Daily British Whig (1850), 16 Nov 1915, p. 12

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_PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1915. or [ Rp King Geor g oolne e'sC ss While Zeppelins Hover Near Palace Stirring Incidents at Sandringham Narrated by Dramatist-Officer --Village Schoolmaster and R ector Refused to be Disarmed King Had Splendid Body of Guardsmen Cosmo Hamilton, the English dram atist Royal Naval held personally of King who is an officer in the Aviation Corps and responsible for the safety at Sandringham Palace daring the Zeppelin raids, gives many intimate details of the life of the Empire's head under war conditions "King George is a great little man, a sailor and a soldier every inch of him. There is not much connected with the navy and the army that he does not know about. When the war first started it was the magic name of Kitchener that caused the thous ands in England to enlist, but today the men in the trenches speak with affection of 'G which is their pet name for the King Real Guardsmen, Thess.! With regard to his_dut at San- dringham Palace, Mr. Hamilton said « "We left London with two 4.7 guns and two electric searchlights. The guard consisted of thirty six men of was George V 5, the Royal Naval Aviation Corps under | my command with a lieutenant as my ald. On our arrival at Sandringham we fonnd a detachment of 250 Grena-| dier Guards commanded by Major Gil bert Hamilton, with Lord Stanley, son of the Karl of Derby placed in position with the search lights nearby on motor trucks. As the guards had been billeted in the stables our chaps took up quarters in the village .a mile from the palace gate Among the thirty-six men my defafl 1 had fifteen baronets, who owned town and country houses with yachts and motor cars, two well known surgeons from Harley Street, a clergyman who was the son of a Bishop, a professor of history at Ox- ford 'University, two painters, (hiree architects, four lawyers, (wo young bankers, and the remainder were mer chants and insurance and brokers. "The first day after we arrived the | King invited the officers of the guard, including myself, to see«the grounds. 'There, gentlemen." said the King, 'is | & tree: planted by my grandmother, Queen Victoria. Here is one that was planted by the late King Christian of Denmark, and on the other side is the one that was placed by the Kaiser. Affer a pause, the King add- ed: 'You will see that it is crooked. "He asked me about the men in my commatd; and when I told who they . were he said, with tears in his eyes: 'Please say how grateful 1 am to them all' "When we left London Kitchener instructed us to sit on the King's head if necessary to protect him from harm in a Zeppelin raid, but it was a! difficul. order, because he i absolute Iy fearless and would not hide in time of danger for any one King During First Raid On the night of the first raid, the A AA AAS HEIGHT OF SOLDIERS Doss Modern Warfare Demand Size? --Height of New Armies Whether the tall man is any better soldier than the short one- was th brey, lecturer in Guy's Hospital, Lon- don. THe question is a pertinent one, for many short men are ziving up thelr positions and applying for ser vice in the British army, and if "ere Is any disadvantage in an army so constituted, the authorities ought to know it. There has always existed & popular admi.ation of the tall mili- tary man, and when his height is exaggerated by means of .he great bearskin cap of the grenadiers, the' people on the street, from the urchin up, are struck by the magnificence of the display. There probably wes a time' when size, if it carried proportionate muscular ability, was an advan'age. When the baights in armor d in pérsona) strife ard the best man left his antagonisi on the ground. brawn had unquestionably important standing. In Mtcovening times with battles at comparatively long range and military movoments much after the fashion of the chessboard. re liance has been placed in masketry cannonade ' again infusing the personal element the fight. The question is a fair one, oF The guns were | in | shipping | struck the { Hunstanton, about nine Sandringham. There was fog at the time which was very favor- able for the raiders. While Sir Charles Cust, the equerry-in-waiting, was lis- tening to the telephone report from the commander of the station at Hun- stanton, - the King walked into his room and said, 'What's ap? Sir Charles told him the Zepps were on their way. Th> King replied, '1 hope they go by soon without harming any body." His Majesty went down to din- ner and insisted on having electric light at the meal. So the palace was the only house showing lights withi a radius of 100 miles durin: th The Zeppelins passed within® three miles of Sandringham Palace Per haps 'the King was worried after all Rector Was Armed ! east coast at 1 Zeppelins miles: from | "Just after dinner a sergeant of the | me and re-| 'Frank | Grenadiers came up to ported that there were some terrors' about. After a minute or so {1 perceived that he meant | eurs, amateur soldiers. The first man I found had a rifle and many ridges I said, 'You must jive that gun and go home.' in stern tones, 'lI have been a friead lof the King for twenty-four years and I am here to protect kim with my life I will nc. obey your order.' "l said that if he did not obey 1 would have him lashed to the wheel of a gun carriage until daylight. 