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LATE LORD RAWLINSON. SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF A GREAT WAR LEADER.

Lord, Rawlinson found his true school ing in Asis, rather than at Eton or Sund. burst. Great personality and ability ho drew from his famous sire,Sir Henry Creswick Rawlinson, G.C.B, the distin guished Orientalist, who thrilled the forties and fifties with his discoveries at Nineveh and Babylon. But young Raw- linson's Gamaliel was Lord Roberts. The real career of Henry Seymour Rawlinse began in 1986, when, at the age of he had the good fortune to beguile aids de-cams and secretary of the most popų. far Commander-in-Chief India ever had. He went off with his chief (then Sir Frederick) to the Buenta vanishiga of isss, and stayed to cope with that evil of davoity that se richly colours sute of the stories of Kipling. By the time Ray. inson succeeded to the haroastey on his father's death, in 1995, he had returned home, transferred from the King's Royal Rifles to the Coldstream Guards, and made himself a mine as brigado major at Aldershot.

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Germans. Ludendorf was at. Spa bom- barding the Kaiser with reasons and pleas for surrender, and still the deadly punish nient went on along the 230-mile frost from the Meuse to the sea. On the might of the 30th the Fourth Army cressed the Soutine, and in less than a month had the 6-fe, canal that masked Cam On October sch, a typical day, Rawlinsen took 10,000 prisoners

" 2001 gans, so that they were tired of counting By the beginning of ovember the wasted Hindenburg and their captures. Siegfried Lines had utterly collapsed as well as the three others in support. the dogged fight which the Germans for the frontier gully between made Avesnes and Mezieres, Rawlinson's Army was the principal sleiving force: and it was his terrible face thus maintained that east the enemy the bulk of his loss in the shape of scores of divisions and a million and a halt of men. It had been a super Assyrian onset, and it capped on reputation that brought a gratifying welcome when he went to replace. Sir Henry Wilson at the Council of Versailles.

In

In the final distribution of war honours he was raised to the peerage as Baron Rawlinson of Trent, awarded a grant of 20,000, and decorated with the G.C.B. After Asia, Africa, Howe service, as Festina leute (Hasten slowly), is the constituted in these days, was too gramp family motto. Lord Rawlinson's way of ing for Sir Henry's energies. He bringing the Germans to their knees was plied for service with the Nile Expedition

the application of their own proverb. of 1987, and as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant- Ohue

ohne Rast With the old General on the Staff he went through the steless, restless habit of action he went battles of Atbara and Omdurman, and Look his leave of Egypt as brevet-colonel it to Northern Russia to dirget the with- drawal of the Allied contingent from Fresh opportunity was at hand at the Archangel to Murmansk. It was a re other end of Afrien. By the time thevival of the Antwerp experience in terms Boer War broke out he was acting of now instead of mud. Then after D.A.AG to Sir George White, and anther year at Aldershot, noting the shared with him the hardships of the fruits of old reforms and laying the Ladysmith siege. After that ruesome experience Lord Roberts reappropriated round for new, he received the occur which to him was perhaps the st covet. him for Stuff service, and Lord Kitchener put him in charge of some of the stiftate of all. He was appointed at the end in India, and of, 1920 Commander in Chief drives which rounded up a fugitive though the times were unpropitious, the chemy and hastened the war's termina choice provonneed him worthy to wear the

mantle of his old chief, Roberts.

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There was heart-farming, not unnatur The Hammering General" was a nick- aly, when at the early age of Sir Henry

rame drawn from his own talk, and it was set in command over the Staff Col revealed only one aspect of many in the lego,, and introdured a system of refonusman, all of them commanding niniration which are sult in operation. Military and affection. General Belle Humeur topography, which was half Napoleon's was the tribute of his French comrades seer, had tain for twenty years in the his perfect equanimity under every lap of a single instructor. In three years kind of trial. But

Rawley was his 1 it lasteri Sir Heary went a long way towards old school label, and

him for lite doubling the college staff, and he threw throth Army society all the world the windows of knowledge by appoint- oven An accomplished draughtsman, ing a librariau. When be, left the Staff with a fine touch for water-colour land. College at the end of 1800 it was an old seape, his example and inculcation did as institution with a new spirit, und if Sir much as anyone's to instil and develop ia" Henry Wilson went far to, celipse his re- the British Army the faculty of reading coed it was because Rawlinson had led country and putting it on paper." the way.

