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NEW STATUS OF R.N.R.

VICE-ADMIRAL DUFF ON NAVAL DEFENCE.

The annual banquet of the Royal Naval Reserve Officers was held in London last month at the Hotel Victoria. Commodore Sir Bertrain F. Hayes, the president, was-in-the. chair.

In response to a message to the Duke of Connaught, as Captain of the R.N.R., the following was re- ceived :-

"I deeply appreciate the thought of my old comrades of the Royal Naval Reserve in sending me so kind a message. I hope they may have a pleasant evening, and I only regret, I am not present, myself.- ARTHUR."

Proposing the toast of "Our Guests," the President referred to the presence of Sir Charles Hip- wood. the head of the Mercantile Department of the Board of Trade, Inad said that Sir Charles had lately ban engaged with others in revis ing the methods of examination of masters and mates, & matter that concerned them closely as Merchant Service officers, and when their re- commendations were adopted and came into force as he sincerely trusted they would in their entirety he felt sure they would have the effect of raising the tone of the Merchant Navy, which was what they had at heart.

"

"BELITTLING" THE OLD

CONTEMPTIBLES.

M. POINCARE'S SPIRITED REPLY TO AN ACCUSATION.

NEW VERSION OF "HOLD.ON" ORDER THAT **AVERTED DISASTER.".

M. Poincaré, Prime Minister of France, ia a letter to the Sunday Times, makes a spirited reply to Licut Colone) Brinsley Fitzgerald, secretary to the late Eart of Ypres when he com- manded the British troope in France, who, in a letter, accused › 3. Poincaré of having made speeches the object of which was "to belittle the glorious work done by the British Army in the defence of Ypres."

." GLORIOUS ROLE.”

At no moment have I belittled the glorious role of the British Army, M. Poincaré declares. "I find it very strange that a British officer, a former collaborator of "French, shoud have, the least doubt of the sentiments which I have always entertained towards England and her Army. COLONEL FITZGERALD'S

CRITICISM.

"WHERE IS THE ORDER

In his Tetter recently Liert. Col. Brinsley Fitzgerald recalled that he was present at the interview be tween Marshal Foch and Sir John

was handed. He added:-'..

"The day of October 31st began very badly for us; two commanders

M. POINCARE'S LETTER.

Dear Sir,-

PARIS, Nov. 2nd, 1829.

I have learned with acme surprise from a better which Lieut.-Colonel Brinsley Fitzgerald has addressed to the Sunday Times that I have, on several occasions, made speeches little the glorious work done by the the object of which was to be British Army in the defence of the Yser."

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FIGHT FOR A CHILD

́DAUGHTER'S SUMMONS AGAINST. MOTHER

* DISMISSED,

Mrs. Sylvia. Irene Walpole, of Corbett Road, Ewell, at Kingston County Police Court, summoned of the Old Court Farm, Tolworth, her mother, Mrs. Kathleen Locke,

Surbiton, for the custody of her (Mrs. Walpole's)

three-year-old

has committed a material error. Mrs. "Walpole stated that "sinee In attributing to me a view so con- trary to that which I have always the child was born in 1995 her expressed, he has evidently not mother bad had the custody of it. that She. (Mrs. Walpole) had paid 10. a week for it till April this year, which I have said and written.

Oa. three occasions I have given recount of what happened as She had now married the child's interviews between General Fock father, and they had since had and Marshal French at Vlamer- another child, 30th, 1914, the first, during the life- tinghe on the evening of October

Cross-examined, she agreed that her mother was fond of the child. She could not remember telling her mother that she would make no claim on the child.

SURPRISE FOR AN ACTRESS.

ALLEGED ORDER TO GET OUT."

4

HER ALHAMBRA TURN.

A scene in a dressing-room at the

alleged an actress was ordered by Alhambra Theatre, in which it was ·

a theatre official to pack up ber things and "get out," was the sub- ject of an action in the King's Bench Division.

