prior to bís coming excuses from drin world, where it is possible to carry out daily and, as the date approached, at of all belligerents shall be paid off, by were easy to obtain, and many students battle practive and manœuvres in enclosed the rate of several a day. One house was
inortar anımunition. instalments within 480 days after pre-never troubled even to ask for leave of waters, and where it is immediately avail-Blied from top to bottom with trench- absence. After hie advent it became unable to meet the Austrian high sena fleet. limitarien bave been completed.
Shells for his heavy guns were hidden The author proposes also that the re
bealthy to be away from drill, according payment should only be made at the to a Nebraskan graduate who suffered or if that valiant body should care to put in ditches within 100 yards or so of the option of the holder of the war loan rejoiced under him, and even member of to sea. The one thing which the French front line, ready for the advance. Tho
to startle humanity, This would render the whole scheme abor the football and the baseball teams were admirals and officers and men envy when assault was tive, because after a few millions were
was spent on preparing railways for thoj paid off the inflation would begin and the forced to attend.
contrasting their lot with that of the destroy England. A quarter of a million Plock would rise to a premiani.
British Grand Fleet in the North is that advance, railways that have been most the German Deet came out while the useful to us.
A tremendous bombardment in tBe Austrian fleet did not. Strictly, the Aus
third week of July finally induced the trian fleet did come out in force last June enemy to abandon his hopes. His furces fur an excursion down to the Adriatic were suffering terribly on the Marne be- barrage, and, if possible, to wipe out the fore the French, Americans, and several of our divisions, including the blat and force at Brindisi, but after their ill-star-end, who tought as hard a fight as even sui- red meeting with Rizzo and Aonzo in their their recurds hold. Thase, added to abs
where his great spring their adventure, and so their one effort a cast-iron defence, robbed him of the gave no satisfaction to the French Grand accessory force, and he began painfully to remove his shells, and a little later Fleet.
to prepare for quitting this deadly sali. Admiral Gaucbet, the Commander-in-
"But he failed to clear a good proper tion. You cannot travel through nay Chief of the Mediterranean furers, receiv ed our party on bis flagship, where we had the privilege of lunching with him part of it without seeing fragments of and his staff and the captains of his ships. dumps here, there, and everywhere, and The admiral is about the height of Lord cratere where dumps have been exploded. The discoveries of the recent weeks are Jellicoe, but stout in build, with some
The situation was freely and Department of the 2nd Army as a man thing of the look of a great man of busias great & compliment to the Intelligence with secund sight could desire. We buvo css. realistically discussed.
to remember that this overweening ambi tion was abandoned only in August.
One of his first reforms was to aboleh the unsightly forage-cap with round, fat board and straight leather visor, and the more Boldierly-looking in order to pay off the war loans, and introduce
He scrapped the shapeless apparently also the amount of money coleadet cap.
substituting lected in taxes for war purposes, it is blouses previously propused to issue legal tender currency braided tunics, and soon taught the amounting to about £25.000,009,000.
The endete to take a pride in their appear, whole of this stuff would be paid out, the loaus being cancelled and the remainder Pershing was a strict disciplinarian,
to in various directions as loans but, according a graduate who was
Great Bri. dustrial enterprises, le
ile had ΠΟ pets. Punishments for inflation produced would be overwhelm
dereliction of duty came no more swiftly It is so easy to use the word infla-
than did his reward, for good service. tion without Any idea of what it
11 means
He was more fond of work than most of that I will put down rouse of the results.
Every
war loan holder paid off in the his battalion, and never spared bimself. new currency would be dissatisfied with the Whilst he was in command be entered 1 per cent. per annum received until the the law classes, and, after graduating with honoure, joined the Nebraska Bar. He also took the post of assistant professor of mathematics in the aniver-
thin a share is pat nt £5,000,000,000. The cadet under him, be was always just. motor-boats they did not proceed with cidal lossess at Arriso bad met
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2014 fall due for redemption (up He years this ! per cent is payable). would seek some investment. He actually has cach in band. What would be the the rise in the prices of stocks, extent of shares. land houses, food, and commodi when he first saw the Nebraska Univer- ties of every sort with this huge musity cadets. They appeared for the first time in white duck trousers, and he pressing for investment)
CONTROL OF ALLIED FORCES. The banks would pay no interest on expressed the opinion that the contrac-
Money would soon deposits.
become bore had cut them out with a circular
The present position of the Allied forces anle dable. The deposits with banks are. saw, and sewn them in the same way as
in the Mediterranean came about in this. of c rae, payable in any legal tender; they would sew the parts of a tent or
man with £1,000 might
He soon had matters put way. Until April, 1917, the Mediterran-
was divided into various sectors, with the blonde, tawny bills, high and withdra
hir deposit and buy
in contour, like the body of a lion, and If the indation had taken place, right; and it was due to his taste, judg-England, France, and Italy being each steep, with many ridges, yet never sharp
There ment, and quickness to change anything.
the blackness and sharpness and bristling indepen were two British forces acting due to the issue of the légal tender notes, that offended that the cadete ander him responsible for certain sectore. 6 art house would cost him several became the smartest cadet corps in the dently of each other. One at Gibraltar, from a great distance in the golden light,
gear of masts and cranes and
Buzs, seen Thousand pounds, but he would only be States. One of his failurea was the Malta, and Port Said;
The banks might realise their securities formation of a vadet band in addition to Mudros, under the nominal authority of were strangely incongruous, but no mote and pay their shareholders great profits the four companies of infantry and the the Allied Commander-in-Chief. In 1917 30, perhaps, than to contemporary eyes
two of
of artillery, which, the way,
way, the quickening of the submarine car were the myriad fleets that had moved in depreciated money.
