The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1925, Page 8

| ‘and served until April 30, 1921, when - -the-Home Rule Parjition Act took ef- PAGE EIGHT : THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE . BRITISH WAR HERO IS DEAD Field Marshal French Fails to Rally From Operation (By The Associated Press) Desal, Eng., May 22.—-Farl of Ypres, better known Field Marshal French, British world war hero, died here today aged 73. The Earlof Ypres | underwent an operation on May 19 as | Thirst For Adventure Causes Early Raid in Transvaal | Soon thereafter he was reported to| be recovering but subsequently his condition became worse | Rising to the highest places and honors in British military circles, the Kort of pres often was character | ized as “the luckiest man in the army” French luck became al most proverbial, among the British oldiers. ter events, however, | caused a difference of opinion to} whether the luck had been on the! soldier's side or on that of the Brit-| ish Army and the British Empire. | and Perhaps the most important event of his career which had to do with} these two ideus was the historic bat-| tle of Ypres in the Vérld War, the winning of which barred the channel ports from the Germans and saved England from probable invasion. It! was at Ypres that the Germans first] resorted to their deadly gas attucks,| a form of warfare that impelled the British nder to deplore the fact that an army would stoop so low. What was termed the earl’s biggest piece of sheer luck occurred in 1895 when the British military authorities decided to revise the cavalry drill book as a prelude to reorganizaton of the mounted arm. At that time he was Colonel French, on the re-| tired list at half pay and had been) for two years, having been shelved) ut the age of 41 to give younger | men a chance for promotion. His! career apparently was ended. | It happened that the inspector xen-| comm EDITOR'S NOTE: John Hays Hammond, veteran mining enginee b Rerome Comma Forowmrs Guanbine Bas acs Torresen wie donancranatans” tience to start. “Jameson was thirsty the wor “He arrived at the border town of for adven- MOB FOILED IN ATTEMPT TO KILL NEGROES (By The Associated Presa) Dalias, Tex., May 22.—Five men were wounded, one seriously, in an exchange of shots between officers guarding the county jail here and a mob of about 300 men early this |morning. The mob was bent on \lynching Frank and Loren Noel, ne- gro brothers, indicted yesterday for two murders and a number of crim- inal assaults. The mob was driven \back after about 20 shots were fired. All the injured were civilians. .|PASSING SHOW COMING HERE “NEXT MONTH | The new ng Show,” the most sumptuous production ever made by |Lee and J. J. Shubert at their fam- ous Winter rden, comes to the Auditorium, Friday night, June 5. s and twenty-eight scenes | In two ac! it is a whirlwind of vaudeville, com~ edy, drama, extravaganza, opera, mu- sical comedy, ballets and beautiful rls. There is a company 150 in eral of cafalry was Sir George Luck,! of Washington, is qne of the most| Pitsani, but not with 1500 men—with | ture. He'd been reading of Clive under whom French hud served in| pictuzesque characters of only 200 or 300 Rhodesian police and| and wanted to imitate him. He was India, where he performed brilliantly| Millions have been invested upon his| about 200 volunteers picked upon | used to overawing great numbers of | 5 in bringing cavalry commands up to! advice in mining afairs. He has] the road. This band was too small.| blacks with a few well-armed men a high point of eficiencp. Sir George! figured prominently politica His| Jameson was in too big a hurry, too.} and thought he could do the same had not forgotten that service and! adventures as a young mining ex-|He wanted to push into the Trans-| thing with the Boers. brought Colonel French out of re-|pert were thrilling and exciting. Dur-| vaal and force a fight before we were | “About this time I had a call from tirement to write the new y|ing the Uitlanders’ rebellion against | ready. Our arms hadn't come. We| sammy Marks. book. The result was charac ag ‘a masterpiece of lucid expla tion and terse precision.” Then the! question arose to who | carry out the alterations called for] in the book. one who sug was to ant adjutant general | und proceeded to climb up-| ward to the command of the first] 100,000 British soldiers who met the: first terrific onslaughts of the Ger- mans in the World War. In the meantime French had made} extensive reforms and was given command of a cavalry brigade. In the maneuvres of 1898 he attracted; the attention of the entire sista army. In these, through extraordi- nagily daring @perations he com- pletely baffled his opponent, gen-} eral using methods which hud been regarded as e nt und necessary until Frenc nius mude them an-; tiquated. French became a major general the next year. H The Boer War was to French only, another opportunity to show the abil-| ity which the British military auth- orities had shelved seven years be fore. He was given the chief cav-! airy command and in numerous op-| erations he proved himself a great! strategist and a superior tactician. He was mentioned in many dispatch- > and went back to England at the close of the war to be knighted and ivan the command of all the troops at Aldershot with the rank of lieu venant general. In 1907 French was appointed in- spector general of the forces and five years later he was made chief of the imperial general staff. He was made a field marshal in 1913 and as such went to France at the beginning of the World War as commander in: chief of the expeditionary forces. Here again he displayed extraordi- nary ability as a military leader. He was, in @ way, responsible for the] change in the British cabinet result-| ing in the creation of the ministry of ‘munitions, at the head of which| former Premier Lloyd George suc- ceeded in awakening the munitions| manufacturers to the necessity of rallying to the aid of the soldiers in the field. In the early engagements in France, French’s army was out-num- bered by