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SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON ON THE PRESS.

THE WAR OF NATIONS,

or so of the war our original Expedition ary Force, assisted by certain troops scratched together from different parts of the world, by the advance contingents from overseas, and by the louding divi Journalists, who are justly proud of the sions of the new Armies, held up the work of the Newspaper Press Fund, enemy until such time as we could supply gathered with their friends at the Min ourselves with the ordinary means of ston House on Saturday night to support aghting, for which no provision had been made before the war began. These mon, once again this honoured institution at those splendid troops, were battered, the fifty-fourth anniversary dinner. The bruised, and sometimes beaters to their but they were never beaten in company, proved a notable in history of the fund, for two records French, they rendered possible the MD- were created-in the attendance, which numbered over 300, and in the subscripcesses which have since been achieved by the gallant troops who have followed them tion list, which, amounting to £4,500, under the guidance of Sir Douglas Haig exceeded by nearly £1,500 the previous best collection. The proceedings derived (Cheers.)

ALBERT BALL. R.F.C. MASTER OF AIR TRICKS.

which brought together a dist and, under the guidance of Lord it was possible to gat. without certain Never were the rare encomiums of a fight

one

GROWTH OF THE FUND,

After this brilliant war service he was employed at home for a spell as an in- structor. It was proposed to reward hits by, promotion to major. But his ardost

stricted spirit shirark from this prospect of re-. opportunities of crossing the enemy's lines, and he resisted promotion with respectful persistence. Also he chafed at the idea of staying behind in England oven for three months

With citizen armies such as those of to-day we could only connect the life of the Army with the life of the civilians by letting the civilians know through the Proes what their brothers in the trenches

SAFE BILLET REFUSED, were doing. The magnificent effort wa

The most daring, skilful, and succe were putting forth would not be appre cisted but for the dozen skilled pens that ful pilot the Royal Flying Corps has ever told the world each day what our citizen had, Army was doing. (Cheers.) That these Guneral Tronchard uses these words in corresponden's had been spared he rewriting from the Headquarters of the garded na n mirnele, because every day. Royal Flying Corps in France of young they were as close to the lighting line as Captain Albert Ball, who is missing. annihilation. (Cheers.) And they were ing service more richly merited. For very skilled writers. (Cheers.) In long time England knew nothing of his young Gibbs in Perry Robinson, Beachwonderful performances By the time Thomas, Phillips, Tomlinson Massey, he came home to bis native city of Not- Bean, Ward Price, and others he could tingham last year he had to his credit 30 nama wo had, he believed, as good war German airmen hors de rumbat in single no small amount of additional interest I would also ask people to remember from the presence of General Sir Williamthey very seldom do that every war correspondents as ever wrote (cheers) encounters Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General has its own peculiarities. No two wars and we ertainly bad the most industrious Staff, who, as a soldier, spoke of the great and no two battles have ever been fought, working amid the dis and turmoil of power and great responsibility of the or ever will be, under exactly similar con- they could day after was a miracle that in the present war. Lord Northditions. There is no war in the history day after day send such won cliffe, who presided, had as his immediate of the world which has so differed from derful and most accurate accounts of that supporters, Sir William Robertson, the its predecessors as the present war. Take which was making history (Cheers Lord Mayor (Colonel Sir W, H. Dunn), aeroplanes. They have entirely changed. to whose kindness the council of the fund the conduct of operations, tactically as

The post he filled that night was ec owed the fact that the accommodation of well as strategically. The use of engr the Mausion House was placed at deir mous muse of heavy artillery has recounted the most honourable, post occu disposal for the festival: Lord Burnham dered the preparation for battle a long pied by anybody concerned in Thu

(Cheers.) The After many efforts he got permission to (president of the fund), and Viscount process, calling for the most rapid system Street of Adventure."

