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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1934

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EARL HAIG'S PASSCHENDAELE STRATEGY DEFENDED COMING 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- dacle, 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.

PRESSING THE ENEMY

He writes: The old maxim. “De mortuls 'nil nisi bonum," translated into English, means, if you have Pressure on the enemy had to be nothing good to say about the dead, maintained, therefore the battle, Any nothing at all. The Welsh was continued. It should be horse) tranlation, as gathered from Mr in mind that the handling of the Lloyd Georges hiemoirs, would ap-¡diplomatic situation WAB Mr. pear to mean just the reverse, Lloyd George's business and not Unfortunately for him, however, in Lord Haig's

Importance by casting aspersions

Where

he departs completely

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

themselves.

GERMAN EVIDENCE

Ludendorf in his Memoirs ad- mits that their morale was severely

censed, every available soldier wor hurried off to face the British. Therefore no counter-attack on the

his cagermons to mnogolfy his own For these reasons Mr. Lloydhaken, The Crown Prince says: upon others, this briliant in George is open in the charge of "Diretly the Nivelle offensive dividual has permitted himself stating half-truth. stray from the path of veracity.

Firstly, in his relentless attempts from the truth is in his accusation French was possible." to vilify the memory of the Inte of Lord Haig and his staff of Field-Marshal by laying on him the 'ignorance, altributable to COD- whole onus of the British losses at sideration of their own personalgrapher in Flanders wrote: "Divi- The German Ofeinl Моло- Passchendaele, Mr. Lloyd George safety and to callousness, of the tons disappeared by dezens in the has laid himself open to the charge conditions in which the men were turmoil of the battle, only to of stating half-truths.

fighting at Passchendaele! In 1917 it was the diplomatic, not

emerge from the witches' cauldron hausted, often reduced to a miser- after a short period thinned and ex- able remnant, the gaping spaces left by them being illed by fresh

divisions."

Various stages, until bad weather to the only was this so; but Lord in Italy. These six divisions were

JUSTICE WITH RED HOT IRONS

such men in all

Arabia, one In Steal and one in the Hedjaz. We employ the man from Sinai..

ICAS (UR.

R соп-

The mothod is this. The Mubishca first asks for

I this is not fade, he takes hire and heats an iron in it juntil it is waite hot and covered with white sparks. He then collects his fee. This is IV. Letondant and plaintir each give him 46, and at the end of the It is perhaps the only place in ordest he returns half the, fee to till administered with red-hot the world to-day where justice istae innocent party. fron-Beersheba, in the land of the

DIDLE,

ORDEAL BY FIRE

Lo

"The accused steps forward, ls! given water to wash out his mouth, the strategic or the tactical, situa- It is within the realms of

in olden times, ordeal by fire and is then asked to lick the red- tion which made it imperative that possibility that an Oficer of the

was a common method of proving hot iron three times. At the end the British Army in France should lend Quarters Staff, whose normal

proving guilt of a crime.

of this ordeal the Mobishaa do something to draw on to itself duties did not ordinarily bring him

Now, hundreds of years

after xamines his tongue and gives the full attention of the Germans, in close touch with front line

that custom died out in England, Judgment. It is an ertraordinary and by so doing relleve our Allies troops, might be overcome by the A German pilot brought down in Mr. J. V. Morton has come upon thing-and you will think i am on the Western Front from hostile conditions in which men were call-Jour lines in October in reply to a in his travels. aggression. With this end in view, ed upon not only to fight but to question as to the probable du the Master describing his wander-

romancing-but I have seen men In his book, "In the Steps of pass unscathed through the ordeni.' after full consideration and con- exist. Such actually was the case tion of the War replied, "That all sultation with the Aliled Command, iquated by Mr. Lloyd George. But depends on you English"

ngs over the country traversed by with their guilt or innocencel

"But that can have nothing to da and after months of preparation, there were many Staff Officers at

Christ, Mr. Marton has some won- the attack on Passchendaele was G.HI.Q. whose normal duties took Lastly, it is not true that Ger- dertully interéêting things staged and launched, and very im- them into the most advanced areas man troops were taken from the teli aout the the way in which has. The guilty man is so torrided "On the contrary, I believe it portant successes were gained at land whose duty it was to report Western Front to amush Kerenski justice Es still dispensed in that his mouth goes dry and he

Commander-in-Chief. Lat Rign and for use at Caporetto 'alestine. And Napoleon's fifth element, MUD, Not

gets terribly burned. But the in- But perhaps nothing is intervened.

