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EARL HAIG OF

BEMYSIDE

AN APPRECIATION

(BY THE REV. J. N. LEWIS BRYAN, S.C.F., CIE.)

Hong KoNG.Jan, 50, 10 One by one the military cominan ders of the Great War have passed intothistory. Fow yet remain. The ruthless hand of criticism has dealt with them for better or for worse.

On the anniversary of the death of Earl Haig of Bemyside, it is a fitting moment to think again of the part he played in those dark days, for of them all he was the most sorely tested and the most abundantly proved.

The intervening years have mere- [282] lý enhanced his reputation, and placed him on the level of those,

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who across the centuries of our military history, have made the name of England great.

It fell to his lot to command the the held by the might of Britain, on largest force over placed.in the widest front that ever saw the ebb and flow of grent reilitars operations, in the darkest hour of his country's need. Well do I re- member, one cold grey day in the autumn of 1917 when the Division in which I was then serving, march ed neveral miles through the driv

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 1933.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W.

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11 to 11.30 san - Stock, and ex- change quotations, weather re- port, etc,

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19.30 p.m.-European programme of Victor and H.M.V. records. p.m.-Local time and weather

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report.

news,

p.m.-Rugby Press selected London and New York stock quotation, etc. A relay of the Rotary Club Tin Speech from the Gloucester Building Restaurant-Capt. R. L. Bur nett, R.N., on The Origin of Soine Naval Terms," p.n. (approx.)-Closo down. 4.30 to 7 p.m.-Chiness programme. From 5 to 6 p.m. relay of the South Wales Borderer's Band from the Military Hospital,

7 to 10.30 p.m.-European pro-

granime.

7 to 1.15 p.m.

Orchestral..

Selection from "The Merry Widow."-Marek Weber and his Orchestra.-C1808. Vienna by Night." Marek Weber and his Orchestra ..C1007.

OUR LONDON AIR MAIL LETTER

Shaw Manuscripts on Sale Women's Big Adventure

Barrister Soldier for the F. B. L. Mr. Mellon Back in London: Shilling Theatre Enthusiasm.

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Shaw Manuscripts on Bale.

The General will not be the first- LONDON, Jan. 17.

soldier president of the FB.I.· A catalogue just received from That distinction was gained in America brings me the surprising 1921-22 by Colonel Armstrong, who news that on Monday Dr. Archie was on Kitchener's staff in South bald Henderson is selling by an Africa, and afterwards became restricted auction in New York chairman of Greenwood and Bat- his voluminous collection of Berley, the engineering firm. ⠀⠀ nard Shaw first editions and auto- graph letters."

Mr. Mellon Back in London. No celebrity has ever had

Mr. "Andrew Mellon, the United biographer more flatteringly ass States Anibassador in London, ar- duous than Mr. Shaw found in Drrived at Waterloo Station on the Boswell possibly go heat train from Southampton yes- Henderson. more kicks, but bot so many direc terday, on his return from Ameri- tions as to how the biography was

ca. He was met by his daughter, to be written.

Mrs. Bruce.j

The letters, mainly a collection of Mr. Shaw's directions to hit biographer, are amply quoted in the catalogues. They throw light on many aspects of the Shavian complex.

The great man dislikes his first name. "Why all these Georges 1 he writes in one letter."I loathe being Georged. Please immortalise ine as Bernard Shaw or even stock quotations, selected Lon-G.B.S., Lut Not as Jorge Bernard don and New York stock quota-Shaw, a detestable phrase. tions, ete..

doesn't sing "

ing rain to be reviewed by hire, be-15 to 7.30 p.m.-Closing loenl fore going into action on the Pass chendaele Ridge. As he rode alow

The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Mony down our lines, and we saw his

day, the 18th February to Saturday, the 25th February, 1933 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

V. M. GRAYBURN,..

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 6th February, 1933.

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calm face and steady bearing we30 to 9 pm.--A relay of "Look felt that here was a man whom men

"from would follow to the end. Although

ing on the Bright Side the King's Theatre by courtesy ho may never have gained the per-

of the Management. sonal affection of his troops as did 3 to 9.18.p.m.- Roberts of Kandahar, he won their trust and confidence, and held, it.

France's Gratitudo.

"The

Band Selections.

It

How He Helped Harris, How for Shaw helped Frank Harris in the Harris biography of Shaw is casually confirmed in the letters: "The publisher was keen ..but on saving the proof sheets I destroyed every scrap of it; so that neither I nor anyone else will ever know how much of the book is F. H. and how much G. B,S"

We learn, too, that although he van).-Band of H.M. Cold is "Fairly successful as a spell

binder," Shaw has "never yet ar. cepted a farthing for public speak ing."

