The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1921, Page 20

BARON BYNG IS COMING TO CANADA Famous Hero of Vimy Ridge to Be Governor-General; He Likes Canadians BY MILTON BRONNER LONDON, July 29.—Baron Byng o’theTanks sails for America Au gust 3. ‘The immortal here of Vimy Ridge —the British general who for the first time in history unleashed @ fleet of battle tanks at Cambrai and routed a superior force of awestruck Germans—comes to Canada to as sume his new duties as governor general for five years. I asked him to talk to me about! | himself, his plans, bis hopes and as pirationsalways a bard thing for & man who has done big things to consent to do, HE'S 59, STRAIGHT AS A LINE Picture him—59 years old, straight as @ line, almoet six feet, with dark brown hair, ecarcely showing any gray; a dark brown mustache, and friendly smiling blue eyes, All the time he talks he puffs at a little briar pipe which has gone thru many a battle with him. “I expect to be sworn in at Que. bec, Aug. 10 and to be In Ottawa on August 11," he mys. “I have never held a diplomatic position be. fore, I am not a diplomat, but I think my good friends, the Canad jana, will pull me out of holes as they have done before.” “Canada's a democratic country lke the United States,” I ventured. “They will take to you because you are democratic.” EVERYBODY RAS TO BE DEMOCRATIC “Oh, everybody has to be demo the condition of all the civilized world. It means that since the war the world is more democratic, people are democratic, institutions are democratic, institutions are demo- cratic. It's an age of more sim Diicity. It's also an age of more criticiem. “People take a man only for what he is, not for what he was born, nor for what he imagines him GIRLS! LEMONS BLEACH SKIN WHITE ning three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug * store will supply for a few cents, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of harmless and delightful lem- on bleach. Massage this sweetly fra- grant lotion into the face, neck. and hands each day, then note the beauty and white. your skin. use this 01.83 ene way. $3.43 round trip MT. VERNON O2.33 one way. $4.43 round trip BURLINGTON 02.49 one way. $4.77 round trip SEDRO-WOOLLEY 248 one wey. $5.14 round trip BELLINGHAM $3.25 ene way. $6.25 round trip ANACORTES Seattle 6:30 a. m., 5:00 a. and heurly until 6:00 p. m. @ round trips daily to Bell- ingham. 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So I sent word) to them and got a very satisfactory | answer.” I asked him” whether he was going to visit us while he was governor general. “I can't.” he replied. “It's an unwritten rule that the governor general does not leave Canada, His | wife can, his #taff can, but not he. | “Still, T can go down and look at | | the most wonderful frontier in the world—the Canadian-United States border which has never had its par. allel, Three thousand miles with not & soldier, nor a fort, nor a gun on either side, bat everywhere the signs of amity and peace. That's a won erful object lesson for the world.” JOINED ARMY | BACK IN 1883 Julian Byng joined the army in | 1883, saw service in the Sudan and [in the Boer war, becoming a colonel [At the outbreak of the big war he wee in command of the British troops in Exypt. He fought in | France and Gallipoll. Returning to} France as a lieutenant general, he had command of the 17th corps and im May, 1916, was given com of the Canadian corps with which them he won the great surprise bat tle of Cambrai with the tanks. He ‘was made a full general and in the final campaign of 1918 his army held the line north of the Somme and wen some crushing victories against the Germans. The government made him a peer, gave him the thanks of parliament and a grant of 30,000 pounds. In/ August, 1919, he resigned from the soldiers and sailors and thetr wid- Ows and dependents. seine Rens NETL BROOE For French Pastry look up Boldt's, —Advertisement, COLUMBIAN | S—atisfaction | | E—conomy R—eliability V—alue I—ntegrity C—ourtesy E—fficiency OPTICAL CO | . | £315 FOURIT AVE. 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