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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SOME SECRETS OF

THE WAR.

LORD FISHER'S CHAT WITH THE KING,

KITCHENER'S WISH. Many leading figures in public life appear in incidents related in "Life" Journalism and Politics," the autobiography of Mr. J. A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette.

The book contains much about Lord Kitchener, and quotes the great soldier as saying, in the hearing of Mr. Spender during the war, "Oh! how I wish I could go to bed to-night and not awake till it's all over."

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927.

MAN WHO WANTED £67,000.

AMAZING, CLAIMS AGAINST, A SOLICITOR.

MENTAL TORTURE, £1,000.

read

and

Remarkable letters were in Leeds Police Court recently, when Charles H. Kearsley (57), described as a hose maker dyer, of Bradford, was charged on remand with demanding money with menaces from Mr. Cervuse L. Ford, a solicitor.

Kearsley had previously given an undertaking not to annoy Mr. Ford.

Mr. R. Davies, who prosecuted, said the incidents arose out of the "It was one thing to use Kit- fact that Mr. Ford let: Kearsley chener'a services," states Mr. have the temporary occupation of Spender "and quite another to a room in the Low Green School, make him Secretary for War; and Rawden, which had been closed. I doubt very much whether this He got into arrears with his rent,

have Appointment would

been and his furniture was removed. made but for the extraordinary Mr. Ford, realising that some agitation which was then rising hardship might follow for Kears against Haldane.

leys' wife and daughter, who had been admitted to the Union, paid at his own expense for the re- moval of the furniture, and after- wards accured premises for Kears- ley in Bradford, where he had the furniture 'removed."

"Kitchener, sitting in London and wresting with the Cabinet was in a new world, which he did not understand, and which greatly depressed his spirits. He felt none of the rest of the fighting soldier, and knew far too much to share the optimism with which uniformed civilians buoyed themselves up when things when visibly wrong."

Mr. Spender emphasises the immense service that Kitchener rendered as the rallying point of the national effort, and de- clares:--

"It was a service that no one else could have rendered. Let' those who speak of the 'Kitchener ler d' remember that the crea- tion of such a legend is the sures proof of genius in person ality."

The Eve of War. Mr. Spender writer in a charter on the eve of the war.

"The next evening (August 4) I found myself walking with Winston Churchill from Downing Street to the Admiralty across the Horse Guards Parade, and he enlarged in his lively and nuginą- tive way on what was coming.

"At mid-night, he said, we shall be at war at war. Think of it if you ean. The Fleet absolutely ready with instructions for every ship, and the word going out from that tower at midnight. Within a week onemy airships may be sailing over this spot on which we stand and dropping bombe on the seats of the mighty." Mr. Spender also knew "Jacky" Fisher, the First Sea Lord..

Writing of Fisher he says:- Ny first meeting with him, somewhate, about 1903, is vividly impressed on my mind. He had never seen me till that moment, but he at once plunged into an account of a dinner at which he had met the King in the previous week.

He had said to the Klag:- "We'll have a picnic at Kiel. We'll just go along and put wo British ships one each side of a German, and then we'll say to the German as the policeman says to the drunk:-'Come along quietly and there'll be no trouble, but if you don't then there'll be trouble, and no mistake about it.'"

Fe

"And what," I asked, "did the King say to that?" Fisher look- ed at me quizzically for a moment and they burst out laughing. "The King said:My God! Fisher, you must be had." Lord Fisher's Protest. The author has another ference to Lord Fisher-

After the war had broken out I was a frequent visitor to Fisher's room at the Admiralty, and oc- casionally he let me share the thrills of the eternal wireless vigil kept at Whitehail. For Churchill personally he never had anything but loyal. and friendly words, but the contention between them about the Dardanellee was painful to watch.

Kearsley's reply to this act of kindness was a claim for articles alleged to have been missing 'and a claim for £50,000.

...

Mr. Ford gave Kearsley £76 to assist him and on the undertaking future that he would refrain in

him. Accused from annoying continued to pester Mr. Ford at his office, in" the street, and at his home, and Mr. Ford had to engage a private detective for the pro- tection of his house and Mrs. Ford. Mr. Ford received many letters from Kearsley enclosed in envelopes conveying serious reflections on their outside on Mr. Ford's character as a professional man.

