Haig's
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Hard Fight "He Did Well And
DISCLOSURES BY HISTORIAN
INTENSE FEELING AGAINST WARTIME ARMY LEADER
By A Military Correspondent
Tho whole circumstances)
James Edmonds
to another
With an attack pending," Sir continues, "the which brought about General Commander-in-Chief declined to re- Sir Hubert Gough's removal move General Gough from the command of the Fifth post. Army are disclosed for the first- time by Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds, Oficial His- torian of the Great War.
In an article published in the February issue of the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution he shows that:
There
for Was
agitation GR General Gough's recall months before the Bomme Retreat; - Sir Douglas Haig was "adamant in relaining him," and threatened were resignation his hands forced; and
Bir Henry Wilson, when Chief of the Imperial General Staff, deter- mained that “Gough must go."
Other statements entirely refute the assertion appearing in Mr. Lloyd George's "Memoirs" that Sir Douglan Haig caused the removal of Sir Huber! Gough. The implications are that Sir Henry Wilson, when C.I.G.S., preferred a junior ofcer to Sir Henry Rawlinson as British Military Representative at Versailles,
WILSON'S MUTTERINGS "On March 25, the day before the Conférence, at which Doullens General Foch was placed in control, about midday, Sir Henry Wilson was seen walking up and down near the GHQ. offices in Montreuil, mutter- ing so all might hear:
"Gongh must go.
Fo.'"*
Gough
must
The next day, according to Sir James, Lord Milner and Sir Henry Wilson tackled the Commander-in- Chief again on the subject of Gough's removal, telling him that public opinion at home was adverse to Gough, and that Foch considered that he had done very badly.
tb
Sir Douglas Halg reaisted Mill- ner's and Wilson's endeavour remove Gough, saying: "No mat ter what Foch might have said, I considered that he (Gough) had dealt with a most difficult situation very well. He had never lost his and head,
always cheery WAN fought hard."
Wilson then said that Gough roust "NO DISCREDIT ON HAIC"
be relieved. No order could be Accordingly, he had determined to found, but the next day Sir. Henry remove General Gough in order to Wilson told the Deputy-Chief of the give the command to Sir Henry Imperial General Staff that orders Rawlinson, who had been appointed were being issued to Sir Douglas to Versailles by the Commander-in-Halg for the removal of Gough,
Chief.
The article removes any fear that] In honouring General Gough some discredit will fall to Earl Halg.
giving the old reason that his men had lost confidence in him."
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SCOTLAND YARD IS
READY FOR CORONATION
CRIME MAP OF LONDON
1937.
Save Gough Fought Hard"
SCIENCE CREATES A NEW "FRANKENSTEIN"
SCIENTIFIC research is a new kind of Frankenstein
monster, which is staggering the experts with its growth in recent years.
young
Recently, writes a London reporter, I talked with London woman, Mias E. M. R. Ditmas, who has the strange job of helping to hold it in leash,
"Scientists can no longer cope with the whole mass of new facts that are, discovered every hour," she said.
"Three-quarters of a million scientific and technical papers are poured from the world's presses yearly, not to mention thou-i sands of books and pamphlets in nearly all known languages."
Miss Ditmas is general of "Aslib" (Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux), an organisation formed by scientists to harness the unmanageable monster which they themselves created.
Sir John Reith's
Secret
Diary
London, Mar. 25.
SIR JOHN REITH, B.B.C. chief, has kept a full diary of the last 25 years in his crowded life-an intimate re- cord of big business that will never be published.
For Sir John Reith, shyest of all public men, has determined that his diary must remain a secret.
Every day he has written a
com-
WITHOUT THE FAN
London, Mar. 10. Scotland Yard, with char-plete record of his doings and FAN DANCER·
in stoutly bound ก special acteristic British thorough-conversations ness, has mapped that part of volumes that are kept in London affected by the coro. bureau, the key of which never nation in such detail that every lamp post and traffic obelisk is shown for guidance in policing the area.
"REQUIRED REST” General Rawlinson was appointed The public have been led to to take command, General Gough bellove that the Retreat of the Fifth being told that both he and his staff rest. That, Brigadier- Army on the Somme at the end of required March, 1918, was wholly responsible General Edmonds writes was, of for Sir Hubert's recall. It has since course, camouflage. been learned that it was the supreme
A litle fater Sir Douglas Halg took heroism of all ranks of the Fifth Army against fearful odds in that the opportunity to champion the desperate rearguard action that did cause of General Gough before the to 88 feet.
our Prime Minister, so much to bring victoryTM" to urmas.
nor
The result of their "taping" in a booklet printed by the Yard for the Yard, and maps on the unusually large scale of one inch
leaves his possession.
Sir John Reith said to me
day:
yester-
any
"I do not think it likely that the diary will ever be published in form or extracts from it."
the
Il Is understood diaries begin when Sir John was working with a firm of engineers who were building the Royal Albert
continue Dock. They with his war experiences in the Scottish Rifles. ·
EARNS FAME AND FORTUNE
Chicago, Mar. 30.
