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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER

1934.

EARL HAIG'S PASSCHENDAELE STRATEGY DEFENDED THURSDAY KING'S

LLOYD GEORGE

ANSWERED

BRITAIN'S SACRIFICE SAVED SITUATION

COUNTER-CHARGES

Recently, in the Hongkong Telegraph; was published a summary of Mr. David Lloyd George's bitter denuncia- tion of the alleged failure of British strategists before and during the battle of Passchendaele. Mr. George charged the then Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces, the late Earl Haig, with unnecessarily sacrificing British lives because he stubbornly refused to acknowledge his own mistaken policy in attempting the advance at Passchen- daele, where the British losses, during the endless days of the battle, reached such ghastly figures. Now, Mr. Arthur Solly-Flood, London, has something to say in de fence of the British Field Marshal,

He writes: The old maxim, “Də mortuis nii nisi bonum," translated i

PRESSING THE ENEMY'

battle

into English, means if you havo; Pressure on the enemy had to be nothing good to say about the dead, maintained, therefore the say nothing at all The Welsh was continued. It should be borne tranlation, as gathered from Mr in mind that the handling of the

situation Lloyd George's siemours, would up, diplomatic

Wan Mr. pear to mean just the reverse, Lloyd George's business and not Unfortunately for him, however, in Lord Haig's,

Importance by casting aspersiana

his eagerness to magnify his own For these reasons. Mr. Lloyd upon others, this brilliant in-George in open to the charge of dividual has permitted himself to stating half-truths. stray from the path of veracity.

The picture was taken at a whaling station at Durban, South Africa. This giant whale was carried on a spacial steel truck to be led to the sld refinery .o be trened for extraction of blubber.

themselves.

GERMAN EVIDENCE

Ludendorf in his Memoirs nd- mits that their murale was wavaraly

shaken, The Crown Prince says: "Dirictly the

Nivelle offensive ceased, every available soldier was hurried off to face the British. Therefore no counter-attack on the French was possible."

to con- The

Where he departs completely Firstly, in his relentless attempts from the truth is in his accusation to vilify the memory of the Inte of Lord Halg and his staff of Field-Marshal by laying on him the ignorance, attributable whole onus of the British losses at sideration of their own pereal Passchendaele, Mr. Lloyd George safety and to callousness, of the has laid himself open to the charge conditions in which the men were of stating half-truths.

fighting ut Passchendaele !

In 1917 it was the diplomatic, not the strategle or the tactical, situa-

JUSTICE WITH RED

HOT IRONS

ORDEAL BY FIRE

German Ofeinl Mono- grapher in Flanders wrote: "Divi-the word to-day where justice 18 It is perhaps the only place in ions disappeared by dozens in the stil administered with red-hot turmoil of the battle, only to iron-Beersheba, in the land of the emerge from the witches' cauldron after a short period thinned and ex- It is within the realms of hausted, often reduced to a miser tion which made it imperative that possibility that an Offlear of the able remnant, the gaping space the British Army in France should lead Quarters Staff, whose normal do something to draw on to itself dutics did not ordinarily bring him by them being filled by fresh

divisions." with front line the full attention of the Germans, in close touch and by so doing relieve our Allies troops, might be overcome by the on the Western Front from hostile conditions in which men were call aggression. With this end in view, jed upon not only to fight but to after full consideration and con-exist. Such actually was the case sultation with the Allied Command, quoted by Mr. Lloyd George. But and after months of preparation, there were many Staff Officers at the attack on Passchendaele was G.H.Q, whose normal duties took staged and launched, and very im-them into the most advanced areas varlous stages, until bad weather to the Commander-in-Chief.

Not only was this so, but Lord in Italy. These six divisions were and Napoleon's fifth-element, MUD, intervened.

Haix made a practice of visiting the same and constituted the Ger- man General Reserve on the Unfortunately when this occurr-forward areas himself and gaining ed, although nur Allies had recti-personal knowledge of the condi- Eastern Front, fed the trouble which had been lons whenever his innumerable. rampant among

soldiers, duties afforded opportunity,"

such men in ail Arabla; one in Sinat and one in the Hedjaz.. We employ the man from Sinai.

Tho method is this. The Muliahou Brat asks for G con-

11 Unis 18 not made, ho. takes tiro and heats an iron in it unlu it as walɩe not and covered with white" sparks. Ho then collects his fee, 'This is £10. Lerondant and plaintif eden give him 45, and at the end of the the innocent party. ordea he returns half the tee to

portant aucresses were gained at land whose duty it was to report at Riga and for use at Caporetto 'alestine,

Western Front to smash Karenskt justico 18 still dispensed in that his mouth goes dry and he

their

"The accused steps forward, is given water to wash out his mouth, was a common method of proving hot iron three times. At the end in olden times, ordeal by fire and. is then asked to lick the red- or disproving guilt of a crime.

at this ordeal the Mobishaa Now, hundreds of years after 'oxamines his tongue

and gives that custom ated out in England, Judgment. It is an ertraordinary A German pilot brought down in Mr. II. V. Morton has come upon thing-and you will think i am our lines in October in reply to a

in his travels....

romancing but I have scen men question as to the probable dura-

In his book, "In the Steps of pass unscathed through the ordeal." tion of the War replied, "That all the Master" describing his wander.