of communication and transportation and list of those who had sat in that chair Mersey,

return to the front. The journey over After the loyal toists, Mr. J. l. fiarvin demanding the very highest qualities of before him wan a list of the fifty most from England was claracteristic of thr proposed The Imperial Forces. He re-organising power in general. During the distinguished Englishmen of our time audacity of youth Ho flew across the marked the since as a breeze blew down list five or six weeks we have experle The society was an example of the high Channel, went over our own line, and Whitehall he thought the Navy would be no less than 200,000 tons of munitions in organisation now to be found in their on to where German aeroplanes were It was started in the very year circling in fancied security, brought down all right. It had mastered every enemy Franco alone, and we took out some 60,000 eft, it could see, and he was confident that it tons of stone for making and mending that I ussia pat on her shining armour two of them in an encounter at 15,000£

tremend would be able to cope even with the inroads All these things mean a

There was no task with which tous amount of railway work. And in this showed what she was ready to do byt and then coolly descended to report his

her" attuck on "Denmark," He was gladarrival at headquarters. visible.

connection I would like to acknowledge that Sir William Robertson spoke in His dazzling career of success continu such a Service could not cope when an

and the most valuable services rendered to praise of newspapers. (Hoar, hear.) Fed. In a fortnight he had added another lettered scope was given to ita energy

10. to his list of victims, raising his total its brains. Unless he was much mistaken the Army by the railway managers and Our journals felt at liberty and they

the railway emplagés who have gone out, thought it their duty, to criticise politi- to 42. He was persistent, untiring, and thers had already been a meeting of two

cians, beenuse, being very close to the resourceful, always ready with a fings at sea to remind us that Britain and from this country to do that work for

in France. No word of praise is too politiciaus, perhaps not greatly enamour trick to outwit the rule-of-thumb Ger. America were fighting for a comman beri inge (Cheers). As to the Army, there high for the skill and determination theed of them, they knew something of their mans, and his courage was magnificent.

wiles. (Laughter.) They thought it

On one occasion a squadron of German was something better even that its size men have shown. (Cheers,)

necessary on occasion to stimulate them to unroplanes lay in wait for their terror. or skill-that was its spirit, the spirit

farther effort and to ask them, for ex He picked out one opponent, who prompt. which depended not on the heroism of

ample, not to interfere with the Army, ly lose. Ball rose after him, und the exceptions, but on the indomitable grit and pluck and sheer human soundness of

But there was one thing newspapers did rest of the squadron then manoeuvred the whole. The story of our Army, in this

not do. They did not criticise our gen swiftly to get between Ball and the Bri- war had been, above all, the saga of the

crais (Chrers.) They had no need to tish lines. He found seven Hun planes do so. Each one of them had, proved in barring the route back. Without hesita plain citizen and the epic of the ordinary

the last thre years that he was a inalcation: he dashed for them. Two of them inar. (Cheres.)

for the German commander in front of him. (Cheers.)

OUR FIGHTING SERVICES...

WILE.

WAR BETWEEN NATIONS,

⠀⠀-STRAIGHT TO THE ENEMY.

new:

But, of course, the greatest peculiarity of this war is the colossal numbers en gaged in is in comparison with these en Baged in previous wars. Take the 1870 The armies mumbered 100,000 or 20,000 each, and at Gravelott, where the Casualties were heaviest, they totul on both sides was only a little over 30,000 men During the whole war the total ensualties in killed and wounded were a little less than half a million. In this war the total in killed alone can be counted by the mil lion, whilst the total strength of all the amounts ta gomething like 24,000,000. The result of all this is that this war is not, like its predecessors, chairman, Lerd Northcliffe, for his ori-granted a commission in the Sherwond

HIDDEN HAND OF COMRADESHIP,

came out to meet him He outflew the daring couple and shot them down and then drove straight on through the lines of the remaining five, coming home ones again in triumph.

the various theatres un land and on sea, in this Empire to-night who is not doing his appeter Press Fund pursued its corps, and his appointment as flight cou

war between armies it is a war between nations. And there is no man or woman something to help either to win or lose the war. (Cheers.) A man of distinction said to me the other day that he put the weight of the military factor in the war at about 25 per cent, the remaining 75 per cent, not being of a purely military nature, but ninde up of many things, such as agriculture, shipping, food, diplomacy, and an on.

