The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-08
Was Furious When He Learned He Had Been Sent to Antwerp in Com- mand of Men-Sidelights on the War in Europe
Fly LENOx BRUCE

London, October 24-(Special. lone of the best stories connected with the war which has yet been told in the London clubs Is now going the rounds. It relates to Arthur Asquith, the youngest son of the premier by his first wife, who was one of the officers of the naval brigade sent to Answerp. Young Asqulth had only joined three ice, The story Is that his father knew nothing about his having been sent to the fl ont until he had already arrived In Antwerp, and when he heard of 1t he was furious and sent for Winston Churchill, the first lord of the admiralty. and gave him severe wigging. The reason for MT. Asquith's indignation was not that his son had been sent to the post oi danger, but, 1t is said, that such quail fled fool as he knew his son to be should be placed in command of men in dan gerous service The story gains point when it is known that Arthur Asquitt is not popularly credited with sharing the brains for which the other members of the family are so remarkable.
 The sending of the naval brigade to Antwerp, as you probably know, has given rise to lot of criticism of Winston Churchill and one London paper in par ticular-the Morning Post-has openly at tackled him for sending men on what il was perfectly well known was hope. less task. Nothing could be more absurd than criticism of an individual minister
 n such a case for there cannot be tht slightest doubt that the sending of tn. u oops was the decision of the whol' ca binet deliberately taken.
 Churchill had been over to AntwerI and knew exactly what the situation there was, and the troops were sent fo the purpose of heartening the Belgian army and assisting 1t to retire in goot order. They did their job well witt uHcommonly little loss, and military an' naval opinion Is unanimous that thei sending was Justified. It may be wortl mentioning that the Morning Post, whicl led in the attack on Churchill, Is tn tory paper that has never been recon ciled to the political moratorium entere' Into at the beginning of the war, an' 1t has never missed an opportunity O criticizing the government for its conduc of the war In this case it seems t have overshot the mark.
 Becomes a Captain of Industry
 A romance of business Is revealed b. an advert lsement in the British paper this week for farriers. No number i specified Every farrier in the Kingdom Is wanted and the job is to supply 100000 horseshoes a month for the British arm, and it's allies. America made a stroni bid for the business, but was defeated D, a man without capital, but with un bounded enthusiasm This man is A. E Hill, former newspaper man who som years ago became interested in tf art o the farrier, and finding that the trade, Ina no mouthpiece, started a little month"; paper called The Farrier He studied hi subject and soon became an enthusiast and when the London county council de cided to start a school of farriery In con nection with its technical education courses, Hill was selected to organize il When the war office found itself II against the demand for a million horse shoes a month it asked for the greates expert in England, and was told to sen for Hill. When he arrived he was aske If he could organize an army horsesho department and he replied at once that h could. He was told that a number 0
 Philadelphia firms had submitted bids but that the war office wanted to kee control of it's own supply and he assure Kitchener that he would do the work a less cost. The result was that he was ap ! pointed at once a director of supplies with the rank of colonel. and he is nov ltOklfB TOT ldTTitTS anu StlIlnB LneIT too. I am told that the war office has new pattern shoe for winter work whic is great improvement on that used b the Germans.
 Britain Is not above learning from tn Germans. however. when they really Eav good thing. I happened to drop int the office of cutlery firm in the city tn
 other day, and I found the principal eS smining with interest a combination knif and fork which attracted my atteutio at once because it was about the rusties d'rtiest and generally most disreprtabl
 thing I had ever laid eyes on. My fr'en told me that it was the utensil supplied [ the German troops and was much su perior to the British article in convev fence and compactness. The war o~'c had asked him If he could make BOO coo C them al once and he was lust figurins Q
 the cost. I've can reproduce the batter | exactly" he sad. ''but think we VI
 r'a'se a better article. This Is bit H'rn ' 7ur ideas of what good work shou,
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 london Rvmcr Factory
 The London rumor factory Is one of tn
 wonders of the WAT. Where it Is sitnate' | m one knows. hut every day sore as 1 tonishing lie is set afinst and s,resd l l'te wi'df'-e all over London Som, reo ! pie are inclined to think that the -umor,