"But that can have nothing to do depends on you English.”

ngs over the country traversed by with their guilt or innocence! Christ, Mr. Murton has some won-

Interesting Lually. It is not true that Ger-ertuity

things to "On the contrary, I believe it man troops were taken from the tail about the way in which has. The guilty man is se terzised

geta terribly burned. But the In- But perhaps nothing is so ocent man's salvo continues to strange as this survival of the flow and he does not show anytning ordeal by fire.

on his tongue uiter the erdgul Describing proceedings in a but 窳 геблева. Anyhow, the court to which he was introduced | Mobishna's verdict is never ques Sufficient has been said to lay by Arif el Arif, Governor of the itioned. It is the veraict of

of gross mis- Beersheba district, Mr. Morton Allah. bare the ma98 they had not succeeded in stiffening Passchendaele was no exception representation contained in Mr. says: the backs of their politicians. The to the rule in this reapret. Lord Lloyd George's Memoirs, and to diplomatic situation had in no way alg was well aware of all the cir-make it clear that Lord Haig's con- the little tables were interrupted qurt, which is neid once a week, Suddenly the arguments round The law administered in this 'improved, and the necessity for cunstances.

duct of the battle of Passchendaele by a violent old Bedouin with a says Mr. Morton, is older than was more than justifled.

lean face and scanty' beard, who many of the books of the Qid Mr. Lloyd George has seen fit to rose up and shrieked in fury at Testament: it is the old tribal law say that French Military 'opinion battle when conditions became aoi

the judges.The Governor hit the observed in the desert centuries criticise matters of 淮 purely was against Passchendaele. Petain bad, he would gladly have called a military nature and to pour odium bench with a mallet, but the old before the children of Israel fled never objected to the plan; on the holt, and contented himself with on

man rushed forward foaming at the from Egypt. commanders and staffs in

mouth with rage, contrary he made constant appeals the gaing that had been made, general on their conduct in the

"The commonest offences, he to Lord Halg "to keep up thead he done so, an offensive would Great War.

"It appeared that the old man offensive au aa to keep the Germans have

charged a young Bedouin of the adds, "are raids on animais, blood busy,"

and later he gave what launched against our Allies who indicate these officers, but to convince which the old man said had been etiquette and disputes about tand, It would be easy not only to vin- same tribe with the theft of £100, leuds or murder breaches of desert assistance he could at Passchen-their mentality at that time, would the uninitiated and posterity that kept in a pot. The defence was money and so forth. dacle by leading a small Army assuredly have sued fur peace at they were neither the funks nor the that the old man had never had under General Anthoine.

"Women rarely enter the desert any price. Had this occurred, pig-headed fools which is to be in-4, let alone £100. Whereupon courts, and crimes against them Mr. Lloyd George a military Mr. Lloyd Georg might have had ferred, from, Mr. Lloyd George's the old fellow started to scream are practically non-existent. The knowledge should be sufßeient to some cause to give rein make him aware that it is not vindictiveness. and to loose the dificult to expose the many mis

to his Memoirs. Neither would it be with rage.

fine for molesting Bedouin women "He is demanding the trial by ig bait that of the time or murder posable to switch off a major vials of his wrath on Lord Halg. takes and shortcomings which can re'. said Arif el Arif. I do not about 20 riding camels unless the operation of the mature of the The charge of obstinacy born of be lald at the door of politicians. battle of Passchendaele und mount enllous ignoranes which Mr. Lloyd

think we shall allow it in this loncnce occurs at night when the {case.' a similar one on a different part of George has laid against the Com-

ine is only 10 camels. Such, however, is not the inten "You don't mean to say that! the front without either great loss mander-in-Chief does not bear tion of this letter. Its purpose is you permit trial by fre? of time during which pressure on even a temblance of truth.

The reason for this, according to to deiend, where no defence should "It is the most respected verdict the explanation given the enemy would cente, or without

to Mr. , Should evidence be necessary to be necessary, the good name of of all. The whole desert respects Morton is that in day-time, the girl vast reserves of men and material prove that the battle of Passchen-Douglas Haig; in War. the soldiers' the trial by fire', he replied. The would be alone, drawing water of which Lord Haig did not have at duels served its purpose, it is trusted leader; in Peace, the sold men who administer it are known at work in the desert, while at his disposal.

forthcoming from the Germany ler's best friend-a most gallant as fobishao, and the ordeal itself night it is her own fault if she is

British gentleman-,

as Bishoa. There are only two not safe in the family tent!

ensuring that the enemy's attention

- was Rxed on the British was na

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