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T

By J. W. Taylor

of

HEY barred Napoleon's lived up to its motto of 'Nec way at the battle of Aspera Terrent, (By Difficulties Undeterred), is of course the Alexandria in 1801. Royal Indskiing FualHers They stopped him at Malda The badge of the Castle in Italy five years later. Enniskillen, flying the banner of

St Go

Goofge, commemorates their Thoy were at Badajoz, bravery when, as a volunteer Salamanca, the Pyrenees, force of English and Scottish: the Nivelle, Orthes and settlers in the North of Ireland, Toulouse in the Peninsular they successfully defled both the Irish Catholics and m, French campaigns. And at the cru- force under the deposed James cial battle of Waterloo, II in 1699, when they saved the centre

Later that year they had a

of the Iron Duke's line at hand in the great victory at the Boyne under William of Orange. the Charleroi-Brussels cross- and were then put on the British roads, a French general re- catablishment us Tiffin's Innia- marked: "I have seen Rus- killings, later to be numbered at

the 27th (or Inniskilling) Foot. sian, Prussian and French One of the most curious bravery, but anything to episodes in the Regiment's his equal the stubborn bravery Falkirk in 1740. The Ensi

occurred at the battle of

of the Regiment with carrying the Regimental Colour, Castles I have never wit- Eyre-Coole by name, ran away

with the Colour, Wa nessed."

sub- sequently arrested for desertion. and dismissed from the Arty for his apparently disgraceful conduct. When, it was discovered offorwards that he ran away only to save the Colour from capture, his commission restored to him.

And Napoleon himself doctor- ed, with understandable exus- peration, that the Regiment with Castles on their caps was 'com- posed of the most obstinate mules he had ever

and that they didn't know when they

were beaten,

seen.

This Regiment with Castles, which by its courage, discipline, and resolute spirit has always

THE HOTTEST POLITICAL DISCLOSURE FOR YEARS

THIS IS

OW Prime Ministers are made! We live and we learn. Who would have thought that today a document would be dug out of the royal archives at Windsor throw- ing new light on an old mystery?

DYNAMITE!

By William Barkley

Woo

Brilliant Leader Many years later he become Commander-in-Chief in

India

and made a name for himself as a brilliant leader in various operations against the French.

The Regiment also served in India during the Mutiny, after which the 3rd Madras European Regiment became Unked with the Inndsklilings; first 03 the 108th Foot, and then in 1881 as. the Second Battalion of the Royal Inniskillings Fusiliers, the 27th

Foot having become the First Battalion.

In the Boer War, the Inniskil-

lings took part in the relief of

were

hud died. Sister Mary Law, Ladysmith and its garrison, keeping house, said: " don't which was commanded by Sir care about the growing influence George White, who had begunı, of Max Altken (Beaverbrook) his Army career with the 'Skins

Bonar here."

Law replied Thirteen battalions quietly: "Do let me ilke him." raised in World War One. The Firat Battalion took a prominent Mary was later to boome a part in the gallant though un- Bonge Law wrote out his re- The final cause is believed to be

His ambition was Ared at 21 avse friend and to leave a successful Dardanelles operation, the King and letter.

a house to wealthy storming the slopes of Schmitar when he saw Gladstone installed legacy and gnation to

Lord Rector arranged for a verbal message

of Glasgow Beaverbrook, who was executor HI, while the Second Battalion In April 1923 Prime Minister University. He to be delivered begging not to

made

France up his to her as well as to her brother. crossed

with the consulted

for. Bonar Law wrote to his Foreign mind to rival Gladstone, and this

original BEF and' participated in The mystery is how the waterhouse offered to convey Secretary Curzon that a certain he did (apart from being Primg Benar Law knew the deaths the retreat from Mons.

Later, Members of Bonar puer, who is nameless, had call- Minister) when he was himself of two sons in the war which his

the two unknown Stanley Baldwin the message.

battalions. became Prime Minister on Law's

thought that ea at

devotion did much to win. Ono became units of the famous 30 Downing Street asking Lord Rector in 1921.

reported missing was falsely (Ulster) Division on the Western the resignation of the dying Waterhouse might possibly have ocial support to negotiates What did an axe to grind and sent son- ioan

listest as a prisoner, and a pathe-Front, an eight Victoria Crosses Bonar Law in 1923.

were won during the war, -law Sir Frederick Sykes along Curzon think?

tic postcard survives (returned with Waterhouse,

in the post) in which Bonar Law wrote his transitory thanks - fulness, The other was shot

bc

family

оп a successor.