Miss Flora Cromer, a. music-hall

artist," who in private life is Mra Florence Pearce, sued the Alham bra Company, Ltd., proprietors of the Alhambra Theatre, London, for damages for alleged breach of contract and loss of publicity.

The defence was that the can- tract if there was one, was ended by mutual consent, and that the engagement was merely a trial one.

£60 A Week. Mr. Roland Oliver, K.C., for Miss Cramer, stated that she was

music-hall career she had achieved a considerable measure of success,

Another matter that might come before Sir Charles in the near French, and that he was the officer future was the rexed question of to whom the so-called order "Lieut. Colonel Brinsley Fitzgerald | girl. helm orders There had been a great deal of correspondence lately in the Press on that subject, and personally he thought that the writ tit of most of the letters had very little appreciation of the intelli- gence of merchant seamen, officers of divisions temporarily knocked and men. However, it more a matter of sentiment than

the cut by shellfire, two staff officers anything else, to his mind-some-killed; the Germans apparently thing like the pigtails were in the attacking successfully all along the old days of the Royal Navy. He line.. If the heavy artillery was to did not propose to argue the paint, but as an old sailer he should be be saved preparations should at time of French, on February 5th, inclined to say let well alone, as once be made. This was being 1990, when, being still President of Lihey seemed to have got slong done French, hearing that Fock the Repubic, I received Marshni Fach at the French Academy: the pretty well up to now.

was at Varnertinghe, said he would second, on July 7th. 1928, when the Vice-Admiral A A M. Duff,

go there on his way to St. Omered st Cassel, and the third in the Mrs. Locke): Is it a fact that every statue of Marshal Foch was unveil Mr. S. C. T. Littlewood (for Admiral Commanding Reserves, re- sponding, spoke in appreciation of

We found Foch with several of his reminiscences which are to be pub the difficulties members of the generale, he in a state of frantic lished in France and in Bagland time you have had the care of the R.N.R. overcame in combining their obligations to that force with their excitement, waving his arms and and of which the Paris Illustration child it has been ill two or three

advance has published in Ho pro.

some days afterwards, and that on the duty to the line they were serving, shouting, Il faut tenir.

short extracts, „s He would do all be could to make mised a

last occasion when it came back earning salaries of between £20 very large number of

In these three accounts, couched

of the shipowners and companies day.

sion that I have given agrees al on its tongue ?--Yes, but there wat who helped in that respect, he ap-

Put La Writing.

most entirely with that given by a wicked thing said that the child's Lieut. Colonel Brinsley Fitzgerald tongue had been burned so that pealed to any who did not yet

Nowhere have.. I "French was perfectly calm, and bimself. realize how necessary was their co operation to give that co-operation said to me, Tell him to put it guilty of the foolish impropriety should not have a dummy.

that he attributes to me: nowhere generously. Let them do all they down in writing. Whereupon Foch have I asserted that Foch bad said its tongue might have heen Was it not seen by a doctor who could to encourage young officers to join the Reserve and to bring home consulted one of his generals, who giver any order whatsoever to burned either by a cigarette or a to them that it was a distinction to said he could not possibly have French. I have simply said that pokeri-It might have picked up owning the Alhambra Theatre.

Foch bad promised the Marshal to a cigarette and turped its tongue. make an immediate attack on the

Mrs. Locke stated enemy with the French forces, to daughter had promised to let her attack, that he had put this inten-bong as she lived. She was wiling enable the English army to resist have the custody of the child so tion in writing, and that after to keep it for nothing.

eiving this note French had of

those difficulties as small 16 Pos French troops should "arrive next. almost in the same terms, the ver- to its grandmother's it had a burn

sible. Expressing his appreciation

belong to such a body.

cavalry on his right had done won-

to save the Allied situation.

been

alender forces to keep the old flag flying. For that reason he con sidered it essential that as many as ders with the bayonet. The Ger-on it was often able, in its turn, possible of the citizens of the Emmaas were on the run and the pire should be trained either in the whole line practically re-establish- Reserve or 18 Volunteers to be

Fiat Contradiction.

