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CHIANG'S NEW STRATEGY

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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Capt. 1922 by United Feature Syndicate, z89,

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"I tell you, Spike--we'd'a mol dered him if he hadn't slipped in those 23 lu cky punches!"

Three Men will

Rule England

When War Comes

Three virtually "unknown" men, whose ages average only

public

THE

MAN with the

BIGGEST JOB

MALLEST Cabinet

Minister, Sir Kingsley

Wood, the new

Secretary of State for Air,

By

has been given the Cabinet's PERCY CATER Biggest Job.

To him has been committed t, h task of making Britain safe in the air at top speed; of cancelling out. by all the pro- algies

of effort which he can summon forth the years of neglect, of muddle, and of wasted warnings.

this

He is Britain's No. 1 Minister, in the administrative sense, from morning. His brain may hold the Inte of his country and of the British E- pire He stands

at the crisis of his life-perhaps of yours and mine.

formidable, almost a terrifying respousibility con- fronts him.

of

What type man in this Minic- ter of Mr. Cham- berlain's choice, the

Chief

whose 50

тип

thinks much of him that he becomes Key Minister of De fence?

Sir Kingsley Wood

Success has followed him

Success has followed him with a Wood presented the Commons with. sort of infatuation. Very few poli- the finest bit of team-work that has ticians can say, at 37, that fortune been in our time. It elevated Front has always been similarly kind. To Bench performance to the level of the Sir Kingsley, Providence has been, fine arts. you might say, relentless,

so full

Gave Us Cheap 'Phoning

54 years, would be supreme commanders of Great Britain's arm- ed Forces if another major war broke out over Europe to-morrow.

With Britain now virtually France's as a tiger for work and as safe nu military ally, one of these men probe the House of Commons." ably would be commander-in-chief

NEWALL AIR FORCE HEAD of the combined British and French

Even less known to the war fleets. Another probably would

When other politicians have been wondering why life necd Marshal Sir Cyril Louis Norton be supreme commander of the two air generally is 52-year-old Air Chief

CUTTING oul intervening forces. A French generat-a modern Newall,

for of thorns Sir Kingsley has gone an the man responsible

U successes, let us hatch up Foch-almost certainly would head In the news from China yes-a combination of France's great inil transforming Great Britain's rapidly his way bland and smiling, along the

formid-roads and in the conditions that let with Sir Kingsley when he became Postmaster-General in November tary one

machine

anding air force into u and Britain's small, Aghing machine and potential you keep young and gay.

1931. He made the lines hum right It is though Destiny, seeing n newly mechanized land forces. weapon of destruction. On the out-

away. No P.M.G. ever put the Post In 1938. Just as in 1914, the man break of war his job would comprise statesman of so happy a nature, FD

Office and all it stood for so hard and on whose shoulders would lie the the defence of Great Britain's teem- cherubic a look, has said, "What o

dominantly on the map. heaviest responsibility for the ui- og eities against air attack and the pity to spoil }{ timate safety of the British Empire organization of swift reprisals against would be the commander-in-chief of an enemy.

No the British navy. aerial might could save Great Bri-

NO. 1 ADMIRAL SHY

and

trine

thing.

He was taken into the Cabinet in December 1933, tribute to his out-

powers standing

He put the tele- phone within everybody's reach, The

Iley bobswroth," the shilling

As

is

which he established in

He has the most widespread good will, for, apart from our air neces- sitles, which make us wish him very well, he

popular. Ministerial camera-star he runs Hore-Belisha close, Whether it has happened to be a new telephone exchange that he was opening or a new hospital or a new road, his pose is always "newsy," effective, tells the

terday there WILA

very significant development which, but for the sensational story of the Japanese advance upon and capture of Kiukiang, would have

Not that Kingsley Wood is a mere

He made people think Post Office been given more prominence and

darling of fortune-lucky. He has and buy Post Omec. He used ad- If vertising in a big way, told a genuine- the attention it deserved. It

military or With the use of French airdromes worked-hard- for his success, was the story of Marshal Chiangtan herself from starvation de niready guaranteed for the Royal Air there is magic in his touch it is be- ly astonished British public what the

Force,

Newall probably would es-

cause in his head there is a glittering P.O. could do, which was about every- Kai-shek's strategy in South empire from disintegration if the

brain. sume supreme command of the com- Shansi and North Honan, his navy lost control of the seas against bined air armadas of the two coun- massing of some 200,000 troops

a major European power.

A Solicitor for what Tokyo fears is to be a

Sir Cyril Newall began his career

NEAT and trim little man, counter-offensive to recover the The man slated for that fob and in the army. In appearance he is the

Sir Kingsley. When said that he was the smallest mem- Langhai railway, now sparsely probably for the command of the typical British army officer, square- held by little Japanese garrisons combined Brush and French fleets jawed, keen-eyed, with closely clip-

is shy, 50-year-old Admiral Six ped toothbrush mustache and mill- ber of the Cabinet you would - October 1934, was his biggest drama- I spoke of his bodily tic stroke, excellent business for the following the interruption of the

Backhouse, tary bearing. His hair is dark and sume that Roger Roland Charles

a humanitarian. northern campaign which was to commander-in-chief of the British beginning to thin out on top. He has presence merely. He has also the Post Office, and

reputation of being a martinet smallest feel, but they have managed nehievement which will make millions have encompassed the city of Home Fleet from 1935 to 1938.

