1927-08-31 — Page 10

10

MR: BOTTOMLEY COMES OUT..

NARRATES' HIS PRISON EXPERIENCES.

HAS AGED CONSIDERABLY AND SPEAKS OF HIS

"TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.”

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31st, 1927.

LONDON, July 30th of a baronial hall, and consisting Horatio Bottomley, who was con- | 5a chop-"the first decently cook ricted at the Central Criminal cd ple of meat I have bad for

FAR EASTERN

OLYMPIAD.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SEANORAI, August 30th.

NAVAL CONFERENCE. PERSONALITIES.

W. C. BRIDGEMAN

(FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALIT, HEAD OF THE BAITISH NAVAL DELEGATION.}

(This is the second of a series of

UNEXPECTED SEA DANGERS.

METEORS AND SUBMARINE VOLCANOES,

WHAT NO ONE CAN GUARD AGAINST.

Th

There are many perils of the sen

WAR WITH THE GLOVES "OFF."

WILL 1914 COME ÁGAIN?

SOMETHING RADICALLY WRONG WITH CIVILISATION: A SUICIDAL RELAPSE.

[BY DEAN INGE, D.D.]

Court on May 9th, 1929, of the five years." as "Bottomley romark-41; volley ball, China beat-Japan sia articles portraying the clash with which every captain of a ship attnek en London from the air seem

fraudulent conversion of National War Bonds, an allotment letter for Victory Bonds and banker's drafts, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, was released from Gaoli yesterday morning.

He is now at The Dicker, his large country estate near Lewes, in Sussex.

The release came unexpectedly. At 6 o'clock yesterday morning the prison governor's clerk walked into Mr. Bottomley's cell, told him that he was" to be released, and dirgeted that he should dress quickly, as a car sent by the Home Office from London was enying for him at o'clock to take him direct to his

hoine.

The clothes which Bottomley wore ht his trial-morning coat and vest and cashmere trousers were Arough to the call, but before the prisoner could wear them the vest had to be altered He insisted that the coat should be left untouched so that he might demonstrate the weight-something ofer stones he has lost during his five

years in gaol.

ed. He ook water with his meal, although light wines and whisky and soda were available

His Dead Dog

One of the first things he did on reaching The Dicker was to sock out the grave in a corner of his extensive and well-kept ground of his favourite dog, a Scotch collie which he called, "Feph" after his three nieces Flora, Ethel. and Phis. The animal died But month ago, and its absence seemed to affect Botterley more than any thing else on his home-coming. Fot a time he wandered about his house gazing at this room and that, ad- miring the splendid proportions and magnificent furnishings.

A

As he passed along the corridor to the billiards room-cum-museura his eyes lingered for a moment on the framed invitation to the King's coronation and a twisted amile crossed his face.

At baseball, Japan beat China

21-3 and 91-0, but the Japanese again won the Girls' volley ball, beating the Chinese 21-3 and 21-4.

WATER POLO.

The two matches in the League down for decision this afternoon at the Vigloria Recreation Club camber are:-

B.S.F.P.A. "B" Royal

Navy. K.O.S.R. V.R.C. “A” The first match commences at six

p.m.

PING PONG.

DOW

personalities of the American, is prepared to cope when necessary, British and Japanese Faval Dele- but there are some which men of gates who were fighting at Geneva science cannot explain. The south to balance the naval power of the crn end of Vancouver Island is one world.)

of the danger zones where many ships have been wrecked on the deadly rocks.

*

[BY DREW PEARSON,]

GESEVA.

William Clive Bridgemap is

Mr. Stanley Baldwin that he should It was more or less typical of

send, to Geneva as head of the British Naval Delegation a kindly English gentleman, food of dogs and horses, who disarmed everyone by his anxiety, not to offend, but who on points which affected the power of the British Empire, proved as adamant as his ancestor, Two Individual Ping-Pong Chamthe Great Lord Clive, Conqueror of pionship Tournaments are

India... open to the Colony, one for ladies and the other for gentlemen. An entry fee of 1 will be charged.nown to his fellow cabinet members Places of enrolment for gentlemen

Willie." That in itself tells are:-South China Athletic Asso many things to those who have met ciation, Chiness

the First Lord of the Admiralty, Young Men's Christian Association, Hong Kong It indicates, for instance, that Mr. University. For ladies are Chinese Bridgeman is good-natured; for no one who does not bubble over with the milk of human kindness submits to the epitet of Willie." Also it might indicate that Mr. Bridge- man's appearance is not one which instantly electrifies roomful of people.