The

General Sir William Robertson was greeted with loud and prolonged cheers

Lord Burahum, responding to the toast, on rising to respond. He said thank you very much on heimlf of the Navy and

said he returned them all the hearty

EMO'S WELL DONE,” of the Army for the kind and generous

thanks of the Newspaper Press Fund for

Captain Ball has been in the Army since their great kindness, but his first duty wag in which this toast has been proposed armies

received. Just as nothing is more

and pleasure was especially to thank their the very beginning of the war. He was discouraging and contemptible in to

Foresters in October 1914 Lator he belittle the efforts of our men at the front,

ginal and stimulating speech, and to con who are fighting the Empire's battles in

gratulate him upon the record success of joined the Royal Flying Corps. Ia

August last he was made lieutenant in the. so nothing gives then greater gratifien tion and support than to know that their

wholesome way in spite of all the diffimander and his captaincy followed in a efforts are appreciated by the people at

culties of war conditions. It extended few weeks. His military decorations are home (Cheers.) I am not going to talk

day by day the hidden hand of conirade reinarkable for one who has not yet at- about the people at home particularly,

ship (cheers) which was the best of all tained his 1st year The Military Cros was first awarded him, and a month later I am going to talk about the men at the

almonere, to any a good fellow and

Well done," front, in such remarks as I make in

honest journalist during these leah and he received the D.5.0. For instance

hard years to meet his necessities and was the enduisement written by Sir response to this boost

relieve his misfortunes, and the number Douglas Hats on the official report of will not egy anything about the hond quarters of the two Services at White

This brings me to my last point, which of grants and annuities still mounted on the achievenient for which the D.6.0. was hall.

the ascending senle Thoir trade and awarded. is no necessity to do so, and is the power and the responsibility of the There

Press, Once upon a time, and not veryalling had always been the butt of the This baldly phrased story told how he humorist for its deadly feuds and an- encountered seven German acroplanes long ago, the war correspondent was re garded by most soldiers, to put it mildly, quenchable jealousies. The mud-slinging Attacking one, he shot if down at 15 the newspaper Press bad passed into yards range. The remaining machines as a nuisance, and in Lord Wolseley's Field Service Text-Book, which was reproverbial phrase. Well, curiously retired. Immediately afterwards, seeing. vised in the eighties, he was described as enough, in spite of all their emulations five more hostile machines, he attacked that newly invented curse of armies, and competitions, both for circulation one at about 16-yards range and shot it and that not inaccurately reflected the other things, there was no industry down, flames coming out of the fuselage. opinion of many soldiers at that time.in which there was more co-operation and He then attacked another of the machines. But that is not at all the case to-day, and higher standard of union and goodwill which had been firing at him and shot it no one more that soldiers, I venture to persunal service. (Cheers.) Week by down into a village where it landed on The top of a house. Going off to this say, realises the value of the Press. week whole Press of the country mes

nearest aerodrome he replenished his store. thought his chief object should be 1 sup not been a case since the beginning of the tacked three more machines, causing them

cern, and; practically speaking, there ply "the public" with thrilling, graphic,

to dive under control. Being then short sensational stories of fighting, and with a war-and these meetings, in fact, went few notable exceptions they were very considerably farther back-in which there of petrol be flew home. His own machine notable, but kill they were rather few and been any breach er betrayal of mutual was badly shot about. they devoted themselves to keeping the good faith. What was true in daily busi- public amused and interested, rather than ness had always been true of mustuni hind

Presenter were accustomed, and his to educating them. Today we are fights, the a war on the issues of which depend hoped they always would be accustomed. aur Imperial existence, and regarding the to stand together in a dozen different neessily and righteousness of which ways for their common rights, their com The letter from General Trenchard one except a few cranks, and a few other mon duties, and their common support, already quoted-it was written to his

