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"Big Bill" IRONSIDE
The man who has been given the job Sir John French held on Aug. 4, 1914
QUIPPED from birth
with great ability and a name which is a joy to roll round the tongue, Bir Edmund Ironside has been something of a prodigy.
He
made a. Major- was General at the age of 39. He 18 only 59 now. From his earliest days in the Army he has been 'marked out as a man who will rise high and, what is more, distinguish himself not so much in Whitehall as in the fleld.
He is said to be Gft. 4in. tall. But no one has been bravo enough to measure him accu- rately. His nick-name is "Big Bill"
He knows a great many lan- guages. He has passed interpreter- ship examinations in seven. And be has a good working knowledge of about half a dozen more, includ- ing Russian.
list of
Like many soldiers, he learns his languages by building up a big vocabulary. He makes a words on a post-card each morn- ing and learns it by heart during the day.
His knowledge of the nations now coming together into a peace bloc is intimate, but somewhat unfortunate.
In 1918 and 1919 he was in 'command at Archangel of all the in North anti-Bolshevik forces Russia
In 1020 he was in command of troops In Anatolia when Kemal was defying the armies of Britain and France and building modern Turkey. But Ironside and the Turks never actually came blows.
to
Ironside has a sort of "Bulldog Drummond reputation. There is even a legend that during the Boer War he squeezed a Boer to death In his arms.
He was sent to the Boer War the immediately after joining Army. He was in the Royal Artil- lery and
mentioned was
In dispatches.
The next Ironside legend sprang up shortly before the war at the Ume of the German campaign in South West
Africa against the Hereros. As he spoke Dutch perfectly he was able to disguise himself as a Boer and attach him- self to the Oerman forces.
spontaneous unison mind and temper has been incisively demonstrated before the world in speeches which are Happily sunimed
M. up in Daladier's reply yesterday, to Herr Hitler. M. Daladier has told the German leader what everyone knows to be the plain truth.
Britain, that neither France nor Poland threaten any- body r intend to threaten anyThe bods and that neither will turn a deaf ear to requests for the equitable redress of grievances. M. Daladier also asserts, how- ever, that the democracies are resolved to resist aggression, defend liberties and fulfil their pledges.
It has often been urged by apologists in Germany and by critics at Home that no one is quite certain of Great Britain's intentions. Whatever may have been the truth of the matter then, no such charge can lie now. Neither the German Government nor any other has an iola of excuse for misunderstanding Britain's purpose.
Man From
Devil's Island
TRAPPED AFTER 23
YEARS
PARIS.
He
AFTER enjoying 23 years of
liberty since he escaped from Devil's Island, Alphonse Dupont, known in the Paris underworld as "Fan Fan," was trapped by the French police recently.
Burglor and drug denler who hos twice been sent to France's dreaded convict Island, he is now seeing the
inside of a priron for the first time | since 1910.
SOLD DRUGS IN TAXI
If Germany chooses to throw down the gauntlet on the premise that Britain has no intention of carrying out its pledge, she will
His identity was revealed after hist become promptly aware of its ing.
arrest in Montmartre for drug deal-
falsity. So long as she is con- The attention of the special police tent to remain
engaged In within her who are
the hunting down of drug traffickers was called frontiers no question of her to a well-dressed grey-haired man encirclement or invasion
of respectable appearance who made n tour of the Montmartre and Mont- arise.
parnasse districts,
Can
It is permissible to doubt
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tomers."
taxi-cab
to his "cus-
He stopped at certain points where whether, in the long run, peace people waited for him and entered
his toxi-cab, can be preserved if the Nazis, gal after, the cab had gone a few They stepped out however, are minded to keep hundred yards. Europe under
The perpetual
Was his "shop" nervous strain and are prevented where he sold drugs from embarking on some cherish-
TWICE SENTENCED ed aggression only by the fear
Dupont first went to Devil's Island: of the resistance they will meet. in 1895, for eight years after a series If they genuinely want peace, France after serving his
of burglaries. When he returned to time he they must behave as if they committed more burglaries and in wanted it, and not as if peace 1011 was were a mere suspension of war. penal servitude. But unless and until their con- Back at Devil's Island It took him duct munifests Auch
five yearn to plan his escape with five other convicts. He reached formation, there is no recourse the coast of Brazil, lived there for for the rest of us but to improve two years and afterwards went to our every precaution and to make Venezuela where be lived for 10 certainty doubly sure that any years. aggression will recoil upon the to Paris, under another name about Home-alck, he contrived to return head of the aggressor.
J
trans-
sentenced to 12 years'
two years ago.
was put in charge of the native Convoys.
In this way he managed to make full notes of German military methods. He stitched the note books into the lining of his tunic and brought them safely home.
Then when the Great War broke out he was said to be the first uni- formed British officer to land on French soll. He was a captain at the time, and went to Boulogne in see about trains for the first units of the original B E.F.
He became famous among the troops in France for his habit of taking his brindled bulldog with him everywhere-even into the front line. The dog's collar was decorated with the Mens ribbon and two wound stripes.
In August, 1918, when he was sent off to Archangel to command the British forces in Russia, he was supposed to stop the Germans from selzing Allled war supplies
there.
Three months later the Great War ended. Yet the British forces at Archangel were told to fight on.
Sir Edmund has written for the Encyclopædia Britannilea a tren- chant account of the Archangel campaign. He explains, with some bitterness, how, when the troops under his command found that the Germans were
thu no longer enemy, and that the Bolsheviks were the new.adversary, it " had a demoralising ellect upon ali ranks,"
The allied troops." he says, "were never again quite clear as to the reasons for the continuance of the fighting."