Government depart remember his name. In September this year Backhouse and, like Sir Roger Backhouse, he to kick some Hankow. Floods in the Yellow will

into ments

quite extraordinary dislikes publlelty. His

Now he has the job that demands. First Sea Lord become

photograph River stopped the Japanese ad-Chief of Naval Staff in succession to rarely is seen in British newspapers.

activity.

supremely those powers of drive and Considering that the Prime Minis imagination that he showed in giving Lord Chatfield, who has held that His wife, whom he married in 1925, vance, and caused them to con-

ter has the biggest feet (actually) in us the cheap telephone, the "tanner centrate their striking force in post since January, 1933. Chatfield, is an American-born wornan,

reserved the Yangtae for a blow at Han-But if a major war broke out between

FOUGHT ON FRONTIER the Cabinet, these two pairs should wire. ship" man, is 67.

Newall was in the British army be able to do something. kow from that quarter. But now and September Backhouse, who from 1005

1914 and Saw active

Sir Kingsley is a solicitor by pro- the concentration in the Yangtse, is 8 years Chatfield's junior, prob- service in one of the periodical "t-fession, senior partner in a Walbrook The air of a calling where dis- necessarily large, was apparently ably would step into his shoes imme. tle wars" on the restless Indian North-firm.

cretion is everything and of diately.

east frontier. He first learned to fly

of City obtained at the expense of garri. sons farther north. Reports Sir Roger Backhouse

To most of his fellow-countrymen, when home on leave in 1911 and holds formality is all about him. Searce-

is merely a one of the earliest certificates of the ly, if ever, do you see him in any thing but morning coat and stripes, from Chinese troops operating name, if that. In the navy, however, Royal Acro Club,

He has a tiny, not tinny, high- Immediately after the outbreak of in Shansi express surprise at thehels described is perhaps the most the World War, Newall was trans- pitched voice. Like Mr. Chamber sudden withdrawal of Japanese popular officer since Nelson."

can shear story. ferred to the Royal Flying Corps, lain's stringy one, it forces which have been con-

which later was merged into the through anything. It has to pierce fronting them up to recently, Tall and spore, clean-shaven, with Royal Air Force. In 1910 he was a din only once in every so often. Always Has Last Word but which have now been re-

thinning hair and prominent nose, placed in command of the special Backhouse is reputedly the possessor No. 41 Wing of the R.A.F., which car-Made Him Famous

BEFORE he became M.P. for West Woolwich in Decem- called-apparently for duty on of the loudest parade-ground voice ried out bombing reprisals against the more vital front. The same in the British navy. He is intensely the Germans.

M TINISTER of Health since ber 1910 he had represented Wool- situation existed in Honan, shy, however, and detests publicity. In October, 1931, he was given

June 1935, Sir Kingsley, wich for years on the L.C.C. and the had been chairman of the London With the floods and the bogging That explains partly why he is al- command of the R.A.F. in the Middle for so long Super Doctor to

and this and Insurance Committee most "unknown."

East. Four years later he was made nation, has a reposeful style, a per- down of much of the heavy

He comes of a Quaker family. One a member of the powerful Air coun- feet bedside manner for occasionally that. equipment of the Japanese army of his brothers is a scholar of Orten- ell in connection with R.AF. expan-excited M.P.3.

In 1918 he promoted a national no-one knows how much was tai languages. Another is an ad- sion programme, at that time just You will say, of course, that it was memorial to the Government urging lost on that ill-starred enterprise during the World War and is now a marshal and chief of the ule staff in

miral, and a third was in the army beginning. He became air chief the Post Office that made Sir Kingsley the immediate establishment of a. famous. I know--the "Kingsley Ministry of Health. Providence, al- -the high command ordered a

bobsworth" and all that. But before ways eager to do right by him, did general withdrawal, leaving be- Sir Roger Backhouse was born in

GORT BETTER KNOWN then, at the Ministry of Health, from the handsome thing, and eventually hind only such forces as were 107. He was Lord Jellicoe's Bag- The third and best known of Bri-November 1924 to June 1929, he had made him Health Chicf.

mettle.