He did not believe that in any form of Lather, Alderman Ball, of Nottingham people not very significant, has any their organised effort and organised ser says of him: "His good spirit was in- doubt. (Cheers,) Also, instead of a small and exclusive Army, separate and vice there was a happier or a better exfectious, as whichever squadron he was apart from the nation, we have an Army pression of that domestic spirit of the with the officers tried to work up to his drawn from all classes and all interests.newsper Press than in that, the oldest level and reputation" The result is that the Press has not only and must honoured of all their institu

tion. (Cheers.) a great power, but an equally great responsibility: (Cheers)

it is to my business. Any way, thry are clove to your own doors, you can form your own opinion about them. You often do, and you just as often express it. (Laughter.) With that remark will leave it, except to say that the sim, at any rate, of the staffs of those depart ments is to ensure close co-operation, sons to derive the greatest vaine from the two Services in combination. If and when ever that principle is departed from, act only will there be obviously waste of danger of becoming involved in commit ments which had better be left severely alone..

com

effort, but, what is worse, there will be Formerly, I think, the war correspondent in conference on matters of common had of ammunition, and then returning at:

I would like to say a word about the officers in high command use and on land. It is not always realised the great burden that these officers have to carry, (Cheers.) Quite apart from what the enemy ny do or not do, and apart from the terrible anxiety and responsibility these offers have to carry with respect to the lives of the men in their charge, they have also to carry much of the bur dea of the people under them. Their subordinates, being human, are subject to ordinary human failings, such as fatigue, timidity, recklessness, forgetfulness, and misunderstandings. All these failings, difficulties, anxieties, and fears fetch up" sooner or later on the shoulders of the chief commander, who has to bear them alone. It is not always remember ed how much those chief commanders stand in need of constant support by the people at home, and how much and how true it is that support is valuable only when it is needed. A commander will get on perfectly well without support when he is winning. It is when he is unable to wit-probably through no fault of his own that support is nerded. (Chedri.)

"NAVY'S. GIBAT TASKU ADA

Of the achievements of the Navy F

Further brilliant service earned him a bar to the D.S.O., and then he was given second bar and the Russian Order of St. George of the Fourth Class was also bostowed on him.

In appearance he is almost youthfal, short and rather slim in build, dark and clean-shaven.

PERKEPT IN PYJAMAS,

I have said that this is a war of na tions, and in order to win it we must put U-BOATS FROM THE GERMAN at odd times to his friends have been pub

in all the resources of the nation-and know of no more powerful agency for ensuring this than the Press. (Hear, hear:) I want the Press to keep their eye not only on that 25. per cent, but on the 75 per cent,

(Cherr's.) I am sure you

will agree that we do not want flaming headlines exaggerations, under We want consistent and courageous direc tion of public opinion into the right channels. We want to face the facts and

SIDE.

ALL IS AT STAKE?

second reading of the Naval Estimates, The Reichstag on May 2nd began the Admiral von Capelle, Serretary of Stato for the Navy, in the course of a speech, paid

can't

Many of his achievements as recounted

lished by The Weekly Dispatch." Am I frightened? be once said. Yes, I am

T occasionally frightened. You see, don't. want to get hit if I can help it, I re« alise the danger and try to avoid it. My Huns. When I get to close quarters I favourite dodge is well-known to the generally pretend that I am going t attack from above. The Hun gets ready to fly up at me, and then I suddenly diye to state them, and we want to avoid at The boats have enthusiastically under his machine and empty a drum

into his petrol tank, and down he goes, nut called upon to speak. I do not thing the same time discouraging our own faced the great task of decisively inter-To bring down a lot of Huns you. vening alongside our victorious armies have to be patient and practically live the Navy would wish that I should at prople and encouraging the enemy tempt to belaud their services, which have (Cheers.) I think I may truly say uur on the boats will persevere in the air. Or is few occasions I haven

