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CHIANG'S NEW STRATEGY
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
Tem 1924 by Untlet feniure nyndicate, Tos
ARENA
Lichte
"I tell you, Spike-we'd'a mot dered him if he hadn't slipped in those 23 in cky punches!"
Three Men will
Rule England
When War Comes
Three virtually "unknown" men, whose ages average only
64 years, would be supreme commanders of Great Britain's arm- ed forces if another major war broke out over Europe to-morrow. With Bettain now virtually France's as "n tiger for work and as safe as military ally, one of those men prob- the House of Commons," ably would be commander-in-chief of the combined British and French
NO. I ADMIRAL SHY
In
become
und
Newall.
thn
centrate their striking force in silent, reserved "big ship" man, is 07.
post since January, 1933. Chatfield, is an American-born woman.
THE MAN with the BIGGEST JOB
◄ MALLEST Cabinet"
Minister, Sir Kingsley
S
Wood, the
new
Secretary of State for Air,
By
has been given the Cabinet's PERCY CATER
Biggest Job.
To him na been committed the
task of making
Britain safe in the al at top speed; of cancelling out, by all the pro- digles of effort which he can summon forth the years of neglect, of muddle. and of wasted wordings.
He is Britain's No. 1 Minister, in the administrative from this sense. morning. His brain may hold the fate of his country and of the British Em- pire. He stands
at the crisis of his life-perhaps of yours und mine,
A formidable. almost a terrifying responsibility con- fronts him,
of
Sir Kingsley Wood
What type man in this Minis- ter of Mr. Charn- berlain's choice, the man whose Chief thinks 30 much of him that he becomes Key Minister of De- fence?
Success has followed him with a Wood presented the Commons with sort of Infatuation. Very few poli- the finest bit of team-wark that has tieluns can sny, ut 57, that fortune been in our time. It elevated Front has always been similarly kind. To Bench performance to the level of the Sir Kingsley, Providence has been, fine arts.
might say, relenticas,
Success has followed him
NEAT and trini little man,
Str Kingsley. When
Into
MUTTING Dul intervening successes, let us hatch up with Str Kingsley when he became Postmaster-Generat in November 3081. He made the lines hum right away. No P.M.G. ever put the Post Office and all it stood for so hard and dominantly on the map.
NEWALL AIR FORCE HEAD Even
you less known to the public war fleets. Another probably would generally in 62-year-old Air Chict When other politicians have been Gave Us Cheap 'Phoning be supreme commander of the two air Marshal Sir
Cyril Louis Norton wondering why life need be so full forees. A French general-a modern
for of ta
of thorns Sir Kingsley has gone on the man responsible Foch-almost certainly would heart In the news from China yesa combination of France's great mill- expanding air force into a formid-roudis and in the conditions that let
Great Britain's transforming
rapidly his way bland and smiling, along the Lerday there Was one very tary machine end Britain's small, able fighting machine and potential you keep young and gay. | significant development which,newly mechanized land forces. weupon of destruction. On the out- It is though Destiny, seeing a but for the sensational story of In 1938, just us in 1914, the man break of war his job would comprise statesman of so happy a nature, su the Japanese advance upon and on whose shoulders would lie the the defence of Great Britain's teem- cherubic a look, has said, "What a
heaviest responsibility capture of Kiukiang, would have timale safety of the British Empires organization of swift reprisals against
for the al- in cities against air attack and the pily to spell it!"
Not that Kingsley Wood Is a mere Ife made people think Post Ofee been given more prominence and would be the commander-in-chief of
darling of torlunc-tucky. He has and buy Post Oflee. He used ad- enemy. the attention it deserved.
