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THE LORD CHANCELLOR OF
ENGLAND.
HIS FIGHT WITH A CONSTAPLE.
of his very remarkable and "brilliant career sees to have been generally overs looked. It is an episode which cannot la paralleled in the record of any" pre rious holder of his high and honourable office. Over twenty years ago he appear ed before the Oxford city magistrates on
charge of assaulting the police.
THE BRITISH NATIONAL SHIPYARDS.
more
STAFF WORK. WHERE THE OLD ARMY SYSTEM:
WAS SOUND.
[BY & NEW ARMY STAFF OFFICER,] The twenty-arst paragraph of Sic glas Haig's last despatch will not
These
A TERRIBLE FIASCO.
Many things, some of them animated A special, correspondent of the Times by a spirit none too friendly. bave states that the core one hears of the lready been written about Sir F. E. muddling through" at Chepstow and Smith on his appointment as Lord Beachley, where the British National Chancellor; but one distinctive feature Shipyards were being established, the sasisty everybody, especially those who astonishing the whole businessra irritated by any praise of our Army seems. The idea was good, it was a system as it was before the war. great scheme if it hall been carried our latter, convinced in their minds that the properly." appears to be the generalid Army, was ignorant, brainless, and opinion. In Chepstow, reviewing the reactionary, cannot reconcile themselvsa history of the yards, serious doubts are to any idea but that a root-and-branch entertained as to the launch of ships ever reform is needed, with new blood and. having been contemplated. These rards new methods. Most of them are ignorans fare designed for fabricated ships, three themselves, and it is really We are far from saying that the incid.of which experts declared, should be mental bias that moves them They fent was in any way discreditable to the
new Lord Chancellor. It was just char completed in the time required to build hated the old Regular Officer as a type, acteristic of his impetuous temperament one-ship, but even with this fact in their and they hate him still. Uthers, whơ This is a brief narrative of what hap pened. In May, 1907, the new Municipal favour there are no signa that ships will fought in the war, saw many instancer Buildings were opened at Oxford by the be forthcoming. With all the resources where staff work was bad and where then Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward of the Government behind them, with stupid Regular Officers held staff appoint.
1. and in the evening, after the cere- mony, great crowds assembled in the supplies of labour and material whichments for which they were quite ensuit High St., and there was suine under have been the envy of the private ship- graduate, rowdyism of a familiar type.
Both these classrs will reach Sie In the coarse of it Sir F. E. Smith. then builder, the situation to-day is, that the a Fellow of Merton, was arrested and Chepstow and Beachley yards bave taken to the police statish, where he was actually retarded the production of charged with disorderly conduct and srich assaulting two members of the Lonships while the food supply of the coin doa Mounted Police, who had been im try would not have lost the product of ported into Oxford for the day. Sit F.
SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE
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-now-OPEN after extensive repairs.
THE STORY OF THE INCIDENT
E. Smith was released on bail, and the 550 acres of good farm land which was hearing of the case, took place un the taken away at a time when we needed at following day. The evidence of the Lon-the food we could get.
don police, entirely uncorroborated, was
́ed:
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a tempers.
Douglas Haig's testimony to their solind basis of military knowledge suplied by our tinining manuals and staff colleges. and his remark that the principles of command, staff work. and organisation aborated before the war have stond the test imposed them and are sound". simply as shot, from one of the big. uns of the old régime int need to stem, if possible, the disagreeable ties et rac form
that he had struck one officer in the chest The men employed upon the yard could and kicked another, Sir F. E. Smith's not and did not take themselves and version was very different. He told the their work very seriously when they Bench that he followed the crowd because he saw that a servant of Merton College began to realise what was, expected of A tragedy. in 15 spasms, ca- had been taken into custody, and that them. when he found the way barred by a cordon titled "The Boat Builders," written by of police he asked whether he might pass one of the officers, added to the gnists Reservations might well be mad to what
of the community. so aptly was the
Such an attitude is foolish..and there. need be no hesitation in saying "80.
1.sc. officer and the superior effectiveness
and bail this servant out. Thereuponation hit off. After describing how the policeman whom he had not since seen Navy nequired the property of the Stand of Staff College education; bit. and struck him on the shoulder with his called in the Army to provide labour, it not see anything to carit at when our laap: upon him with incredible, ferocity, and Shipbuilding "Company and then ex-staff oficer of the New Atur. I do
His recused another of the tells-bow--
Commander-in-Chief proclaims to all the The first hundred thousand laid down a world what is undoubtedly true-that the London police of-striking him with a truncheon, and against this man he bad
drin fle called under- Issued a summonk, graduates and other witnesses in support. of his statements.