Gondoliers" -- Selection (Sullivan). Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.-01973;

(Sulli. "Patience"-- Selection

stream Guaris.C1274.

15 to 0.30 p.m.— ·

He has been accused by arm chair critics of having flung his divisions recklessly into action in the mud swamps north of thei HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

Salient, but we know now that it was at a time when the French THE Committee of the above morale was almost gone, ant some- THE

Society would be most grateful thing had to be done, and done if those interested in its work would quickly, to save the Allied line kindly send in their donations of from breaking. An officer who subscriptions. Money is most urgent-served on his personal Staff on ly needed and funds are very low,

No amount is too small and will be G... said later that after Mes 9.20

Treasurer.

sines Haig could have been crown-t

most thankfully received by the Hoaed King in Paris so great was the enthusiasra of the French, for what he had done at that critical ma ment.

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There came the dark days of the Retreat, that drew from him that immortal Order. There is no other: course open to us, but to fight it out. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight It will live in ou to the end." military history, as it's equivalent to Nelson's Signal at Trafalgar."

To him must be ascribed a very large share of the credit that the War ended when it did. He had to face the certainty of being re called home by the politicians if his proposed advance in August 1919 happened to fail. Haig shouldered the entire responsibility, and staked his reputation on the result,

Then with utter reliance on the God Whom he served and trusted; and implicit faith in the quality of the men whom he commanded, he committed his armies to the attack. It is interesting to note in this connection that The late Lord Birkenhead in his posthumous book "Turning Points of History" says that Haig had behind him in. this decision the highest authority of All.

Foch's Tribute.

Never was an opinion more fully. justified, or a man's genius more highly appraised than his, when Marshal Foch said later The Battles

From the Studio.

A talk on

The Structure of the Atom" by The Rov. Father D. Donnelly, S.J. to 10.27 ..

Variety.

Song—"' High and Low."--Sylvia

Cecil (Soprano).-B3360. Organ Solo-" If I'm Dreaming. Edward O'Henry,-B3121.

Lute Song" The

Player" Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).- 01313. Orchestral" Adios,"

Mr. Mellon declined to discuss the war debt situation, saying, The whole matter is in abeyance." Mr. Mellons denied a rumour that he was about to retire.KI am not exactly of a retiring dis position," he added.

The Premier in Fawky Hood. The Prime Minister, I am told, has adopted a novel method of reassuring too anxious inquirera after his health.

Downing Street," he tells his visitors in his pawkiest Lossie- mouth manner, afflicts those who live in it with a mysterious dis- ease. It is a form of rheumatiem, and not only very painful but audible."....."

When this statement has been re- ceived with a proper credulity Mr. MacDonald twists himself in his chair, as if in pain.

"I feel it coming on now,"

an unmistakable. exclains. And squeak is heard from the rheumatic limb indicated.

he

Ultimately the sufferer relieve: the anxiety of his friends by pro- his pocket. ducing a child's toy squeaker from

The letters continue many varia tions on Shaw's venerable pose as B super-egotist. "Surely the right thing to do," he tells his biograph

Shilling Theatre Enthusiasm.. er is to begin with a vivid ro-

The new "Shilling Theatre ”- mantic picture of the miraculous the Grand, Fulham promises to Shaw, the wonderful personality. hecome a London institution with the brilliant; the witty, the para-an doxical the accomplished, the critic of a thousand arts, and the master of half a dozen,"

Judge for Yourself.:

I do not know whether Mr. Show would place poetry among the art Havena of which he acclaims himself a master. The catalogue describes, thean autographed poem of 77 lines as "a manuscript. of exceptional interest, being one of the very fax poems ever written by Bernard "Shaw.".

Novelty Orchestra.-99003 Violin

of "Solo" Dance Maidens.--Fritz Kreisler.-1233. Fumorous Song Hot Pot."-

Gracie Fields-B3008. Humorous Song--" Prophecies.

-Norman Long,-C1233. Band" A Perfect Day."--Baud'

of H.M. Coldsbroam Guarıls 13773.

Humorous Song- Around the Corner"-Frank Crumit-20493. 'Song--"Far Away."Sylvia

Cecil (Soprano).-B3360.. Organ Solo" Look for the Silver Lining." Edward

O'Honry.-B3421.

