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The STORY

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. June 11, 1940-

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During ten years of exile, from 1929 until 1939, Churchill saw men in office who were far less able than he. For Ramsay MacDonald as Nationalist Prime Minister he had nothing but contempt..

“He has", he said, “more than any other man the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought."

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Towards Stanley Baldwin his atlitude was polite but regretful. "IIe used to be wiser," he told the House in 1935. "He used frequently to take my advice."

As for Mr. Chamberlain, Churchill has been known in private fe to wring his hands in despair over the feeble policies of "that undertaker from Birmingham."

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· One of his glbea in the House cannot exactly have improved the situation. Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary, had occasion to re- mark in the course of a speech, "I cannot remember the time when I was not.

born." told stories about Bethlehem, where the Prince of l'enen avas . Churchill turned to his neighbour. "I thought," he said, "It was Birming.

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WINSTON CHURCHILL was born on November 30, 1874, in Dublin where his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was secretary to his father, the Duke of Marlborough. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1876.

Lord Randolph Churchill was a brilliant parliamentarian, who later distinguished himself in many offices, but chiefly as Chancellor of the Ex- chequer.

It is one of the great regrets of Winston Churchill that he never really got to know his father intimately singe Tie was nearly always oc- cupied with public affairs, and had little time to devote to his family.

Deep Affection For Mother

On the other hand, he had a deep affection for his mother, an Ameri- can lady, who was one of the outstanding society figures of her day. It way from her that Winston Churchill required that cosmopolitan outlook which has characterised his Inter life.

It was to his nurse, however. Mrs. Everest that he owed the happiness of his childhood. She was his confidente and constant companion. His friendship for her, like most of his friendships was deep and lasting, continu- ing up to her death,

At the age of seven he was dea- patched to St. James preparatory school, one that modelled itself on Eton, and it was here he neutred that distaste for study which lasted for a considerable time,

In fact ko Bernard Show, he now might very well say "I had n very good education, but it was interrupted white I attended school."

He hated mathematics and Latin and, as a consequence, final # difcall when the tine came to pass the entrance examination into Harrow.

However, he did succeed, but never advanced beyond the third form, because of his weakness in the classies and mathemalles.

Good Working Arrangement!

He had a good woriting arrange- ment with a boy in the sixth form, he says, who construed his Latin for him in return for an English esny each week: subject In which the senior boy was very weak.

This arrangement worked very well until one day the headmaster summoned the sixth form boy to congratulate him on his excellent essay, which he proceeded to dis ́cuss.The youth-did not know what the headmaster was talking about and was dismissed with the com- iment that he was obviously better with his pen than with his tongue.

From

Harrow, he just succeeded

in getting into Sandhurst where his education really began. Here he found congenial subjects, mas- tered them quickly ami roon nd- vanced to a very high position in his year,

When he had completed his military course at Sandhurst, he found that the Spanish war in Cub in 1895 was the only fighting going on at this time end, as he very

muel wanted to see what obtained real war was like, be permission to accompany the Spanish troops. It was a leisurely compaign in which nothing very serious happened and which ob- viously was going to take a long time to bring to a conclusion, so -he--returned to-England-after-

having had his baptism of five.

Gazetted to

4th Hussars

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He had been gazetied to 4th Hussars, a cavalry regiment, and proceeded to Bangalore incl, Here he continued his studies through the books Jis mather despatched to him. He read the best of English litera- ture, philosophy and history, and nover relaxed his efforts to make himself a master of English phrase, but, of course, he was not a book- worm, far from it; owing to his

PREMIER

CHURCHILL'S ILLUSTRIOUS AN- CESTOR, the Duke of Marlborough, victor of Blenheim (1704), was Eng. land's greatest general. His family has given England countless soldiers and statesmen.

KAISER WILHELM GREETED CHURCHILL at German army manoeuvres in 1909. Churchill was a Cabinet member. The Kaiser signed the picture with the Anglicized version of his name which he liked to affect with English visitors.

His Experience

With Kitchener

"Nothing like the Battle of Ondurnu," he says, "will ever be seen again. It was the last link in the long chain of those įpecta- cular conflicts whose vivid and majestic splendour has done much to invest war with glamour.

visible 10 Everything was

the naked eye. The rniles marched and mouvred on the crisp sur-. face of the desert plain through which the Nile wandered in broad

and also for his courage in the battle of Omdurman.

It was after this battle when he was returning up the Nile enjoying the peace that follows victory that an irish doctor claimed a portion of his skin to cover the wound of suldier whose life depended on such a sacrifice, He cheerfully went through the ordeal which, he said, was like being skinned alive and to this day he beats the sears, but he helped to save the soldier's life.

In 1800, he entered polities, but was defeated as a Conservative in his first election at Oldham.

reaches, now Steel, now brass. Boer War

Cavalry charged at full gallop in close order, and infantry or spurr- men stood upright ranged in lines From or masses to resist them.

aniel the rocky hills which here there fanked the great river the whole

hy revealed cene minute detail, curiously twisted.