£67,000 Wanted.

Mr. Davies snid Kearsley made a claim for a large sum of money, made up in the following items:- To 50 years capitalisation

of Low Green School buildings at £20 n week, multiplied by 52 multi- plied by 50, equal to ...£52,000 Mental torture inflicted

and physical discomfort endured during litiga- tion and ejectment Do, to wife (invalid) Do. to daughter of tender

years

1,000 1,000

4,000

Robbing wife of pay at

2,000 workhouse

work- Forcing her to

1,000 house. Forcing daughter to work-

1,000 house Teaching

daughter

steal in consequence of poor

and insufficient food

To one month's infliction on self, forcing me to beg my daily bread, to seek odd jobs, a highly skilled textile artificer. Forcing me to lodge in common lodging-house and suffering the vile. infliction of lice Loss of chattels and goods.

as per list

And to sleep for one week with bricks for pillow. boards for bed . and

(sum not stated).

Total.

"Terrific Fierceness."

1,000

3.000

1,000

90

£67,090

A letter written to Mr. Ford on. July 12 demanded that certain sums should be paid within seven days, "or there will be serious and your, trouble both to you family. I've settled the problem that has occupied my mind for some considerable time, and am now free (mentally to pursue this matter with fierceness and speed if required. I am quite aware you will reply 'Blackmail', as always,

"I will force you to tribunal of the Great Almighty before I cease my mission. I know that you. have a pistol, so that must al low for it being in working order and you a good shot. This is designed to bring me before a Judge for so-called tackmail.” ⠀⠀ Mr. Davies, said the man had I never had a claim of a single Ford or any

"I am sure I am right, I am sure I am right, he kept repeat- ing, "but he is always convincing me against my vll. I hear him talk, and he seems to make the diffieu ties vanish; and when he is gone sit down and write him a letter and say I ag ee. Then

go back to bed and can't sleep, penny against Mr. and his talk passes away and. I members of the Trust as owners know I am right. So I get up and of the School: write him another letter and say

The Magistrate-The only can-

I don't agree, and so it goes on." clusion I can come to is that the As between him and Churchill, man is not sane. It is a great things went rapidly downhill from pity Mr. Ford ever paid him any a waste of one money at all. It is the beginning of 1915 until

an Assize day he absented himself as a pro- time sending him to test, against no one knew quite Court. what. It was a very critical mo ment, and there was even some of using threats, and ground for thinking that the Ger- Kearsley was bound over to keep the peace in a personal sum of £5, man Fleet was coming out.

The charge was reduced to one on this

The next day, when he was and a surety of £5.

still absent, I saw the Printe

Minister, and he said that, as an

came pouring out, and I knew

old friend of Fisher's, I might go that my mission was hopeless. 1

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over to his house in Admiralty was to go back and say that no- "SWELL WEDDINGS.”

Arch, tell him that Churchill wasthing would induce him to return going, that Balfour was to be the He was far too spirited and First Lord in the New Coalition patriotic to remain long in hig Government, and see what could mood, and he quickly picked him- elf up and offered his services.in be done.

I went and spent an hour with

any capacity in which the Govern him, one of the most painful ment might think him useful. A hours of my life. All his pent department was provided for him, and in that he worked cheerfully up bitterness and accumulated grievances against politicians till the end of the war.

Labour procession.

an officer had not been detalled for

The people who like watching duty at the dangereus point where Kerboy-street, Poplar, and Grundy- weddings have as much right to street intersect

assemble for that purpose as the HOME SECHETARY'S RE-

Bir William has written in reply: people who attend May Day de- TORT TO MR. LANSBURY.

As regards your reference tomonstrations, and it is the bull- Mr. George Lansbury, M.P., on swell weddings," it is the duty of ness of the police to try to do behalf of the Poplar Borough the police to make proper provision their best for the protection and Council, wrote to Sir William Joy for dealing with crowds, whatever convenience of the public in gen on-Hicks, the Home Secretary, the cause of the crowd whether eral without regard to any such complaining that, although police it be some popular social event or social or class distinctions as you were available for well wedding, a political demonstration or al appear to draw,