'I have heen a friend of the twenty-four years and | will not give | up my gun," he repeated in firm tones, {so 1 blew my whistle, | guard came up and grrested him. "Just before we arrived there the rector of Sandringham came along saw that he had a gun under his coat. Like his predecessor, who proved to be the schoolmaster; he refused {give up his rifle. After I had them placed with their backs to the big wheel of the gun earriage and they were about to spend the night stand- {ing in the wet grass they reluctantly | surrendered their weapons Sentry Halts the King "In the meantime the King had put on his overcoat and started for a stroll through the grounds on his bwn account to see what was going on. He had not gone far in the fog before a Grenadier on sentry go challenged him with the wards, 'Halt! Who goes there? There was no reply, and again he shouted, 'Halt! Who goes there? and, as no answer came to his challenge, he charged at the double with fixed bayonet toward the moving object until stopped hy the magic words 'The King!' " 'Pass, King, said the sentry. 'Why the 'ell didn't you sing out who ye was?" | "The King did not mid in the | least, and laughed over the joke when {he told us about it afterward ir the | smoking room." | me | stature are considored The heights {of the men of the division of Great | Britain, established by the consider (ation of something like ten thousand {in gil. are: For Scotchmen, 68.71 ine for Irish, 67.90% fur English, | 7.36, and for Welsh, 66.66, the aver {age for the kingdom being 67.68 inch- es, with a weight of about 170 pounds. | Incidentally it would appear from an examination of two or three hundred {thigh bones of Englishmen of five to {seven centuries ago. that the height was then somewhat less, bout 65.75 inches. The knight in armor, there { fore, was not the herculean personage {that romance so often pictures. | "As to the elements of stature, Dr. | Pembrey finds that legs have much [to'do with height, and notes that the man of 6 feet 41% inches has, when standing, the advantage of 1014 inches over the man of 5 feet § inches, but when seated this advantage is reduc ied to 3% inches. ITALY HEATS FOOD IT wow | A hot meal is one of the best tonies {after a long day in the trenches With {the excellent system of field kitchens used ty all the armies there Is not a | 20d | very great difficulty in giving the sol diers a hot meal ohce every twenty- {four hours. But a vers different i method of getting hot food to the sol- and the only narrow mountain passes would be impossible for a | field kitchen to traverse. Twice a day low lying | franctir | cart- | He replied | King for} and then the! 1 to | if MOTLEY ENGLISH UNIT { | { | A private in the British expedition. | {ary force, writing from the Gallipoli | Peninsula, told some remarkable facts about his companions. Of his platoon | | not one had ever been a soldier The! included a dozen van men, ymen, "two commercial travel lers, the "boots" of a London hotel, a policeman, a bookbinder. two show agsistants, a harman, a taxicab driver, jand an Oxford undergraduate "What {a crowd!" he says. "But they fought { like devils, and a Turkish officer who {| was taken prisoner said it was the first fight he bad been in, though he had helped defend and retake Haricot three times." several RUSSIA'S BRITISH HERO { Frail English Lad Rises in Czar's | Aomy From Ranks | Writing from Petrograd, the specigl | correspondent of the Loudon Times | said "While the British public is | applauding the deeds of daring and | fortitude that its sons have been per- forming in all quarters of the zlobe during the war, it should be of inter est to them to know that one modest boy of English blood has er up holding in the Russian army the tra- ditions of the service. John Wilton, a frail boy of seventeen, secured, by | special permission of the (azar. the right to serve in the ranks of one of the famous regiments of the Petro- grad Guards. For six months he took | part in practically every big battle in which the famous Corps was engage and these battles were P actically { continuous. He was with he party | of scouts which penetrated to the nearest point to Cracow and was at one time within eight miles of the city. Young Wilton's record was suc h that after six months of service he was promoted and became an ensign | strictly on the basis of merit of such {a nature that his activities came re- | peatedly to the attentin of the com-! manding officer of his regiment. At | the end of five months he was in com- | { mand of the mounted scouts 0° the! regiment and since becoming an of- | ficer he has twice been recommended j for decorations for services in the was the with- I i { field. His latest feat | drawing, from under a heayy fire, of { his command of scouts, which had | been ambushed bx a squadron of | German cavalry The young officer | | conducted this operation