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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1939.

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in the aims and methods of their are those of Great Britain and France at the present moment.

This spontaneous unison of mind and temper

been hos incisively demonstrated before the world in speeches which are happily summed

up in M. Daladier's reply yesterday to Herr Hitler. M. Daladier hus told the German leader what everyone knows to be the plain truth,

that neither Britain, France nor Poland threaten any-

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"Big Bill" IRONSIDE

The man who has been given the job Sir John French held on Aug. 4, 1914

QUIPPED from birth with great ability and a name which is a joy to roll round the tongue, Sir Edmund Ironside has been something of a prodigy.

He was made EL Major- General at the age of 30. He is only 50 now. From his earliest days in the Army he has been marked out as a man who will rise high and, what is more, distinguish himself not so much in Whitehall as in the feld.

He is said to be 0ft 4in. tall. But no one has been brave enough to measure him accu- rately. His nick-name is "Dig Bill."

e knows a great many lan- guages. He has passed interpreter- ship examinations in seven. And he has a good working knowledge of about half a dozen more, includ- ing Russian,

Like many soldierà, he learns his languages by building up a big vocabulary. He makes a list of words on a post-card each morn- Ing and learns it by heart during the day.

His knowledge of the nations now coming together into a peace bloc is intimate, but somewhat unfortunate.

In 1918 and 1919 he was in command at Archangel of all the anti-Bolshevik forces in North Russia.

In 1020 he was in command of troops in Anatolla when Kemal was defying the armies of Britain and France and building modern Turkey. But Ironside and the Turks never actually came to blows.

Ironside has a sort of "Bulldog Drummond" reputation. There is even a legend that during the Boer War he squeezed a Boer to death in his armas.

He was sent to the Boer War Immediately

the after joining Army. He was in the Royal Artil- lery and Wis mentioned In dispatches.

The next Ironside legend sprang up shortly before the war at the time of the German campaign in- South West Africa against the Hereros. As he spoke Dutch perfectly he was able to disguise himself as a Boer and attach him- He self to the German forces.

body or intend to threaten any-The Man From body, and that neither will turn

a deaf ear to requests for the equitable redress of grievances. M. Daladier also asserts, how- ever, that the democracies are resolved to resist aggression, defend liberties and fulfil their pledges.

It has often been urged by apologists in Germany and by critics at Home that no one is quite certain of Great Britain's

intentions. Whatever may have been the truth of the matter then, no such charge can lie now. Neither the German Government nor any other has an iota of excuse for misunderstanding Britain's purpose.

Dovil's Island

TRAPPED AFTER 23 YEARS

PARIS.

was put in charge of the native convoys.

In this way he managed to make full notes of German military methods. He stitched the note books into the lining of his tunic and brought them safely home,

Then when the Great War broke out he was said to be the first uni- formed British officer to land on French soil. He was a captain at the time, and went to Boulogne to see about trains for the first units of the original D.E.F.

He became famous among the troops in France for his habit of taking his brindled bulldog with him everywhere-aven into the front line. The dog'a collar was decorated with the Mons ribbon and two wound stripes.

In August, 1018, when he was sent off to Archangel to command the British forces in Russia, he was supposed to stop the Germans from selzing Aliled war supplies there.

Three months later the Great War ended. Yet the British forces at Archangel were told to fight on.

Sir Edmund has written for the Encyclopædia Britannica a tren-, chant account of the Archangel campaign. He explains, with some bitterness, how, when the troops under his conmand found that the Germans were

longer the enemy, and that the Bolsheviks were the new adversary, It "had n demoralising effect upon all ranks."

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The allied troops," he says, "were never again quite clear as to the reasons for the continuance of the Aghting,"

The position of the British troops In North Russia became more and more serious and by the end of the summer of 1919 all of them had to be evacuated. Ironside was then made a Major-General and sent to Turkey to command the force at Ismid.

In 1022 Bir Edmund came back to England to be commandant of the Staff Collego at Camberley,

In that post he was responsible for training officers for the higher ranks of the army and he left a decided imprint on British military thought.

Here are a few of his sayings about warfare:-

"The most difeult military feat. Is to gauge the proper size for an expeditionary for Its numbers are always too small."

My poor brain says, 'Pay the poor Regular soldier a bit more."'

'The British geniua is for im- provisation, but will there be time for improvisation in the next war?

"Do not blame the stupid gene- ral too much. Remember that soldiers cannot learn their trade in peace time."

After four years at the Staff College he was given command of the 2nd Division at Aldershot. In 1828 he went for three years to India to be 0.0.0. at Meerut.

Then he came home to be Lleutenant of the Tower of Lon- don. There were como doubts about that, The Tower was thought to be a place of retirement and some people wondered whether it meant that Sir Edmund's career was coming to an end.

But soon he went back to India again as Quarter-Master General. And then in 1936 he returned to England to take up the £3,300 year Eastern Command,

Ile sprang into the public eye once more over the Bandya case. It was he who was instructed by the Army Council to cause a court of inquiry to be set up to inquire into the leakage of Information.

military

. A few weeks later Sir Edmund Ironside became Governor of Gib- raltar, the post he occuples now.

Once again there were com- plaints. Olbraltar was said to be a retiring place for distinguished old soldiers. And Ironside was not old.

But he has not wasted his time in Gibraltar, Under his orders barricades have been bulit on Gib-

altar's Spanish frontier.

He has ideas on AR.P. very dif- ferent from Bir John Anderson's. He has had deep shelters hown out of the solid rock of Gibraltar.