A document

for

Turkey.

The answer is poorly described as a letter. It is the trumpeting

ing the name day Curzon wrote:

IFE WED

A reply

he entered down.

The phrase should be the "almost" unknown Baldwin. He was known as the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer who had announced his ruinousFERE in the story starts cloak- "My dear Bonar,-If I may say settlement of the American HE

and-dogger stuff. Some- so the right thing would be for without telling his bow, Debt

Sykes, your private

to say secretary

address chief, Bonar Law, and who Waterhouse passed another docu- that Lord-should

himself to the Foreign Offer said later that he could have ment to Stamfordham.

and wet to No, 10. bitten out his tongue.

of a wounded elephant, Rep the Commons, and soon his

unbeknown to

42 when

businesslike speeches caught the car of the House and of Prime Minister Balfour, who gave him Junior office.

In the final illness, when the

Banar Law power was gone, the career was over and the day was ending, out of

to

Heavy Casualties

Very heavy casualties were sustained by the Skins in World War Two. The First Battalion was in the Burma campaigns, Beaverbrook took Boner Law and the Second Battalion, after to France, introduced him to his being evacuated from Dunkirk son's puls, seated him in such a in 1940, saw service in Madagna- fighter airplane as his son died car, India, Iraq. Persia, Syria,

Bonar Law sat meditating Balfour had no idea of the lolt for some hours and then Egypt, Sicily and Italy, part- milarly distinguishing itself at he was

get 10 years less melancholy. going to

the battle of the Garigliano later at the Carlton Club from This is a long and powerfully

River and in the Anzio Beach- "As a matter of tart I know this same man. argued plea for the selection of

head.

"A man

the utmost in Baldwin us Prime Minister. of

The 6th Battalion also made a all about Lord, who was It stanmered the

One day in 1911 significance,"

as lain unnolleed ever since in Lord Lieutenant of my present

contribution in Italy, For Dusted Curzon,

40 supporters everybody, the archives. It

a note county, Hants, and whom I have mustered beats

200, and 48 hours later he was Beaverbrook did not desert him in the triumphant

Centuripe. from Curzon

upwards, by Stamfordhain: "This is the known for 30 years. himself

the undisputed candidate for the

DSO, downwards and sideways, ex-

one George Medal, 42, nerorandum handed 10 the

He bullied people into playing pected the King to send for King on May 20 and

"He ran away from his wife leadership of the party of Old bridge with the friend who was MC's, ten DCM's, 70 MM's and a charming lady with another England, Anglican Church, broad dying a dreadful death from four Waterhouse

BEM'S

were awarded Curzon, the Foreign Secretary. Colonet

acres and hereditary titles. the former Vicorcy, the man practically expressed the views woman; he had to resign the Lord Lieutenancy; he became

He dropped all between 1938 and 1945. whose claims-said Bonor Law of Mr Bonar Law,"

Since the war, the First Bat- to comfort the involved in some very shady

"Do not be too modest, you other activities could not be passed over.

to. Hongkong, financial transactions; he had to

a great man now," Lord friend until the eyes were closed.talion has been to

has fought the Commumist ban- dits in Malaya, and has served Bonar Law was sure that known to Benar Law or to any sell his place and is wholly dis- Beaverbrook advised him.

Mr Blake in a thorough and in Jamaica, the Suez Canal and Curzon would succeed him. On member of his family or to Lord

volume for ever re- Germany, The Second Battalion, 20 Boldwin came to see Beaverbrook, who was constantly Bonar Law urged Baldwin in Bonar Law's company and loan to Turkey before peace is "If I am a great man then all muyes Bonar Law from the cate-disbanded in 1943, and reformed to serve loyally under Curzon, never heard of it until it was concluded would be very doubt- great men are frauds." Baldwin said he would serve recently copled. under anyone who could hold the party together.

May kum.

Two days later Baldwin was

How come?

which, stated,

The memorandum was never

credited.

"That anyone

should offer a

We

throat cancer.

The reply

was characteristic:

sensitive

ful policy. But that that person In secret negotiationa with

Lord renders It

should be

It was in no sense

a true quite out of the question. I am Asquith at Lord Beaverbrook's Chekley, he formulated account of Bonar Law's views, sure you did not know all this. house,

Influence but its

the plans which, although then on the King must have been enormous.