**

now forty-five, and during her

and £60 a week.

The events of which she now com-

plained took place in 1923, after ited tour in Australia. Miss Cromer.

she had returried from an extend-

that her

•

performed for some months in 1823 direction of Sir Oswald Stoll, who in provincial music-balls under the

was the principal of the company

She was successful, and asked Mr. Johns, the Alhambra "booking

manager, for a contract to appear ed the contract at £28 for a week in London. Eventually she secur-

of eighteen performances.

•

Miss Cromer had given two per- formantes, and was in her dress- ing-room awaiting her turn' to ap- pear when there was a knock at the door, and Mr. Reynolds, an official of the theatre, appeared

Country Offer.

get out."

more than about a third of the At present they were hearing all about peace packs, universal disgure named by Foch. This figure armament, and other forerunners was put on paper, signed by Foch, of the millennium. He believed and I handed it to French, who that that movement of disarmament acribbled a note on it to Haig, had got such a momentum that it

his own accord, told his orderly Mrs. Locke added, "We worship. was not going to stop. So far from saying that Foch promised this officer to convey to his troops the the child, and look upon it as our stopping, it would outrun that contingent, and asking him to do order to hold out. Lieut.-Colonel own little daughter." changing character of the human the best he could till morning. Brinsley Fitzgerald himself indi- The Chairman-stated that Mra race that alone was necessary to make it safe. He believed that "It was late before I found cates this in the letter he has writ- Walpole's application would be

ten you. It is clearly then, the refused, during the next 20 or 30 years we Haig; he had left his headquarters intervention of the French army would be passing through what

The allegation was that be said would be for the Empire very dif. and gone a long way down the which, at this date, averted disas- —-

ter. Moreover, nothing was more Scult times if we had to trust to Menin Road.

to her, "You can pack up your He told

me the natural, since the British Army was it at Dunkirk on November 1st.

still numerically very feeble. Later 1914, when I met him and Lord things and get out. We don't want Now, you under- statements to me on the eve of his stand, don't make any scene, but Kitchener, and Foch repeated his you any more.

reception at the Academy. I have "Fantastic Criticism."'

full confidence in his impeccable

The theatre proprietors paid her a week's salary sad also offered her Hence the Lieut.-Colonel and loyalty.

a week's work in the country at £15 ready when the time came to hold ed. I reported this to Foch "late

only differ on one point. He de-

Nursing Home Visit. their own. So far from the Reserve at night, and he was completely picts with emphasis General Foch add that at no moment have

"i full settlement." being less necessary, they were more overcome.

very agitated and Marshal belittled the glorious role of the Cromer's stage career had been Mr. Oliver added that Miss necessary than ever they were.

that, I Whatever might happen to the

"But where is this order which French as very calm. I am willing British Army. Far from

to believe in the calm imperturb have a hundred times taken occa ruined. So great was her 'difficulty permanent Navy in the way of averted disaster! No order was ability of Marshal French, but I sicn, either as President of the in securing work on the stage that' reduction in the future, there issued. No order could have been have seen Foch in times grave Republic or as President of the the changed her name to Florence was no doubt that the prosperity issued by Foch to French,

enough notably after he had been Council, to pay solemn and karm Rex and disguised herself by wear- and welfare of the Empire

nominated Generalissimo of the tribute to the Allied Army;. I haveing a white wig and a crinoline. depended upon the Merchant

Allied armies at the request of renewed these testimonies of my Miss Cromer said in evidence- Navy, For the efficiency of the

Marshal Haig to know that he has admiration when I received Fock that when Mr. Reynolds, Merchant Navy it was necessary

“Maréchal Foch's account of the never lost either this perspicacity or at the Academy and when I un manager of the Alhambra, told her that there should be

veiled his monument at Cassel I to content Vlamertinghe meeting, given short his command of himself.

get out" she thought that he ed personnel. One of the greatest 17 after the war, was very differ

I cannot understand what Lieut.

confirm this eulogy of the English was joking, but collapsed when factors making for the content of any body of men was that their ser ent from the one now presented. I Colonel Brinsley Fitzgerald has in troops in many passages of my she realised that he was serious.

