New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1916, Page 14

14 AIG CONSIDERED A'MAN OF SILENCE, Liet, Business-Like and Thorough Is British Commander Correspondence of the Asso. Press.) British Headquarters, France, June 0.—No military leader is more avers publicity or works more han Sir Douglas Haig, the ‘ommander-in-chief in France. Probably not one man out of ten f the million or more under his ommand would recognize him if they aw him. Not given to reviews or ny kind of display, this quiet and tudious Scotsman was the choice of he progressive, practical, driving ele- nent of the army as the one fit by quipment, training and experience to jucceed Sir John French. At fifty-five @ is nine years younger than Sir ohn and ten years younger than Jof- *e¢ or von Hindenburg. Entered Army On Wager. There is a story ‘that he entered he army,as the result of a boylsh ager. He went through Oxford with flistinction before he went to the fatlitary school at Sandhurst. His hoice of.arm was the cavalry which pas had.soalittle to do so far in this var. But no sooner had he re- elved his commission, later in life lhan most officers because of the time Bat he had spent at Oxford, than he et out with the thoroughness of the fudent to master every branch of his profession. “Itewas in Berlin in the nineties that met a Captain Haig who was study- ng German and the German army,” ald an Englishman. “I was struck py his industry—not a brilliant man, perhaps, but a sound and well bal- nced one. A little hesitant of jpeech; what he did say went to the eart of things.” He studled the French army, too, indythe history of all campalgns with he systematic thoroughness that he ipplied to everything. It was the pame with his pastimes as his pro- 'ession. Whether he had talent for t or not he made himself a first class If player though the form' which he developed did not excite the envy bt protessionals. At the British Army Staff College, ere officers learn organization, he silently British as a marked man before he acted] ehief-of-staff to General French in uth Africa in the operations that Inade French's reputation. He was a foldier's soldier, who had won solid brofessional esteem, though the pub- ¢ had hardly heard of this reserved, ndemonstrative worker. Of the men of command rank in the British army in ‘August, 1914, he and fir Willlam Robertson — another tudious man who had risen from the anks and is now chief of staff in Lon- fion—were the two who were ap- braised by the generation of officers jvho had developed since South Af- ica as having prepared for the di- ection of large bodies of troops on he scale of continental warfare. They hre not the magnetic, dashing leader ype, but organizers. Educated in Tough School. Going out in command of the first hrmy of the British expeditionary orce, Sir Douglas had seventeen onths experience, Mons, Ypres and 00s, of the warfare of the western front, which all agree is the toughest kchool any soldier has ever known. There was no doubt who command- kd the First army. It was Halg. He was no figurehead for the work of an ble chief-of-staff. London did not pandy his name about; he was not a Jpersonality to the public, though he as to the army. When anyone asked at the front who was the best man to take Sir john’s place, the answer was almost finvariably: “Haig.” He had not cap- ured the army’s imagination, but :ts reason. The tribute was one to brains. The new army was arriving in great umbers from Its BEnglish drill grounds when he took over command. is country expects him to make it an instrument which will execute successful offensive on the westem front where the four months’ effort of the Germans at Verdun, the French effort in Champagne and the British effort at Neuve Chapelle and Loos convince many military circles that the feat is impossible. His first operation, carried out without a hitch and unknown to the Germans, was the taking over of the trenches occupied in the Arras sector neral Petain's army which was released for Verdun. This gave the British an intact front of about one hundred miles; and was decided upon by the jAllied commanders as wiser than a premature British offensive in the rite and bog of the flat country lof Flanders and Northern France. i A wisp of a flag and two sentries entraiice to clateau smaller occupled by many division {generals which is the headquarters of fthe commander-in-chief. Anyone fwho expects to be ushered into offices ith aides .unning in and cut of door- nd telephone