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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL

1937.

Haig's Hard Fight To Save Gough

"He Did Well And

DISCLOSURES BY HISTORIAN

INTENSE

Tho

FEELING AGAINST

WARTIME ARMY LEADER

By A Military Correspondent

whole circumstances) "With an attack pending," Sir continties, "the which brought about General James Edmonds

Commander-in-Chief declined to re- | Sir Hubert Gough's removal move General Gough to another from the command of the Fifth post. Army are disclosed for the first time by Brigadier-General Sir Janies Edmonds, Official His- torian of the Great War.

- WILSON'S "MUTTERINGS "On March 25, the day before the Doullens Conference, at which General Foch was placed in control, about midday, Sir Henry Wilson was In An article published in the seen walking up and down near the February issue of the Journal of G.H.Q. offices in Montreuil, mutter- the Royal United Service Institution; ing so all might hear: he shows that:

"'Gough must go. Gough mntist

for go.""

There WAR

agitation General Gough's recall monilis before the Somumo Reircal; -

Sir Douglas Hair was "adamant in retaining film," and threatened realgnation if his hands were forced; and

Sir Henry Wilson, when Chief of the Imperial General Staff, deter mined that “Gough must go.”

Other statements entirely refutel the assertion appearing in Mr. Lloyd George's "Memoirs" that Sir Douglas Halg caused the removal of Sir Hubert Gough. The Implications are that Sir Henry Wilson, when C.I.G.S., Sk preferred a junior officer to Herny Rawlinson as British Military Representative at Versailles,

"NO DISCREDIT ON HAIG" Accordingly, he had determined to remove General Gough in order to give the command to Sir Henry Rawlinson, who had been appointed to Versailles by the Commander-in- Chief.

The article removes any fear that in honouring General Gough some discredit will fall to Earl Halg.

The next day, according to Sir James, Lord Milner and Sir Henry Wilson tackled the Commander-in- Chief again on the subject of Gough's removal, telling him that public opinion at home was adverse to Gough, and that Foch considered that lie had done very badly.

Sir Douglas Halg reslated B- ner's and Wilson's endeavour Lo

Miss Norma Longnecker is Ameri- ca's champion pic maker. She was selected Pie Queen for the state of Michigan.

SCOTLAND YARD IS

remove Gough, saying: "No mat- READY FOR

ter what Foch miglit havp said, I considered that he (Gough) had dealt with a most difficult situation very well. He had never lost kis head, was always cheery and fought hard."

Wilson then said that Gough must be relieved. No order could be found, but the next day Sir Henry wilson told the Deputy-Chief of the Imperial General Staff that orders were being Issued to Sir Douglas Haig for the removal of Gough, giving the old reason that his men had "lost confidence in him."

"REQUIRED REST"

Fought Hard”

SCIENCE CREATES A NEW

FRANKENSTEIN”

SCIENTIFIC research is a new kind of Frankenstein monster, which is staggering the experts with its growth in recent years.

Recently, writes a London reporter, I talked with young London woman, Miss E. M. R. Ditmas, who has the strange job of helping to hold it in leash.

"Scientists can no longer cope with the whole mass of new facts that are discovered every hour," she said.

I

"Three-quarters of a million, scientific and technical papers are poured from the world's presses yearly, not to mention thou- sands of books and pamphlets in nearly all known languages,"

Miss Ditmas is 'general of "Aslib" (Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux), an organisation formed by scientists to harness the unmanageable monster which they themselves created.

Sir John

John Reith's

Secret Diary

London, Mar. 25.

CORONATION SIR JOHN REITH, B.B.C. chief, has kept a full diary of

the last 25 years in his crowded life-an intimate re- cord of big business that will never be published.

com-

CRIME MAP OF

For Sir John Reith, shyest of all public men, has determined LONDON

that his diary must remain a secret. London, Mar. 10. Every day he has written n Scotland Yard, with char-plete record of his doings and FAN DANCER- acteristic British thorough-conversations ness, has mapped that part of volumes that are kept in London affected by the coro-bureau, the key of

leaves his possession. nation in such detail that

Sir John Reith said to me yester- every lamp post and traffic obelisk is shown for guidance day: in policing the area.

in stoutly bound a special which never

"I do not think it likely that the

General Rawlinson was appointed The public have been led to to take command, General Gough belleve that the Retreat of the Fifth being told that both he and his staff Army on the Somme at the end of required rest, That, Brigadier- The result of their "taping" diary will ever be published in any

March, 1918, was wholly responsible

for Sir Hubert's recall. It has since been learned that it was the supreme heroum of all ranks of the Fifth

Army against fearful odds in that desperate rearguard action that did so much to bring viclory to our

arins.

Bul fragmentary, though conclu- sive, evidence now proves that in the autumn of 1917-several months before the Retreat towards the close of Fasschendaele. It was sug- to Sir Douglas, Halg from

course, camouflage..

General Edmonds writes was, of is a booklet printed by the Yard for the "Yard, and maps on the Alittle later Sir Douglas Halg took the opportunity to champion the unusually targe scale of one inch cause of General Gough before the to 88 feet. Prime Minister.