The new currency is to be international; were armed with two muzzle-loadingpaign led to considerable losses in the and fought on these the oldest seas since therefore we should all try to buy foreign field-peices, of which the lads were in Mediterr
of the Allied forces ships." The band was in-better, and it was felt that a the Isco of Helen ordinately proud.
organisation securities after we had driven our own try directly under Fershing, but directly was imperative. The conference at Malta prohibitive prices; foreigners would try
So far there has been no taik of husb established central control, with delega civilian named Easterday, who 1 to buy ours. Everyone would be doing under
seldom saw eye to eye with his chief in tions of each Allied force, the whole, being ships" in the Mediterranean, nor is there bis best to get rid of the currency.
matters musical. It is recorded that one under the Allied Commander-in-Chief any sign of the need for them. Both the day there a grand review, and The result was that Admiral Gaucbet had French and the Italian fleets (which we since eshipa completes The plan is a very debuite form of Pershing was particularly anxious for under him the British Commander-in-will visit at a later date) are fairly well
Chief at Malto, aunisted by Japanese, con-known, although the the battalion to acquit itself as well as stituting an organisation to hunt sub the v war present new features that will not repudiation, because every holder of war
For a long time he was in loan has been promised a rate of interest possible.
forocs have since been added. The first doubt as to whether the band should take marines and protect commerce. American square with the published estimates. The battleships of the Provence class have a and repayment of principal.
but he yielded to entreaties. The
The result was a great improvement in displacement of 23,177 tone and mount ten econdly, inflation would be deliberately brought about to reduce indefinitely the campus at the "quick march
bling terranean. The
in character our Lion and Tiger, central control meant not
heavier broadside fire and less With capital. If the book on the "Great Plan" he well, and then the order was given only better protection from war verse speed. The battleships of the France class "Quick march'! Double!" The band but a much better control of ship move
inch carefully studied, the reader will learn had solemnly natured Pershing that they mata and creation of safe routes. I was are of 23,100 tons, with twelve 12- that
the author is under the delusion that could play the step all right, that they given details of certain lines of commerce guns and twenty-two 5.6 guns. The newer money is of value in itself, and that by creating legal tender currency he is creat play double time quite as well as they which were so well protected that of the vessels need not be particularised. We
Pershing allowed did ordinary step. ing wealth
a life had been lost. There was one firing practice with reduced charges and battle manœuvres Mr. Stilwell makes no distinction be that didn't amount to much, but risked thousand ships that had been conveyed had the privilege of being on board, what abip sunk, bat ail on board were saved some varied out. The object of the ship internal loans and money borrowed
An eye-witness says that when that This yeln the case of the ship that exercises was to fight
350,000 men have been convoyed were out
a fleet continually a foreigner. There are great differ.
band struck up its alleged double time since ences.
It is firet principle that we must pay no thousand-legged worm could have was sunk the submarine was destroyed. ohanging position, the ships manosuvring our foreign debts to the last penny. If possibly kept step with it with one of Another result of the conference was the to meet each change without masking one taking the flagship's signals The battalion, which could demand for the immediate establishment another's
changing
fire from we cannot pay at the moment when due, its feet!
target to target of a
a barrage to stop enemy submarines for
and for
massed concentration on one and in the exact terms of our contract, drill well enough without music, prompt.
from getting out of the Adriatic, A large
out we must go to the lender, cap in hand, ly went to pieces, and no route step ever
We can showed a greater variety of cadence. force of British, French, and American target. The work was finely carried We owe you money.
a peric and say,
manoeuvres and in the all the not pay. What are your terms for Pershing stood it for a few moments, ships was organised to work on the bar. renewal of the loan until we can work and then,
by signalment, fire con- it off"
ran towards the band and trawlers and drifters employed on the barrago remaining, OD AL average,
guolayers. transmission of orders in the ships, troyers average twenty days at sea overy is a feature to which the French have
gaven much attention. Below the cof One important feature of the difficulties at i per cent per annum for 15 years but there were no more exhibitious of in the Mediterranean is that the Adriaticwer is a duplicate control station in everything, so that if the in order to do so you must water your musical incapacity along the same lines. is not considered part of the Mediter tower is destroyed the ship can still be ranean, and the Allied forcon in the fought from a centre so long a-range at West Point, the cadeta limited. This does not mean, of course, of messages by pneumatic tube when tele- treatment of the lender is as great as in badge of some sort. A number favoared Talia British monitors there and of triple range-finder, with its seated men ter, although the necessity for honest who had served,under him.desired that the Adriatic is entirely guarded by phones and speaking tubes have been
forces
for the work, for instance, destroyed is another feature The A
The great of the the ease of the foreign debts. In their gold medal, others something else.
