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THE HONGKONG TELEORAPHI, Wednesday, NOVEMU ER 4, 1936.

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More War Secrets Revealed

Lloyd George Flays the

1937 MODELS INTENSE

S.S. 5th

Arriving on

"

Benarty November.

FULL PARTICULARS ON APPLICATION.

Arrange now

for a demonstration.

controversy

will be provoked by the fifth volume of Mr. Lloyd George's War Me- moirs which was published last month in a portly book of some six hundred pages.” It is

Un extraordinary achievement coming-from the septuagenarian states- man of whom it can justly be said that he saved his country in the supreme

Hongkong Hotel crisis of the Great War.

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Brilliantly written, its defect is the acerbity of its criticism. Mr. Lloyd Georgo has never minced words. And now in the Phone 27778/9. thrilling pages of this volume

Garage

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4, 1936.

The charges Lord Haig with il- lusions and blunders and mis- takes of generalship which involved the Fifth Army in disaster in the great German offensive of March 1918.

Not General Gough hat Lord Haig was to blame, in his view. for the defent which all but in- volved the Allies in catastrophe; and that defeat, with rational.

able.

By

Generals

H.. W. Wilson

The Distinguished Military Historian:

Author of "The Wor Guilt"

brunt of an at- tack more for- midable tan any yet staged in this War, were allowed one division for every three. miles of front.

When the German atinek. came in fear. ful force like tu human. avalanche, Haig moved "no adequate

serves to the support of the Fifth Arniy, and "it Was only late ai night · on the second day on the battle that G.ILQ. invited wich from the French."

The British Cabinet was kept in the dark, and told by the War Office that "the information 're- ceived up to NOW gave cause for Ruxiety.

no

|A CORDIAL WELCOME dispositions, was quite avoid whose most outstanding faculty Generals were not always pro- But on the fourth day of

were stubbornness. Their abi- vided in full and promptly. Yet battle Mr. Lloyd George decided lities were average; their ob- we sent more men to. reinforce

Due honour is to-day being accorded by Hongkong to two Mr. Lloyd George speaks of distinguished officials from Can-which he declares "quite unne had to be held at all costs would to provide, because the casualties the

the "mystery of Haig's action," Stinacy was abnormal. Their our armies on the Western Front to take action, "feeling that the type in a narrow trench which in 1917 than we had promised position was much graver than GILQ. messages would ton. in the persons of His Ex-countable." He blames Haig's have been invaluable; command- exceeded the worst anticipations, imply." He summoned the Staff cellency General Huang Mu-sung, distribution of his troops and ing a battlefield that embraced

of

to meet him at the War Office "and see what could be done to. all available reinforce- throw

Chairman the Kwangtung his "engue, loose, and dilatory three continents, their vision Cabinet's Fear

arrangements” with Marshal Provincial Government, and

was too limited and fixed. It Petain for French support. was not a survey but a stare. His Honour Mr. Tsang Yang-fu. Haig and his friend and sup-

AND stilt more men might have ments into France with the Mayor of Canton, whom the com- porter, Sir William Robertson, Other famous soldiers are been sent but for the greatest attainable celerity." munity generally is happy to wel-Chief of the Imperial General handled with equal asperity. Cabinet's fear that Haig would

Staff, are described as men Colonel Repington is accused of "continue in the spring his It was then he made the treason. Sir Frederick Maurice, Passchendaele attack, and thus astonishing discovery that, one of the leading War Office throw away another 200,000 or though an attack was known to officials, is described as "the 300,000 men before our Allies be coming, 88,000 men from

come on the occasion of their first visit to the Colony. When the new regime came into being

in Canton recently. His Excel NOTES OF THE DAY

Jency Sir Andrew Caldecott, with keen perception of the fitness

transport. The

to

fizzling cracker that was chosen werm trengured available to the units in France were absent on

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Sir Henry Wilson is denounced Cabinet it seemed clear that leave. Time and again one reads in for "selfishness and ingrati- Haig's forces were adequate to. In those terrible hours the of things, took the earliest op- the days of the storm drives History is charged not too fences were put in good order, the fate of this country hung in the newspapers and periodicals that tude." The Editor of the Official repel any attack provided the de- portunity of demonstrating Hong- locomotive are past, and that only fairly with distortion of facts troops wisely distributed along balance.

engines driven by oil or electricity and making a "slovenly use of the line in suitable proportions, kong's friendship by making a can achieve speeds to satisfy documents.".

The Fifth Army was broken and the reserves properly ad- personal visit to the Southern present day demands for rapid.

justed in readiness to support as it drifted back. It is right up into fragments still fighting

capital, where it

performance was his good few days ago of the Silver Jubilee

any threatened sector. The German Attack

to note that there was no run- fortune to meet Marshal Chiang train of the London and North

On the Western Front, accord- ning away. To quote one re- Kai-shek as well as the leaders Eastern Railway Company proves BUT Mr. Lloyd George's strong ing to the British Staff figures, port: "there was no skedaddle.”" ·

that-steam-focamatives are not of the Kwangtung. Provincial only far from having exhausted ported by documents and by strength of 3,420,000, against Amiens was in danger, and its ~words are in most cases sup="the AlliesTM had a combatant” On Good Friday, March 29, Government and the Canton Ad- their possibilities, but that they evidence incisively marshalled. 2,536,000 for the Germans, who loss would have meant catas- ministration. The contact thus der heavy

are setting enviable records un-These memoirs when completed (Haig maintained) had exhaust- trophe. That morning, as the established was, we believe, high- Drawn by the Silver Fox, one of will have nothing to match them ed their reserves and were in a battle was at its height. Mr.