A master-map for each district contains detailed information about Mr. Lloyd George replied: "Gen- particular characteristics of the area eral Gough had neither held nor and is indexed so

that an

officer destroyed the Somme bridges and reading a particular map and coming that he must not be employed

across special marking has only to Sir Jesmonds Buys: "General aorta se master-map, to discover Gough had done both, except is the particular problem to be over- regards the railway bridges, for come. The route of the royal coach leis indicated with such exactitude it In the course of a telegram to**

is possible to learn from the map Sir Douglas Halg Lord Derby sald which side of mid-street statuary it was necessary that Gough should the coach will pass en route from In a following letter, Lord Derby Buckingham palace to Westminster said he entirely agreed with

the Abbey. Prime Minister's decision.

Best quarters that he "should get which the French were responsible,"

zid

of Gough," and that Sir Douglas Haig was very strongly opposed to such action. He was "odamant in retaining him."

"CARSON'S SATIRE" "Members of the Cabinet," Sir James Edmonds writes, "seem to have discussed the matter informally, so that Lord. Carson was moved to write some impromptu verses headed, 'P.M. loquitur, the last lines of which ran:

'Let Gough be sacked and Haig be damned.

the doors be On Justice let sloramed.

Let gossip rule instead of law; I'll run jaw.' At the end of November Sir James Edmonds mentioned the rumours on the subject to the Commander-in- Chief. So had the Military Secre tary, GHQ. (Major-General Sir W. Peyton). Both were snubbed for their pains. The

against agitation Gough then appeared to die down.

It was revived when, on February 10, Sir William Robertson ceased to be the Chief of the Imperial General Stall. Sir Henry Wilson took his place, and, on Sir Douglas Haig's advice, Sir Henry Rowlinson was

vacate his command and return home,

LORD DERBY'S LETTER There was, Lord Derby wrote, an intense feeling against Gough, the bitterness of which I am sure you cannot gauge, which, however; his actions during the battle prove to be. justifiable, and make him no longer an asset to the Army. I I have heard, nothing from those in France who are still under his orders, but among men returned to this country in the various hospitals there is a consensus of opinion which neither this Government nor any other Government can ignore."

In

Acknowledging this letter, Sir

Douglas Halg wrote: "I have more than once said to you, and to others of the Government, the

form or extracts from it."

It is understood—lattbə diaries begin when Sir John, was: working with a firm of engineers who were building the Royal *Albert Dock. They continue with his war experiences in the Scollah Rules.

He has also recorded his work as supervisor of arms factory in Philadelphia during the war, when he had a staff of 600 inspectors..

The long story he has patiently written day by day tells of hire pointment as chief

of Beardmore's Coatbridge works and on to the day when he became head of the B.B.C.

He Punched World's

"Loveliest Eye"

Paris, Mar. 25.

MLLE, MADO TAYLOR, singer and dancer, elected in Paris as "the woman with the most beautiful eyes in the world," appeared in court to-day with a bandage over one of those eyes.

moment they feel that they would FRANCE

prefer someone else to command in France, I am prepared to place my resignation in your hands.”

No notice was taken of this offer

HONOURS

She.

from claimed damages Lucien Gariel, who, she alleged, punched it.

WITHOUT THE FAN

EARNS FAME AND FORTUNE

Chicago, Mar. 30. Faith Bacon, who won fame and fortune by not hiding her beauty behind a fan has set a valuation of $100,000 upon the "inner aspect" of her right thigh,

The thigh, and other portions. of-hor well-known person, were covered with "deep ugly scars,” she set forth in a suit against the Lake Theatre corporation, as a result of lacerations suffered when she crashed through a glass box while posing in the nude for a stage presentation- finale, as is her custom.

Miss Bacon, fresh" from n'day's sleep, sat on a cushion in front of told all her gilded fireplace and about it. She parted her wine-red veivel negligee to disclose a U-shaped sehr six inches above her

anile. Beyond, that she would not go, ex- cept verbally. She confirmed, how- ever, the legal phraseology of the sult, and said the inner aspect of her right thigh was starred "something terrible.'

"TEMPTATIONS"

It all happened Dec. 5, 1938, on the

stage of the stats Lake Theatre.

"I was taking a pose in the finale,” called "temptations" and all the girls

Mas Bacon sald. "The show was

were supposed to be temptations, you know, temptations of man. One was power, another was wine, and other was pearls, and so on. I was

"was told to stand on a gloss Mile, Taylor said that one rainy' day her umbrella obstructed Garlcl. box and the last part of the number came when they parted the curtains He protested strongly, then hit her,

Garlel was ordered to pay £100 and showed me there in the nude. I was sentenced to eight days was wearing a special spray, which means that under the First Offen- body, and there were fights shining ders Act he will not serve the term.) on me

appointed to Wilson's post as British by Sir Douglas Halg to resign, 'THE WİSE' KING suspended Imprisonment, which brings out the better points of the

Military Representative with the

Supremo War Council at Versailles.