The Bench dismissed both the charges, end ordered each party to pay his own cous lift is quite possible," said the Mayor (Sir Robert Buckell). that blows may have been struck on both sides. any rate. the magistrates do not think that they were of great importance."/
A RENCONTRE.
At
Sir Robert. Buckel and Sir F. E. Smith (a corresondeput readinds us; met again-under very different circum- stances. It was at a dinner of the Auc- tioneers Institute at the Hate Cecil Sir Robert had a seat at the high table, and Sir F. E. Smith was among the speakers. He told the gathering, in his
The second draft took it all up again; Then they held an inquiry and trand
explain.
to
and how later"
The public got raw and commenced to
squeal;
“ነ
So the R.E's. seat forth a most frantic
appeal.
So they enckled a lot and then laid a
tackled keel.
The years passed by and the keel being
Inid,
They lost it twice and had a neïe ona
made;
Nobody minded, the Palic paid. "Nobody minds. the public pays." might almost have been adopted as the motto at Chepstow. It has paid to the tune of £4.000.000. It is said that before
principles of training and the staff or before the war bave been triumphantly ganisation which existed in our Aray justified.
There are details to be altered and amplifications to be made. But Field Service Regulations." Parts I, and II., and the "Staff Manual" have come out. of the war with Aying colours. Failura ir staff work has come from the non- | adequate human beings."
application of their principles by in-
ALL-ROUND TRAINING.
As regards Staff College training, thera is this to be said that it improves a good offer and, without improving a bad one, makes him rubre conceited. Its chief virtue was to make a waan ander. stand what staff work meant, in what" d-operate, how to off them, and what he might have to do if he were given the position of any particular wheel.
Lopening sentences. how he had accepted ships can be launched it will be necessary way all the various wheels in the machine
their invitation with alacrity, and add- ød: ** The alacrity was increased when I knew I should have the pleasure of, meeting your "eminent member, Sir Ko bert Bickell, for I could not forget that I was uner brought before him, as the preiding hagistrate. charged with ob structing the police in the execution of their duty and with assaulting them. Both charges," he went on with a humor ous twinkle, I strenuously denied, and Tam sure when you look upon my physi- cal frame you will doubt the truth of them, and yet after some years of mature reflection I am disposed to think that both charges may have been well-found- ed." The company laughed and applaud. ed:
to dredge the Wye. The wag proceeds:
The workers tailed on and in time prew
grey,
Gare in their checks and passed away, And their sons steppert inse their shoes
next day
But at last one dayon runour growi That the Army and Navy had put
through:
On the morrow the Bent would he launch
ed on the blue,
The Town was hedlocked with figs and
flowers: Representatives came From the ruling
Power
Caring nothing for sleet, snow, or showers. There were cheering words on the river
bank,
The Army and Navy rank on rank;
It could not be claimed, however, that the old Staff Collego gave equally good training in all kinds of staff work. Its attention to "A" and "Q" work was limited, and such special activities as in- telligence, especially secret service work, A contre-espionage, the captrol of suspects political work were practically left un- and of civil populations, and other sorei. touched. It would be absurd to say that any p.s.c. officer was better qualified for these duties than one without that ad vantage. A good intelligence officer will have a firmer grasp of military organi sation for a thorough staff training, and that is all that can be said.
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SIL C. SUTH'S OXFORD CABEER.
As she took the water the bally hont sank. Sir F. E. Smith had a brilliant carcer
Besides, there are certain branches of at the University. Born at Birkenhead National Shipyard resembles cothing so quickly learn by actual experience. As a After the outlay of £1.000.000 the great staff work which any intelligent man can on July 19th, 1872. son of Mr. Frederick much as those stacks of miscellaneous matter of fact, this was acted on time Smith barrister-at-lan he went to litter which were known at the Front and again by our commanders in all Warham College from Birkenhead School R. E dumps. Lying scattered over a vast theatres. and University College, Liverpool, on pren, unclassified and unprotected from October 20th, 1991 (classical scholar). He the reenges of the weather, one may see in all wars," says the Field-Marshal. It Good staff work is es-ential to succes took a First Clusa in the Final Honour anything from a steel screw to an engine. would be fatal if facetious allusions to School Jurisprudence in 1994. WAR Material seems to have been left where Vinerian Law Scholar in 1995, and in the it was delivered and the loads of succeeding in staff work aceds every ounce of "brass hats", obscured this truth. Train following year became a Eellow and Lec. turer of Merton College. He was Léoing trains piled on the top of it. Machi-energy nut into it; it needs extension turer of Oriel College in 155. Be has is there unpacked. Boilers, plant. rather than limitation, and ever alon been an examiner in the Oxford Final There are no sheds for storage, but it is
cable, and solder swell the sorry heap of encouragement. But ste bould be Schools.
