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THE Lord of Prendergast, THE press "Special to the „Telegraph"

"righte valiaunt capitaine," is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph

with indicats news which Bretty cop sailed from Pembroke under the provisions of the Telecommend Strongbow to the conquest of cations Ordinance, 196, fuch nOWS EL or the indication "Us" received in Ireland. That was in 1169. Hongkong on the date of publication by Charles Vereker, a gentleman the United ·Press Associasons, who ros servo xil rights and forbli repubiication either wholly or in part without previous arrangemen

Lawrence Tibbott. Made To Order

No. 1

Quietly and methodically, this ycar, we have seen our military defensive system mado more up-to-date, more supple, more useful and more democratic. But the public knows little of Britain's Number One Soldier, the man who, under War Secretary Anthony Eden, is at the head of England's khaki forces-Lord Gort,

Lord Gort was a boy of 16 when he succeeded to the title- he la the sixth of his line to hold it, and, being an Irish Vis- county it does not entitle him to sit in the House of Lords. He did not inherit all the estates until he was 26. The estates included East Cowes Castle, built by Nush, in the Isle of Wight, coincidentally a replica of another Nash castle owned by

of Brabant, crossed the North- ern Seas to lay his sword at the service of Charles the First. When the King lost his head, Puritan Cromwell dispossessed him of his Commission, and the Prelude in C. Sharp (Rachmaninoff), Arthur Rubinstein. NOT even the Nazis can gentleman also sailed across to Menuetto and Trio (Schubert}

Ignore the world-wide horror Ireland to seek some use for his mans were holding the canal as appointments,, at the Staff Col- the Gorts in Ireland which they DA-1695 William. Tell-Overture (Rossini)

Toscanini and N.B.C. Orchestra. Poland.

expressed at their atrocities in sword. That was in the mid- their line with all the despera- lege, as Director of Military were compelled to sell.

seventeenth century.

tion of despair. Gort's orders Training in India, and as head DA-1695 William Tell--Conclusion

He inherited a fortune of DA-1676 Deep River

Colonel Vereker, later an Irish were to cross. .Marion Anderson. It is useless to deny them peer, was in command of a rag-

He was wounded, but the. Duke of

of Camberley College, where the £10,000 from an old friend of Gloucester was n his family; Mrs. Louisa Frances altogether; too much has been time force of 300 militiamen. A wound, did not stop him.

The student. It

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He was called "The Fat Boy,"

The great happiness of my life has been in watching his fine character develop itself, his successful career, and the use he has made of his talents, wealth, and position in the unselfish service of his coun- try.

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LTD. Authority. The line the Nazis threatening the stronghold of heroic resistance, but Cort, his earned his nicknames, for there

now take is to say that the Poles and out-fought the enemy, re as mud, led a platoon down a are two..

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suffering, deserved (ceiving, the thanks of both sunken road and took the Ger- for his cheeks are full, and he punishment for the outrages Houses of Parliament. That mans in the flank. Aguin he

has the same air of confident, they themselves committed (was in 1798.

was hit, but he went on.

unruffled, serene.composure that against - helpless Germans in The blood of all three war-

distinguished Halg, and was, riors, all three heroes, flows in Foland.

the veins to-day of General Lord HE saw a tank, went to it strongest asset. He was also It was not only old Indies who

perhaps, the earlier commander's No such atrocities were per-Gort, Chief of the Imperial across open ground, merci called "The Tiger" for his fero- knew him since the age of four, petrated by the Poles, but that General Staff, Britain's Kit- lessly riven with machine-guns city in seeing that the tasks he who held such opinions of him.

chener.

and heavier metal, took com imposed were not only done, but Lord Cavan described him as is a matter of no comequencé to

His name recalls the Norman mand of it, and dislodged

the done well. Goebbels and his crew. It is knight, John Standish Surtees enemy. And still he went on.