the enemy and short of high explosives to halt the German advance. To the latter was attri- buted the nectssity for the’ strategic retreat from Mons, in which{ he handled the sorely tried British army in masterly fashion. Later with| 1,000,000 men under his command he scored his great victory at Ypres. Reporting on his operations the field marshal wrote: “The glorious troops under my command had gone valiantly to their death when a few, more guns and a few more shells | ywould have muny times saved their, sacrifie. And still no sufficient sup-, plies came.” ‘Criticized at home for permitting the Germans ulmost im- pregnably to entrench themselves, ; French became involved in a con-} troversy with Lord Kitchener, his} former South African commander, | ‘then secretary of state for war. The late Lord Northcliffe made a visit to the British front and upon his return bluntly told the facts of the shell shortage. 1t was then that the change in the cabinet was made. with the result that the factories speeded up and turned out an im- miense amount of shells and other ewar implements. — » After 16 months of intensive wgr- fate in France, French relinquished ‘command of the British forces’ to ‘Field Marsha! Haig and returned to England, He was created a viscount né@ (made commander in chief of the i United King. ‘poat’he held until 1918, Then he was tnade Lord lieutenant of Ireland, i fect and Viscount Fitzalan became oy. .On December 19, 1919, motoring through Ireland an to assassinate the j Was not gazetted for nea His party was fired i Oom Paul in the Transvaal he us| hoped for reforms without bloodshed one of the leaders and was sentenced | besi¢ *| Sammy had come, from Poland 2 to die, Here is the second of eight] « Fe cp eeameae ars earlier, a peddler’s boy. TaLccaewa teu atomils De Gielen IRE EC neha itey Ge Mace toeoned col beckinejek eager gpencnery: |Vintiguar seize 10,000 rifles the Boers had wt] and dynamite concassions. Now he ‘Tribune, clusively to 1 ES P. STEWART Writer Col, Rhodes right in our guess that rifles we were smuggling into the Transvaal were on the freight train wrecked coming up to Johannesburg from Kimberley. Hammond, veteran mining engineer had been telling of the Uitlander up- sing in 1895-6 ngainst Pr Kruger of the Boer Republic of Transvaal. v could just see those arms scattered over the veldt, with Boer officials noting that Rhodes and I were the consigne “*What'll we do? ked Rhodes. “*We own the two best horses in Johannesburg, I suggested. ‘Let's it a bit. It may not be our train, If it we still ought to be able to gat over the border into Natal.’ “We did wait, our horses hitched a couple of squares away. “Then another telegram from Gar- dner Williams: “*Wreck on line. Our friends for- tunately unhurt. Arrive tomorrow. Have hotel accommodations ready.’ Another Story “But we had another worry by this time--Dr. Jameson. “Jameson was administrator of Rhodesia, north of the Transvaal.! The British South African Chartered Company governed Rhodesia. Cecil Rhodes controiled the Chartered company. “Jameson was his representative on the ground. He had an armed force under him, to control the natives, It was a force we Uitlanders in Johan- nesburg thought we might look to for rescue if we got into a fight against hopeless odds and were in danger of being wiped out, with peril to our wives and children, too. “So Col. Rhodes, Lionel Phillips, George Farrar and I, as Reform Committee leaders, arranged with Jameson to concentrate about 1500 men just outside the border and wait our call. He wasn’t to enter the Transvaal unless and until we gave upon from ambush, but French esr caped injury. Upon retirement as lord lieutenant of treland; French was created an earl by King George. His new honor ly a year afterward, when it was officially an- nounced that he had elected to be known as the Earl of Ypres after the place of his great victory in the war, Some surprise was occasioned by his title selection, it being quite unus- ual to thke the name of a foreign place for a title, only a few of such examples appearing in the British records. The Earl of Ypr John Denton Pinkstone French, was the son of a captain of the Royal y and was born September 28, 1858, at Ripple, Kent. He joined H. M. Britannia in 1866 and was a naval cadet and midshipman four years, He entered the army in 1874. The earl was an ardent admirer and student of Napoleon whom he re- garded as the greatest strategist the world has even known. In following closely Napoleon's campaigns he had covered much of the very ground in Belgium, where years later he was ealled upon to combat as formidable a foe as the Little Corporal ever faced, French's knowledge. of Bel- gign soil was said to have been an ormous help to him. And this, some insisted, was another bit of French luck. In 1880 the earl married Eleanora, daughter of R. W. Selby-Lowndes. The wild boar of India will at- tack a man without provocation. sche power t we could and destroy the rest. after mi on no One of the arsenal walls The guard was small, Our to surprise and over- entries, take all the arms wi mining companies consulting engineer. “As he sat down in my office, messenger entered and handed me ew Jameson too Adventurous “But we needed time and Jameson ve us none, We rushed message age to him, warning him account to move, All we had in reply breathed desperate impa- note. It was from Col. Rhodes. “In spite of all our urging: Jameson had crossed the border, “The raid was on.” how a bluff carried out. HELP MAKE BISMARCK GROW - BUY ATHOME = WEDD We are handling the complete Minneopa line of canned goods and fancy groceries, ; distributed by the Bismarck Grocery Com- pany. They buy in carload lots, which in itself means a big saving, thercby putting us in position to sell thig brand at the very lowest prices for quality merchandise. The Minneopa line of groceries is gudran- teed by the Bismarck Grocery Company and ourselves to please the most fastidious. RICHHOLT’S CASH GROCERY Garage Service All Night From Now On. 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