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There Lieutenant-General Sir

IRONSIDE Today's Kitchener P

which crossed the channel to France last week. As lately as last May he was in France to study the Maginot line.

He is an Ulster man, with

shot Command is usually given only to very senior generals; but Sir John was only given his

that.

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HE British Army to-day is A sharp tongue and a critical din. The other heads the Alder- Irish wit and charm. The Alder-

in the hands of men who mind was always getting him in shot Command. have more experience of real trouble during the Great War. fighting than any peacetime

But because of this quality he

It has already developed that present rank in 1936. commaders of British troops in was given the heart-breaking this war is not going to be like the past.

jobs to do and carried them 1914. One new factor among He is 57. His fighting ex- Men like French and Haig through.

many is that a large force of perience includes recent com- Regulars is in Palestine and mand in Palestine. An Arab and Smith-Dorrien when they. He was given Canadians to Egypt, und that the Mediter rebel there offered "£500 for his led into action the "Contemp command, and made his 99th ranean might be a centre of head. It is worth more than Artie Shaw's Orch. HER ha acquired a consider-tibles" of 1914 had behind the Brigade terrible in the literal heavy nghting yet.

able amount of tooty in his only a few small colonial cam- sense of the word. They seared late-L plundering drive across Europe.paigns, of which the mismanag- anyone they came across.

He Archibald Wavell commands.

Quarter-Master General, the ed rounding-up of some thou saw to it that they worked off He has as strong a force under sands of Boer farmers was the their energy on the Germans.

.on whom rations and him as that which fought the largest.

battle of Le Cateau, in 1914, and Ammo" depend, buttons, bil- At the age of 39 he was given it is being strengthened from lets, beef and bread, is Lieuten- To 1.3at extent

To these commanders of 1914, the worst job of the lot; com- India.

ant-General Venning, who has stronger and better equipped for their blundering plunges across mand of the Allied Army in

been getting to bed late at wartore against the Allies on

He believes that a great nights since the war started. the South Africa constituted "the North Russia. western froni. But its conquest has

general has "a touch of the failed fo give

War,"

· To "Tiger" Gort or it the

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has done the Allies a service in. preventing the area from falling into the hands of the Nazis. Russia, too, has cut off Germany's contact with

the Rumanian frontier, so that Hitler cannot now invade Rumanian soil

Bul-

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Gort, was the only peer to win goldier, at the beginning of a Victoria Cross during the world-struggle for any civilian- Great War. Twice wounded, politician to hold. near the Canal du Nord, in 1918,

He commanded Guards without est violating the territory

Brigade towards the end of the of Hungary, Yugo-Stavia ur

war-Later he served as Milit-

garia,

Berlin.. A The Aldershot Command has ary. Attache in Modern anaments are infinitely more lethal than

At 59, Ironside is the oldest always been one of the highest gossip-writer has described him as "winning the personal friend- ever before in history but

he personally led a platoon of of the new group of generals active positions in the Army ship of Hitler." they mre ulso more dependent. Oil-fuel is their

his battalion down a sunken on whose shoulders the burden Dill has been in charge there for Lieutenant-General Sir John

Rut a friend of Hitler is not blood. Great air Acets and road that took them to the flank of war would fall. He bulks two years. mechanised armies require enormeus

the right label for this stocky, of their "impossible" objective. largest nlso. And his name quantities. Unless

One may expect that he will quick-stepping general. At 63, Germany ents import sulcient oil supplies, her

alone might be worth an army command an He personally brought up,

army corps in he is one of the Army's coming bombers will in due course be in- under heavy fire, the "stray" corps to us.

France. as did Haig, his pre- men. decessor in 1914, tank that could help his men Two other men stand out.

Although, we cannot say for One is in charge, already, of sure in far-off Hongkong, it is

mobilised and her striking

Fito-

power

hunter.

In peare-time alone Gennany con- sumed something ilke 6,500,000 tons

forward.

Two "mystery men" close the

He lost so much blood that at the largest force of British probable that Sir John Dill was list. One is Mr. Hore-Belisha's of liquid fuel a year. Her require- one time he was directing his troops outside England and In- in charge of the British forces military secretary. Previous oc- ments now are probably four or five battalion from a stretcher. But

times that Agure,

In recent years, oil has been dishe got on his feet again to, lend covered int umber of places in the assault, and organised the the Reich, and domestic production has been rapidly expanded. Even defence of the captured ground 50. Gerinany's output of domestle before he collapsed.

crude oil was only some 850.000 tons last year.

Conscious of her dangerous de-

He is Chief of the Imperial

felency, she has worked feverishly General Staff, the Cabinet's at the production of oil from coal military adviser, the man who But her total production of minerali alls from all kinds of domestic raw chooses the Army's leaders. But materitis in 1938 was not much over his personal qualities are more

2 million tons.

In short, Germany's capacity to those of a commander than of wage a long modern war with

Great Britain and France depends

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decisive

extent on her

getting Imports from abroad. If the

a staff officer.

He is 53, the youngest Chief British blockade succeeds in cutting of General Staff our Army, has these off, the wor will be shortened.

Before the war, Germany's chief ever had. He was promoted to foreign sources of supply were the his present job over the heads

Dutch East Indies, the United. Staten

and Rumania. The first two of of thirty-two generals. When these are already lost to her. Bo- this roused indignation from old tore the war, she imported Rumanian

oil by ships passing through the men in London clubs, Sir Ian Mediterranean. This route is also

Hamilton answerd: "Thank

cut off, and the more direct overland route is accessible only along tor- God we are now under a proper turous mountain paths through third soldier and shall not be shot nations. Between Germany and the

Rumanian oilfield are the Carpathian sitting."

Alps, They are a wide and rugged

ronge of mountains, rising to as niuch as 0,00011. Germany must provide her own fleet of motor

trucks to bring the vital fuct across General Sir Edmund Ironside,

these mountains.

We cannot but deplore Russian six-foot-four and therefore call- aggression against Poland. But ed "Tiny," is Inspector-General Russlan nggression har at Icast of the Overseas Forces. This rabbed the Nuzla of the parts of Poland which, to war-time Germany, is the position Sir John French are by far the most necessary. held in 1914, before war broke

To-day, Germany's only hope la

that Russia herself will provide the out. Sir Edmund is Comman- fuel for her bombers and mechanised der-in-Chief of the B.E.F. in units. Without Rusalan ald, Hitlerism 'France,

will meet swift justice.

GRIN

AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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"Boys, the president of the club is pretty sick-the least we'

could do to show our sympathy, is to play only nine holes!"

cupants of the job have become Chief of the Imperial General Staff (Lord Gort) and Director- General of the Territorial Army (Lt.-General Brownrigg), Lieu- tenant-General Gifford, who now tholds this post, has served main- ly in the Colonies. He has been in Africa so much that few Londoners know him,

Last, perhaps most important of all, is 52-year-old Sir Ronald Adam. Deputy Chief of the Im perial General Staff, his promo- tion during recent years has been even more rapid than that of others in the new group of commanders....

He is said to be "the brains of the Army."

He is so professional that one feels "this is a foreign soldier, not an English one; English soldiers are always rather ama-. tour."

But, in fact, nothing could be less foreign than his reserve, tho cover of casual phrase with which he hides the penetration of his comments and questions.. Here is the rare type of mind that is always searching for. essentials,

This is the team, or part of" it. It is head and shoulders: above that of 25 years agó.