"The Army's best soldier" and It is recorded that once he set General Sir Ian Hamilton said of easy to invent atrocities; and Prendergast Yerekar. His arms A shell splinter hit him a third his entire class to write a precis him on his highest appoint- that they have done on a great recall the Irish Peer, for above time and lots of blood laid him of the lecture he had just deliver- ment: "Thank goodness we have scale, as they had many times the Latin motto Vincit Veritas on a stretcher. But from the ed the instant his last sentence a proper soldier in

(Truth Conquest) there

runs stretcher the seated, bleeding had fallen from his lipsand before.

the arrogant motto, Coloancy, figure continued to shout hours raged at the badness with which shot 'sitting,"

"At least we shall not be Goebbels, in fact, began his the name of the village five miles orders until the skirmish

re the essays were written. career with an ingenious trick, from Sligo, where the second sulted in a rout; 200 men were

* Viscount Gort and his rabble taken; the machine-guns that It was indirectly, another designed to goad the German shattered the trained arms of had made the canal impregnable facet of his career-in which also SINCE hia appointment he has people into enthusiasm for the

France.

were amashed; and

his ancestry can be traced-that the two

dined with the French High establishment of a national air

batteries of field-guns, that had brought him to his present posi- Command under the shadow of force.

laid a barrage across the road he should be, bearing the name he has toured the Middle East; tion Gort is a sportsman-as shelled-and restored-Rheims; He caused to be rublished in SMALL wonder that Lord Gort were captured.

took to the profession of That was the truth behind the of Surtees: one of his ancestors, he, has expressed himself all the German newspapers, in arms as a duck to water. He brief, cold, official lines that re- the creator of Jorrocks; another, still effective, rhetoric of the his maternal grandfather, was steadily in the outworn, yet blazing type, an account of a was educated at Harrow, where commended him for his V.C. fight across Germany of aero- the Army Class used to be the Jump a decade, and you will that Bessie Surtees who eloped Army: "The Empire was won by planes of unknown nationality, only section of the school that see Gort, again, still and equally with the man who became Lord the aword: it has been preserved

He went to Sandhurst, and, at In 1927 he was in China as Chief was forgiven for working hard. a "righte valinunt capitaine." Chancellor Eldon.

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down a mountain ho collided theories for he has served both cities at any time, anywhere, on [General and a full General in Gort was in the Paoshan area violently with another skier. In the War Office and the Ad- any scale; and then the murder 1937. His last promotion-when, with a French missionary, Fr. Said one: "Who the hell are miralty,

Imperial General Staff-carried is also something of a saint. A ally: "Gort!"

senior officers.

**** ganga are. let loose among the he was created Chief of the Robert Jacquinot, a Jesuit who you?" Said the other, laconic Ha believes in character na

victims to wreak what is called im clean over the heads of 90 number of nuns were in danger, That informal but effective much as in, ability, as

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c. in 1915, the D.S.O. in 1917 Gort

hair, over names to be his Military Ludendorff, "but compare Joffre turned nover the D.SO, with three bars, Quietly, almost as a lion-tamor Secretary, his eye lighted on that with von Moltke at the Marne or representing four separate acts holds his beasts in check by the of the man who had crashed into Halg in March, 1918, with that justified its award; and the power of the human

oye, he him

Ludendorff in the August of the little bronze cross inscribed moved on, unharmed.

"Send for Gort!" said H.B. same year." Slowly the yelling died to But Gort was on manoeuvres.. AFTER leaving three-ondear. "For Valour" and carrying a

Gort, it would seem, has both ing notes at the home of Miss pension of $10 a year, the V.C., sllence, broken only by the fluent. "Bring my car round," said H.B.,

ability and character: the max Wendy Barrie, the fim actress, in 1918.

Chinese of the priest. Together and off he went to Aldershot... to Gort was in command of a they escorted the women 22-year-old Robert Stone, was

But Gort was aimere Major- who would play the Kitchener battalion of the Grenadiers safety. arrested in Hollywool.

General, too lowly & rank to ad to the Halg of Ironside.. floundering in the mud-flats that

mit of his holding the now job." In the last war there was also ! So, when he came back to Lon- a Tiger: old Clemenceau, the S-well as being a soldier of the doll with the Minister, he was politician, who was natned by his

hand, Lord Gort is a soldier promoted Lieutenant - Goneral, Country Father Victory,” In this the head: thrice he has held and took it on.

war, the Tiger fain soldier.

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