"Faith Bacon, who won fame and- fortune by not hiding her beauty behind a fan has set a valuation of $100,000 upon the "inner aspect" of her right thigh.
A master-map for each district contains detalled Information about Mr. Lloyd George replied: "Gen-particular characteristics of the area
The thigh, and other portions that an omeer and is indexed so
of her well-known person, were But fragmentary, though conclu-eral Gough had neither held sive, evidence now proves that in the destroyed the Somme bridges
andreading a particular map and coming
He has also recorded his work as covered with "deep ugly scars," across a 1017-several autumn
months that he must not be employed ogain."
marking has only to of
special before
the Sir James Edmonds says: "General consult the master-map to discover supervisor of an arms factory in she set forth in a suit against the Retrent-towards close of Passchendaele, it was sug- Gough had done both, except the particular problem to be over- Philadelphia during the war,
the Lake Theatre corporation, for come railway bridges.
The route of the royal coach he had a staff of 600 inspectors. gested to Sir Douglas Haig from regards the
as a result of incerations suffered several quarters that he "should get which the French were
is indicated with such exactitude i
has patiently when she crashed through a The long story he rid of Gough," and that Sir Douglas
is possible to learn from the map
statuary written day by day tells of his op- Halg was very strongly opposed to Sir Douglas Haig Lord Derby said which side of mid-street such action. He was adamant in it was necessary that Gough should the coach will pass en route from pointment as chief of Beardmore's glass box while posing in the Tetaining him."-
nate his command and return home. Buckingham-palace to Westminster Coatbridge works and on to the day nude for a stage presentation
when he became head of the B.B.C. finale,-as-is-hor-custom...
to
CARSON'S SATIRE "Members of the Cabinet," Sir James Edmonds writes, "seem have discussed the matter informally, so that Lord Carson was moved to write some impromplu verses headed. 'P.M. loquitur, the last lines of which ran:
Let Gough be sacked and Halg be zamined.
On
Justice let the doors be
slammed.
Let gossip rule instead of law; I'll run the Services by jaw." At the end of November Sir James Edmonds mentioned the rumours on the subject to the Commander-in- Chief. So had the Military Secre- tary. G.H.Q. (Major-General Sir W. Peyton). Both were snubbed for their poina. Th
The agitation against Gough then appeared to die down.
It revived when, on February
WOD 16, Sir William Robertson ceased to bo the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Sir Henry Wilson took his place, and, on Sir Douglas Haig's advice, Sir Henry Rawlinson
Waz
Supremo War Council at Versailles.
not
In the course of a telegram
to
the
In a following letter, Lord Derby said he entirely agreed with Prime Minister's decision,
LORD DERBY'S LETTER There was, Lord Derby wrote, an intense feeling against Gough, the bitterness of which I am sure you cannot gauge, which, however, is actions during the battle prove to be justifiable, and make him no longer un asset to the Army. I have heard, of course, nothing from those In France wh
who are still under his orders, to this but among men returned country in the various hospitals there:
Abbey.
when
He Punched World's
"Loveliest Eye"
Paris, Mar. 25.
is a consensus of opinion which MLLE. MADO TAYLOR, singer and dancer, elected
neither this Government nor other Government can ignore."
any
Acknowledging this letter, Sir Douglas Holz wrote: "I have more to than once said to you, and others of the Government, the
in Paris as "the woman with the most beautiful eyes
in the world," appeared in court to-day with a bandage over one of those eyes.
moment they feel that they would FRANCE
prefer sotacone else to command in France. I am prepared to place my resignation in your hands.”
No notice was taken of this offer.
HONOURS
'THE WISE' KING
appointed to Wilson's post as British by Sir Douglas Halg to resign. Military. Representative with the
In Mr. Lloyd George's "Memoirs,"
is the following: p.387,
"When "It was obvious," writes Sir James Gough had been beaten owing to
Paris, Mar. 81. Edmonds, "that the new C.I.G.S, did conditions for which Halg alone was
France has just completed a want a strong man at Versailles, responsible, Haig, instead of accept- He preferred a comparatively fundering that responsibility as an "omeer month's celebration of the 600th officer. In the sequel, he got one to
and a
a gentleman," removed Gough his taste. To him, General Wilson, from the command and left the anniversary of King Charles V, 18 C.I.G.S., gave orders over a direct | Government to infer that the the monarch known as Charles top te let before this degomme General was alone to blame the Wise, who constructed most could be done Sir Henry Rawlinson Not much 'nobility' there,”
of the most famous tourist had to be provided for.
landmarks in Paris.
"The agitation for the removal
The Louvre Museum, whose marble
renewed DUELLING DOCTOR | halls are known to every tourist; the
of General Gough was On March 3 Bir Douglas Hair, mocling mo casually, recalled my carller warning, and told me that the Government were again at him to sek Gongh... He felt more that Bir Beary Wilson was at the bottom of it.