SongThe Floral Dance."-

Peter Dasan (Bass-Baritone). -01313.

P

Here are eleven lines of this

rhapsody:

Rain, rain, rain, rain. Damn. the rain.

"Sweep, great Bucket Carrier,

over the wide hills;

Drench the trees. till they drip, Make all the heather a sponge. Fling out and wring out thy

great grey blanket over the sky.

Lash, drive, soak and saturate. Spare not bird, beast nor insect... Wet every man to the skin.

rein, rain, Rain, rain, rain, Havana

rain, rain, and be dammed. Except on Geraldine. Who was Geraldine 1

Orchestral-" Bonita."

*Novelty Orchestra-22063, Song- "Sonny Boy."-Gracie!

Tields.--B3000.

Violin

Solo" Blue Skies." Fritz Kreiler--1933. Humorous Song-" I'm Blase.”—

Norman Long-C1238. Band- Until-Band of HM,

Coldstream GuárdaB6773. Humorous Song Down by the Railroad Track."Frank Cru mit. 29423.

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of the British Army in the Hun- 10.27 p.m.-Rugby mid-day Press dred Days will live for over as classical examples of how great 10.30 p.m.-Closs down, military operations should be. con- ducted."

All records in the above Euro Dean programmes are supplied by The end of the War came. When Mnsars. Moutri & Co. Haig might have retired and en- The Studio programme hetween joyed in peace the high honours a 5.30 and 7 p.: may, on any day, grateful Country very rightly con- he replaced by a relay from Eng ferred upon him, he chose to devote and, if reception of the latter hap the rest of his life to the welfare pens to be good. and betterment of those men whose years of service had cost them their

and delays, STAG

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Women's Big Adventure. Feminine fashion had no place in the baggage of three women who to-day ware preparing for so adventurous trip across Europe. The adventurers are Mrs. Morad Vaughan, Mrs E. M. Wisdom, and Mrs. Gates, who form an all-women world's most exacting motor trial. team in the Monte Carlo rally, the They will leave London to-morrow for Tallin on the Gulf of Finland, and from there will drive an or dinary saloon car day and night for 2,347 miles across Europe to Monte Carlo. For a great part of the journey they will encounter Arctic conditions,

but they are pre- pared for the worst, for their equipment, includes hanlage tackle, skid chains, picks, and snow

health and strength and means of he missed; a Sunday in the Black shovels, and they will wear":trou- livlihood." ang

March, and he sent his Chaplain a sors, close-fitting Jackets and work- Refusing to employ a secretary note of apology, kte toen's shirts. Another fearless wo he wrote with his own-hand thou-He had his failures, but to faiman, Mrs. Montague-Johnstone, is sands of letters to, and on behalf lurs could shake his confidence in making her starting point John o'

Groats of, Ex-Servicemen, who had ap- the ultimate issue. Drawing com posled to him for help and assisfort from the deep wells of his re Barrister-Soldier for the FBI tance,

ligious life, he bore in the face The military record of General I was returning from China on of every difficulty a calm and unSir George Macdonogh, who has been nominated President-elect of Troopship in Feb. 1928 when the shakable resolution.

Great he was in courtesy and an- the Federation of British Indus news of his death came through on. the wireless Col Byan, who had selfishness, in high morality, in tries, is a distinguished one. It is been his personal Physician on Gerenity and courage amid reverses not, however, for his soldiery qualities that he has been elected H. G. happened to be on board. Alowed high military talent, to his new office. He is one of the and he gave it as his considered but showed character above, talent, few soldiers who have been con opinion that it was his post-war and since war in the last result spicuously, successful in business. work for the British Legion that is a conflict of spirit, the finst He barrister and a member cost him his life. Bo a great and spirit prevailed, avata of the Institute of nkers, a Brst- noble character passed on to his He may take his rest in therhal reward.

of the warriors, secure in the know-gia

coitusins He was a man, of simple faith, ledge that his name liveth for ever- As the storm clouds gathered about more in the hearts and” anda! Kehendy it seemed to skina r2018] & grateful Country, End clearly through, the gloom, Sung which he gave his lat day by Bunday he attended Divine found, is being carried Service in the little Chapel on the fully and will ** Ramparts of Montreuil: Once only Not to every manɛ is: “Vontsmed at foot of next Voluma), days given such a recard.

atmosphere." all ́`ite own.

A

friend who attended the opening on Saturday tells me it was a most invigorating evening.

The Earl of Carlisle and Lady Ravensdale were there with parties (Continued on Page 12)

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