No It the British navy, military or With the use of French airdromes
worked-bard for bis success. If vertising in a big way, told a genuine- was the story of Marshal Chiang eris might could save Great Bri- already guaranteed for the Royal Air there is magic in his touch it is be- ly astonished British public what the
lal herself from starvation or the Kai-shek's strategy in South
eruse in his head there is a glittering P.O. could do, which was about every- empire from disintegration if the Force, Newall probably would 03- Shansi and North Honan, his navy lost control of the seas against bined air armadas of the two coun-
thing. sume supreme command of the com- brain,
He was taken into the Cabinet in massing of some 200,000 troops
a major European power.
tries,
A Solicitor
December 1933, tribute to his out- for what Tokyo fears is to be a
Sir Cyril Newall began his career
standing powers. He put the tele- counter-offensive to recover the The man stated for that job-and in the army. In appearance he is the
phone within everybody's reach. The Lunghai railway, now sparsely probably for the command of the picni British army officer, square-
"Kingsley bobswroth," the shilling night-call which he established in held by little Japanese garrisons-is shy, 59-year-old
combined British and French fleets jawed, keen-eyed, with closely clip-sald that he was the smallest mem-
Admiral Sir Ped toothbrush mustache and mill- ber of the Cabinet you would as- October 1934, was his biggest drama- following the interruption of the Roger Rotand Charies Backhouse,
tary bearing. His hair ly dark asume that I spoke of his bodily tic stroke, excellent business for the northern campaign which was to commander-in-chief of the British beginning thin out on top. He has presence merely. He has also the Post Office, and humanitarian smallest feet, but they have managed nehlevement which will make millions the reputation of being martinet have encompassed the city ofone Fleet from 1985 to 1938.
Government depart remember his name. Hunkow. Floods in the Yellow September this year Backhouse and, like Sir Roger Backhouse, he to kick some
First Sen Lord
dislikes
publicity.
quite H3 photograph ments
extraordinary Now he has the job that demands River stopped the Japanese ad-Chief of Naval Staff in succession to rarely is seen in British newspapers. activity.
supremely those powers of drive and vance, and caused them to con- Lord Chutdeld, who has held that His wife, whom he married in 1925, Considering that the Prime Minis- Imagination that he showed in giving ter has the biggest feet (actually) in us the cheap telephone, the "tanner" the Yangtee for a blow at Han- But if a major war broke out between
FOUGHT ON FRONTIER the Cabinet, these two pairs should wire. kow from
Newell was in the British army
be able to do something.
He has the most widespread good that quarter. But now and September Backhouse, who from 1005 to 1914 and saw active
Sir Kingsley a selleltor by pro- will, for, apart from our air necen- the concentration in the Yangtse, is 8 years Chatfield's junior, prob- service in one of the periodical "It-fession, senior partner in a Walbrook sities, which make us wish him very ROAD.necessarily large, was apparently ably would step into his shoes imme- tle wars" or the restless Indian North- firm. The air of a calling where dis- well, he is popular.
obtained at the expense of garri-
diately.
east frontier. He first learned to fly cretion is everything and of City To most of his fellow-countrymen, when home on leave in 1911 and holds formality is all about him. Scarce- sons farther north. Reports Sir Roger Backhouse is merely a
one of the curliest cerüflcates of thely, if ever, do you see him in ony frora Chinese troops operating name, if that. In the navy, however, Royal Aero Club,
thing but morning coat and stripes. in Shansi express surprise at the he is described as "perhaps the most the World War. Newall was trans- pitched voice. Like Mr. Chamber Immediately after the outbreak of He has a ting, not tinny, high sudden withdrawal of Japanese popular oficer since Nelson."
ferred to the Royal Flying Corps, loin's stringy one, it can forces which have
shear which later was merged into the through anything. It has to pierce fronting them up to recently, Tall and spare, clean-shaven, with Royal Air Force. In 1910 he was a din only, once in every so often, Always Has Last Word but which have now been re-thinning hair and prominent nose, placed in command of the special called apparently for duty on of the loudest parade-ground voice ried out bombing reprisals against
Backhouse is reputedly the possessor No. 41 Wing of the R.A.F., which ear- Made Him Famous
DEFORE he became M.P. for Woolwich in Decem the more vital front. The same in the British navy. He is intensely the Germans.