Son of a Wesleyan minister-what deemed necessary to guard the commander on board the Iron Duke tain's present-day war leaders is the shown his

in 1914-15, and fought in the battle Chief of the Imperial General Stuff, He was second-in-command to Mr. a nursery of Ministers is the mansel key-points already occupied. of Jutland. He commanded the 1st Viscount Gort, 51 year old, energetic, Neville Chamberinin when the now Twinkles with irrepressible cheer- These garrisons were small; and Buttte Squadron Mediterranean frank-spoken holder of the highest Premier, then Minister of Health, fulness--and usually has good cause at that time, with the Chinese Fleet from 1932 to 1034, and was awards for gallantry in the British piloted through the House of Com-behind fairly thick-iensed speeta- apparently disorganised after the

Brest "De-Rating Act." eles. Devastating, though not crush- One of the major measures of the ing-mild-in retort. Always has the nery expert and a stift disciplinarion, 1037, when dynamic War Minister day, It occupied Parllainent for many last and oftenest the right word. One fellow-officer once described him Leslie Hore-Bellaha made a clean a week,

Favourite Occupation, chipping sweep of the "higher ups" at the

Neville Chamberlain und Kingsley Arthur Greenwood,

Hore-Bellahu, u former newspaper-

Awift retreat out of Honan, there seemed no need for any powerful defence force along the

ALWAYS SHUNS PUBLICITY

business non.

made

1937.

Home Fleet in 1935. He lo a gun- of Britain's land forces in December,

commander-in-chief of the army. He was placed at the hend mons the

Lunghai railway. Now the Peninsula, for instance, is said War Office and replaced them with situation has altered. There is to bo over-run with guerillas. younger_men.

an organised and highly mobile And it is well-known that Peip-mun, is a muster of the art of pub- THE QUEEN'S EDINBURGH

vice, the Distinguished Service Order

Was

In the eighties it become afiliated

Chinese army massed for actioning is a sort of oasis in a desert sty. That explains in part why TT may be permissible for a humble | ketry, drill, and tactical exercise 1, just beyond the farthest fringe of guerilla wa Shansi, too, Viscount Gort is comparatively well former member of the old Queen's It had a innrvellous prize-winni

known. During the World War of the Japanese occupation, and has seen the gradual retirement won the Victoria Cross-most prized Edinburgh to lay a stone on its cairn, record at Bisley and elsewhere, it is rapidly closing in, from all of the invaders. And so it goes. reward for gallantry on active sex-ketell, on the occasion of its modern Young Men's Chance

the shape of a very belef historical accounts, on the hopelessly out-Honan is likely to experience with two bors, and the Milltary Crossly important and interesting form of numbered troops whom Doihara second wave of fighting, with the Additionally he was mentioned

successor entering upon an exceeding- and the other Japanese generals Chinese taking the initiative, times in dispatches. He

duty.

to the Royal Scots, the senior regl- left to hold such places as If Marshal Chiang speeds these stuff omeer to the Shanglial Defense The 1st City Edinburgh Volunteer ment of the line, but remained n Kaifeng.

operations they may have a con appointments in England and fadia,

Force in 1927, und he held

high staff Regiment was embodied in 1950, the Urigade of Rifles. It took a pro- ndia, year in which the Volunteer Force iminent part in all the three great This is becoming an old story |siderable effect upon Japanese now and should have taught the strategy on the Yangtse.

When Hore-Delisha appointed him received the sanction of Parliament, Reviews of Scottish Volunteers in But chief of

of Imperial general staff Via-

taff Vin-Its title was soon changed into that of 1808, 1881, and 1995, and a consider- Japanese that their conquests, whether they do or not, the

count Gort assumed entire responal-The Queen's Edinburgh Rifle Volun-able number of Hs members served in spectacular it is true, are far indications are that Japan will

bility for training the nnwly mc- teer Regiment, by special permission the South African War. chanized

On the establishment of the Ter- from subduing the millions upon have to "conquer" the provinces

British

and Hore from Queen Victorin us a recognition army.

Te n Bellsha Arst mel In Switzerland when of the fact that it was the first Volun-ritorial Force (now the Territorial whom Chiang Kai-shek can call. again and again until China-or they cannoned each other nesitienial-teer corps that Her Majesty hul seen it was reduced to five bate As the Japanese advance in one the invaders themselves—is ex-ty on a skl-slope. They became good drawn up on parada,

and 5th Royal Scots this chance

Edinburgh Rifles), and Bector, piercing a relatively nar-Jhausted. When Japanese states-friends, and

many dimettles to overcome meet-

to be a brigade, but in

to greatest row section of Chinese defences, men speak of the possibility of log that probably tiltinively ted to in the earlier years of ita cinbodiment, ceared to to reorganised fighting men, ja ten or twenty years' war they mander of

cort's and forces.

au supreme con- but recruiting was brisk, and it soon services were yet to come. In the expanded into a bricade of three Great War both battallona went to sentiored by earlier defeats, Jare doubtless thinking of their

is hort, allin, fresh-com- battailons-the Queen's Edinburgh Gallipoli, and both had very heavy press back into the "occupied" ineffectual attempts to control plexioned, with close-cut mustache Rifle Volunteer Brigade. Under the casualties there. After the evacua country and harass garrisons and the many areas which they have and thinning hair. On him would command of the late Lord Kingsburgh tion the 4th Royal Scots went to their lines of communication already invaded and where their devolve the responsibilty for sending it became the strongest Volunteer Palestine, and were the frat battalion a British Expeditionary Force to the unit in point of numbers in Great to march into Jerusalem. The oth endlessly. The entire Shantung foothold la precarious at best. Continent in the event of war. Dritain, nr recond to none in mus-

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