Interspersed. .blurred. and

_will_ phantom waters by the mirage.

very

"The rollision was. now near. I saw immediately before me, not len yards away, the two blue men who lay in my path. They were perhaps a couple of yards apart. I rode at the in- terval between them.

"They both Ared. I passed through the smoke conscious that I was unbart.

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**The trooper Immediately hind me was killed at this place unct at this moment, whether by these shots or not I do not know.

"I cheeked my pony as the ground began to fall away beneath his feet. The clever animal drop- ped like a cat four or five Teet down eu the sandy bed of the

-amazing-energy, he was seldom-watercourse, and in this sandy bed ----

fatigued, and was therefore able to spend a good deal of time piny- ing polo, a game, of which he was passionately foud, and at which he was an adept.

11o accompanied the Malakand Field Force and took part in the "Tinh campaign on the north west

frontier.

About the former he wrote an excellent book which won the commendation of Lord Salisbury and the approval of all the critics. After considerable difculty he managed to Rat commisston which enabled him to join Kit- choner's army, in the Sudan, which at that time was dealing with the Dervishes,ge

At the battle of Omdurman he

I found myself surrounded by what seemed to be dozens of men. They were not thickly packed enough at this polnit for me to experience any actual collision with them,

Whereas Grenfell's troops next but ne on my left was brought to o completa statidstill and suffered very heavy, losses, we seemed to push our way through as one has sometimes seen mounted polleeimer break up a crowd.

"In less time than It.taken to re- late, my pony hnd scrambled up the other side of the ditch,"

Saved Life of

took part in the femotis envalry Brother Officer

charge which he describes. In that

vivid manner, which naturally

followed from his mastery of En---- He was-mentioned in despatches glish and, his actual experiences in for saying the life of a. brother The 'charge.

officer on the north west of India

comes,

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friends and keeping them.

As a prisoner then he was Intern- ed in a camp in Pretorio, but, of course, IOS of liberty merely stimulated his power of invention and so he esenpeit by literally walk- ing past the entry after climbing n ferice.

Ile boarded trains by night and finally arrived exhausted at a house which, by luds, was owned by an Englishman, who hid him in a coal mine for three days and then smuggled his into another goods train which carried him Into Portuguese East Afrien

This exploit made him the most discussed person in Africa and Eng- land, and paved the way for his success in second ultempt to enter Parliament for Oldlism after the war was over.

In 1608, he married the daughter. of Sir H, M. Hozier, a colonel of Dragoons, and their wedding was the outstanding event of the 1908 London season.

Like so many episodes of Wins- ton Churchill's career, his wedding did not pass without stormy in- cident. A accre of milliant" suf- fragettes, agitating for the vote, chaired themselves to the railings of the church while the marriage was being solemnised.

As the Conservative Party was committed to Tariff Reform, he went over to the Liberal Party and won a seat by a good majority in the cicetion it North West Man- Chester. He was made President of the Board of Trade, and in 1910 Home Secretaryn miserable

In which capacity,

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remembering his perience as a prisoner in Soult Africa, he did a great deal to im- prove prison life in England, by providing literature, and enter. tainment to relieve the deadly monotony which weighed so heavily upon the more intelligent prisoners.

Work at Admiralty

In 1911, he was made First Lard of the Admiralty bend it was due to his untiring exertions in the office that the fleet was ready for its great task in 1914, ond was able to bring about the fiul and complete sur- reruder of the whole German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1918.

He sponsored the naval expedition to Antwerp and, 25 he said, und, many German experts admitted, he delayed the capture of the elty by tive days and so suved Cplals. In spite of that, however, a section of the Cabinet disapproved of this expedition.

Again later he conceived thm: idea of forcing the Dardanelles, but the Expeditionary force had finally to be withdrawn. The enterprise filted not because, as sozue live claimed, the idea was wrong, but because those responsible for executing it failed to net on the neale he had recominencled.

Introduces

the tank

He resigned his office and proceeded to France, from which place he urged the introduction of the new weapon--the tank which was to play such an important part in the war.

He was recalled to England by Mr. Lloyd George now Prime Minister, who made him Minister of Muni- tions and taler Secretary for War and for the Air.

Later, In 1824, he became Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, a post he held with conspicuous success till -the government-was-defeated-in-

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very dangerous. They mean you niselict, I hear things you would not hear Mind you have all your ships ready. I can feel that there is danger in the air. And what is more, he added, when the day I am going to be ready too. When they attacks you. I am going to attack German South West Africa and clear them out once and

fending a certain all. I will be there to do my for duty when the time coines. But you, with the Navy, mind you are not caught by surprise."

Again later in 1010, he writes: "Many high personages visited me at the War Ofce, but there was only one whom I myself conducted down the great staircase and put with my own hands into his wilt- ing car, and that was Louis Botha."

Correspondent Escape from

The Doer war broke out, and he promptly went out as a war cor-

respondent for the "Morning Post Internment

at a salary of £250 per month with expenses pald.