so skillfuly {that he extricated his command th} the less of only one man Hé has become well known to his regiment, and the example of the Young Eng- lishman rising from the ranks has caused much favorable comment among Russian officers IMMUNE FROM ARREST | } dors Zannot Evep~be Sued For Debts i The . behavior. of Messrs. Dumba , and Bernstorff in the United States would have been bad enough if they were ordinary foreign visitors to the States, byt as Ambassadors their con- duct became doubly reprehensible, for | an Ambassador ig always on hig hon- or. No Ambassador, for examplp® can be arrested or sued for debt How- ever mich he may get credit or even | defraud a tradesman, he cannot be | prosecuted. It is the same with an! Ambassador's wife. The wife of a Spanish Ambassador at "Turin once | had her goods seized by creditor; | whereupon Spain at once demanded the most profuse and ahject apologies | from the Malian Government' The Ambassador's wife is almost as | Limportant as her husband. Any at tack on her is reckoned by her hus- band's Government as being an af- front to itself. She is Very suscep. fible, too. on matters of precedence, | and her suscertibilitiecs must be re- rded. The wives of the British, the French, and the Austria Ambas- sadors all left a ball given by the Prin Palavicini at Rome--and left it. before the departure of the Xing | een----because they had mot! been placed at the Royal supper table, | while ladies of lesser position had. | BP el : | the West { navigator, also on r | bent, proceeded in a southerly direc- | tion, doubled the Cape of Good Hope i trade route to India, i THE PATIENT A London soliol- | "And did the shell burst? "No, mum, it crawled up be'ind me wen me like, in the leg!" --From the I wasn't Bystander. looking--an" just bit TO A da dd idm didi BRITAIN'S BENEFITS; WHY INDIA IS LOYAL Tribute of a Hindoo Member of Parliament -- A Romance of Modern History--An Empire Protected and Educated. Just. one member 9f the British Parliament is an Indian." He is Sir Krishna Gupta, M.P., who. as the fol- lowing article indicates, has a frank appreciation of the benefits of British j rule In India. The substantial benefits that have accrued to India from the British con- nection are incalculable. The history of that connection is indeed a rom- ance, writes Sir Krishna.. Til the close of the fifteenth century Europe had little direct intercourse with In- dia, though from earliest times a con- siderable trade in rich Indian fabrics and precious stones had been carried on overland and reports of Indian wealth had long powerfully attracted the imagination of the nations of the west It was in quest of a direct route to india that Columbus discover- ed America, and the archipelago where he first landed is still called Indies. Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese the same errand and arrived in Calicut, on the Mala- | bar coast, in 1498, after a protracted voyage of nearly eleven months. The which was till then chiefly overland, was through Venice and Alexandria, and the dis- covery of the direct passage to India | by sea led to the decline of those two fmportant distributing centre of Eastern merchandise. Found Labrador Instead The earliest English attempts to reach India were made by the North- west Passage and led to the dis covery of Labrador, Newfoundland and North Canada generally. The first English East India Company was formed in 1600 under a charter grant. ed by Queen Elizabeth, and it was not till after years of severe struggle, first with the Dutch and then with tae French. that the English obtained a firm footing in India. The foundations of British power in India were laid by Clive, who first | worsted Dupleix and the Nabob of Avcot in the south. Later in Bepgal, n the field ¢f Plassy, he routed in 1457 the forces of the reigning nabob, ac much by his valor as by his ay tuieness In takiug advantage of is affection in the ranks of his eppon- ent British sovereignty in India thus commenced with the . isition of ' Bengal snd Bihar, but in the course of the next hundred years it extended to the whole of ladia. It is true that neariy a third of the country is still under native rule; but We chiefs have to ack the) suzerainty of the Brition Mrane d have no SAAR AA AA § Sa AA A independent ever. [ external relations what- A Proud Record The growth and consolidation of British power in India, extending now to a period of abowt 150 years, is a bright chapter in their history, of which, in spite of soce obvious excep tions, the English might well be proud. Many British names, both in cil administration saurd%:dn military exploits, stand out in prominent re- lief as imperishable landmarks. The mutiny of 1857 came as a disagree able surprise and for a time threaten- ed the disappearance of all good re- lations, but it was to the eternal credit of Lord Canning, who was then Governor-General, * that peace and quiet was restored |with as little bloodshed and with as litfle display of acrimonious feeling as possible. In the following year the East India Company was abolished and the dir ect government of India was assumed by the Crown. British