Hafg made a practice of visiting the same nud constituted the Gier- strange as this survival of

so nocent man's solva continues to Unfortunately when this occurr-forward areas himself and gaining man

the low and he does not show anything General Reserve on the ordeal by lire. ed, although our Allies had recti personal knowledge of the condi- Eastern Front.

Describing proceedings in

on his tongue niter the ordesi fied the trouble which had been tions whenever his innumerable

a but a redness. court to which he was introduced Mebishaa's verdict is never ques- Anynow, the Sufficient has been said to lay by Arif el Arif, Governor of the tioned. rampant among their soldiers, duties afforded opportunity. they had not succeeded in stiffening Paaschentuele was no exception representation contained in Mr. says:

bare the mass of gross mis- Bearsheba district,

It is the verdict of the backs of their politicians. The to the rule in this respect. Lord Lloyd George's Memoirs, and to

Mr. Morton Altah... diplomatic siluation had in no waylaig was well aware of all the cir-make it clear that Lord Hale's con- the little tables were interrupted court, which is held once a week, "Suddenly the arguments round The law administered in this improved, and the necessity for cumstances.

duct of the battle of Passchendaele by a violent old Bedouin with ensuring that the enemy's attention was Axel on the British was as

was more than justified.

says Mr. Morton, is older than lean face and scanty beard, who many of the of the Old strong as ever, it is not true to Towards the latter half of the any that French Military opinion battle when conditions became so

Mr. Lloyd. George-has seen fil-to iruse up and shrieked in-fury ntTestament: it is the old-tribal-law fcriticise matters of a purely

the judges. The Governor hit the observed in the desert centuries was against Passchendaele. Petain hard, he would gladly have called a military nature and to pour odium bench with a mallet, but the old before the children of Israel iled never objected to the pun; on the halt, and contented himself with on commandera and staffs in

inan rushed forward foaming at the from Egypt. contrary he made constant appeals the gains that had been made. (general on their conduct in the!'

mouth with rage. to Leri Haig "to keep up the ad he done so, an offensive would Great War.

"It appeared that the old man adds, "are raids on apimais, blood "The commonest offences," he offensive so as to keep the Gernians have Inevitably

charged a young Bedouin of the busy" and later he gave what launched against our Allies who indicate these officers, but to convines which the old man said had been etiquette and disputes abant land,

quickly

It would be easy not only to yin-jame tribe with the theft of £400, 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 dacle by tending a small Army assuredly have sued for peace at they were neither the funks ar the that the old man had never had under General Anthoine.

Mr.

Lloyd Georges military Mr. Lloyd George might have had ferred from Mr. Lloyd George's the old fellow started to scream are practically non-existent. The price. Had this occurred, ig-headed fools which is to be in-124, let alone £400. Whereupon courts and crimes, against them "Women rarely enter the deserl knowledge should be suffont to me cause to give rein to his Memoirs. Neither would it be with rage. make him aware that it is not vindictiveness and to loose the difficult to expose the many mis- possible, to awitch off #

ine for molesting Bedoumih women major vials of his wrath on Lord Haig.takes and shortcomings which can re, sald Arif el Arif. 'I do not about 20 riding camels unless the "fe is demanding the trist by is half that of the fine lor murder operation of the nature of the battle of Paschendaele and mount callous ignorance which Mr. Lloyd!

The charge of obstinacy born of he laid at the dour of politicians, thlok we shall allow a similar one on a different part of Beorge has laid against the Com-!

it in this ocnce oecura at night when the the front withet elther great lossmander-in-Chief does not of time during which pressure on even a rembiance of truth.

bear tion of this letter. Its purpose is you permit trial by fire? the enemy would cease, or without Should evidence be necessary to be necessary, the good name of of all. The whole desert respecta Morton is that in day-time the girl to defend, where no defence should

The reason for this, according to "It is the most respected verdict the explanation vast reserves of men and material prova that the battle of Passchen-Douglas Halg; in War, the soldiers' the trial by fire', he repiled. The would be alone, drawing water or given to Mr. which Lord Haig did not have at daele served its purpose, his disposal.

it is trusted leader; in Peace, the sold- men who administer it are known at work in the desert, while at forthcoming from the Germans ier's best friend-a most gallantas Mebishan, and the ordeal itself night it is her own fault if she la

British gentleman,

as Bishaa. There are only two not safe in the family tenti

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nonty and so forth.

Sach, however, is not the inten-"You don't mean to say that' ine is only 10 camels.

Mad with jealousy. a máster detective plans a "perfect. crime".

CRIME

The story of u -man-who a} most got away with murder.

DOCTOR"

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