MINISTER of Health since ber 1918 he had represented Wool- situation
M existed in Honan. shy, however, and detests publicity. In October, 1931, he was given
June 1935, Sir Kingsley, wich for years on the LC.C. and With the floods and the bogging That explains partly why he is al- command of the R.A.F. in the Middle for so long Super Doctor to the had been chairman of the London down of much of the heavy
most "unknown"
East. For
Four years later he was made nation, has a reposeful style, a per- Insurance Commlitee and this and He comes of a Quaker family. One a member of the powerful Air coun- equipment of the Japanese army
fect bedside manner for occasionally that, of his brothers is a scholar of Orien- cil in connection with R.A.F. expon-excited M.P.s. no-one knows how much was tal languages. Another is an ad- sion programme, at that time just
In 1018 he promoted a national You will say, of course, that it was memorial to the Government urging lost on that ill-starred enterprise during the World War and is now a marshal and chief of the air staff in obsworth" and all that. But before ways eager to do right by him sid
miral,
und
a third was in the army beginning. He became air chief the Post Office that made Sir Kingsley the immediate establishment of a the high command ordered a business man.
know the "Kingsley Ministry of Health, Providence, al- general withdrawal, leaving be Sir Roger Backhouse was born in GORT BETTER KNOWN hind only such forces as were 1878. He was Lord Jellicoe's flag-
at the Ministry of Health, from the handsome thing, and eventually The third and best known of Bri-November 1924 to June 1929, he had made him Health Chief. deemed necessary to guard the commander on board the Iron Duke tain's present-day war leaders is the shown his mettle.
Son of a Wesleyan key-points
minister-what already
In 1914-15, occupied.
and fought in the battle Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Ho was second-in-command to Mr. a of Jutland.
nursery of Ministers in the manset These garrisons were small; and Batile He commanded the 1st Viscount Gort, $1 year old, energetic,
Neville Chamberlain when the now Twinkles with Squadron
Irrepressible chcer- Mediterranean at that time, with the Chinese Fleet from
frank-spoken holder of the highest Premier, then Mir
Minister of Health, fulness-und usunity has good cause apparently disorganised after the Home Fleet in 1935.
1932 to 1934, and was awards for gallantry in the British piloted through the House of Com-behind fairly thick-lensed specta- made commander-in-chief of the army. He was placed at the head mons. the great "De-Rating Act. cles. Devastating, though nut crush- swift retreat out of Honan, nery expert and a atur disciplinarian. 1937, when dynamic War Minister day, It occupied Parliament for many last and offenest the right word.
He is a gun- of Britain's land forces in December, One of the major mensures of the Ing-mlid-in retort. Always has the there seemed no need for any One fellow-offeer once described him Leslie Here-Bellsh powerful defence force along the
mude a clean a week. of the "higher ups" at the Neville Chamberlain and Kingsley Arthur Greenwood. younger_men.
Oce and replaced them with
man, is a master of the art of pub- Hore-Bellsho, a former newspaper- Ucily. That explains in part why
AT
THE
KING'S
MOST PRECIOUS MOMENTS
Hin kisses filled her
noul with romance so great, so beautiful, that no vilice love could take its place. Tho great Cominopolitan Magazine story know one of the screen's truly fino romanike pictures!
WALTER WANGER prunts
JOAN
BENNETT
RIENRY
FONDA
MET MY LOVE AGAIN
wäh
DAME MAY WITTY • ALAN MARSHAL LOUISE PLATT ALAN DAXTER = TIM HOLT Directed by
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been con-
ALWAYS SHUNS PUBLICITY
Lunghai railway. Now the Peninsula, for instance, is said situation has altered. There is to be over-run with guerillaa. an organised and highly mobile And it is well-known that Pelp
1937.
sweep
vice,
Defense
famous.
As a Ministerial camera-star he runs Hore-Belisha close. Whether it has happened to be a new telephone exchange that he was opening; or a is always "neway," effective, tells the new hospital or a new road, his pose
story.
