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LEADER.
Mr. W. Moss on "By Aeroplane NEW LIGHT ON WAR CONTROVERSIES,
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H.K. University Medien! Society.THE LIFE OF FIELD MARSHAL SIR | controversies on the retreat to the Jous FRENCH, FIRST EARL OF Maruo there is little new light.
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YPREA. By his son, Major the Hon. Gerald French. London: Camel & Co. 158. net. It is a difficult task for a son to write the biography of a father,
The diary inevitably was wrappy, but its comment is occasionally pungent. On the famous interven- tion of Kitchener and the inter view with him at the British Em- bassy in Paris on September 1 it says aimply:-
gineers' Guild, monthly meeting, 3 especially for a son who feels that he has a caUBS well as father to defend. Mr. Harold Nicolson achieved a detachment both in style. K. arrived dressed in khaki as and in trentanent that was quite a F.-M. He said he wanted to impossible for Major French, who visit Joffre and the troops The feels stili ualled upon to vindicatoj Ambassador strongly objected to his father's memory against, unfair | this, and so did I. We had rather attacks.
a disagreeabla time! I think K. found he was making a mistake, for he said he would leave to-night.or tomorrow morning. 1 don't know what good his journey has done be Voed making us all feel very un- comfortable!
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Queen's Theatre: "Trader Horn." World Theatre: Words and Music."
The Star Theatre:
Desert Song.
Central Theatre: "The Singing Peony " (Chinese picture)..
King's Theatre: "Just Imagine." Majestic Theatre: The Isle of Lost Ships."
Dances: Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
European Mail. Inward: Europa pin Siberia (Theseus). Outward: Europe riu Siberia (Hiya Mara),
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(June 3.)
Anniversary of the Birthday of His Majesty King George V.
Public Holiday.
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Queen's Theatre; "Trader Horn." World Theatre:"Black Watch."
* The
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King's Theatre: "Just Imagine." Majestic Theatre: "The Isle of Lost Ships."
Dances:Tea Dance, Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels.
Thursday.
(June 4.)
Corpus Christi. Queen's Theatre: A Lady's Moral."
World Theatre: Black Watch," Star Theatre: "Sky Hawk"
King's Theatre: Just Imagine." Central Theatre: "The Singing Peony" (Chincess picture).
Dances: Ten Dance, H.K. Hotel: Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.:
European Mail.-Inward: Europe ria Suez (Kashgar).
The first Earl of Ypres will go down to history simply as "French," the name with which his greatest achievements were assceinted. He was well known and admired in his own profession when he first made
Later his indignation at interfer- his name familiar to his country.
ence on álvice from home finds fur: men by the skilful little action at Elandslagte, by the relief of Kim-ther expression. Under date Sep- I have a wire from the Secretary berley, by the brilliant handling oftember 0, he says:- the cavalry at Paardeberg, and duri ing the long months of guerrilla of State this morning saying that warlare. He left South Africa with be had been asked by our Ambra- sador to impress upon me this necCES: the weare reputation-even among
sity of pressing the entny. hard. Continental critics-of a born gen-
It is a telegram which 1 don't in eral of horse and also with the re- |putation of a “suevessful" general, the least understand and which I Our position has at "French's luck" was proverbial, greatly resent. but it was the sort of "luck that been grossly misreprezented was worked for by patient schem home. It has been reported to the King that we are absolutely-com- ing and wholehearted execution.
plete with everything and ready to advance. We have really nothing at all!
In command at Aldershot, as Inspector General and as Chief of General Staff, and titular Comman-
The Race to the Sea, der-in-Chief of the Expeditionary
The race to the sea was in a mea- Force, French did isvaluable work for the army until the unfortunate sure inevitable en actual military Curragh, " insurrection," which led grounds, but it was accelerated by to his resignation. The insident French's own views on the necessity" seemed fatal to his career, but of saving the Channel Ports, whose when the hour of destiny camo no
importance he had emphasised in other name erriously contested is an interesting memorandum (re- own as leader of the Experitionary printed in part by Major French)
Force.
:
Differences With Kitchener,
French landed at Boulogne on August 11, 1974-confident but ani-
xious and watchful,
For these
which he wrote before the war, and it was much more than mere re- Inetance to abandon ground that made him hold on to Ypres and leave the holding on as an inherit-
ance to his accessor. Eventa were
eventful months Major French to strenuous for much diary writ; naturally makes use of his father'sing and it is only after the first "1914," but also of his private Battle of Ypres that it becomes diaries, and it is to the extracts fall. On November 12 thero is an interesting sidelight on Foch's op- from them that the render will most timistic views on the war, and his eagerly turn. Major French, has own been very discreet, and on the bitter
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