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MASTERY OF SEA. NAVAL LEAGUE CRITICS
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ADMIRALTY POLICY.
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THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 95re, 1991.
MARSHAL FOCH ON NAPOLEON
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AUSTRALIA'S "BIG 4" IN CRICKET.
FERDINAND MAGELLAN MAPS AND BONANCE FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
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Fleet the world's naval position excep. mind he fell by constant' work. iu that regard it is other qualities which Mr. Edward Heawood, on the completely changed. Civilization is no longer threatened by noy Power. The committee, therefore, con-
Map no means of gaining know nidered that the policy of the League ledge. None understood better than hot its best, and a grip of it which includes Voyage, while at the Society aheadqual Treaty of Torderillas in 1404. It is the age was sent to the King:
munication his minute-preparation. te
Thanks to the perfection, of his files, and to the remarkable rapidity of the working of his mind, his action, when the moment came was swift and sure as a thunder.
To His Majesty King Jarge: Sire. Dree bunderd loyal meu vrou Darset, voregather'd at th' Connaught Rooms, Kingsway, on this their Yearly Venst Day, bo mindvul o' yer Grashus Majesty, an wi' vull hearts do zend es the dootivul an" loyal affeeshuns n' th Society o Darset Men in Lonon. In starm or zunsheen thee ca'st allus rely on our vall-heart'd rympathy a supp wort. Zoo' wi'out any wore" hain- chammy, we geän raise our ryder cupe to ee, with pious pray r'on our lips that Heaven ull prosper ce, and wo mesure de that Darset. Men ull ever' sheen as oons o". th bright jools in yeri Crown-I d' bide, az avore-time, an vor-all time, Thy Vaithyal Servint.
SHAFTESBURY,
hay, and, of those that have in some sort " DARSET MEN IN LONDON.” survived, Arakis Deserta and Arabia |
DIALECT MESSAGE TO KING Felix Bub, anilded, you would never
GEORGE. THE CAUSES OF HIS FAILURES.
guess what such a map was positively An Australian writes in Home
Submitting." Dorset-our County," Marshal Foch contributed to The Times papar
In the month of April 200 years ago, meant to represent; not at any rate, The Australian aide contains among its writes correspondent in The Times, after your eye had left Europe behind the annual banquet of the Society of At the annual meeting of the Navy Napoleon Supplement published in con- Longue in London, recently, there were nection with the recent centenary cele almost equally distinguished performers & Ferdinand Magellan came to an untimely The later maps, even if they are 360. or Dorset Men, held on May 2nd at the several references to the recent resigna-brations an appreciation of Napoleon, of Big Four-Armstrong, Macartney, Graad. He had explored the strait.now so year old approach the actual far Connaught Rooms, the Earl of Shaftos- which the following is a translation: gory, and Mailey-upon whom will be called niter him, and had passed through more closely though the ancient thrill bury Dorset's green pastures, her beautiful contline and fragrant alt tions of committeemen.
Mr. V. B. Tritton, who presided, Napoleon was beyond compare, the concentrated most of the interest of Eng it to the Pacife Ocean. He had crossed has departed from them.
the Pacific to the East Indies, enduring Ah Curly Portuguese chant of the lingered in the memories of Dorset men lish aricket crowds. observed that they had been through a military genius of modern times,
When at 27. he became General-in- Armstrong now comes to England with much toil. misadventure, and hardship Malay region, Tent by Hessie. Quaritch, who were forced to live out of their difoult year financially. Their income had diminished by £4,500, but by econo-Chief, he knew all that had been written a Australian side for the fourth time Then he had meddled in native quarrels gives the opstartere Magellan, was kill native by Dorset had not changed as huge as over physically, and probably and quite unnecessarily got himself killed. Posibly the information item- it was the same old county, and the more ries in administration they had reaad all that had been done before him
in the military art. In studying its a greater cricketer than ever, it is the ed in the Philippines, then known as hydies was conveyed to the short maker they travelled through the length and duced the actual year's loss to £2,160.
of Australia in bulk the Archipelago de Ban Lazare But he by sonte - Magellan's companion foreadth of is the more they were attract He admitted that "the present policy principles, with the help of his
ture of the globe. It is supposed have commendable simplicity, in that it clung of the League had been criticized, and natural faculties, he did more than learn, stamina, in his ability as a slow bowler: and opened the western route to the curious interest attaches toys 180 Die by its varied beauty. It possessed
he understood events and grasped what and as a bateman of seemingly inconve that there were resignations had to be done under new conditions querable powers in the face of relentless The quatercentenary is being celebrated served Holbein for a striking Lure of toolt customs and traditions, and even
lean retired owing to ill-health, a He was already the absolute master of anno Domini."