The position of the British troops in North Russla became more and mare serious and by the end of the summer of 1919 all of them had to be evacuated. Ironside was then made a Major-General and sent to Turkey to command the force at Ismid.
In 1922 Sir Edmund came back to England to be cominandunt of the Star College at Camberley.
In that post he was responsible for training offeers for the higher ranks of the army and, he left a decided imprint on British military thought.
Here are a few of his sayings about warfare:--
"The most difficult military feat is to gauge the proper size for an expeditionary force. Its numbers ure always too small."
"My poor brain aaye. Pay the poor Regular soldier a bit more."
"The British genius is for Im- provisation. but will there be time for improvisation in the noxt war?"
"Do not blame the stupid gene- ral too much. Remember that soldiers cannot learn their trade in peace time."
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After four years at the Staff College he was given command of the 2nd Division at Aldershot. In 1020 he went for three years to India to be 0.0.0. at Meerut.
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Then he came home to be Lieutenant of the Tower of Lon- -- clon, There wero come doubta about that. The Tower was thought to be a place of retirement and some people wondered whether it meant that Sir Edmund's career was coming to an end.
But soon he went back to India again as Quarter-Master General And then in 1936 he returned to England to take up the £3,300 a year Eastern Command.
He sprang into the public eye once more over the Bandys case. It was he who was instructed by the Army Council to cause a court” of inquiry to be set up to inquire into the leakage of military Information.
A few weeks Inter Sir Edmund Ironakle became Governor of Gib- raltar, the past he occupies now.
Once again there were com- plaints. Gibraltar was said to be a retiring place for distinguished old soldiers, And Ironside was not old.
But he has not wasted his Uime In Gibraltar. Under his ordera harricades have been built on Gib- rattur's Spanish frontier.
He has ideas on AR.P. very dil- rent from Sir John Anderson's. He has had deep shelters hewn out of the solid rock of Gibraltar.
British foreign policy in Spain s done its best to make a present of Gibraltar to the Axis. Ironside has done all a soldier can do to stop the rot.
When Sir Edmund returns to England and goes to the War Office, you may be sure that he wil still be accompanied by a dog. In the Bandys crisis he walked to the inquiry with a pipe in his mouth and a terrier straining at a lead which he clutched in his hand.
His shoulders arc brand. na sults his immense height. His legs are slim and athletle, giving him a top-heavy appearance.
He is married and has a son and daughter. Their home is at Hing- ham, Norfolk.
Such is the man who now holds the position Sir Jolin French held on August 4, 1014
W. S.
South Africa
Makes Munitions
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (UP)-Aerial bumbs are now being "One of the great tactical prob. manufactured on a fairly large scale on the Witwatersrand, In the Trans- lems to-day is how to cover the
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tion."
When
Anguish Wrings
The Brow
“OMEN and Children
First!"
The stirring phrase more often than not conjures up
a vision of the bronzed (but slightly pale beneath the tan), blue-uniformed, gold- braided, becapped, capable officer sternly stemming the turbulent tide of panic-stricken steerage passengers; he wraps the trembling babe within his pilot packet ere the weeping mother slips within the lifeboat; the proceedings usually cul- minating in the dispassionate presentation of his very own lifebelt to the corn-haired daughter of the fat old multi- millionaire, now quivering in the background,
The heroine, mirabile dictu, has remainined throughout the storm and stress unshaken as to
лв to morale and unruffled habiliments.
Or the spell-bound crowd gather in the streaming street and cheer the valiant firemen setting up gargantuan ladders against the burning pile, of course to succour first the ter- ror-stricken fascinated females.
BG
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SO, can we be blamed if the
first re-action to the sURVE invitation of authority to ninke known the fact of our existence was a distinct inflation of the ego, a complacent ascendency in the sense of self-importance, a responsive thrill to the (sup- posed) official gallantry towards a section of the populace not too lightly to be sacrificed, precious and too essential to the scheme of things, needlessly to be endangered?
Alas Realisation was not long delayed.
Reason asserted sway. „And, the noticeable slump in self- conceit and premature com. placence chilled the more by the sudden descent of temperature from its misplaced exhiliration.
Let the truth be swallowed, unpalatable though it be. Far from being instigated by any thought of fragile beauty, ster- ling worth; by any undue tender- ness for the gently nurtured Minna Cross, age 83 years. She be female; any consideration for gan riding when she was 42 and has never given it up. She purchased our delicately-balanced nervous SACRAMENTO, Cal. (UP).-—This the No. 1 license plate this year and system, the dulcet invitation city's oldest bicycle rider, both as to the city attorney claimed the pri- age and as to experience, is Miss vilege of paying the 25 cent fee.
Woman, 83, Cycling Fan
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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ARCHEOLOGY
ESPEDITON
the was, alas!
outcome of vulgar, mundane reason very far removed from our romantic
By Lichty conceptions..
"Cracked urns, broken goblets and torn papyrus! Evidently we've unearthed a picnic grove of ancient Thebes!"-
Humiliating and prosaic ne it may be, the fact which is crystal clear is that all females however decorative, unless skilled in the arts of succouring the once bellicose but eventually to be Incapacitated male, are, in these stirring times, regarded dis passionately as so many insati- able, gaping jaws clarouring to be filled!
So now we know our true value in times of trouble. Not the very loveliest of the lovelies is deemed a fair equivalent for the modicum of protein, vita- mincs and so on necessary for the upkeep and repair of the male.
Those melting oyes so long- ingly and anxiously cast upon the commissariat those eyes which in days begone merely gave one flutter to secure the prize-now but produce a stern, | official “Serami”
Our heads are bowed; Romance is dead. Man dispenses, to all appearances unperturbed, with the services of the "ministering. angel," deeming them prosaical- ly and quite rationally as not be yond all price.-N.B.W.
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