Favourite occupation, chipping
former member of the old Queen's It had a marvellous prize-winning
stone its calm, record at Disley and elsewhere.
THE QUEEN'S EDINBURGH Chinese army massed for actioning is a sort of oasis in a desert viscount Gort is comparatively well may be permissible for a humble ketry, drill, and tactical exercise. just beyond the farthest fringe of guerilla war. Shansi, too, known. During the World War he Edinburgh to lay of the Japanese occupation, and has seen the gradual retirement won the Victoria Cross-most prized in the shape of a very brief historical it is rapidly closing in, from all of the invaders. And so it goes. reward for gallantry on active scr-sketch, on the occasion of its modern Young Men's Chance accounts, on the hopelessly out-Honan is likely to experience with two bars, and the Military Cross. ly important and interesting form of
the Distinguished Service Order numbered troops whom Doihara second wave of fighting, with the Additionally he was mentioned nine
successor entering upon an exceeding and the other Japanese generals Chinese taking the initiative.mes in dispatches. He was general
In the 'eighties it became affilated left to hold such places as If Marshal Chiang speeds these staff officer to the Shanghal
to, the Royal Scots, the senior regi- Kaifeng.
The 1st City Edinburgh Volunteerment of the line, but remained a operations they may have a con-Force in 1927, and he held high staff Regiment was embodied in 1859, the Brigade of Rifles. It took a pro- This is becoming an old story elderable effect upon Japanese"
appointments in England and India,
in, year in which the Volunteer Force minent part in all the three great now and should have taught the Jutrategy on
When
Hore-Bellsha appointed him received the sanction of Parliament, Reviews of Scottish Volunteers in the Yangtse. But chief of imperial general staff Vis-its tille was soon changed into that of 1000, 1881, and 1905, and a consider- Japanese that their conquests, whether they do or not, the count Gurt assumed entire respons- The Queen's Edinburgh Title Volun-able number of Hs members served in spectacular it is true, are far indications are that Japan will bility for training the from subduing the millions upon have to "conquer" the provinces Bellsha first met in Switzerland when of the fact that!
newly me-teer Regiment, by special permission the South African War. chanized British army. He und More- from Queen Victoria as a recognition On the establishment of the Ter- whom Chiang Kai-shek can call. again and again until China-orey
was the first Volun- ritorial Force (now the Territorial As the Japanese advance in one the invaders themselves-is ex- ennoned each other accidentul- leer corps that Her Majesty hnd seen Army) it was reduced to two bat- sector, piercing a relatively nar-hausted. When Japanese states-friends, and it was this chance meet-
un a skl-plope. They became good drawn up on parade.
tuliona,
5th Royal Scols 4th and I had many dificulties to overcome (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles), and row section of Chinose defences, men speak of the possibility of Gort's appointment as supreme com- but recruiting was brisk, and it goon services were yet to come.
tims Ling probably ultimately led to in the earlier years of its
its embodiment, ceased to bo brigade, but Its greatest so reorganised fighting men, a ten or twenty years' war they mander of Britain's land forces.
In the scattered by earlier defents, are doubtless thinking of their
expanded into a brigade of three Great Wor both battalions went to press back into the "occupied" ineffectual attempts to control plexioned, with close-cut mustache Rifle Volunteer Brigade. Under the casualties there. After the evacun- Hle in short, sit, fresh-com- battalions the Queen's Edinburgh Gallipoli, and both had very, heavy country and harass garrisons and the many areas which they have and thinning hair. On him would command of the late Lord Kingsburgh on the 4th Royal Scots went to their lines of communication already invaded and where their devolve the responsibilty for sending it became the strongest Volunteer Palestine, and were the first battalion endlessly. The entire Shantung foothold is precarious at best.
British Expeditionary Force to the unit in point of numbers in Great to march into Jerusalem. The 6th Continent in the event of war, Deltain, and second to none in mux-
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