Individuals select committee was eventually formed, British destroyere is already well known, over the conning-tower, strikes one oddly case the facts are these. have paid cash for the goods and services and the chairman called on used for war purposes, by lending their the armoury and naked for ang at and the air foroes operating over the at first, when the men are at stations and of his Adriatic include important British and the expecte to see nothing but the grum, tho Governments. These people left-off trousers! He inquired, What Amer
American squadrons. In this matter a shuttered, deadly look of a
"Aritib anval commander with its human beings out of it were ship in action, and will receive interest and principal, on earth do you want them fort"
distinguished will have first to pay their fair was informed that they were to be cut here pointed out, not without warmth,The men on the ships that abure of taxes to enable the Government up into bits of cloth showing both the that very little attention had been given the specimens, malply Breton sailors, and A COMPLETE AERATED WATER DAIRY FARM NEWS
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There is no question whatever about the the stripe, and made into service ribbons. squadrons in the south of Italy were like mon trained to the fast degres. The ability of the nation to pay these loans He was plainly affected, says one who regularly flying across the Adriatic to officers, with their scientific keenness and THE MACHINES Are rande by Momirs.
The only question is,
present and interest.
was present, and said "I will give you attack Durazzo and Cattaro, which meant the urbanity of men of the well known and *guaranteed in perfect working order X MAS
Bratby & Hinchlife, Ltd, Manchester, What share of the taxes shall each man the very beat pair I own1"
Dying overseas a distance of about 240ly
typo of Frenchman not very
The in order to enable the nation to
of range
out 2,400 their ward- This complète plans will turn "We cut them up into service rib.miles, there and back, not on seaplance, in England. bons, enys the eye witness, and, so far but on aeroplanes. If a machine got a room conversation is probably wider than doyen Aarated water per day, parchasers to pay the War Loans and the taxation were as is known, these were the first service splinter in its engine or had its tank out, that in our Navy, and that fine sociale over about 8,000. dozen bottles at oost perfectly distributed, each man would have to pay in taxes exactly, the amount ribbons ever worn in the United States and it had to come down on the ses, it breadth and warmth, which make the price. be received in interest, and the lonas Army, I do not know if any old Lincoln was all up with, the airman. Compared educated Frenchman as a clase so parti-
with these exploits the overland trip to oularly and immediately charming · might be cancelled.
University cadet still has his; but if I As things are, a charge must, bo mado could only beg, borrow, steal, or by attack Constantinople was an onży busi- companion gave, a delightful quality to on capital or incomes of thore boet one, I would certainly wear it in France ess
alongside my Spanish war ribbon" able to
The author does not appear to under-Chamber's Journal. mand that, although the interest on the luans is a huge sum the income of the
the situatiealising the hopelessness of rage. The work there is very hard, the word an
orders
cot keeping of stations through
That is our position, particularly as yelled, " 81op that playing! Stop that twenty-seven days at son, while the detra were obtude with which the
regards America. A moment's considera: playing! For Heaven's sake, a cadets tion will show how entirely unjust it wretched band!" None of the cadets would be to go to America and say. You were allowed to be at the aubsequent in- must lend us all the money we owe you forview between Easterday and Pershing, and thenceforward free of interest, and
When
month.
The
and
currnternal loans am a different mat for of Orshing left to become Instruc-Mediterranean have their bases, thereby finder can be worked. The transmission
Our
money to
but they
their
the
PAY
nation is thereby increneed exactly, to the, extent necessary to pay it.
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our days on the French battleships. It was especially interesting in my caso, an A PICTURE AT SUNSET.
Iwas allotted to the battleship Joan Bart | The Adriatic forces are under the with the memories of the old national Italian command, but as powerful antagonism which the name of that horo Italian foot south of the Adriatic lilors have endured the tedium of
Admiral Ganchet's foot. We arrived
long vigil without dissatisfaction. soomed in the best of condition, with
In the first place, he appears to have at Corfu from Albania, and the sight is that during the hit and each ships in their beautiful lair, with their
Towards the end of his aridule Birminroad the "blad." The arrangemont unset when we came on the Frenola a knee Every night there is
Conan Doyle says:----
to
hono will be a talk of inflation, ming year £950,000,000 shall be collected in high, massive line so curiously modern, onena do board, and there is a good long as the central security, is sufleicht taxes and sent to the International Trevent modish, with their great crance canteen, whore a wid surprised to and no indation, and the oreingetry in twelve monthly instalments, to be amidships that are so notiossals a feature a very popular. The trend callor in disbursed in redemption of notes. There of their silhouette, as unforgettahin his phas low yours has taken to too, and can be issued, only in proportion to the is, therefore, no progressive seenmulation They lay, in water flushed green and pink so has added another strand bu growth of that security."
or reserve of any sort. The taxon would be paid with the notes.
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