taken to prevent the wrong men exclad-.5
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In Easter Term. 15 Sid E. In saith le right men from the colleges. Was President of the Oxford Union, bay. these goods will expect payment for Written examinations are all very well,
great impression at that time by bis of all of the whole thing is that through viva-voce-Daily Express, ing previously been treasurer. He made of of thing, worst poin' but let then add a long and searching powera of repartes in debate. Many men the national shipyards fiasco, not only Cabine Union debates at this period but over a long period everything that a senior officer, who was appointed"
was there the grotesque waste of money. fature distinction were taking part All men of the Mercantile Marine, EM-among them Mr. Hilaire Belloc. pre-sible was done to destroy co-operation for dat's in connection with the nation. Nary and Army are welcome to uso tesident in Hilary Term, 1505, and Sir between employers and trade unions ardal ship,ards, announced on his arrival: John Simon, president in Hilary Term the Adiniralty at a time when everything I am not a soldier, I am not an engi.
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should have been done to secure and, cement it, and output the shipping an
neer, and I am not a shipbuilder; I am a vitally needed. It was as a war emar
business man and that, being a busi gency measure to replace ships sunk by
ness man, he quickly realised that there HALF A CENTURY REPUTATIONS On the whole Sir F. E. Smith has not the Germans. that the national ship-
was no place for him there. His stay was PILLE FORT" had a "good Press ' D.LE CLERC'S
on his appoint yards were started, but the controlling very briel. However keen an officer Invaluable for sense of the important organ writes from the Athenæum Club to the preparing for the next war, without any really well done in the national ship- LIVE & KITS Zent, but Mr. Arnold Statham, who authorities acted as though they were might be, his enthusiasm was soon damp ed. One thing which seems to have been the Beck, Gout, Rheumation, 6 Tines, is extraordinarily cathusiastic regard to the position existing at the yards was "eye-wash, developed on
time. When the Standard Shipbuilding elaborate scale. All the arrangements
were
Gravel, Pains Prios 88., leading Chemista, or post-free. Da. La Fabout him i CLERO MI, CO. BAVERNICE ROAD, NW. His greatest qualification for such ap; Company started their new yards" at Loxoox, Exotano, Depois: Paris, 12, Boxpointment is unknown to the general Chepstow they planned it on businesslike made for showing visitors round and in- CAST: 10KE; New York, 90, REZKAR SORE public consisting neither in brilliant lines. As the site of the yard contained Pressing them Toronto, LTMANS, Imp; Australia, ELLIOT BROS, Sydney and Brisbane: New, ZEALAND DRUG CO. Thetoric or fertility of resources in de the main sewers of Chepstow, the Stand thought out; on one occasion a conference most carefully Urn, Azrkland, Chrinchumh,, Dunedin, Wallina
bates but in a special feature which allard Company very carefully entered the was actually held to decide from which those of experience in the practice of the sewers with concrete, and in driving in idea alip should be approached in order Courts will recognise-namely, a "imane piles had due regard to the position of to impress most favourably the expected cendentalism," the capacity of taking the sewers. The new authorities arrived. visitors. They ever held dress rehearsals, intuitively a comprehensive view of all scrapped the plans of the Standard Com-and the workmen wars carefully instruct sides of any question and of diagnosing pang. and drove in piles here, there da to their part in the show. Plant correctly the strength or casuistry of any
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argument. This a judicial quality and everywhere. regardless of anything of visitors was actually taken down and
Even the Germanori-
beneath the surface." that can scarcely, be over-estimated, and
One of the main troubles at Chepstow hauled away? in this respect . E will display dater and Beachley was that rank bare na rasphere of war were coached in their ly power akin to that which brought auch celebrity as a judge to Jessel, M. Flation to ability. Men who know their duties. But the whole effect was that. Consequently, despite the criticisms work were constantly overruled byen after having made the day hidrops
upon air, clancing iron upon iron, the prisoners, which have been made upon the appoint who, with an extra" pin
ns. the party of visitors moved off, ment, I confidently predict, that he will shoulders, but no technical know!" prove to be one of England's greatest were their military superiors. It is id stopped work, apparently considering Lord Chancellor
that the curtain had fallen on their part (Continued at foot of next column,)
of the performance