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THE HONGKONG ~ TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY DECEMBER

1936.

IT WAS A MUDDLE-HEADED WAR, SAYS L.G.

Britain's Best Brains Were In The Slime Their Leaders Avoided

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POLITICAL

OPPONENT. "

From Madrid comes this grim picture, of the exccution, of a young political prisoner suspected of espionage. While all eyes were fixed on the unhappy youth, the pletu re was taken secretly and smuggled out of Spain..

Seniority, Society,

Deportment Were

Promotion Factors

“CHANCE is the supreme judge in war, and not Right. There are other judges on the Bench, but Chance presides."

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which they had chosen as the at the change in my figure.”—C. 8. terrain where their plans were to the sixth and final volume of his

operate."

Kruschen contains those six mineral- "War Memoirs," published by There were honourable exceptions, safts, proportionately balanced, found: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 218. but the solicitude with which most in the waters of those famous Euro- It is true. ho writes, that the generals in high places avoided per-pean Spas used by generations of fat to reduce weight. These world war ended in a victory for Gonal jeopardy is "one of the de- people

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The allegation that the Cabinet assisting the Internal organs to merita of the case: "The blunder could have achieved an honourable throw off each day those waste pro- of Germany saved TLY from the peace in 1917 is rejected. But, he ducts and poisons which, if allowed finds no reason why the dramatic victo accumulate, will be converted by

consequences of

of our own."

All Governments found difficulty

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in discovering capable commanders. tories in Palestine in 1918 could not the body's chemistry inte fatty tissue No one reached the highest ranks in Allenby's predecessors. The general- have been obtained years before by the British Army except those who ship in the first attack on Gaza comes

were there

here or thereabouts when the war began

"Seniorlly and

·lely were the Boclety dominant factors in Army promo- tion.

Deportment counted a good deal. Brains came bad fourth." The

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"The attack of Bobell Chetwode on Gaza had been the most perfect sample exhibited on either side in any theaire during this

Great War of that combina- of muddleheadedness, mis- fanic analog and Dicer

converts an assured victory into a humiliating defeat." This is how he sums up Hatg: 'His training was on lines irrelevant

The greatness of the abilities of Sir John Monash, commander of the Australian forces, was not brought to the attention of the Cabinet in any despatches, says Mr. Lloyd George. Professional soldiers could hardly be expected advertise the fact that the greatest strategist into the Great War. He was a con- the Army was a civilian when the scientious worker, who was incapable of planning campaigns of 2,000,000 war began..

men on a 100-mile battle front, and who chose his advisers badly.

"To Mud, By Order' Such highly gified men as the British Army possessed were:-

"conalaned to mud by order of men superior in rank but inferior

'Pessimist'

"The importance of other theatres of war did not enter into his reckon- ing, and three weeks before the

in capacity, who themselves kept Armistice he gave the Cabinet n

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Mr. Lloyd George declares he is "convinced, after a careful perusal of all the documents available on all sides, that the Kaiser, never had

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In giving all pes of "The negotiations," he says, "were botched by everybody engaged to waves-Irating artistic mil directing them. War ought to have fures th Been and could have been averted."

WINTER-BORN CHILDREN

WEAKEST

Handicap Reflected

in Death Rate

A child born in summer has more chance of living than one born in winter.

According to figures published by the Registrar-General, in his official commentary on the vital statistics of 1934, there Is a considerable-dis advantage in survival at the end of the second year for children born in winter compared with those born in other seasons.

Although each group of children has by the end of two years from birth been twice exposed to a com- of each plete round of the seasons, out

1,000 children born in four winters an average of 80 died within two. years. Out of cach 1,000 born in summer only 75 died. For spring- born children the proportion was 17, and for autumn-born 82.

During the first year of life the handicap of the winter-born infant, in comparison with the summer-born, was equivalent to 14 per cent. excess in mortality, and during the second year of life to a 42 per cent.

excess.

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The Increase of 615,000 is made up- of excess of births over deaths about 365,000, and the balance by migration, 150,000.

The average ages of the estimated population

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