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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930.

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Lloyd George Flays the

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NTENSE

controversy.

wil

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

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

Garage

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4, 1936,

two

vixit 10 The Colony, When

the new regime cante into being

he charges Lord Haig with il- Jasions 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 but Lord Haig was to blame, in his view, for the defeat which all but in- volved the Allies in catastrophe: and that defeat, with rational dispositions, was quite avoit able.

By.

Generals

H. W. Wilson

The Distinguished Military Historian:

Author of "The War Guát“

hunt of an at-

fick more for- nidable than aly yet staged in this Wać, were allowed one division for overy three mile of front.. When the German attack cami in fear- ful force like

ium an avalanche, Haig movid "no adequate re serves to the support of the Fifth Army, and t WAH only lite night in the second lay on the batte that - G.I.Q. nyited aid from the French."

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The British Cabinet was kupt in the dark, and told by the Wor Office that the information re- ceived Up

01

How gave 20 cause for A CORDIAL WELCOME

whose most outstanding faculty Generals were not always pro-

anxiety.' But on the fourth day of were stubbornness. Their abi- vided in full and promptly. Yet battle Mr. Lloyd George decided Due honour is tostny being

Mies were accorded by Hongkung to

Mr. Lloyd George speaks of stinacy

average; their ob- we sent more men to reinforce to take action, "feeling that the · was abnormal. Their our armies on the Western Front [distinguished officials from Can-which he declares "quite tac had to be held at all costs would to provide, because the casualties the G..Q.

the "mystery of Hair's action." type in a narrow trench which in 1917 than we had promised position was much graver than ton, in the, persons of His Ex-cutable."

messages wonkl 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

to meet him at the War Office Chairman of the Kwangtung his "vague. loose, and dilatory three continents, their vision Cabinet's Fear

with arrangements"

Marshal Provincial

"and see what could be done to Government, and Petain for

was too limited and fixed. Freuch support.

Throw was not a survey but a stare.

all available reinforce- His Honour Mr. Tsang Yang-fu. Haig and his friend and sup

AND still more men might have ments into France with the William Robertson, Mayor of Canton, whom the com- porter, Sir

Other famous soldiers re

been sent but for the greatest attainable celerity." munity generally is happy to wel-Staff,

Chief of the Imperial General handled with equid asperity. Cabinet's fear that Iaig would

AVO ¢}esctriljcd "સ men Colonel Repington is accused of "continue in the spring his It was then he made the come on the terasion of their first

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 in Canton recently. His Excel NOTES OF THE DAY tizzling racker that was chosen werm theres a units in France were absent on

20 rendy

co-operate."

lency Sir Andrew Caldecott, with

Sir Henry Wilson is denounced Cabinet it seemed clear that leave. keen perception of the fitness newspapers and periodicals that tude." The Editor of the Official repel any attack provided the de-

Time and grain one reads in for selfishness and ingrati. Haig's forces were adequate to In these terrible hours the of things, took the earliest op the days of the steam-driven History is charged-not too fences were put in good order, the fate of this country hung in the 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, a can achieve speeds to satisfy documents."

and the reserves properly nd

The Fifth Army was broken 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 transport. The performance capital, where it was his good few days ago of the Silver Jubilee The German Attack any threatened sector.

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 RUT Mr. Lloyd George's strong ing to the British Staff figures, port: "there was no skedaddle."

that steam locomotives 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--Allies-had-a-combatant

On Good Friday, March 29, Government and the Canton Ad- their possibilities, but that they evidence incisively marshailed. 2,536,000 for the Germans, who loss would have meant catas are setting enviable records un-These memoirs when completed (Haig maintained) had exhaust- trophe. That morning, as the ministration. The contact thus der heavy service established was, we believe, high-Drawn by the Silver Fox, one of in military or political literature, demoralised condition.

conditions will have nothing to match them ed their reserves and were in a battle was at its height, Mr. ly appreciated by the Canton engines, a train load of 270 tons the Pacific type of streamlined