In Mr. Lloyd George's "Memoirs,"

is the following:

p.307.

"When "It was obvious," writes Sir James Gough had been beaten owing to Edmonds,

that

the

did conditions for which Haig alone was new CIGS.

Paris, Mar. 31. not

France has just completed a want a strong man at Versailles. Tes He preferred 'a

Junior Iponsible, Haig, Instead of accept- comparatively ing that responsibility as an "officer month's celebration of the 600th offeer. In the sequel, he got one to and a gentleman," removed Gough his taste.

To him, General Wilson, from the command and left the anniversary of King Charles V.; the the monarch known as Charles

as C.LGS., gave orders over a direct Government to

inter

that

could Heary Rawlinson Not much 'nobility there." could be done Slr Before this degomme General was alone to blame, the Wise, who constructed most of the most famous tourist had to be provided for..

landmarks in Parle.

"Tho aliziton for the removal

of General Gough

was · renewed.

1

གསོག་ཆུ

CHINA DONATES $100,000 FOR FLOOD RELIEF IN U.S.A.

his capacity us president Jalou United Charitable Association Shanghai, Dr. H. H. Kung has dispatched a cablegram of sym- pathy to the. food sufferers in the

Persof

On March 3: Bir Douglas Hair, DUELLING DOCTOR The Louvre Museum, whose marble

meeting me casually, recalled ray earlier warning, and told me that die Government were again at htm

to rack. Gough. He felt sure

that Sir Henry Wilson was at the bottom of it.

.....

#Two days later, or March 5, Lord Derby, the Secretary of State

WINS AGAIN

14 ROUNDS WITH SABRE

Budapest, March 1.

for War, wrote to the Commander For one-and-a-half hours, Dr.

In-Chief:

halls are known to every tourist; the Chateau of Vincennes, Just outside Paris; the Palais de Justice, or town hall, and the Place de la Basulle, where the famous prison ence stood, are among the Jandmarks in Parts origin dates back to the days of Chorles Even the French National Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale, which

known to thousands of the foreign students attending

"It looks now as if an attack Francis Sarga, "the Duelling Sorbonne and other Paris universlies, had its start with a donation from might come within a very short Doctor," fought a sabre duel Charles V of more than 1,000 historic time. on your front, and on that with a former suitor of his wife, manuscripts. part of the front of which Gough in a fencing school in Budapest

command. It has been borne in on me from all sides, civil to-day.

Charles V did not actually construct

the palace which later became the

United States.

The acasage together with a remittance

of $100,000, was ad- dreased to Admiral Cary H. Gray- Chairman of the American Red Cross. It also mentioned

ROD,

that $100,000 worth of Chinese

Good

products useful to American victims would be sent shortly.

Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government, likewise telegraphed to President Roosevelt of the United States, expressing China's heartfelt sympathy for the flood disaster in the Mississippi valley.

class how through the top of the

"Well, the curtains parted and I crashed through the box. All the girls started screaming for a doctor and running around the stage, but somehow I climbed out of all the broken glass and danced, If you're not in show: business, you won't understand. There's something about # being in front of an audience, numba the sense, They didn't ring down the curtain and I finished the number. Then, just as the curtain

going down, I fell," was

WENT TO HOSPITAL Someone pleked her up, she, sald, but covered her eyes and warned her not to "look down". Then, she spent: a month at Henrotin Hospital, after undergoing 90 minutes of surgical care without anesthesia.

"It was two months before I could dance again," she continued, "and I still can't toe

Hoven

had to

learn to walk dance. I

Miss Bacon explained that she was Buing for disabliity but' chiefly for dia@gurement, since "my beauty la my lives

Ilvellhood."

"I am proud that his lost follies, Flo Zlegfield picked me as the most Tho The duel, which was one of a Louvre, but he ordered the original that epoch. and military, that he does not have

Chateau of beautiful woman in the world, just the confidence of the troops he number which Dr. Sarga is fighting structure to be enlarged and re- Vincennes, the palace where this king as he had honoured Gladys Glad and commands,

was novated. The famous Palace de was born, was enlarged

Jesslo Re

Reed. Now that beauty has and that is a very to be the roun

Justine was built_following the in- decorated during his reign, l to exist with regard stopped "In the 14th round.

marred. I have used it to

time as the present.

under

nt

and

severely in the hip in the but six centuries ago I was known which were celebrated with filing ceremonies Paris, were tho ca-

been

·Dr. Sarge has wounded the onstruction of this French monarch-Other signi@cant events in his rule; ; port ingerk and bellove the Prime Minister seventh ground, but the duel went orig St. Paul's Palace. "AARJA which i tablishment, bia French- merchant | hurried-away to a night club, wherb (Mr. exhaustioning proved of

of The prison Bastille,

hing heard reports from various he fractured his ice and the duel French Revolution, was built by tion system on a business basis and sources with regard to Gough He was stopped. There was no re Charles the Wise to keep Farisland the expulsion of the English from has also spoken to me. Chester conciliationReuter

in order," according to a history of French soll United Fres

and

Orchid"-- She doesn't have to toe dence in that number, she explained.

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