The herculean mould of Armstrong is in Spain Portugal, and Chili Chilis "Ambassadors, now in the clonal in these days, when there was a tendency allery: since in detail the painter's for class distinctions to disappear, in other because he was returning to New
be responds exactly with teens Dorset there was a survival of feudal Zealand, and others because they could his art, thanks to the extraordinary gifts
which he applied to is without reserve. unexpectedly tempered by geniality of gives promise of celebrating it mos
Members of the
and the engraver was some feeling" nad a sense of what that feeling not see eye to eye with the rest of the Later on, in politics, as in administra-muner to the point of gentleness. When handsomely. London marks the event.
meant. They could all remain perfectly committee.
mer of the maps show acourately good friends it each was left to minister With the disappearance of the Ger- tion and in the domain of law, he showed he strides on to the field at the head of on a modest scale.
like uperiority. His was, therefore, an his men, his giant stature will proclaim Royal Geographical Society have already the year first in the field.
hin to the crowd an ideal captain, but heard a lecture from their librarian,"
hers with gross inaccuracy, the line of to the needs of his neighbour. lumination of Spanish and Portugueso
During the evening the following mes This
before and riters angolan
spheres of enterprise drawn by the verkzing the importance of detail, he will tell-his great experience of the game
au even temper, shrewd judgment. nad ters, Lawther Lodge, in Kensington
Gore a small but most interesting collec inaccuracy here and elsewhere which required revision, and they issued the value of files. Before he undertook a impregnable resolve.
Macartney, as anali physically as AYD-
Quence on map drawing carefully prepared memorandum at the campaign he studied and classified geo-
view.
His left, in fact, much to be says Mr. Heswood, There is portrait of the man bim mittee are of opinion that there is no fions, local conditions and customs just brilliant of Australian batsmen, and at beginning of the New Year. The com-graphy, climate, popular habits and tradi-strong is large, returns to us the most books, maps and charts is on enables one to appreciate Magellar's in hall-way house between thesuicidal policy in military organization he had least equal to any living batsman in the self. Nobody can swear that it is he, summing up. af competitive building of ships of war thorough knowledge of every arm. of all variety of his strokes, his dazzling powers but with that exception, it bears the Slled in the whole Australian region as general capacity to score best reputation. It is an engraving, well as nil the lands on either side of and an international agreement. They kinds of matériel, and all means of com- of attack, and
hard. and often in most attractive style: dane of Madrid by D. Fernando Selma the Northern Pacific In spite of this, e urged upon the Government to bring about at the earliest possible moment a
a bowler, moreover, who before now has in, 1788, from a painting discovered at fairly correct idea of the relative exten- routed an English side on An English Toledo. This painting proved to be an sion of land and sea had now been gain- conference of Naval Powers, with a view
wicket, and may again, do so. to the limitation of naval armaments.
It is, however, his batting from which set replica of one that existed in the ed, and in this respect no decided im- (Applause.)
Australians expect most--for as a batsman collection of the Duke of Florence in provement of maps like Ribero's wa We have taken, no part in the recent
Macartney more than anyone else has 1508, which was believed by Vasari to reached till the time of the French geo- controversy on what is the use of· H
minimised for Australians the loss of their have been executed by Cristofano delgrapher Delisle, nearly two centuries battleship? We bold that whatever our
In the dark hours of the war we often incomparable genius of the bat. Victor Alisimo, a pupil of Broncino Lifter the great voyage. private opinions may be the ultimate asked ourselves: "If Napoleon were to Trumper. Mccartney's great, century in indeed represents Magellan, he looked Portuguese, in all but loyalty," decision rests with the experts." Lest rise from his tomb at the Invalides, what the last Test match in Australia bodes ill the daring, resolute man he undoubtedly says Demoens of him; but Portugal may was. The thick lips protrude from a rightly claim Magellan as her son, and there should be say doubt as to our would he say to us, what would be do
for this season's English bowling.