But instead of waiting like intimate chum once said of him thashe Foch he went from the desk to the field, speaks Freach like a native, reads Napo- but he used up the intervening years of loon, swears when necessary, lives like hard work in improving Aldershot and the A Spartau and experts everyone to do Southern Command, and then came the

or die true piece of portraiture that weeds only this addition, that his men climax in a great career.

took him literally in this last respect, and showed it whenever he gave the

word. Lord Kitchener put it on record twenty possesses the qualities years ago that he of a Staff other and a column commander in the field. His characteristics will always easure bin a front place in what- ever he gets his hand to.

only road to victory.

was his cue for national

THE FOURTH ARMY. The Great War was but a few weeks old when Lord Rawlinson was appointed to command the Fourth Army Corps, then organising, and early in Detober he had landed in Belgium with a nucleus fore. His first task was te combine wa Gen- erad fyng a command to cover the late

It is regrettable that this man of few retreat from a falling Antwerp, and link words was a man of still fewer writings. the British strength with the Allies by Except for a few disconnected instruc taking the northern end of the line near tions on training, he has left behind hic one small monograph. The Officer's Yes. The stern problem of meeting the only one

the of its Notebook. in which he insists that skill tithe il German pass invasion with strength was worsened-by-instructions and combination are the secret of sand from Whiteball, util the situation was minor tactics, but moral and physical con saved by the placing of General French centration at the decisive point is the A high standard is full connual Rawlinson's men had Mone their

and more in resisting the of pence training enemy's stampere for the Channel ports, safety, and, as he showed in a recent on India's military affairs, his hut the task had been almost super speech

we are to do our, human and the exhaustion well nigh rule was all for units

of races whose " unbearable. For a month of nights and duty by the congeries days they had fought at odds of right to salvation lies at our doors.

Lord Rawlinson married in 1590 Merev orr, and it stands on recsind that the

late Mr. Germans thought they had here beeld Coleridge Kennard, but there have been

dith, only daughter of the ing with four British Aring Corps of one. But at what a rust. When the no children, and by his death the peerage division was withdraws from the fighting becomes extinct. The borenetev passes live unly offers were left out of a), to his brother, Colonel Alfred Rawlinson, and only 2.5 out of 12000, officer in the 17th Lancers years ago, and CMG, C.B.E. D.8.0., a well-known one of those heatonus of bravery that

He took part "justified Kir-honer's warning that we were now as years of age,

the firent War, and while on special in for a.war, not moths, but

Then came the tearful struggles of Les intelligence duty with the Army of the mui Seuse Chapelle, and the spring of Black Sea was imprisoned by the Nation- 1910 found the Home front setting its falist Tarka in Erzeroum in 190-2. He Leeth for the worst. With the genesis of nurriell in 1890 Margarette, fifth daughter the Fourth Army Rawlinson was set at of Mr. W. B. Greenfield, of Haynes Park, its head. Mittautumer day found kim rom. Bedford, and has a son and a daughter. manding the whole British line and de livering that week of intensive shelling which was the grim prologue of the Pattie of the Somme. It was the British sequel in mass artillery to the French maneuvre which had aavel Paris eighteen months before. This tile, however, the enemy turned not aside but Lackwards, and the

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ARMY DEATH PENALTY. CANADIAN'S PROTEST OVER AN ANSWER IN PARLIAMENT. General Sir Arthur Currie, Commander

frst German refwat began with which of the Canadian Corps in the war, com Rawlinson's But will be linked in milimenting on the statement of Sir Laming tary annals. It was his men who entered Worthington-Evans in the British Hous Peronne on that gay St. Patrick's Day of Commons that twenty-five Canadians of 191, and who stormed along steadily were executed during the war formnili- to St. Quentin's gates. Things had gone tary offences, as compared with five New adversely on the southern front, how Zealanders and vo Australians, said as ever, with the Austrian avalanche Montreal recently Caporetto, and during General Planter's transfer, to Northern aly Lord Rawlina

on acted as our representative on the Supreme War Council. Then came the last great onslaught under Foth and Haig, and Rawlinson resumed the annusand of the Fourth Arms for the smashing of the Hindenburg Le and the saying of France.

The Gov-

It seems difficult to explain why such question should have been asked or answered in the British House of Com- mans without reference to Canada - on outer concerning Canada alone. The answer given by the Secretary of State makes a trust unfair comparison between Canadians and Australians. Praments of the Domitions never gave up' authority over their own troops, but GERMAN ARMY'S "BLACK; DAY,"

40 far as discipline was congrard, this The Black Day of the German Army," authority was delegated more or less as Ludendorff called it, was Thursday, completely to the Commander-in-Chief of August 8th. 1915, and on that day of the British Armies in France, Australia triumph the lion's share was Rawlinson's, delegated authority on this point les His section lay south of the Somme, with completely that did Canada, and a court- its hauser-point at Villers-Bretonneux martial of an Australian soldier could Before him stretched world of chalky

y not take place without one or more Aus

mud, churned and sudden by a week of tralian officers being on the court. It is heavy rains, and tangled with wire and generally known that no drath sentences weed of a hinterland the Germans had on Australian soldiers were ever to be don't wish to make any regarded as sale for ever. But Rawlinson reflections on the conduct of Australians,

Approved, Id seven divisions primed with an un-

but the fact that none were executed nccustomed spell of preparation, and the Canadians and Australians saw a chance wh

while twenty-fire Canadians were proves IF the feets of the of unrestrained, ndyane at last. It upthing whatever. proved a day of miracles, and won, us case as reported in the Press are correct, Chuck over thirty miles,"

1 consider the British Government has Within a week he had, taken 2,000 committed another stupid blunder and prisoners and 200 guns, and his swart of struck a dangerous blow at Impecial

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