We have the necessary In this connection the editors and the until the end. been done in the ordinary course of duty Press ii general have co-operated nost boats, a trained personnel, fuel, and all had time to put my clothes on, and I've as they regard it. But I must take this efficiently. (Cheers.)

accessories

Thousands and thousands of sold up in my pyjamas. It was jolly

cold; unfortunately hands are actively engaged in producing have over brought down a machine when opportunity of acknowledging the great

pretend I debt we in the Army owe to the senior A GREAT PARTNERSHIP,

new boats and new material for torpe. service. Every man whom we put into Prosperity to the Newspaper Press does and mines. Not only is the number the fighting line, has to be carried across Fund was proposed by Lord North of bonts continuously increasing, but the sea, and that is a task the magnitude eliffe, who said he thoroughly believed the the boats are always improving in qua of which has never been approached in the history of the world. (Cheers.) W to be the great partnership of the war, efficiency are being constructed. Officers, great partnership of Haig and Kobertson lity, always better types of ever-greazer have raised large new armies, bat what He had een Haig in his time of triumph under-officers, and men crowd forward for us would they have been had we not had and he had been near Sir William Robert the U-boat service. a Navy capable of carrying them across son when things were not, perhaps, goingOf course, losses also occur. Our Kliner Disorders. Free from i and, keeping them supplied were wanted as well as they should, and he had abso enemies' defences are increasing in qua little distance. He was a real sporting

there. Think of the millions of men, the lute: confidence, as a result of many visits tity and quality, but there is no radical thousands of horses, the millions of lous hands as skilful as had ever directed our was mid. We must smoke out the bases. His last fortnight at the front was to the front, that our Armies were in remedy against boats. In England it of supplies which have been successfully Armies in the history of our Empire. That is the sole means of mastering the crowded with thrilling experiences. He transported across the seas. This is proof (Cheers.) We had a new and enlightened bustes. Let them but come and try had a great light with a couple of: that the Navy has played, and is piny-Taise, the question of war corres. They will bite granite Albatross scouts and during the long ing, an essentially vital part in the war

Germans (Cheers.) I am sure the Navy would not pondents alone. Sir Douglas Haig very Our loses are small beyond expecta drawn-nut encounter one of the wish me to omit those other fine seamen speedily saw that he could not keep in tion, added Admiral von Capelle. In tried to ram Captain Ball and passed who do not really belong to the senior communication with that long line of addition, the weather conditions are im within inches of him. In the end the two service, I refer to those splendid men, troops of his without the aid of the news proving, the summer nights are shorter, uns were driven down. He had another How could the and the stormy season of the year is ent-narrow escape when he found himself silently and eroically doing their work paper correspondents. in mine-sweeping and in other hazardous average soldier be enthusiastic about the ing. Every new crew that leaves with the without ammunition and had to wait for

77 bis fellow

darkness before he could creep home to wer unless he knew what

boats is buoyed up with the conscious- enterprises. (Cheers,)

the British lives unobserved by the enemy expected Now I come to my own a

monthly done. Isha' not attempt to state it, but Dougla Hoigi sought out skilled news the result for three months totals 2,800,000 he has landed sally, So far he and bad 7 would wish those who are inclined to paper distributors and saw to it that our Los Altogether in the three months wonderful Jack, as ho has never austained become impatient and quite naturally so. Army was supplied with between 300,000 1,325 ships were sunk How long this any injury more serious than a cut lips

to remember how during the first year and 400,000 newspapers a day?"

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loop like a tumbler pigeon. Once he mict a very formidable on

wanted, so we kept on firing without. ponent, We tried all our dodges, but neither of us could get the position we doing any damage until our ammunition Was gone. Then we both burst out laugh ing and few together side by side for a Hun like Bölcke, "

fighters were doing perhaps forty, fifty, ness that all is at stake, lying in wait for him ANO You to why our branch the So, when our boat booty of about 500,000 tons, actually devoutly hope that