1928-01-31 — Page 11

THE PASSING OF

EARL HAIG.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIE.

Earl Halg died at his brother-leadorship. No detall. was too in-law's house, where he was stay small for his personal attention Ing. He was about to retire at no crisis too great for an imme midnight when he collapsed as he diato decision. Swift in decision, was sitting on the edge of the resolute la acton, unerring in his (Continued from Page: 1). bed. He did not fose conscious judgment, yet oparing of words ness, but death came very quick withal, he proved himself an ideal not merely like a patriot but like The doctors believe that leader, for our new Armies under

the new conditions. a great gentleman."

M. Clemenceau, who was Prime Minister of France at the time of victory; saysIn my estima- tion, Ex-Haig was the best gen- eral Britain ever had, and his was the largest contribution towards the Allied victory."

"British Wireless.

heart failure, which was the im- mediate cause, "of death, was brought on by the strain of war years. Reuter.

A GREAT CAREER.

An Ideal Army Leader.

"Lucky Hulg."

TUESDAY, JANUARY

the Hon. Dorothy Vivian, daughter of the third Lord "Vivian, and In Match, 1918, a son and heir was burn, to whem His Majesty the King was godfather.

For Ex-Service Men. Since the War, the late Earl Haig devoted practically all" his time to the cause of Ex-Service men, in which connexion he has, of course, figured prominently as the President of the British Legion. The huge amounts of money raised by the "Poppy Day" efforts of this organisation have, been' devoted to those disabled and otherwise needing help, and it is pertinent to

In his earlier career death coine near him many times. "Lucky Halg" was his sobriquet in those days. This, however, had refer By the death of Earl Haig, the ence to incidental things-It was M. Painleve, the French War Minister, has telegraphed to the Empire has lost one of its greatest not luck but sheer ability and a

recall that: Earl British War Office Our Army (sollers and the Ex-Servicemen rare capacity for the handling of offers its homage in recognition their truest friend. When we re- men that placed him at the head

Halg himself glated, in one of his of the great qualities which were foll his brilliant leadership of the of the British Army in France,

Born in 1861, Earl Haig was a last appeals, that he wanted the shown in his glorious mission and British Forces in the Great War, the fearless part which he played is a little difficult to realise that member of an ancient family of money to supplement the Govern in the common victory. We feel before those days, the late Earl, the Kingdom of Fife. From Clif- ment votes, adding "you and I 80 very little ton he proceeded to Brasenose, must never rest satisfied if the deeply the loss which England has nig should be suffered and offer the British known to the public. When, in Oxford, and joined the 7th Husman who distinguished himself in Army, in the name of the French December, 1915, in succession to sars in 1886. He also passed the the severest trials of war, whether Army and myself, this expression Lord French, Sir Douglas Haig Staff College with distifiction. on the sea, on land or in the air, His first war service was in the is reduced (through no fault of of my profound sympathy assumed Command of the British Sudan in 1898, where he obtained his own) to such a state of penury

Army in France he was mainly familiar to the public through his promotion. In the South African that he is unable to unintain Deep Love For Country.

explofts as a dashing leader of War he earned instant fame as a his self-respect and find food and Earl Halg died in London. Hia cavalry. Except to those in mill-1 cavalry leader, and was in the home for his wife and children."

"Poppy Day" was instituted by last public utterance showed history authority, his knowledge of battle of Elandslaagle, the opera- deep love for his country. Speak the scientific aspects of modern tlons round Colesberg, the relief the late Earl Haig in 1925 as a ing on Saturday at the enrolment warfare was scarcely known at all of Kimberley, and at Paardeberg. means of raising the money need- He returned from that countryed to discharge this great obliga- ceremony of the Twentieth (Earl But cavalry work had never been with the brevet rank of lieutenant- tion, and how readily the public Haig's Own) Troop of Boy Scouts, an obsession with the Commander-colonel, and was twice mentioned has responded may be gathered consisting of sons of disabled ex-in-Chief. All aspects of warfare servicemen employed in the British always fascinated him whether in despatches. He was promoted when it is pointed out that there. major-general in 1904. Sub has been a steady increase in each Legion factory at Richmond, Earl in organisation, tactics, or strategy Haig and: "Stand up for Eng. there was no problem that found sequently he held various impor-year's proceeds. In 1921, the tant commands at home and in collections totalled £100,000, and land when people apeak disrespect him unprepared or unready. Cool. Indin. In the latter country he by 1026 they had rlaen to fully of her and try to realise what patient, gifted in a high degree was Chief of Staff from 1909 until £435.000. The total collections citizenship and publie apirit really with the power of concentrating 1912, when he was transferred to for 1927 have not yet been an

on the problem immediately the Aldershot command, which he nounced, but they are expected to hand, fired with a passionale en- thusiasm for the splendid spirit occupied until mobilisation for the

Great War took place in 1914.

menn."

London, Jan. 30.

HONGKONG STUDENTS

ASSOCIATION.

DISSOLVED BY CANTON GOVERNMENT.

a special appeal was made. If that is the case, in geven years à gross amount' of £2,249,000 will have been raised.

have yielded the £500,000 for which

of the Armies under his command, imperturable as is the way of men The deceased wùs toadle a Fleld of his race, the occasion created Marshal on January 1st, 1917, and by the retirement of Lord French, a Knight of the Thistle in July of plainly found in him the mau for the same year. He received the

There are various Organisations whom it called.

Military Medal from Frarce after created under the aegis of the the brilliant advance of the Bri- British Legion, including the fish troops in August, 1918, whilst Sanatorium and Settlement at for his great services in the War Aylesford in Kent, for tubercular

the

At a meeting held on Saturday in the Provincial Department of Sir Douglas Haig, as. he then the Kuomintang in Canton it was was, had already been severely decided to recommend that the tested in the war. Appointed to Hongkong Students' Association, command the First Army Corps, he received the Order of Merit Ex-Service men and their families, in Canton, should be proscribed by he was instantly tried-and tried and an Earldom, with a grant of this being divided into three main

Sanatorium, the Government.

very highly indeed-before Mons, £100,000. On his return from the acctions-the. An appen was later made to the where he got his corps away with War, he was accorded a fine wel- Training Centre and the Village. Government and on the following emparatively small losses. From come on driving through London, Settlement. Some 250 Ex-Service day the Pubile Safety Bureau dis- then until the time of his appoint- He was appointed, in 1919, Com-men find regular employment in solved the Association. It is said mentas Commander-in-Chief, in mander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Legion Poppy Factory that some anti-Government elem-every grave emergency on the Britain, a post which was later at Richmond, Surrey, and in Lady ents have been associated with the British front he bore the brunt of abolished, and in 1926 he made a Members of the Association, and most of the fighting and invariably tour of Canada on behalf of Ex-Haig's Poppy Factory in Edin- that this led to its being closed exhibited the highest qualities of Service men. He married in 1905 burgh.

down.

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