24

This

"The

The results of the present sham. Neither wants to fight: but when' to show that, contrary to the hopes other nervously, until one of the

they mea: they stand eyeing each of some of our experts, London dicks an ear or twitches a leg, and Within two or three hours of a de- other's cannot be successfully defended. in a moment they are at each

throats. claration of war in the unlikely remedy to work fer is the removal proper served the destruction of the capi it," What keeps alive armaments event of that formality being ob- of fear." Or, as Lord Cecil puts tal and the massacre of its inhabi- is one thing only the fear and tants will begin.

suspicion of the nations for each other."

Among all the booklets of the The Government has built a brilliant To-day and To-morrow"

out bell boys, the noise of which Dougall's "James, or the Conquest sing preventives. Christianity no lighthouse with a fog-hort and set series, none, I think, is so weighty Is Prevention Possible ?

and impressive a Professor "Me This clears the ground for discus. ought to be heard for some dis much matter as the other volumes, happily the nations do not seem of War." It contains twice as doubt offers a solution, but an tance, and yet survivors from these and instead of the Puckish humour more disposed to listen to the teach- wreeks have declared that they of some of the other contributors, ing of the Gospel now than they

it is profoundly serious,

have been in the past. Arbitration heard no sound at all

The writer reviews, not at all trenties are sometimes areful, but" can only be accounted for hopefully, the various plans which not when two nations are vitally by a "zone of silence," or of have been made to prevent another interested in spot, changing with the wind and very few people wanted war ia If two men want the same woman.

dead air," hovering about this war.

getting something It is a commsaplace that which only one of them can have. tide but always in existence. Once 1914, and that still fewer want it they will never submit to arbitra-

ship is within this zone, no now after siren of the Race Rocks Lighthouse, trates

the sound, even that of the powerful periences which McDougall illas shall, have her.

appalling ex- tion the question which of them Nor will great by is audible

poignantly touching nations invite their neighbours to anecdotes at first hand of the years decided whether the Moers or the This phenomenon was experiens 1911-1913. He recalls how the very Indians or ed by the crew of a small tug which modest proposals of the nineteenth" peoples rightly struggling to be the Filipinos are gut in amongst the rocks and ac

century for naval holidays, propor- free tually saw the keepers of the light tionate reduction of armaments, house and yet were unable to detect and the like, were rejected one trast to the decency of your neigh

The Quakers say, Disarm and the roaring signals which were after another. He reminds us how bours not to plunder a dunge distinctly heard four or ve miles a whole body of international law, and obviously unaggressive people.

intended to Ocean currents shown on all sea humane, was thrown on to the adopted this policy in the last cen- make war.. more The fate of China, which actually charts are often depended on by scrap-heap. first by the Germans tury, is not very encouraging the skippers of vessels when the and then by the Allies. sun is obscured and they are forced

these idealists. to use dead reckoning. But even

Dread Weapons of the Future. course, as has been discovered when these may alter either speed ot the Gulf Stream was found to have increased its speed to almost double what it had been.

In the billiards room he pointed with pride to the official shorthand notes of his trial before Mr. Justice Hawkins in 1893 in connection with what has come to be known as the Young Women's Christian Associa Noxt he was taken to the goy- Hansard Enion Case. Hation and the Hong Kong Univer- ernor's office, where a light break-kins." he remarked, "sent for me sity. last was provided for him, and and begged me to go to the Bar then the car, a elcsed one, from after that case and he also sent London having arrived, he was me his own ncte-books and the wig placed in charge of the governor's he wore at the trial-and there they clerk, who accompanied him to the are, pointing to a glass case con- boundaries of Maidstone so that i taining three books and a judge's there should be no leakage of the information of his release.

in other directions. three

clerk bade

On the outskirts of the town the Bottomley farewell, first pledging him to drive straight

to the Dicker.

wig.