"Two days later, on March 5, Lord Derby, the Secretary of St le
in-Chief:
:
WINS AGAIN
14 ROUNDS WITH SABRE
Budapest, March 1.
for War, wrote to the Commander- For one-and-a-half hours, Dr. **It looks now as if an aitack Francis Sarga, "the Duelling might come within a very short Doctor," fought a sabre duc time on your front, and on that with a former suitor of his wife, part of the front of which Gough in a fencing school in Budapest La in
command. It has borne in on me from all aldes, civil to-day.
Deen
Chateau of Vincennes, just outside Paris; the Palais de Justice, or town hall, and the Place de la Bastille, where the famous prison unce stood, are among the landmarks in Paris whose origin dates back to the days of Charles V. Even the French National Library, the Bibliotheque Nationalt,
is known to thousands of which
students attending the foreign had its start with a donation from Sorbonne and other Parla universilics, Charles V of more than 1,000 historic manuscripts.
Charles V did not actually construct,
the palace which later became the
claimed
from She
domages Luelen Gariel, who, she alleged, punched it.
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day's Miss Bacon, fresh from sleep, sat on a cushion in front of told all her gilded fireplace and about it. She parted he
her wine-red velvet negligee to disclose a U-shaped ankle. inches above her acar six Beyond that she would not go, ex- cept verbally, She confirmed, how- ever, the legal phraseology of the suit, and said the inner aspect of her right thigh was scarred "something terrible,"
TEMPTATIONS"
It all on the "I was taking a pose in the finale," show was Miss Bacon said. "The called "temptations", and all the girls were supposed to be temptations, you know, temptations of man. One was power, another was wine, an- other was pearls, and so on, I was benuly.
gloss was told to stand on box and the last part of the number came when they parted the curtains and showed me there in the nude, I was wearing a special spray, which brings out the better paints of the body, and there were lights shining on me up through the top of the glass box.
stage happened Dec. 5, 1936, or
Mile. Taylor said that one rainy day her umbrella obstructed Garlel, He protested strongly, then hit her.
Gariel was ordered to pay £100 and was sentenced to eight days' which "suspended imprisonment," means that under the First Ole- ders Act he will not serve the term.
**
CHINA DONATEB $100,000 FOR
FLOOD RELIEF IN USA..
N his capacity as president of the United Charitable Association
of Shanghai, Dr. H. H. Kung has dispatched a coblegram of sym- pathy to the Blood sufferers in the United States,
а
The message, together with remittance of $100,000, was ad- dressed. to Admiral Cary H. Gray- son,
Chairman of the American Cross. It also mentioned Red that $100,000 worth of Chinese producis useful to American flood victims would be sent shortly.
Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government, likewise telegraphed to President Roosevelt of the United States expressing China's heartfelt sympathy for the food disaster in the Mississippi
valley,
epoch,
"Well, the curtains parted and I crashed' through the box. All the girls started screaming for a doctor. and running around the stage, but climbed out of all the somehow I broken glass and, danced. If you're not in show business, you won't understand. There's something about being in front of an audience, It numbs the sense. They didn't ring down the curtain and I finished the number, Then, just as the curtain was going down, I fell,"
WENT TO HOSPITAL Someone plcked her up, the, said, but covered her eyes and warned her not to look down". Then she spent a month at Henrotin Hospital, after undergoing 90 minutes of surgical care without anesthesia.
"It was two months before I could dance again," she continued, "and I still can't 100.dance. I even had to learn to walk.
Miss Bacon explained that she was suing for disability but chiefly, for disfiguremen
since my beauty is
my thood
T
am proud that in his last follies, Flo Ziegfeld picked me as the most The Chateau of beautiful woman in the world, just and military, that he does not have The duel, which was one of a Louvre,, but he ordered the original that the confidence of the troops he number which Dr. Sarga la fighting structure to be enlarged and re- Vincennes, the palace where this king as he had honoured Gladys Glad and The famous Palace de was born, was enlarged and re Jessie Reed. Now that beauty has. commands, and that is a very to avenge his wife's honour, was novated.
was built following the in- decorated during his reign, kai Justice
been marred. I have used it to sup serious
feeling to exist with regard stopped in the 14th round,
Other significant events in his rule, port myself and my invalid sister, Dr. Sarga had wounded his op- struction of the French monarch- lo a Commander at such a critical time as the present.
Ponent severely in the hip in the but six-centuries ago it was known/ which were celebrated with fitting | Charmion “avoured herself and i
as St. Paul's Palace.
ceremonies in Paris, were the eco Miss.Bacon' I believe the Prime Minister seventh round, but the auch wenn of The prison of the Bastille, which tablishment of a French merchant hurried away to a night club, where (Mr. Lloyd George) hat also in spite of the growing exhauston spoken to you on the subject, as he tho wounded man. In the 14th round was destroyed by mobs during the marine, the placing of France's taxas she dances as The Spirit of the has heard reports from various he fractured his face and the duel French Revolution, was built by tion system on a business basis and Orchid". She doem't have to too sources with regard to Gough. He was stopped. There was no re- Charles the Wiso "to keep Parisians the expulsion of the English from danca in that number, she explained.
United Press. has also spoken to me. conciliation Reuter.
In order, according to a history of French soll United Press;
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