ringing will Dbe *}{sappointr‘d Jo place could be far- fther removed from the struggle of the renches and yet in the army zone. The only occupants of the chateau eside Sir Douglas are his private ecretary and his aldes who are “erocks” which is the army word for flicers who have been wounded and re not fit for the physical exposure f the trenches. In other words if a youngster wishes to become an aid e must have fought and then have he decision of a doctor that he can iot stand living in cellar-like “dug- uts. idesignate {than that bells Exact on Appointments. The hour of any appointment is ex- ot to the minute; and whoever has one at his chateau is expected to be there on the minute, general head- guarters’ time. There is little cere- ony. Life at that small chateau has @ real soldierly simplicity. Torpedo Boai Layers Play Enemy Part in War Game| TWO VIEWS OF TOEPEDO BOAT DESTROYER ERICSSON SPEED- JNG — LEFT, MINE LAYING PRACTICE. The defenses of the north Atlantic coast are to be tested in a series of mimiec Wwar manemvers, beginning July 24, the forts being called upon At lunch- xtrv 1o meet an attack by a fleet of tor- pedo boat destroyers and mine plant- €rs representing an enemy. eon the soldier servant places the food on the side board and everyone takes his plate and helps himself. Few guests come. Sir Douglas keeps his time to himself for his work and his own choice of recreation. One of the aldes receives the caller; and a minute later the man with iron gray hair and moustache, sturdy, athletic of build, slightly above me- dium height, who comes into the hall could not be mistaken, whether in or out of uniform, for anything but a soldier though something about the well-chiseled, regular features also suggests the scholar. “Oxford and Sandhurst and India,” said one of his admirers “and hard work at a desk when he was not tak- ing exercise in open air best describe him.” In one of the rooms of the ground floor the walls are hung with maps including a series which have been crowded on a roller. Any portion of sthe front in all its details may be re- ferred to in a moment. In the center of the room a desk; and against the wall a table with more maps and drawings and some of those strange photographs from aeroplanes of gray- ish lines of trench systems in a dusky field of shell and mine-craters which make one think of the dead world of the moon. Out of doors a field of daisies, birds singing, a typical sunny day in Northern France. From this retreat a vast army is be- ing trained and its organization com- pleted and directed in the day by day tug-of-war for “The Chief” com- mands an army still in the making. There is something impersonal about it and yet personal; for he is absolute- ly the chief. There is no suggestion of any commission system in the com- mand of the British army these da; The man and his method are as quiet as the room. With a battlefront which remains in the same place month after month the routine of h work has become almost as set as his habitation and not unlike that of the autocrat of some great business or- ganization. The regular staff officer are in astown not far away. Subor dinate chiefs of the different army branches, be it Operations, Intelli- gence, Ordnance or Supply, come to him in succession at hours set during the morning to make their reports and recelve their instructions. They do most of the talking; and they have learned how not to do more than necessar; He listens, decides, If a longer conference than usual is desir it may come at luncheon or later in the afternoon when he re- turns from his ride which he takes regularly every day. Then more work until dinner and then some after din- ner. If he goes down to the lines or perhaps to confer with General Joffre in the one car which alone of all the cars carrying staff officers and gen- erals along the roads flies the British flag the routine for that day is broken. Like General Joffre he sleeps long hours. A rested mind is a clear mind for great responsibilities. Like Von Hindenburg he never reads fiction. When rgading has not to do with his profession it is of serious books and monthlies and quarterlies. Even dur- ing the battle of Ypres when it was touch and go with disaster he slept as soundly as Joffre during the battio of the Marne. At a crisis of the ro- from: Mons he remarked as NEW, BRITAIN DaILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1616. Desi: quietly as if he were giving a direc- tion to an alde: “We shall have to hold on here