Photographs of his visit to the front during the great war show. ing him, wearing the famous tin hat also challenged his attention and he fingered them with pleasure, relling many incidents of his war experience to those who wore with

"Ticket of Leave." Before Mr. Bottomley, left the prixon he was provided with him. printed document commonly call- ed the ticke, of leave," which set out that His Majesty is gracious- ly pleased to grant him His Royal Licence to be at large from the date during the remaining pertion of

Forgotten Bell,

In his own book-lined study he was, on occasions strangely at a loss, and when he could not find the bell to summon his servants be

THE MODERN TORPEDO.

RANGE OF TEN MILES.

DOUBTS OF ITS EFFICACY.

He is

bald, rotund, and Geneva will always remember him with spectacles well pushed down over his

The currents in the North Sea once chraged their courses, as was which usually tended to drift in a shown when pieces of wreckage, southerly direction, were found to appearing on the northern shores and isles of Great Britain.

Submarine Earthquake.

The proportionate reduction of rible article written in 1024 by Mr. If a gambler who has won a heavy He quotes at length from a ter-armaments bristles with difficulties. Winston Churchill, to show what stake says to his opponent, "Now war would have been like in 1919,

we will play for love for the rest and still more what the next war of the evening," the loser is not will be like. "Nations who be likely to consent; he wants, as he lieve that their life is at stake will says, to "have his revenge." This means to secure their existence. It lesers in the late war. It might not be restrained from using any is very much the position of the is probable--nay certain that have been wiser to treat them with Writing upon the subject of

among the reans which will next wholly unexpected generosity. time be at their disposal will be The Modern Torpedo, in Factose, peering over them at his

Internationalism and abolition agencies and processes of destruc- of nationalities is manifestly im- and Fancy in the July. humber audience. Like Viscount Cecil, who

tion wholesale, unlimited, and per possible. It commends itself chiefy of The Navy, Lieut.-Com. W. N. set the style at the first session of steamer was in mid-Atlantic when lable."

large haps, once launched, uncontrol to those who, under cover of pací

Among these be names fiam. desire a bloody class-war- Burstow, R.N., emphasises the the Conference by wearing a soft she suddenly stopped and quivered bombing, aeroplanes guided auto- great increase in range, and the collar, br. Bridgeman wears what she had struck a wreck. She then poison gas in far deadlier forms, & prohibition of national

so violently that it was thought matically without a-human pilot, of an international air force with

Whether McDougall's suggestion. extremely high inctor of efficiency"

is comfortable. He is Bot even moved ahead but, after a little and pestilences methodically pre feets, is feasible, I will not discuss. which has been developed in this always particular as to whether his while began to tremble from bow weapon since the days of Jutland. necktie matches his blue shirt

He refers to a range of ten miles

Here, therefore, you have Mr. at an average speed of thirty Bridgeman, blue-shirt, red knots, and an explosive charge in black necktie, spectacles clinging and its bead of a quarter of a ton. We

to the tip of his nose, moustache

In

Inost

In September, 1923, a

a huge tongue of flame leap out

air

pared and deliberately launched.It is perhaps one of the best sug „upon man and beast, This study gestions yet made.

laboratories of more than one great is certainly being pursued in the country," I shall return to these predictions presently.

are between

to stern for a short time.

This strange occurrence was un- doubtedly caused by a rubmarine

Killing of Ton-Combatants. earthquake, and the sea heing vented serious damage.