rule has made India safe against external attack and introduc- ed peace and order within. No Hindu or Mahommedan ruler, no Asoka or Akbar could claim sovereignty over practically the whole of India as the British Crown does. A network of railways covers the whole country, trade and commerce have been stimu- lated to an extent unknown before and we are in the full enjoyment of the advantages -of the dominating material civilization which has re- ceived so great a development in the west. It must in truth be also added that we have not escaped the draw- backs and penalties of that civilza- tion. But the greatest service per haps that English rule has done is to spread education in India. Al | though Sanserit language and litera- | ture attained a high state of efficiency | yet knowledge was confined 16 a few | of the highest classes, while the great {body of the people were steeped if ignorance. But under the British Government all this has heen changed and although much has yet to-be done to bring education generally to the niasses, yet more than a beginning has been made and further expansion {is merely a question of time. RUSSIA'S REVOLUTION Nicholas is Regarded as New Liber ator--A Happy People Professor J. V. Simpson, writes in the British Weekly: "One hundred million roubles per month used to be spent in. vodka; today it r i in the y of p life. On ali hands the people demand that it shall be banished for ems 5 | There has indeed been a revolution iin Russia; you see it in the people's faces. is the most outstanding feature t# anyone has known Russia before and after the outbreak of war. And it was the act of one man who "knew his. % They speak of Alexander IL as the Liber ator Czar because he brought about the emancipation of the serfs. But in a far deeper and larger sense should the title belong to Nicholas II. for while the former liberated a class, the latter has freed a nation. is Mackeheen Scottish 7 will have it in the north of Scotland that D.Se., tish First it was said that his ancestor was Macken SECOND FAREWELL T0 - SOLDIERS IS WORST London Stations Witness Count- less Affecting Scenes When Relatives Let Tommies Return to Trenches After Short Leave - at Home, One of thc most unusual features of the unusual war is the system by which officers and men are permitted to come from the trenches in Flan- ders for brief holidays in England. It has-been found that four or five days' release 'rom the terrific nerve strain of the present system of fight- ing with its tremendous and continu ous noise is invaluable and does much to maintain the morale of the men. Yet if one goes to the Victoria { enlisted men board. the train every | night to go back to the front. one! may wonder if the agony of parting does not outweigh all the advantages of the short stay at home. :For to| those who go and those who stay behind the wrench is far harder than | the first at the beginning of the war. Then there was novelty and excite ment. The soldiers left amid a crowd of cheering comrades; the women hoped they would soon return. Now both know exactly what is before them. . They have no illusions. They know the worst, but they face it. In the scene itself om its setting there is nothing unusual. One must look closely to understand it all and learn its heroism. Those men are going deliberately and calmly to face hardship and peril, and their women- folk and children, as they bid them farewell, are hiding dread with a smile. Most fortunate, indeed, are those with none to see them go. With rifles slung over their shoulders and packs on their backs, little groups o enlisted men stride sturdily along th platform. It might be a shooting ex- pedition on the moors for which they are bound. and they greet their com- rades in the train with the air of school boys after a holiday. All Classes and Climes The other groups, the litfle gather ings of relatives and friends, cluster ing around a khckiclad figure, tell the tale of misery. Girangely diverse they are, drawn from all classes and all parts of the British Empire. The scrub woman of Whitechapel, the An- glo-Indian general from Pall Mall, the young wife from the prairies o. the Canadian Northwest, have met for a moment, because some cne they love is going. The com onplace mixes with the | heroic. Last moments' are precious, | but some must be given to travelling | arrangements. The details soon set- tle themselves and the hoar of fare well draws near. A staff officer with beribboned breast strolls slowly with his wife. Hardly a word they utter, but they are stili near each other "You'll be back in three months? suddenly she says 2 "Hardly that, I think," be answers with a sad smile, and they pass on silently. A lad, barely 19, has come with his Station in London, when officers and {50.8 to undertake | wounded officer enough to go, but harder stil with that group of red-eyed women to see him of His natural shyness grows deeper as they cluster round anc talk the futilitles of farewell "Oh, here you are! I've heen ing for you everywi wre," a rises above the din. Colonel, I simply had to see Freddie off. He looks so well in his unifory I know he'll