"When these persons go to rejected, later becarne the basis No. 10 instead of here they are of Ulster's Constitution. Bonar Law In his iness mado

Lord Benverbrook was In really reproducing one of the no recommendation of a suc- Bonar Lew's roo on May 22 least admirable features of the cessor, neither Curzon, Baldwin, when Davidson brought word LIG. regime. nor anybody else.

the King had cent for

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Salisbury, that when the King asked his view, Baldwin, and he recalls vividly recommended

Curzon. Balfour Bonar Law's surprise. recommended Boldwin, but otherwise pretty wall the whole Tory Party expected the new Prime Minister to be Curzon,

A shock

Yours sincerely,

A cult

In the 1914-10 war his was the

hand that unseated Asquith, and he entered an intimate partner- ship with Lloyd George."

A silly argument was put up a few weeks ago that Milner was Where did Waterhouse got the memorandum? Apparently from

second to Lloyd George. What folly. The proof that Bonar Davidson, who composed it after discussions with Baldwin! It

Low was No. 2 is that he could Curzon." as guldance in case CUCH a was given

haughty tone to an easily have been No. 1. Waterhouse, who had been a alling chief was regarded as a

On Asquith's fall in 1918 the Court equerry, was asked for bad augury for harmonious re King sent for him, and it was his own views.

lations in a Cabinet of which Banar Law who recommended CURZON was Prime Minister

Curzon would be head. Waterhouse, without explana-

Lloyd George. Every wax prob- for four hours in time and tion, passed it on to the King

Jem that arose was first discussed The -book • geta Yeovil for the distance between and London-in his own mind. ns an expression of Bonar Law's from a gibe of Asquith's when between these two. Bonar Law's

Bonar Law was accorded & in the evacuation of Gallipoli.

voice was decisive, for example, He was summoned to London try lows..

funeral in Westminster Abbey George V's secretary, Stamford- Waterhouse ham, and great was Curzon's win's sodrotary and also Ramsar known Prime

was later Bald-"It is appropriate that the Un- Ministers should shock on hearing he had been MacDonald's, and resigned to be buried beside the Unionown summoned not to be Prime enter the City in 1928. So he is Soldier,"

the man who made, or certainly had a great deal to do in making. Baldwin.

Minister.

Ho never knew who hit him. Now we know. It was Colonel Ronald Waterhouse.

A letter

its title

A friend

It became a cull of Asquithians to bolile the modest Canadian mest in 1922 meant in turn FIS emergence from retire- Scot, but quite a few people the downfall of Lloyd George lived to repent their error in and the renewed independence thinking him negligible.

of the Tory: Party.

Who is this maker of Prime Ministers? Waterhouse bad

The son of a poor New BrunsIs there transactices the Agure been a soldier in the South

wick rose, he was brought by African war, and had come into MR ROBERT BLAKE, the his cousins to Glasgow at the age of Beaverbrook is constantly at Ure Civil Service, He was the torian of Christ Church who or 12. These cousins were no Botiar Law's alde. Mr Blake dis protege another figure of traces this fantastic story in his poor relations... They wore iron cusses, and rejects, the theory more importer abwin It would be scarcely credible as merchants, several of whom died that he was a puppet, is Beaver

Davidson, Baldwin's but

worth a quarter of a million,. brook's hands. Beaverbrook has "David," now Lord Davidson, for the writion evidence.

Lover claimed that he influenced it will be asked why Bonar for an office desk at 10, but read

Ho. left Glasgow High School Bonar Law's opinions. Davidson wa

was en M.P. and. parliamentary secretary to Bonar Law did not recommend Curzon, widely in his leisure, and for ton Bonar Law know much Law. Waterhouse, was Bonar

years. dobated in a Glasgoworow; Beaverbrook, this Law's civil servantsecretary.

mock-Parliament which atved other son of a poor New Brims He was an odd-looking follow-the Life andzymes of Andrew

* The Unknown Prime Minister him, as well for opprenticmalp wiek minke, made, sequintonos with a red nose, and an unalimas Boner Luso, ENBR-1635 by as ang Oxford Union whey ha in the lonely, despondent days tive cotintenance.

Þar kan malared Parlament in 1900. -ak 1910 Wind Mrs. Boner Law

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