But I want to raise briefly an- about two miles deep luckily pre

other point. Is it as certain as it Another Among the manifestly inadequate is almost always assumed to be steamer had even 1. of his liberation under this Order. excused himself with the plaintige believe that this range has been drooping, bald-headed, presenting distance from Marseilles, the crew emperora, kings, and other rulers perhaps by poison? Twenty years worse ex-explanations of the causes of war that the next war will see a pro- perience.

are the inherent wickedness of miscuous remark, "I know there is a bell substantially exceeded with experi- the case of the British Empire at h

About midnight, when some little mankind, the special depravity of batants, men, women, and children, massacre of non-com-

bis said term of penal servitude." somewhere but I bara forgotten mental torpedoes, as, presumably, the Conferenes-Table. He appears of the sea, and at the same time facturers and profiteers to make with scorn. It was then a com- Although the requirement usual just where." It was the same with there is no mechanical reason why the acme of frankness. He states the ship quivered as if she had been fortunes.

sudden explosion and saw not elected by universal suffrage," ago the very suggestion of such a and the desire of armament manu- thing would have been received ly imposed on convicts on ticket the telephone-he could not remem- it should not be. But the question his case from beginning to end, and struck." of leave that they shall report her exactly what to do to secure arises as to whether such very long thro fearful that he may abt be it was thought at first that so- plundering for their own ankes, even

Poor human nature is monplace that civilised peoples had not so bad as to enjoy killing and advanced in humanity far beyond periodically to the police has been connection through the house, ex-.

ranges are of any appreciable value understood, he restates it from end other vessel had blown up, but as Monarchies are not at all more hel standard of the eighteenth century.

the waived, it is set out that should change.

comparatively high in a very low velocity projectile.to beginning. He hesitates before, no wreckage oculd be found, it was licose and aggressive than re Yet here is a retrogression to a his licence be revoked in conse As for the room itself it was ob-Ten miles to cover at thirty knots each sentence. He gropes for words, attributed to the explosion of a publics. Those who think other point far behind even the Greeks quence of a conviction of any tous that it had been kept in means twenty minutes between fir

You feel sorry for him. You want had been over that spot at the time, lished letters of Roosevelt and to the Book of Joshua for anything submarine voltann. If this ship wiso may profitably study the pub and Romans. We have to go back offence he will be liable to under-readiness for his return. On the ing and reaching the target.

to help him express the thought go a term of pena! servitude equal handsome desk in the centre of the twenty minutes a modern battle- he gets it out. You are drawn to

which you have guessed long before nothing could have saved her from Senator Lodge. Roosevelt was sup approaching in horret what we are destruction. Another peril is that posed to be rather more friendly told to expect in the next war, and to the portion of his term of seven room, which commands a wide view ship can travel eight knots and a him. You feel that this little rosy of falling meteors which are some to this country than most Ameri- the Jewish note, which is not years which remains unexpired-over gardens rioting in colour lay modern cruiser eleven koots."

checked man who is trying so in times seen from ships.

enn politiciana; but these letters Bedouin, is a proof that "the At cerely to make you understand the

A large mass of molten stuff teli reveal one year and 290 days.

him contemplating with people of the land" were not ex- everything to hand needful for a such a speed in action and all position of the British Empire, from the sky some time ago and satisfaction a There were few people on

war against Eng-terminated the man of affairs.

the ferocious a large tramp land, at a time when we had not chroniclers narrate. When Plate warships are likely to be maamuvr-positively must be protected. He narrowly missed road between Maidstone and The

An Aged Man.

wins you completely.

steamer on her way to Hamburg. given the ing at their top speeds in battle---

United States the lays down the laws of war for And this, perhaps, is the

A similar story was that of a slightest provocation. As for the Greek States fruit trees are not Dicker, and it was not until Bear-

Tiring of the houre Bottomley what sort of chance is the missile subtle but powerful charm of W. C. Dutch steamer, the Ocean, when ambitions of profiteers and others to be injured, houses and temples ing his home that Mr. Bottomley walked about his grounds aeroas going to have of finding its mark? Bridgeman. The verbal blows of a crossing the Atlantic in 1908, an we may feel certain that nobody are not to be destroyed, the in- was recognised, and then, one of the closely clipped lawns, down by It is true that ranging instruments returned. Viscount Cecil's pointed ooded the decks of the ship.

fighting British admiral may he

enormous meteor fell so close to who has anything to lose will light-vader may take only the standing his employees turning out of his the lily pead, and on the terraces have reached a wanderful degree diplomatic thrusts can be countered.

her that the huge waves fung up ly vote for another war.