Erst experience of the East Indies But attitude, may I quote the concluding with our armies of to-day,"
Gregory is admittedly one of the few bush of beard and moustache; the fore she it was who provided him with his He would have said to us: You have great allround players living. He is that head is deeply lined over thick der he quarrelled, with the Court (his face paragraph of the Executive Committee's
millions of men I never had them. You memorandum on the Naval Estimates:
telegrapha wireless, air unique combination, a fast bowler and a brows; the pose sits like a heavy rudder
A face eloquent does he a lend the whole have The Navy League will love pport the craft, long range artillery, poison gases: greater batsman,- good in any game both on the square visage me courtier), and carried to Spain his pro-pleasure, the message which with much
And you do not
bosides bothering the opposing batsmen physical vigour, of determination never posals for searching out a westward addressed to his Majesty from the loyal. Government and the Admiralty in I had none of them maintaining the British Navy in such turn them to
from his great height to come leaping off The maps and charts form the clearest explorers had convinced themselves there yearly feast day. In thanking them the the pitch at worying angles and it light illustration of Mr. Heawood's explana was no way to the Pacific through the King wishes all present an enjoyable ning spood. A wonderful cricketer, and tion of how Magellan altered the pre- isthmus of Central Americs Magellan evening, add good luck to the Society of not at his least wonderful in the slips, vailing conception of the relations of argard that, as Africe, to a certain Dorset Men." where English crowds will see him spring land to sea. Those of an earlier date are Arabin, to a more marked extent India, ing with uncanny agility in brilliant fascinating. It is difficult for a lover of and the Malay Peninsula all tapered exort after catches which more often than old maps to tear himself away from southward to a point beyond which was them. Almost they persuade him that a navigable sen, ao also might South With this in his head he discovered his the song the Sirens sang was of travel, America is in his head though. Odysseus when he forbore to the sick of wandering The strait. Though it was reserved for our Genoese world map of 1447 (of which a own age, to drive a canal across Panama, be a flooding of the adjacent country. Geutiful cory is shown, for the original oven then the project was considered. In A warning possibly more crushing was is awned by the Hispanic Society of 1597 the Emperor Charica V, Spain's made 36 years later by Padre Acosts, the Amerien) exhibits Africa and the Far ruler, commanded survey of the isth historian of the Indies, who said he was East a fairyland of gods and ele mus with a view of cutting through it. aware that these matters had been dis phants, fabled kings and animals with They were pretty wide awake in those cussed and sifted before his time but human faces, inaccessible mountains, distant days. The critics of the scheme it was enough for him to believe that the fruit of the Hesperides. The very would be found to possess different through the impenetrable forest and names are more romantic than the con-levels, and in any case, there was no rocky fastnesses which God had set be venient commonplaces by which they guarantee that the tides would occur at tween ocean and ocean, and which had
the same time, so that the effect would successfully resisted through untold ages. have been supplanted Mauretania,
the fury of their waves. (Continued at foot of nest column.) Ethiopegyptia, Scythia, Cirenaica, Cat
boit.
*
(President of Darset Men in
· Eqn'on). [P Later the following reply was "received":
received
state of efficiency as to enable it ade thing or tw account? I'll show yon & with almost every delivery he sends down to turn back from a settled plan, passage to the Spice Island Spanish men of Dorset on the occasion of their
quately and fully to
best do tection of British subjects and com merce throughout the Empire and the
World."
OLD PRINCIPLE « UPHELD.
Mr. P. Hannen paid a very high tribute to Lord Northcliffe, "who had always been in the front row of the protagonists of British sea supremacy." Mr. Hannon Could not see in the new declaration of League policy any depar tura from the old dominant principle of British sea power.
The Duke of Somerset, who was absent owing to indisposition, was re-elected president.
And, in a couple of months, he would have changed everything from top to bottom, reorganized everything, employed everything in some new way, and crushed the bewildered enemy.
Then he would have come back at the bend of his victorious armice and would have been very much in the way, 12
Napoleon's succosses are known. His triumpha have been thoroughly studied The causes of his failure are less known. Yet the campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814 are the most
He failed, they say, because he was without Berthier. I do not think so. In 1814, it is explained. he was already ill Perhaps,
interesting.
But in my view, the deep reason for the disaster that overwhelmed him must be
ant come off
is of a
Mailey so teased the English team in Australia as to make him one of the most feared and one of the most interesting men on the side. His googly particularly dangerous order, he is un- affected by the punishment that walts on all googly bowlers, he is a tireless trier on his day a match winner against and out."
They are a notable four-and they are only four. There are others also in this
Responding to the toast of The Im- perial Forces, Air Marshal Sir Hugh won for gallantry in the air was gained Trenchard remarked that the first V.C.
by a Dorset man, Lieutenant Rhodes Moorhouse.
Water to be really, pure, should had not elsewhere. He forgot that a man great Australian combination. The sea golden flags, and trees that must, benz. objected that the Atlantic and Pacific no human power was equal to cutting-
boiled three time. said Sir Robert Arm strong, Jones at Gresham College Basing ball-street, E.C., Filters he condemned zwar a dolusion and a share..
be God that, above the individual,con is assured of big performaner2. there is the nation; that; above men, there
is
in the more on see above War, there the highest goal, since, in Peneer
Fluctuations of taste have made greater revolutions than have Buctuations of cur rency-Lord Burnham,
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