THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1936.
Critic Says Haig
Lied To
MIL
Cabinet
On Passchendaele $
[ILITARY critic Captain Liddell Hart accuses the late Earl Haig of deliberately lying to the War Cabinet
in order to gain their assent to the attack on Passchen- dacle.
He claime, in "The War in Out- line," publishest this month Faber and Faber. a.), that!--
Haig bild--Army commanders that
"he did not expect much from the; French" in the way of simultaneous) attack;
retain told Haig that the French could promise nothing more than two limited attacks;
But that--
Iinly assured the Wor Cabinet that the French attacks would be on an adequate scale.
When Lloyd George, then Prime Miuleter, suggested that
a great attack which failed would discourage the Army, Haig said:
He had no intention of entering into tremendous offensive in
volving heavy casualties,"
Passchendaele cost 400,000 Bri tish casualties.
Staff Dismayed Captain Liddell Hart says think Cabinet n definite Haig gave the opinion that:
"If the fighting were kept up at its present Intensity for six month, Germany would be at the end of her available man-power."
linic's own diary, he says, makes
it clear that he did not merely mean her available reserves, hut her total strength.
FUTH!
Hart says that Talk gave figures in support of his claim which were "extraordinary exaggerations,"
optimistic" ratibintes compiled by his Intelligence Staff.
General Charteris, Haig's then Intelligence Officer, was "a Chief little dismayed to learn that Halg the general bad gone beyond
figures furnished by his Intelli
gence Stat."
MONUMENT
ABOUT A BORGIA
Vienna, Aug. 1 Crware Burgia, Duke of Valen. tl y La Ramagan, Roman Prince, Bife of Pamplona and Com
mander-in-Chlef of the armies of Pope Alexander VI. Pius It! and Julius . diet in this Httle Spanish town in the jar 1507.
Recently leading Navarran citi
the zen erreled a monument Town Hall, where Cesure Horgia is buried. The Roman Prince 129% killed in an animportant skirmish during a civil war in Navarre,
The monument represents Borgia In recumbent posture with
想
dagger in his band, a fox at his feet and holding a taldet with the words "Aut Caesar ant nihil."- United Presa.
"Adventures"
Of American
Girl In China
TRAVELLED ROUND THE WORLD
Sydney, Aug. 1. A young woman who has crammed Captain Liddell Hart refers to the
novel, who ins official blography, in which it is writ-enough adventure into her life to fur- ten that Haig always had a deliber-nish a sensational ate intention to give prominence to talked with princes and bandits, been the favourable aspects of any situ-prisoned by Chinese soldiers, creat- colonel of a Russian him it was noted honorary tion," that "with
regiment, and seen Mussolini #mite,
was
merely a sentiment, but a policy.", arrived in Sydney recently.
Warnings Ignored Captain Liddell art adds: "I good intentions of adopting such a means of winning. support for his plans cannot alter the fact that 11 was a policy of deliberate falsifica- List."
little bit tricks at was her casual comment. She Miss Aloha laker, an American, who has been travelling round the world since 1924 collecting material for articles and radio addresses. She travels for two year, and takes the next two years to "tell the world," Commenting on the German berenk-She reached Perth by way of the Far through in 1918, the critle comments East, and motored across to Sydney that alg disregarded repented warh-stopping at various homesteads on ings both from the RA.F. and the the way to get "local colour." Fifth Army, and asset his troops in My most difleult time?" she said. "Well, it was in Japan. I was nearly the north, clinging to the belief thatitted
with kindness, I was deter. Ludendorf would strike where the British were strong instead of where mined to get a picture of the present Emperor, who was then Heir Ap- they were weak,
to parent and terribly sacred. I tried "shoot" him as he came up the steps of our hotel, and his staff immediate- dy stepped-in-front of the
camera.
He praises the plan of Gallipoli, but says it was "wrecked by u chatn af errors hardly to be rivalled even in British history.""
