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DID LLOYD GEORGE WIN
THE WAR?
A Remarkable Criticism.
The London Nation publishes the following oandid oriticism of the Premier.
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Gossip used to tell, during the war, that M. Clemenceau's nick- name for our Prime Minister was "le_Strategiste." We have had from Mr. Lloyd George's ad- mirers a picture of him in that role displaying him as the in- spired leader with single oye, the broad outlook, the clear vision, endowed with an almost uncanny gift of prophecy, struggling against the narrow minds and dull brains of the professional soldiers. Cabinet papers from bis pon have been allowed to stray from the Ministerial dispatch-box, papers predicting woe unless his advice were followed. His advico rejected, the Woo cime. The legend that he is the man who won the war has been maintained with: rare skill. At last wo are given a picture of the strategist from another angle, and much that has been dark has boen revealed. Colonel Repington's (Colonel Re- pington was the war expert of the Times) book gives us an ex- position of an underworld of engaged in a constant wrangle promised and skilfully postponed intrigue and deception, of irres-with them on the subject of man until the tide of war had turned, ponsible trifling with the lives of power. He disliked both Robert and attention was drawn from the men, of struggle for power whenson and Haig, but did not feel disastrous events of the spring of gained. We learn that the himself strong enough to get rid 1918. Haig's dispatches were methods of the jumping frog, to of them, and we are now present withheld and amended, and then, which wo have grown accustomed with the amazing spectacle of before awkward questions could ed since D.O.R.A. ceased to of the head of the Government be asked, while the memory of acreon our governors, wore the resorting to 1 policy of victory was still fresh, the khaki methods applied to the conduct of pin-pricks in relation to his election was planned and carried the war, as indeed we might have two chief military agents for the through. So one of the most guessed, and are left wondering conduct of the war. In the amazing blunders in the history how we won through.
autumn of 1917 Haig is driven of war was forgotten: preparations to say that attacke by the British to meet an attack long foreseen We find our strategist, whether Prime Minister upon the Com-had been begun after the event, he be Chancellor of the Exche-mander-in-Chief of the British and the price we had to pay for
Minister of Munitions, Armies in France quer,
are highly that blunder was 300,000 canu-. Secrotary of State for War, or unpatriotic, and that if the alties and millions of pounda'. Prime Minister making and dia- Prime Minister did not like the worth of war material. Yot by carding plans of campaign a Commander-in-Chief's leading sheer political skill the arob- blunderer was able to finish in the lightheartedly as he makes and he should remove him.
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discards pledges to the electorate. Then after these months of limelight as the man who won the Aa Chancellor he desires to trans-unseemly controversy comes the war. Truly he was more right fer the whole of the British Versailles conference of January, than he know when he said of Army from France to the Da-1918, held to decide upon the himself "I may know nothing of nubo, as Minister of Munitions he plans for meating the German military strategy but I do know is all for Salonika, as Secretary attack with which were something of political strategy." for War he is eager to bring in monaced, because of the collapse Rumania. Then he hedges, and of Russia, Clemenceau and predicts Rumania's downfall. As Foch at once attack Lloyd George Prime Minister, in January, 1917, on the subject of man-power. be desires to reinforce Italy and Haig's infantry is 114,000 below overwhelm Austria, in February strength, and he has been com- The Late Head of the N.Y.K. he is an enthusiastic supporter ofpelled with dwindling resources Nivelle and of a great break-to increase his commitments by through on the Western Front.
CAREER OF BARON KONDO,
Besides being President of the
In August he is once more for taking over more front from the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, for many French. As the Germane ere years, the late Baron Kondo was the Italian front, and in January, steadily reinforcing their armies a Director of the Kirin Beer 1918, he believes that our only in
the West, the obvious Brewery Company, Ltd., the hope lies in knocking out Turkey.
course seems to be to make Tokyo Marine Insurance Com-
At the end he has as many cards good Haig's deficiencies. Our pany and of the Inawashiro up his sleeve as the Heathen Prime Minister waves his critics Hydro-Electric Company. Born Chinese, and is prepared to drop aside, declares that, this is doin Yedo in November, 1848, hel a trump on any trick that is mestic matter in which the Ver- studied at the Keio University, played.
sailles conference has no voice, and after graduating there,
Mr.
