The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-05
Britain Bitter Against
HaLdane as Policeman
Lord High Chancellor Said to
Have Deceived His
Country.
DENOUNCED BY WRITER
AS UNWORTHY OF TRUST

Last Saturday THE SUNS London cor
respondent cdbied that n tUds probable
that Lord Hdlddre British Lord Hiph
Chancellor, tCOuld resign shortly No red
sou IOus OiueH, but Il tods thought Hkciy
that the iHCpient scandal over the date Of
the receipt Of President Wilson'S note
might have caused friction tChtch iCouh
hare forced him out
n UH be remem bsrsd that Sir Edtrdrd
GREY rdS diCdv on tbs day Ambassador
Page delivered this note, and Lord HdlddHs
tCdS IN charge Of the Foreign office. The
note tCds handed to him, 4 m bdSsddor Page
got his receipt and then the ners tcdS
made public There tcsre charges OF lack
OF courtesy on the part Of American Off,
cidlS for making public the contents Of the
note before Sir EdUord Grey had seen IT,
NOm comes the follopin0 story bv mail,
iUhich shoiOs thar the British press hos
been openly attacking Lord HdIdaHe as
pro German and accusing him Of rsspon-
sibiltU for some Of the niSIortuneS Of the
army. Lord HIddno is said 10 be the
n dtser'S greatest friend IN England, and
he had a great reception iChen he i0ent 10
Berlin az British Sccretory Of War IN
1911.
LONDON, Dec. 21.--The feeling against
Lord Haldane. Lord High Chancellor is
exceedingly bitter in some quarters, and
several London newspapers have directed
a bitter crusade against him.
Arnold White, a we'll known writer on
social problems in the Daily Cypress. has
written a strong article under the title OF
THE Case Against Lord Haldane." His
opening paragraph follows:
III a man deceives you once. that is his
fault II he deceives you twice, that is
~,
il is because he takes you for fool and
because you are fool The English are
not fools they are sleepy. Our nation
has been deceived three times by Lord
Haldane. II was deceived about the army,
it was deceived about Germany and 1t was
deceived into thinking that 10000 ESQ.,
OOO) a year was sufficient money to in
sure that the spoken word OF the Lord
High Chancellor might be implicitly
| trusted"
.Hndictmeut of HaIdane."
The writer calls his article an indict-
ment OF Lord Haldaue and says that the
/ first count against him Is that when
| Secretary OF War he recommended the
/ abolition OF ten battalions OF the line,
This loss, and the loss of the reserve,
which would have been created IL they
had not been abolished. would have given
Great Britain $4,000 additional trained
troops to add to the expeditionary force
sent into Belgium sh ortly after the start
OF the war,
At the same time Lord Haldane made
what was generally thought to be a
denial OF his plan to abolish these bat
talions, according 10 Mr. White, In y
speech in the House of Lords Lord Hal
dane called the rumor e.. he was In
lending to abolish the battalions a
"mare's nest" and added;
"If l had intended 10 do anything OF
the kind il would have been IA military
ewes tantamount TO insanity
out of his own mouth Lord Haldane Is
convicted Of insanity, according to Mr..
white. lie accuses him Of interpolating
words in correcting the stenographers re-
mort of this speech. but says that even
this saves him nothing.
| Another accusation Is that Lord Hal
dane struck out of his territorial bill the
provision for training youths in the
manual.
hitter over "Germsn Ocean"
AZ another time Lord Haldane referred
to tho North Sea as the German ocean.
Mr.. White feels bitter about this. He. con-
tinues:
Lord Haldane made II clear that the