More- ly appreciated by the Canton the Pacific type of streamlined in military or political literature. demoralised condition.

Lloyd George and Sir M. engines, a train load of 270 tons The present volume is. con- over. the British strength had Hankey, after waiting anxiously officials, whose hospitality to achieved a speed of 113 miles an cerned with the great German been enormously increased by for newa, decided at last to go to

un-hour on a half-mile stretch from offensive of March 1918, which mechanisation.

H. E. the Governor

Was

service conditions.

Newcastle to London. For six

St. Anne's, Soho, to hear Bach's

bounded. The visit now being miles the speed attained was 1103 brought the unity of command The material factors favoured Passion music. As we took our returned. and there is no miles per hour and '■for. eleven for the Allies, and with the pre- Haig. But, says Mr. Lloyd seats we heard the clergyman

miles the train ran at over a hun-liminaries of that terrific event. George,

dred miles per hour. So smooth was the movement, despite the grent speed, that not one of the passengers, was aware that the train was travelling at an unusual rate. The regular fast train service between Newcastle and London, a distance of 268.3 miles, takes exactly four hours and thus works out at 67.1 miles per hour. while the regular run from Lon- don to Darlington, a distance of 232.26 miles, is done at 70.4 miles

milea

HAIG

ROBERTSON

FOCH

"no

*"'Abilities—average"

"Obstinacy-abnormal"

mathematical intone that poignant supplica- tion, "O God make speed to save us.". How fervently we joined in the response, "O Lord make haste to help us"! When we returned to Downing-street we heard that the Germans had been beaten off with heavy losses and that their advance was slow- ing down opposite Amiens.

"treated by G.H.Q. as a has been.”

PERSHING "Stubborn intransigence"

oficial

military

Mr. Lloyd George contradicts the fables which represent him as living in perpetual antagon- : un- ism with Clemenceau.

doubt that the sincerity of the welcome being

ac corded General Huang and Mr. Tsang during their stay here will yet further demonstrate the growing friendship between the two centres, Our distinguished visitors, together with other Can- Iton officials, fully realise with us that there is a community of

per hour. The Fastest steamIt shows that on the eve of the superiority can save interest between Canton and this driven regular train in Great attack a stiuation of the utmost intelligent leadership from dis- Colony, and that a policy of co-Britain is the "Cheltenham Flyer," danger for the British prevailed, aster." Haig's mind, he de G.H.Q. and Foch operation will be to the mutual hour for the journey between.

which averagea 71.3

per

clares, was concentrated on a The Commander-in-Chief, renewal of the Flemish offensive benefit of both. The close econo- London and Swindon. The fact

Foch, while "our G,H,Q. did mic and financial relationships that seventeen new engines of the Huig, had forfeited the confid- to such an extent that "the pre- CLEMENCEAU did not like- Pacific typo are now under con-ence of the Cabinet as the result paration of new defensive lines

not conceal their contempt for between the two centres inevitustraction is a further proof that of his complete failure in the on our front was to a very great, the old soldier...he was treated bly mean that the prosperity of railway experts by no means con- Passchendaele offensive, with extent neglected."

is a has-been with nothing left But one is bound up with that of the sider steam-driven locomotives to the loss of 399,000 men, three.

the de-times have reached their limit of

Weather conditions rendered a but-a blustering manner," other. Not only are we physic-velopment.

(estimate.

German attack in Flanders rhost he showed his great qualities in improbable before April, so that the hour of disaster, when he ally linked by railway and river,

There followed a feeling of the sector south of Amiens was alone was against retreat and but the present visit will coincide;

"nervous and mental lassitude" clearly the vulnerable point. had a counterstroke in mind. It with the inauguration of direct fully realised both here and in alone explain the extraordinary Fifth Army, was allotted com- choice as Commander-in-Chief of of each going its own way is now which, the author says, "can But this sector, held by the was his attitude that secured his and regular aerial contact be the Southern metropolis. It is a indecision and inactivity of our paratively few labourers for the the Allied forces. tween this Colony and Canton. happy augury that the new re- G.II.Q, which characterised the preparation of defences. This latter development is of the gime should come into office at a three months that followed the

end of the 1917 campaign." To crown all this, the Fifth American cominamler, Mr. Lloyd highest importance to both places moment when Anglo-Chinese re- and is yet a further demonstra-lations were never on so cordial Though there was every reason Army was weak in numbers and George expresses no very high to expect a German attack upon had been severely shaken in the opinion, blaming him for "stub- tion, of the ties which bind us a footing. There is every indien-the British front, Mr. Lloyd tremendous Passchendaele offen- born intransigence" and concen- together. There have been oc- tion that Hongkong and Canton George insists that little or sive. It could not be quickly retration upon "the exaltation of

will now casions in other days when

draw closer together nothing was done by Haig to inforced because Halg crowded his own command."

his troops about Passchendaele, Wilson la described as "a man than over there have been misunderstand-

before, and the pre-meet it.

at the other extremity of the who knew nothing of war and sence in our midst of the two

was not cut out for a great War between Hongkong and distinguished visitors whom the by the Government.

There was no stinting of men Eritish line.

Minister." His neglect of time- Canton, when the failure to pull Colony is so happy

The Passchendaele sector had ly preparations was such that together was disastrous to both. should serve to still further ce Military Operations in France and a half miles of front it held pattern or manufacture fired a The Official History of the nearly one division for every one "no field gun of American bellova that those times are menf the relations between the and. Flanders laments that the the Fifth Army, which G.H.Q. shot in the War, and the same: gone for ever, and that the folly two big centres of the South. reinforcements called for by the knew were about to bear the thing applied to tanks."

to honour

Of General Pershing, the

President