More Lloyd George and Sir officials,

over, the British strength had Hankey, after waiting anxiously whose

The present volume is con- been enormously increased by for news, decided at last to go to hospitality to achieved a speed of 113 miles an cerned with the great German mechanisation, H. E. the Governor

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

Newcastle to London. For six

St. Anne's, Soho, to hear Bach's bounded. The visit is now being miles the speed attained was 110.8, the Allies, and with the pre- Haig. But, says Mr. Lloyd seats we heard the clergyman 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 doubt that the

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HAIG

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"Abilities-average"

"Obstinacy-abnormal”

M..

mathematical intone that poignant supplica- tion, "O God make speed to save us."

How fervently we joined in the response, “O Lord make huste 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,

FOCH

"treated by G.H.Q. as a has been."

PERSHING "Stubborn intransigence"

of the welcome being ac-was the movement, despite thei corded General Huang and Mr. great speed, that not one of the that the Tsang during their stay here will train was travelling at an unusual yet further demonstrate the rate. The regular Inst train service between Newcastle and growing friendship between the London, a distance of 268.3 miles, |two centres. Our distinguished | takes exactly four hours and thus visitors, together with other Can-works out at 67.1 miles per hour, while the regular run from Lou- ton officials, fully realise with us don to Darlington, a distance of that there is community of 232.26 miles, is done at 70.4 miles interest between Canton and this driven regular trim in

per hour. The nstest steam- It shows that on the eve of the superiority can

Great Colony, and that a polley of co- Britain is the "Cheltenham Flyer attack a stiuation of the utmost intelligent leadership from dis- operation will be to the mutual hour for the journey between

which averages 71.3 miles per danger for the British prevailed, aster." Haig's mind, he de benefit, of both. The close econo- Landon and Swindon. The fact The Commander-in-Chief, renewal of the Flemish offensive mic and financial relationships that seventeen new engines of the Haig, had forfeited the confid- to such an extent that "the pre- between the two centres inevita-atruction is a further proof that of his complete failure in the on our front was to a very great Pacific type are now under con-ence of the Cabinet ns the result paration of new defensive lines bly mean that the prosperity of railway experts by no means con- Passchendaele offensive, with extent neglected."

one is bound up with that of the sider steam-driven locomotives to the loss of 399.000 men, three have reached their Hmit of de- times the official military

other. Not only are we physic-velopment. ally linked by railway and river,

but the present visit will coincide

Save

un-

clares, was concentrated on a

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

G.H.Q. and Foch

Of General

Porshing, the

CLEMENCEAU did not like Foch, while "our G.HQ. did the old soldier...he was treated not conceal their contempt for

as a has-been with nothing left. Weather conditions rondered a but a blustering manner." But- estimate.

German attack in Flanders most he showed his great qualities in. improbable before April, so that the hour of disaster, when he There followed a feeling of the sector south of Amiens was alone was against retreat and 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 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 "nervous and mental Inssitude" clearly the vulnerable point, had a counterstroke in mind. It

and regular aerial contact

bethe 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.H.Q. which characterised the preparation of defences. This Intler development is of thegime should come into office at a three months that followed the

To crown all this, the Fifth American commander, Mr. Lloyd highest importance to both places moment when Anglo-Chinese re-end of the 1917 campaign. 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. tion of the ties which bind as a footing. There is every indicato expect a German attack upon had been severely shaken in the opinion, blaming him for "stub- 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 re- tration upon "the exaltation of President casions in other days

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

his troops about Passchendaele, Wilson is described as 'n man than ever before, and the pre-meet it. there have been misunderstand-

at the other extremity of the who knew nothing of war and ings

sence in our midst of the two

There was no stinting of men British line.

was not cut out for a great War between Hongkong and distinguished visitors whom the by the Government. Canton, when the failure to pull Colony

Minister. His neglect of time- The Passchendaele sector had ly preparations was such that is so happy to honour 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 n The Official History of the nearly one division for every one "no field gun" of American We believe 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.”

when