the
The story of the dropping of and hints at a social revolution if entered the service of the Mitsu one of these trumps is a very the country is asked for more Bishi firm. There he gained the pretty example of political leger-
He propounds an alter-confidence of the late men. demain. A propose de bottes native plan, and proposes that Iwasaki Yataro, and his brother;" inemorandum by Mr. Lloyd 1918 should be devoted to knock and in the early eighties was George, dated early in September, ing out the Turk. The fact is appointed Manager of the Mitau 1916, found its way into the cor- that Mr. Lloyd George's famous Bishi offices in Yokohama. Hel respondence between himself and Paris speech, delivered after the rendered great service in the Mr. Asquith which preceded the Italian disaster at Carporetto, amalgamation of the Mitsu Bishi coup d'etat. It predicted the down- was no mere outburst of emotion. Mail S.S. Co, and the Kyodo Unyiu fall of Rumania, and appealed He sincerely believed the barrier Kaisha and was appointed a Vica- to Mr. Asquith to urge the Gen-in the West to be impenetrable, President of the Nippon Yusen eral Staff to take adequate he could not endure the borrible Kaisha when it was organized to measures to avert such A slaughter of the battlefields of take over the properties and calamity, failing which the blood France, and be set his military services of the two rival con of another small nation would judgement against that of his cerns. When the Sino-Japanese be on our heade. This memo-military advisere. Thinking any war broke out in 1894, he ably randum has been freely quoted reinforcement to Haig unneces-assisted the late Mr. Yoshikawa, by our Prime Minister's admirers
the aary, he refused to provide more then
President of as a classic example of his men, holding that our lines in Nippon Yusen Kaisha in the prescience and vision. We now France were safe, he dreamed of transportation of war material learn that Mr. Asquith sont Mr. a brilliant campaign in the Holy and troops and in recognition of Lloyd George, then Secretary of Land, to which both his own this was rewarded with the State for War, over to Paris to Chief of Staff and Clemenceau Fourth. Order of Merit. On the conclude the agreement which strongly objected. This, in itself death of Mr. Yoshikawa, Baron brought Rumania into the war in is serious enough, but worse (then Mr.) Kondo succeeded to the the middle of August, and Mr. followed. Ludendorff penetrated Presidency of the N.Y.K, He Lloyd George signed the agree the barrier in the West and came went abroad several times on ment (it has been published in near to winning the war. The inspection purposes. In oon- they set themselves to learn the France) some three weeks before men who had been refused were sideration of the long and meri- culinary art but, from the look of the famous memorandum
was found in a hurry, the troops who torious services he rendored the their long-drawn faces, with no written. He backed both horses. had been kept in Palestine were country in the development of great SUCCOSE.
Опе Was If Rumanis won there was his hurried to France. Then the the shipping industry of Japan, found rocking baby to sleep signature, if Falkenbayn won Prince Minister rose in his place he was created a Baron and while in his armis was one busky there was the memorandum. As in the House, and, after these decorated with the Second Order little chap crying and bawling to the latter trick was played the months of controversy on the of Merit in August, 1911. ... beat the band. To the question appropriate trump was shown to question of man-power, announc of what they think of the suffrage a few trusty friends, the othered that the Army in France was movement, a fierce look appeared card remaining up the sleeve. "considerably stronger" than it
THE VALUE OF GOOD SIGHT declared they do not approve of it RELATION WITH COMMANDER-IN-had been in the previous year, CHIEF.
and that the number or British But it is Mr. Lloyd George's troops in Egypt and Palestine cannot be over-estimated. Sight conduct of the war as Prime was trifling. Inference" I have stande for everything that is 'ABBISTANT”. GOVERNMENT Minister which is chiefly impugn-done all that man could do to win valuable or enjoyable in life. You
AT WASHINGTON.
ed. He came into power as the the war, the biame rests with the cannot tell if your eyes are right; Mr. C. L. Barret, President of man of push-and-go to replace an stupid soldiers who are fighting you may see well yet have the U. S. National Farmer's inert and exhausted predecessor. with their backs to the wall. defective eyes. If you wish to Union, states that there is in For the first six months of his When General Maurice publicly have your eyes tested, the Ra existence a powerful asaletant rule our armies in France grew challenged these statemente, Mr. frseting Room of The Hongkong When the parade of these Government, composed of repres steadily in strength under the Lloyd George carried the House Optical Co., Successors to Clark auffragettes was going on, a re-entatives of varied interests at arrangements made by Mr. of Commons off is Loot with one & Co., Refracting & Manufsotur
He named Mr. Asquith, and during that period of his amazing pyrotechnical ing Opticians—the moar cóm- porter having known several of Washington. those in the march, set out Joseph Defrees, President of the the new Prime Minister, busily, displays and won a majority of patent optical establishment in to get interviews from their United States Chamber of Comocoupled with his adventures in 187. The wrong untils were South Chine-located. in 1.15- husbands, and found them all merce; Mr. A. P. Thom, General strategy, did nothing to provide carefully looked away, the right Queen's
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