The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
MEN IN THE TRENCHES FOND
OF GEORGE v, ENGLAND'S KING
Refer to him as G s. and Are Thinking More and More
OF HIM as War Wears On-Intimate Details of His
: Life Under War Conditions.

ing was done. Then the Commander
in-Cnlef or the British forces in the |
held decided upon a bold stroke and |
sent Tor Colonel Repington, the mill |
tary critic of The Times and Daily |
MAIL. hltchener heard Of it and wired |
70 french asking why he had dis
opeyed his instructions by having
newspaper correspondent at the front.
10 TINS the General replied that Col
onei keplngtOn had come over to
france as his personal guest French
showed the Colonel everything that
was happening daily on the field, and
the two spent a night visiting the
trencheS and watching the effect of
the German shells, Then Repinston
returned to London and Lord North
cliffe fired the bomb which reused
England"
Mr.. Hamilton said the disaster In
the Dardanelles, where two of his
cousins have been wounded, was due
to the failure of Greece to keep her
word and enter the war Winston
Churchill sent the fleet to the Darda-
nelleS to make the attack from the
| sea under the belief that Greece would
| back it up with her force on land
The Queen Of Greece is a sister of the
her influence over the King that he
| failed to live up to his PROMISE
| Sir Ian Hamilton is a good SOL
dier," said Mr. Hamilton, land from
| the letters l have received from rela-
'tives and friends among the officers,
both navy and army, the strait will be
forced before the first OF the year.
There are 100000 regulars in Egypt,
an addition 20 another 100000 New
Zealanders and Territorials, and sew
eral batteries Of Field Artillery.
Guarding the King
With regard to his duties at Sand
ringham Palace early in the year Mr.
Hamilton said:
I'VE left London with two Al guns
and. two electric searchlights. The
guard consisted Of thirty-siX men OF
the Royal Naval Aviation Corps under
my command with a lieutenant as m,
aid. On our arrival at Sandringhan
we found a detachment OF $50 Gren
adler Guards commanded by Majo
7 Gilbert Hamilton, with Lord Stanley
son Of the Earl Of Derby. The gun
were placed in position. one at eacl
end Of the palace with the search
: lig ntS on motor trucks about 80
I yards away. AS the guards had beel
Y billeted in the stables our chaps too
up quarters in the village a mile iron
y the palace gate. Among the thirty
six men in my detail ( had tifsee
| baronets. who owned town and coun
s try houses with yachts and motor cars
L two Well-knOWn surgeons from Hay
@ ley Street, a clergyman who was tin
e son of a Bishop, q professor Of histor
> at Oxford University, two painter:
;. three architects, four lawyers tw
s young bankers, and the remainde
?, | were merchants and insurance an
). shipping brokers. All OF them had q
Y been we'll trained as gunners and CAV
d up their incomes to earn forty cen,
d a day without meals.
81 ''The first day after we arrived In
g King invited the officers Of the guart
s including myself, to see the ground
y which had been laid out under the q
y rection OF King Edward VII. A POI
n ton OF the garden was set apart Il
'e trees planted by distinguished peIsO1
q ages. There, gentlemen, said th
ee King, is tree planted by my g1'and
st mother, Queen Victoria. Here is OF
lg that was planted by the late Kin
S, Christian Of Denmark. and on IL
at other side is the one that was place
n by the Kaiser After a pause. II
is King added: You will see that it
crooked
s. ''That was the only remark that
at heard him make in reference TO Il
it German Emperor while ! was on du
le at Sandrngham. He asked me abo
,e the men in my command and when
"
ns in his ewes: This war has bTOugl
~ out the most sincere manifestation
o OF patriotism. Please say how ETat
er full | am to them all
k, when we left London Kitchen
Ill INSTRUCTED us to sit on the Kings ne;
ln If necessary to protect him from h;tr
- in the Zeppelin raid. but it was IL
,h ficult order to carry out. because
I'd lis absolutely fearless and would u
n for T -.
Of On the night Of the first raid, Z
ne tZeppeiine struck the east coast
Hunstanton, about nine miles fro
Sandringham. There was 3, low lyl
in fog at the time. rising about thir
lly feet from the ground, which was We
e- favorable Tor the faluerS. Ok oiidi
o. Gust. the eouerry in waiting. was
-tv his bath when he heard his telepho
AT ringing in his room ard jumped Q
20 to answer it. While he was hStenl