for a while if we all die for it.”” There is never any fustlan about these modern scientific soldier organizers. Again during the retreat when a certain general became some- what demoralized Sir Douglas took him by the arm and walked up and down with him in silence till he was over his fit of nerves on that terrible August day. Those who work with him know that his sign of anger is a prolonged silence of a telling kind. He has a temper but does not let it zet past his lips, they say. He has, too, a keen sense of humor, with a Scotch flavor. Has No Tllusions. The impression he leaves on a call- er is that of a leader without illu- sions; a soldier who sees with a sol- dier logic; who is not afraid to be patient. “In your Civil war,” he sald, “it was a case of raising armies of un- tralned men to fight armies of wun- trained men while with us the small nucleus of regular officers who sur- vived the retreat had to train even larger forces to meet a military ma- chine which had forty years of pre- paration. Not only man to man, but in organization must we make our- selves superior to our powerful ene- my. The training of battalions and the manufacture of guns in England and their transfer to France repre- sented only the first stage of real pre- paration for our task. Here they must be organjzed into divisions, corps and rmies under the actual conditions of warfare before they could become worthily effective as a whole in any decisive effort against a foe whose staff training, reinforced ‘by experi- ence in the ficld must remain excel- lent, however exhausted he becomes. Every day he grows weaker and we grow stronger. Owing to the indom- itable spirit of our officers and men in learning we are accomplishing what seemed the impossible to many sol- diers at the outset of the war. Our cause gives us strength; for we are fighting for civilization. Those who looked to us for victory will have their patience rewarded.” A lieutenant in the trenches knows as mugh of when the blow will be struck as a corps commander of a staff department head. A quiet order from that quiet room and then the struggle, which by the token of the commander’'s strong chin and im- perturbability, he will carry through with unbending resolution and Scotch ‘canniness.” Being a good Scot he goes every Sunday morning to a little wooden Presbyterian chapel which has been erected on the outskirts of head- quarters town where he sits in the company of Scottish officers and sol- diers during a good Scotch sermon and a long one, too. YALE LOSES STAR. Kirkpatrick Will Not Return Because of Il Health, w July 21 ball outlook for next Haven, —Yale's foot- fall received an- other blow when it definitely established that Kirkpat- rick, star lineman of last year's squad, s lost to the team. Ill health is given as the cause. The loss of this star will be felt by yesterday, was oyers and Mine 1 1 | the Blue team because of the absence of “Club” Sheldon and Jim Braden, who are with the Yale battery, and stand but a slim chance to return be-| tore the big games. “FAT” WAUGH DIES Star Operator of Associated Press Al- ways Chosen to Handle Important Assignments—In Game Since 1872. New York, July 21.—W. L. Waugh known to telegraph operators throughout the country at ‘“Fat” Waugh, died from pneumonia here last night. Mr. Waugh was born in Fulton, N. Y., in 1860, and began I telegraph career as a messenger oy at the age of 12. He graduated as an operator for the Western Union at the age of 14, and after a few vears of varied employment entered the service of The Associated Press. Owing to ill health he was placed on the retired list of The Associated Press a few weeks ago. Waugh's heautiful “Morse" is a tra- dition not only in The Associated serv ice, but among telegraphers eve: where. For many years he was the sending operator in New York on the first main trunk circuit between New York and Chicago, and on all special occasions, such as national conven- tions, he was the sender on what 1s known as the “bulletin wire.” Il health prevented his detail to the las, national conventions and for the first time in twenty years The Associated Press was without the services of one who, in the past, had flashed to the world the nominations of half a dozen presidents and vice presidents and the candidates who had opposed them. ORDER FOR 45,000 SHELLS Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company Closes Contract for $8,000,000 Mu- nition Job With Entente Allies. | Philadelphia, July 21.