% crop, Greeks are not to be sold as stud farm, saw him and started which surround the house. And as of precision. But they "can never

How Ward are 'Caused,

alaves. The massacre of non-com- But Mr. Bridgeman's simplicity, where it fell, and the men on deck Clouds of gas hot forth from

Economic imperialism-the wish have always been practices quite back, crying:

batants and the poisoning of wells sincerity, and "trastfulness, sweep The gur'nor-the he did so his gardeners and his provide against even a trifling de guv'ner has come back!"

had to go below to save themselves to secure markets and monopolice; outside the limits of severity in away all defence.. grocms, his chauffeur, and his in-flection of course which in twenty Perhaps these disarming qualities

from being suffocated. In the meanwhile the prison gov-door servants

the pressure of population upon the civilised warfare. It is alleged Came forward to minutes might easily take a target of the Firgt. Lord are the result of

means of subsistence; and bombas. that modern wars ernor had telephoned to Mrs. Bet greet him. But it was not the de vessel wide of the path of the mast

tie patriotism, are real causes nations, not between armies, and his early religious training His tomley that she might expect her bonair

which have promoted wars in the that the distinction between com- father, a younger son of the Earl accurate torpedo.

Coming from one of Lae fine old past. But they are not likely to batants and non-combatants has Against a stationary target, of at Bradford, was a clergyman. His families of England, whose sons are husband, nad she, with her daugh- maculately attired who in years course, a very long range torpedo mother was the daughter of the expected as a matter of course to threatened government thinks that ceased to exist. This plen will not

cause another war, unless AL ter, Mrs. Jefferson Cohn, who has gone by charmed men and women might be used with deadly effect, Deacon. This ancestral inheritance man began his political career, like of escaping revolution. This was

Venerable William Clive, an Arch-enter public service, Mr. Bridge successful war is its only chance Serve been convalescing at The Dicker with his silvern tongue, but an It may be argued that surplus has expressed itself in M7,-Bridge- many young Englishmen, as private andoubtedly one of the causes of

An Appalling Relapse. alter a serious illness, were" in aged man in a badly fitting ruit case; that, because a torpedo is cap- range is of no disadvantage in any

man's enthusiastic support of the secretary to

The non-combatant population readiness to receive him. The news wearing a crushed and crumpledable of covering ten miles there Church near bis home in Hope During this period of accumulating ments which tried the experiment continuance of the war possible; it a cabinet minister the Great War; but the govern has always worked, to make the of his arrival quickly spread, and shirt and collar who, despite efforts the discharge of it to such a dis. Shrewsbury, one of England's political wisdom, he also contested had one and all the most bitter rea-has, always done the work, of the

is no earthly necessity to restrict Village, and his chairmanship of polit inquisitive, crowds gathered outside to appear hale and at eave, obvious tance.

several parliamentary seats, and sens to regret it. Germany was largest public schools.

men who were called to the colours, the house in the hope of seeing the ly laboured under a heavy load of natural tendency in action is to body" and it is a rare week-end in 1920 as Secretary of Mines and especially that of 1870, which were fighters, and tended the sick. Nor

Mr. Bridgeman is rather a "home. He was given his first cabinet post memory

after several defeats was elected. probably misled also by the it has always supplied ex-convict whose spectacular carcer

of her

former wars, clothes, and munitions for the bos of a weapon as soon as If that doesn't hind. him slipping away as such was one of the chief negotia actually made to pay; but nobody is it true that the new methods of and long residence among them had Actually he is in his 68th year, destroyer Botillas can deliver an from anor, his estate tors in the settlement of ring the War can be profitable either to win- difference. It is as easy to kill a fired their imagination.

having passed his 67th birthday attack at five miles against an London to Leigh Manor, his estate Coal Strike in 1921.

will dream again that a European destruction have made a great Ex-Convict Bottomley Speaking." in Maidstone. Prison on March they are to within two in his gardens or walks for hours called upon to assist Stanley Bald. We must, however, remember bomb; but such things

enemy line not going to in South England, where he works recent General Strike, he was also During the

nera or losers.