Just before he embarked for South Africa, several cases of the Angat champagne were presented farewell dinner to his friend. Lord Gerrard, who was told that he had to share them with him. In order to make sure, that there would be no delay at the base, he Tabelled them "Castor Oil." When he and Lord Gerrard had been at Durban some days they

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sent telegram of enquiry only to be told that, owing to shortage supplies, the castor oil and been distributed armong the base hos- pitals, but fresh supplies of the medicine had

urrived and would be "despatched in duc course to take the place of that which had been appropriated.

In-Natal he joined an urmoured train which was making a recon- nulssance into the

and country. whtel was ambushed-by-the Boers. He worked valiantly under fire for two hours to remove the wrecked Wagons, and succeeded, but irutead of proceeding with the "engine to safety" he remained with the com- pany of soldiers, and

afterwards was confronted by a Boer on horse levelled his gun at him. Back who As he had no weapon of any sort upon him he had to surrender. Is captor was none other than General Louis Bothin who after- words became one of his greatest

This friends,

js what he

lers in its nutobleronys about

"In 1913, when he, General Bothn, returned from a visit to Gemany. where he had been taking the waters for a cure, he warned mo most carnestly of the dangerous” mood prevailing there. Mind you--- ́are ready" he said, "Do not trust those prople." I know they are

Winston Churchill" has, always had a greal enpacity for making

As a speaker and debator, Wins- ton Churchill has no equal in the House of Commons,

When Joynson Hicks Was de-

measure' and

Winston Churchill was disagreeing with him by shaking his hend, Joynson Hicks said: "but I am only expressing as own opinion." "And

Winston

Churchill, "am only wagging my own head."

When Wedgewood Beun- lost his temper at some remark Winston Churchill had inde, he said "The Honourable member should not more anger than he can

And

as

he can also be incisive for example when he said "When the Honourable member is about to get up to address the House, he doesn't know what he is going to say, when lie is standing up he does not know what he is saying and

CHURCHILL WAS CAPTURED by Boers during the Boer War when they derailed a British troop train. He was taken to ...Pretoria as a prisoner “(above), but escaped alone over a prison wall:~~He

was then a war correspondent at £250 month.

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Since 1933, Winston Churchill repeatedly drew attention secret rearmament of Germany about which he seemed to get in formation from very special sources. It was largely owing to his warnings that the nation Anally woke up to the danger and began to put its house in order.

When the present war broke out, he

by the Prime Minis was invited ter to assume the post of First Lord of the Admirally, the same office he held in the beginning of the last war, and in that capacity he back- ed up the Navy in its grim slient U-bant struggle to overcome the

*menace,

Outside polities, Mr. Churchill's interests are mainly in the literary feld in which he has achieved con- siderable fume, especially with his outstanding work! "The Life of Marlborough" and "The World Crisis,"

At an earlier date, he wrote novels but found that he had a namesake in the United States, who was doing exactly the same thing, so he wrote a letter to him saying that in future to avoid confusion he proposed to call himself Winston Spencer Churchill.

As recreations he has two main hobbles, painting in water colours and belek-laying, his skill in which was recommised by the Belelinyers Union which enrolled him as a

member.

It is against Mr. Churchill that the German direct their most violent attacks, because they fear him most.

Commentary

on modern war

Yet on reading his autoblography and his thoughts and adventures is difcult to see why it should be

So,

This is hls modern war:

commentary

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"The obliteration of the personal factor in war, the stripping from. high tommarders of all the drama of the battlefield, the reducing of their highest function to pure office work, will have profound effects upon sentiment and opinion.

"Ilitherto be great captain has been right revered as the genius. who by the trmness of his churac ter; and by the

mysterious harmonies and inspirations of his nature could rule the storm.

"He did ilmselt; and no one else could do it so well. He con- Often he quered there and then. fell beneath the bolts and the balls, saviour of his native Intid.

"Now, however.. illogical as i may seem and even unjust, hig glamour and honours will not readily descend upon our calculat- Ing friend ai the

telephone."

This worthy must assuredly be rewarded as a useful citizen, and a faithful perspicacious public ser-

but not as a hero.

he heroes of modern war lle out in the entered field, mangled, stified, scorred; and there are too many of them for exceptional

honours,

"IL is mass suffering, M4F8 sacelfice, mass vielory. The glory whleh pinys upon the ImmenDe scenes of carnage is diffused,

"No more the blaze of triumph irradiates the helmets of the chiefs. There is only the pale light of a rainy dawn by which forty miles of batteries recommence their fire, and another score of divisions founder to their death in mud and polson Kna,"

His philosophy with regard to war is best expressed in his own words:

"In

war resolution, in defeat "deflance;"In ̈victory-magnanimity, in peace goodwill," and hatly with regard to his religious views here again are his own words: "Many centuries were to pass before the God that spake in the Burning Bush was to manifest Himself in ä new revojatlen, which nevertheless was the oldest of all the inspirations of the Hebrew people—as the God not only of Ternel, but of all-man-. kind who wished to serve Him; a God not only of justice, but of merey; a God not only of Felt- preservation and survival, bat of pity; self-sacrifice and Ineffable love,

"Let the men of science and of learning expand their knowledge and probe with their researches every detail of the records which have been preserved to us from these dim ages. All they will do it to fortify the grand simplicity and

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