—Announce- ment that it had closed a contract for 45,000 twelve-inch shells with the entente allies was made last nigat by the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company. The contract amounts to about $8,000,000. Nowfolk, Va., X crew of the schooner Virginia Rulon which foundered in the recent storm off the coast have been saved, d a wire- | The r ! interesting one, { been | tendance of FACTORY LEAGUE | Stanley Works and N. B. Machine Battle For Second Place Tomorrow North & Judd vs. Corbin Screw. | At Walnut Hill park—North & Judd | and Corbin 8 will be called at 3 o'cloc (‘mb\n‘ Screw corporation has been strength- | ened by the gddition of several new players, who have already shown thelr | worth by defeating the Stanley Works | last Saturday in a ten inning battle. ‘ Both teams are confident of a \lc-‘ tory. Jim Reilly will umpire this game. ‘ At St. Mar: are to be several St. Mary's playground Playground—There | athletic meets at | Saturday and | in order to give the fans an opportun- | § ity to see the game between the Stan- | - Works and New Britain Machine, tling for second place, the game will not be called until 3:30 o’clock. ce so far has been a close and | as has been shown by of fans that have the games. Attend- | ance last Saturday surpassed any at- | this year. A large at- tendance is expected for this game. Larrey Mangan will umpire. The officers of the bilant over the enthusiasm shown by the admirers of the Factory league baseball and it is being much ap- | preciated. It is their intention to | give the people of New Britain the | best baseball to be obtained in the | city. Fafnir idle tomorrow. the schedule. Fafnir Bearing leaders in the league and North & Judd, Stanley Works, New Britain Machine and Corbin Screw follow re- the large number attending league are ju- | Bearing company will lie | owing to a change in spectively. McCARTHY TO PIRATES. Dreyfuss Claims Inficlder Cubs Sent to Kansas Cit) Pittsburgh, July 21.—President Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh National league club was notified last night that he had been awarded Alex. McCarthy, the infielder, by the waiver route fro mthe Chicago Nationals. McCarthy formerly played with the Pirates. Chicago, July 21—President Charles Weeghman of the Cubs was disap- pointed when the Giants secured Her- zog, but the arrival of William Wort- man, the new shortstop from Kan- sas City, helped revive the spirits of the Cubs. Wee¥hman not give Kansa, announced that he could City Second Baseman Alex McCarthy, but would malke up the deficit in cash, together with Shortstop Mulligan, in the trade for Wortman. It had been decided pre- viously to include McCarthy in the | deal. CENTURY MARK. Dave Robertson First to Make Hits. making two hits in Cincinnati Dave Robertson, of the Giants, reacher the century mark in bingles, being the first. National league batter to register 100 hits this season. Robertson just nosed out Jake Daubert of the Superbas, who was tied with Robertson at 98 up to Wednesday. Jake failed to get a hit in Chicago Wednesda; The race between Robertson and Daubert, for the honor of passing the century mark, has been keen! for a wek. Daubert led last Thursday with 95 against 92 for the Giants’ young slugger, who made six hits in four days, while Jake's failure to get a hit in Chicago tied them up and it re- mained for Wednesday's games to de- cide. Robertson was the lucky hitter. 100 By Wednesday, BALL PLAYERS MAROONED. Lynchburg, Va., July 21.—The Ral- eigh baseball club of the North Caro- lina league left here early today for Queensboro to resume the schedule after being marooned three days at Asheville, by the floods. The club had to detour 474 miles for the 191 mile trip, coming by way of Kno ville and Bristol. OBJECTIONS TO FEMINISTS. (Correspondence of the Asso. Press.) Budapest, Hungary, July 14.—Hun- gary frowns on the feminist move- ment, in war time at least. The leaders of the Hungarian Feminist ociation had planned a big congress r this se n, but has had to post- pone it indefinitely because the palice of Budapest raised insurmountable objections. No lines nor seams to blur your vision 15/ KRZ a9 (Pronounced Crip-tock) See near and far objects with one pair of glasses. Saves time and conserves your sight. A. PInKus, L0 main less message last night from the Dia- mond Shoals lightship. Notice--10 Per Gent. Giscount TH ment is brought week) Goods. Lee Famous Split Throat Rackets. 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