**This is Sir Oswald Stoll's do- his mind when he reproaches me forthcoming book. Ifad it thus: vices should be recognized by the believe many great men, after tel for not taking the trouble to very strange that a British officer, ing,"

"she cried. public at large. That had been a ing a story often enough, get to verify the facts and the dates and a former collaborator of French, long time comning but he saw every sign that that recognition of the believe that the last version is the in support of this fantastic critic. however jealous he may rightly be to defend the memory of his chief, ism writes: "Sir John French was should have the least doubt of the services rendered to the Empire by correct one. I am sorry to have at Fere-en-Tardenois the British Merchant Navy was a to contradict him fatly, but, even 3rd. 3. Poincaré called on him sentiments which I have always last realized.

entertained towards England and her Army. One of the greatest factors in that, nothing will make me believe there on the 5th."

Here is a precise statement, and connection was the King, who had that the present version is pro-

After the wIT, when Marshal it is a precision that I myself use shown the way as usual by the duced by him with a view to be in the book which is shortly to be French was seriously ill and had creation. of the Prince of Wales littling the work of the British published. I recount also the de- undergone an operation in Paris, Mr. George Francis Reynolds, as Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets. That was a

tails of the interview of October called to see him personally at manager of the Alhambra Theatre, Army.

5th with the Marshal as I recall the nursing home where he was who gave evidence for the defence, most significant sign. The Royal Naval Reserve had also helped very. He has on several occasions made conversations which I had with him thanked me for my visit. At the out one of her three songs in the "But what about. M. Poincaré at the dates clearly indicated, other under care. He received me with mid that after Miss, Cromer's first extreme cordiality and Warmly performance she was asked to cut much towards that public recogni- tion. Officers in the Royal Navy speeches on the same lines, the ob- during the war. But what bearing moment I had already publicly re interests of time and suitability to benefited considerably by having the ject of which was to belittle the French and myself on the correcalled the interview at Vamer formed her after the second per

between meetings

the gederal programme. He in- B.N.E. officers working with them, glorious work done by the British spondence between Foch and tinghe in my address at the and he hoped that the gain was

French which took place at Flamer Academy, to which the English formance, after consultation with reciprocal.

tinghe on October 30th, when I was papers had called attention. French Sir Oswald Stoll, that she would Bir Oswyn A. Murray (Secretary

not present? If the Lieut-Colonel did not ask any correction. He not be required to perform again. of the Admiralty). proposed the that "is his affair. But he might had condescended to refer to my confined himself, to repeating how She said that she had better, in

the circumstances, go

sick" toast of The Royal Naval Re-

Recount before forming & rapid much he was touched by my atti judgment, he would have learned tude. It was a new and final proof which was not an uncommon ruse the merer-have sais com aliced of the déference and sympathy that with artists,

Ho-denied that he behav

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Army in the defence of Ypres,

have

theso

од October

Bong Cut Out, -

the

fence: Do you not agree that Sir Mr. Doughty, K.C., for the de- Oswald Stoll has done more than anybody to reform the lot of music- hall artists-He certainly has re- formed the dressing accommoda- tion..

"If he consider it good taste

serve," and Captain M. B. Sayer, have taken the trouble to get his the Vice-President ponded facta sight and his dates Bir John

The bealth-of-the-President was French A ak kere en Tardenois it to be supposed that I had ass 1 hod Hawaye Te Or

odontodabere Best dear sis of my pro-ively to Miss Cromer, or toid tinghe. It was Foch who spoke of found regard

R. POINCARE. (Continued on nezt, Column).

The case was adjourned,

proposed by Captam Sir R. Burton

Chadwick, M.P., Deputy Master of on October 3rd. M. Poincaré ca the Company of Master Mariners. Ied on him there on the 5th.".

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