kill lots of Ge mat A woman, dressed in the extrer the fashion, pushes her way the crowd. The young officer smij feebly, his father draws hamse! and his mother shrinks into herse Evidently the woman is vawelcome, but she prattles on abou: the wounds of her friends and the gayeties herself and all the war work si ook- shrill voice "You ki ow, n, ot through s up pif is Slowly down the platform comes Pale and mm ecru es h. watches the men start for firing line. He speaks to no one looks for no one, but he razes longing in his eves He has the khaki and led a cha 8 Now with dragging limbs and shattered health, he comes in mufti to sce his comrades go. A Young Men's Christian Assucia tion agent slipped quietly past He was seeking men to whom hb might be of use. He gave to all who asked a little New Testament bound in khaki and just small enouzh to slip into the. pocket. ri Crude jokes abofif the Kaiser, brief referendes to men har{ ip-- anders or killed in. the Dard lles, heart- felt wishes of 'good I and faint promises of a quick féturn were the snatches of conversatiop that come to the onlooker Through it all ran a restraint. Wha. could be said on such an occasion? How could it be said in such a crowe?® The Last Moments > The train began to 511 up and the crowd on the platform closed it on the .oors. Here and there a woman was crying and sometimes it was hard to get a little tot to let his father go, but generally, the self control' was wonderful. The rough criticisms of an irrepressible Tommy could still raise a laugh and the very depth of the crowd's feelings kept it otiill. The family grours were al ready broken, the wife was separated from her husband, the little girl from her {:ther and the old couple were bereft of their son. The whistle sounded and the train began to move. Last kisses were thrown throug! the windows and some of the wilder girls tried to run down the platform A cheer went up, but it was hulf-hearted in itz chokiness and eyes grew dim as the carriages gathered speed But even at that supreme moment fun crept into that sad, cdd scene. As the last car sped past a Tommy suddenly thrust out his head from the baggage car compartment. "'0'0'd ave thought I was 'ere'" he called, and the crowd laughed at his unexpected grin. The train and the soldiers were gone, and there was nothing to do but to go also. Fathers and mothers, wives and children turn- a he with worn mother and her friends Is hard ed away : "Adjectivitis" Afflicts Our War Correspondents Horrible Modern Epidemic of ' Words Causes Much Fun-- Every Staff Must Be "Bril- liant"--Perils of the Younger | Writers. We have come to the conclusion | that the main trouble with most of | our young writers is inflammation of | sundry parts of speech---notably of | the adjective---and in this disorder we | dave ventured to attach the name | | "adjectivitis » In aggravated cases) the patient is unable to use a nouh | without burdening it with a qualifica- | {tion. As thus: "She walkec across! the richly furnished room, pulled aside the heavy curtain and gazed out into the darkening landscape." Hear we see every substantive neat ly fitted with its adjective, every one of which is entirely superfluous. We are chiefly concerned to know what, in the evident crisis, the young wo- man did. It is unkind to arrest her in her walk in order to call our at tention to the facts that the room was richly furnished and the curtains were heavy. Some of these cases are chronie, 'and the sufferer can use nothing but adjectives which have so long been joined together with some Noun THE No MAN can put them xsun- der. In these cases evening clothes are always immaculate, thuds are dull and sickening, waltzes are dreamy, reports (of firearms) are sharp. Kipling is Blamed The present war has been respon- sible for a violent outbreak of adjec tivitis . among iabelled as "far flung" (1 thank thee nof, Kipling, for teaching our young writers" that word') Any activity shown in entrenching or fortifying pretty certain to be "feverish." : land. On land it is "heroic," at soa "daring." If any correspondent uses the word "heroic" in connection with a sea affair or "da.ing" 0 dually some exploi. on land, it is safe t. put bim down as a blundering hovice who does not know his business Bur it is the maddening repetition of "far flung" that offends u¥ most Sad is the Prospect We are not hostile to the adjective as ich. In fact, we look upon it as Artemus Ward looked wupor baked beans, which in an immortal passige he pronounced "a cheerful fruit hen used moderately." Strict moderation in the upp of adjectives should be the first lesson impressed upor all young writers. There is no Fabit more insidious than that of using ad- Jectives where there is no need It Erows upon the victim till he writes hi { into an acute atgack ol ad- jectivitis, and can no more do with. out the qualifying words than the dope fiend can do without his sy or the alcoholic without his bottle Little by little he sinks into a state when he i q i 5! 5 H i: 5 : i i Sy £ | 3 i i i j if i ik ; : is i cis ! i : § ; : i j 2 j i i E Hi

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