British foreign polley in Spain has done its best to make n present of Gibraltar 10 the Axis. Ironside has done all a soldier can do to stop the rot,

When Sir Edmund returns to England and goes to the War Office, you may be sure that he wil still be accompanied by a dog. In the Bandys crisis he walked to the inquiry with a pipe in his mouth and a terrier atmining at a lead which he clutched in his hand,

broad, na Bis shoulders suits his immense height. His legs are slim and athletic, giving him a top-heavy appearance.

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He is married and has a son and daughter. Their home is at Hing- ham, Norfolk.

Buch is the man who now holds the position Sir John French held on August 4, 1914,

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When Anguish Wrings The Brow

“W

66X7оMEN and Children

First!"

The stirring phrase more often than not conjures up ja vision of the bronzed (but slightly pale beneath the tan), blue-uniformed, gold- braided, becapped, capable officer sternly stemming the turbulent tide of panic-stricken steerage passengers; he wraps the trembling babe within his pilot packet ere the weeping mother slips within the lifeboat; the proceedings usually cul- minating in the dispassionate presentation of his very own lifebelt to the corn-haired daughter of the fat old multi- millionaire, now quivering in the background.

The heroine, mirabile dictu, has remainined throughout the storm and stress unshaku un to morale and unrulled ая to habiliments.

Or the spell-bound crowd gather in the streaming street and cheer the valiant firemen setting up gargantuan ladders against the burning pile, of course to succour first the ter- ror-stricken fascinated females.

SO

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can we be blamed if the first re-action to the suave invitation of authority to make

known the fact of our existence was a distinct inflation of the ego, a complacent ascendency in the sense of self-importance, a responsive thrill to the (sup- posed) oficial gallantry towards a section of the populace no: be sacrificed, to lightly to precious and too essential to the scheme of things, needlessly b be endangered?

Alas! Realisation was n-t long delayed.

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Reason asserted sway. Ad the noticeable slump in ad- conceit and premature placence chilled the more by te sudden descent of temperatre from its misplaced exhiliratio.

Lot the truth be swalloed, One of the great tactical prob-manufactured on a fairly large scale lems to-day is how to cover the on the Witwatersrand, in the Trans-

production inst 70 yards to the enemy's post- been started by two

has unpalatable though it be. far vaal. Commercial

well-known from being instigated by iny tion."

engineering firms, one in Johannes- thought of fragile beauty, ter- burg and the other at Benoni,

Woman, 83, Cycling Fan

ling worth; by any undus teler- ness for the gently nurtred Minna Cross, age 83 years. She be- female; any consideratio for gan riding when she was 42 and has never given it up. She purchased our delicately-balanced nous AFTER enjoying 28 years of SACRAMENTO, Cal. (UP)-This the No. 1 license plate this year and system, the dulcet invation Devil's Island, Alphonse Dupont, ase

liberty since he escaped from city's oldest bicycle rider, both as to the city attorney claimed the pri-

us to experience, is Missvilege of paying the 25 cent fee. was, known in the Paris underworld as "Fan Fan," was trapped by the French police recently.

Burglar and drug dealer who be twice been sent to France's dreaded convict island, he is now seeing the! inside of a prison for the first time: since 1910.

SOLD DRUGS IN TAXI His identity was revealed after his Ing. arrest in Montmartre for drug deal-

If Germany chooses to throw down the gauntlet on the premise that Britain has no intention of carrying out its pledge, she will become promptly aware of its falsity. So long as she is con- The attention of the special police. Lent to remain within her who are

engaged in the hunting down of drug traffickers was called frontiers no question of her to a well-dressed grey-haired man encirclement or invasion can of respectable appearance who made arise.

a tour of the Montmartre and Mont-

to

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parnasse districts.

his taxi-cab.

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It is permissible

He stopped at certain points where whether, in the long run, peace people waited for him and entered can be preserved if the Nazis, again after the cab had gone a few

They stepped however, are minded to keep hundred yards. Europe under 蟲 perpetual The taxi-cab was his "shop" nervous strain and are prevented tomers."

where he sold drugs to his "cus- from embarking on some cherish-

TWICE SENTENCED ed aggression only by the fear

Dupont first went to Devil's Laland of the resistance they will meet. In 1885, for eight years after a series If they genuinely want

of burglaries. When he returned to peace, they must behave as

France after serving his time he if they committed more burglaries and in wanted it, and not as if peace 1911, was sentenced to 12 years' were a mere suspension of war. penal servitude. But unless and until their con- Back at Devil's Talend it took him duct manifesta Buch trans- five years to plan his escape with formation, there is no recourse

fve, olhar convlets. He reached the, coast of Brazil, lived, there for for the rest of us but to improve two years and afforwards went to our every precaution and to make Venezuela where he lived for 18 certainty doubly sure that any

YORK. aggression will recoll upon the head of the aggressor,

to Paris, under another name about. | Home-sick, he contrived to return

two years BEV.

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APOROLOGY

alas!

the outcor of vulgar, mundane reaso; very far removed from our raantic

By Lichty conceptions.

"Crackąd urns.:broken goblets and torn papyrus! Evidently

we'va unearthed a picnic grove of ancient Thebes!

Humillating and pros as it may be, the fact which cryst..... |clear is that all female:owever decorative, unless skill in the arts of succouring je once bellicose but eventu to be incapacitated male, arin these stirring times, regled dis- passionately as so ny insati- able, gaping jaws clpuring to bo filled!

So now we kne our true value in times of üble. Not the very loveliest the lovelies is deemed a fair, ivalent for the modicum of stein, vita- mines and so oncessary for the upkeep and Mir of the male.

Those meltinges so long- ingly and anxie cast upon, the commissar those eyes which in days gone merely gave one flutt to secure the prize-now bupduce a stern, official "Scram

Our heads awed; Romance is dead. Majapenses, to all appearances erturbed, with the services he "ministering 1 angel," deem them prosaica ly and quite pnally as not bes yond all pri N.B.W.