PEACE
ΤΟ
RETURNS GALAPAGOS
Only One Family Remains at Pacific Paradise, British Cruiser Reports
The Prince waved them back, smiled at me, bowed, and waited courteously
I had taken him. After tha until life was one long round of fetes and triumphal progress. I had The Royal approval."
When she arrived at the Siberian frontier on a previous lour, she was
amazed to find a detachment of Red troops with a band drawn up to wel. come her. They kept me there for an hour-band playing, hand-shaking and not a word could I understand." Finally an Interpreter, and a hoarder San Diego, Cal., Aug. 14 of questions? Did every American Peace has settled on the Facite worlding mun own his own car? What "Garden of Eden"-the Galipayo: was going on in the States, in Europe, Islands-where several montra dge in the world? They death and mystery involved live starved, remarked Miss Baker. persans, was learned to-day aboard)
the visiting British cruiser Apolle. The sole survivors
of the original
were news-
CREATED HONORARY COLONEL
Wix
"It was at a small town in Siberia colony on the islands are members that I had my biggest surprise," she of the Wiltmer family, including į added, smiling, "Aguard Arthur Wittmer (also known is stationed at my hotel and I was made Whittman; his wife, Margaret; his to understand that I was to be taken seventeen-year-old
a to the parade ground at 3 o'clock. stepson, child, about five years old, Through my mind flashed awful smaller
The Witmers were seen when the visions of tiring parties. Quite the was created honorary Apollo visited the Galapagos. July reverse. I 3-7, Wittmer was sighted by offlers rolonel of the Third Nihinski Regi- as he was burning brush, and later
he and Mrs. Wittmer, went aboarri
the cruiser for a short visit.
ment.
In Manchukuo Miss taker said that she was held prisoner fqe 13 days, "on suspicion," in a little mud hovel, with no window: The doog was only The family seemed to be thriving opened once a day to pass in rice and of the prisoner for- In their equatorial "paradise," water, Nows
FAMILY IS THRIVING
was reported on the Apollo. Theyunately came to the ears of the "man had a productive vegetable garden who was running the local war" as Aliss Baker puts it, and she was re
nd
a plentiful supply of oranges, leased and given a "stails sent at 'n and wild fruit.
battle," of The Dr. Frederick, Ritter, first modern settlers, died, and his arte, Frau
rau Koervin, returned to Cer-! many.
THE PRINCE OF WALDS
Miss Baker says her two encounters with the King when he was Prince of The mummified bodies of Wales are among her most pleasant other men-Alfred Rudolph Loreiz, companion of the missing Baroness memories. She saw him first driving to the Guildhall in an open carriage Eloise Bonsquet de Wagner, and Trygve Nuggrud, Norwegian bont in pouring rain. She called out to owner were found last year on one attract his attention for a photograph as the cartiago" passed, and the of the Islands,
Prince, always courteous, nodded and The baroness and another com- waved his hand. The next time she pation, Robert Philipsun, disappear- ed and no trace of them has been aw him was at a little station in the
Brazilian jungle, on his South Ameri .found.
can tour.
ROYAL ITALIAN TOURISTS
Kuala Lumpur, July 30,
Our train pulled in at this little. atation to let the Royal train pass," she 'Baid.
"It was à o'clock in the morning, swelteringly hot, and I and other passengers stood out on the platform in pyjamas to see the Prince pass, A party of royal Italian tourists. Hix Carriage pulled up apposite to.
and two mine and there was the Prince and conprising three men wonen, stayed in Kuala Lumpur last hibata also in pyjamas, and a night on their way from Pening to parently suffering the hot weather. more than was. The Princo-wayed Singapore by
and smiled, and made some They are itis Excellency
remark to one of his at laughing Mare Antonio Colonna, Prince Aspredo Collonia, Marchiese Fran "People anyy me because I travel," cesco Mettel del Vascello, Marchese sho Bald. "I envy them because they Carla Medici
del" Vascelta · and have familles and comfortabla homey, Marchera Elvina Medici del Vascello, and a place to hang their hats. But The party left Kuala Lumpur early travel gets into the blood. It has got this morning.
into mine."
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