child

with a spear a with a poison- Although Mr. Bottomley did not 23rd. There is none of that fulness miles to increase the prospect of in his woods and fields. It is a win in the early negotiations. how himself, & Union Jack was of Sgure which gained for him the success

that there is one diabolical govern-done." Barbarous and cruel hoisted over his front door by his title of John Bull, nor is there under heavy fire.

the expense of coming three hours train trip to Leigh Mr. Bridgeman became Home ment-that of Russia-which would weapeas have, as a matter of fact,

Manor, but that doesn't phase Mr. Secretary in 1922, serving until the not shrink for a moment from mas orders, and he personally greeted

Theoretically the very long range Bridgeman. He takes along a copy fall of the Baldwin Government in sering three-quarters of the popu- would have given military advan

not always been used when they his friends by telephone, generally any of that puffiness which charac

possesses. advantages,

of the Iliad, or some other classical 1924. A year later when Stanleylation of Europe, if the remaining poisoned arrows, of which there Trofacing his ranarke with the terised his features during his trial torpedo

at the Old Bailey in May, 1929, especially for a big warship, al work which he has enjoyed since Baldwin came back into power, Mr. 25 per cent, could be subjected to

tage. The Greeks gave up the use Thrive, **ex-convict Bottomley speaking."

His eyes are bluer than ever, but though we still adhere to the view his classical student

all for the week the Admiralty, m

inflicted on their own people. The bullets, which were introduced in His butler was kept busy attend they seein to vell anxious thoughts 14 no substitute for the gun, and end in the counterf ing to his needs and reminding his

One other important chapter should bitter truth must be spoken, that war with the Afridis, who, it was How this devout home-loving he included in any account of the until this nest of hornets has been said, could not be stopped by or. His five years' imprisonment has that a high velocity projectile, master of the situation of various undoubtedly told upon him, for which can cover ten miles in be gentleman became First Lord of kindly little man who heads the smoked out disarmament in Europe dinary bullets, were barred by the commonplace articles which five yesterday he declared "I have tween thirty and forty seconds, is the world's greatest war machine is British delegation to the Three is quite impossible. Italy also in rules of war. Other examples years' absence from his home had never felt better or Etter in my very much more likely to find its question frequently asked by Power Naval Conference. That said to be a menace to csused Bottomley to forget.

life-but it was a terrible ex billet than a torpedo. which will Americans in Geneva who bave for chapter. concernis. Caroling. "Bridae in ly opinion Mussolinibus could easily be found.. return being unexpected,, no perience,

take twenty minutes in travelling gotten that Josephos Daniels, him-man, Dame of the British Empire, indulging in the dangerous game wrong with

in only There something radically preparations had been made with-

the distance. One thing is certain; self, taught Sunday-school. The who na National Chairman of the of sabre-rattling; a serious war

a civilisation which in the house to accord him any-,

The Unlucky 13...

can thus deliberately return to the naval tactics more and more are answer is that Mr. Bridgeman is "Conservative and Unionist Party" would be too dangerous to himself, worst traditions thing in the nature of an organis- "Last night," he added as he being dictated by naval weapons, Stanley Baldwin's closest, confident, has attained political

savagery. rd reception. He had to be con- talked with his friends, "I was instead of naval weapons being the Bridgeman and Baldwin have been with her husband, and has given

parity teated with an early luncheon, number, the unlucky 13, and slept produce of requirements set by the associated together in Parliament him three sons, a doctor, an army taken with his wife and daughter, with 43 murderers, for that is the tical principles.-Naval and Mili- for approximately twenty years. in a room which favours the style: number in Maidstone Gool!

officer, and an official of the Anglo- Jary Record.

(Continued os. next Column."

Persian On Company,

yeara.

Horatio Bottomley

im-

be laid

Thia is

מסכנו

true.

But the

can

mark. IF

are not

Although they are steady and clear that for a big warship the torpedo bridge, and he days at Cam- Bridgeman was made First Lord of the same miseries which they have are traces in Komer. Dum-dum

.

30

is the real cause of war. We must and I am amazed by the I agree with McDougall that fear Frankly, I do not understand it, have often seen two dogs approach acquiescence of the civilised world ing each other with bristling hair in this appalling and suicidal re- and perhaps with wagging" tafla

it