Show ’ j THE C HERAED-REPtnEICAN rn A T T vJaIJUa CITY UI7 A JJujcJiJkJ2J UTAH SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 V ‘ V— J ' Bwlj n ' ' T T ’ Y ' ’ -‘ - - B ak - B-- H !- ’ 'r AL7 ' I® JSL f V K j ’ rn fl rf fl B p IBS El foeSI ' a if I— -f e£&'w HH ‘ L ' ‘ V ' Epi — 1914 : y ’ ' J" 9 - WflOB ML ’H J ' -t’ A i Bba S-J Els® ' Im M 1 - nag - 1 C T-’ - I 11 II y ' E ?5 "1 v-a XJT I - i— — - J Hr -J XT k irjWZLa ' V L X uo " i 1 M ( at- 1 tt X ar —— i z V' ' a-'- “K-cS - automobileinto the war So General Joffre’s permission end ' if 4 he drove area without turned out he would be Perhaps the first thing X fate ordains his i -i V -ft' -rf 2 -r ' that made rance realize that she had found a certain generals was the dismissal of followed last year's army ' primarily is the to slow manner flashes refuses wiping character theory as man by the practised in the new doctrines that the intellectual leaders have stands at out that Joffre now war which worked manoeuvres In easy going times wnen the head of the eneral made mistakes at manoeuvres’ And the world rench army a it into energy as suggestion He looks out of existencewithone he But of course it rance has got him in Joffre “That’s the like is rance he calls the offensive He of action she has man and man we need’’ said M Briand to the President before his appointment to the Chief of Staff He leaves nothing to chance The his hand Genera! the most determined 'supporter of the policy of attack for a “The only tactics” is what commander Joffre in the is wanted that decisive 'movement of begun and of of a action-fortified dictator Aa-vSYA ordain will time of It and K and ’ mobilization 41 ’ r took the rench army admirable order In the of is general too who has the place in same had not to wait long to “The utmost confidence in his troops way his plans for the campaign are the individual quality of his leader see rench are warriors by temperament” being executed with the utmost possible His ship stamped upon a great battle is of his sayings and though in precision In the field in his one as not yet be picture may completely the course of his career he has seen office at the Ministry of War he is painted and signed but if one were in the luxuries of life increase and multiply “hard as nails gives his orders He clined to look for some resemblancebe accordingly he believes that the and them to be so expects earned out leader they there is tween Joffre and some other great choose are as good soldiers exactly If are not young men of of history one “would probably boy as those he commanded as a trouble Affable kindly and conequivalent except his nearest forty-four siderate to all under him he Grantas years ago may sym that in technical skill Grant was inconifew His friend M lie is known pathize with incompetencebut he cannot while it is parablv above his education overlook failure Pujade recently referred to him in an rench Gen article in the Matin as “Joffre the If few monthsago almost impossible for the you bad visited eral to improve very much upon the Taciturn” Those who have met him him at his quiet home at Auteuil you It is in type more than rench doctrine in the corridors of the War Office have have found him liv sms a A Ih d ” i 1 to-day lieutenant 1 -:o a would m& t- - x a'e -Ww t vl t - r- 4 --B-I ink' -3 r- w'l Ifiviic -r- rw uau - j k" 2 the two men seem other quiet ruminating — slow to move a little certainly never"‘‘run away with-’ by their duty is ideas absolutely clear as to what r in that circumstance noted to resemble each both perhaps It and his peculiar garb jacket and a tall hat Tie it is powerful and what not movers” and resolute fighters 1411 k’Ajv Site j?f too Both "214 and Joffre not above could W as citizens domesticated in the case of importance whose civism was have been or would its no man reproach or have entrusted with republic to a been powers by torial three distinct parties one wore apparently tne lire ot peaceful country with his wife and two daughters his principal indoor relaxation a uniform bridge Like himself And when pithy he and speaks the to quiet reflection slow There is he what says what he says the result point with studied spoken in his of ing short a a at Now passers-by- gentleman it which he is as he has said an indifferent player the blinds are drawn but notice a modest little bunch flowers placed the doorstep on flowers are renewed each week time it some remaineda mystery these bouquets from until came of These or where f dicta which lay monarchists wonderfulletter in to was never i of claim There is a existence written by Lincoln pachydermatoustread in the War Office his coadjutor General Sir John rench he is a ‘“Silent Man” He talks little He does not write Yet even vast as is his capacity for silence you that he is silent because he never feel has nothing to say You feel he is silent because he has too much to talk about “prime were has this his heavy C-J no discovered was “Pere” donor was of 1870 veteran is three straightforward sentences no eloquence that Jean it of expression about times while lieutenant flummery the faithful Garland wounded a who was serving with the boy Joffre and who works as the Auteuil railway station a linkmanat X e' f By Hereward Carrington ARDLY in the centre state than man from a barbarism of he indicate tribe 1 and naturally X form W very the took of the 'fight for the subject of It will be wonderful painting a interest briefly to indicate the history various and meaningof the flags of the 4 3c ri4 i C1L saiSg T& Jt iZ t r ' national In Photo rom 5 MX ' r- k unckrvood “Z r I " : “ i - - A A ' thelength ' By Alexander Baird HEN ning at war the begi ii- from the present of it was that by founded was village which many “Who him as bargains an article at or a ten that three years Beginning a he ago was But his Catalonian down gradually came Chief of the name proclaimedhim as a General Army Staff which carried with and he adopted the nickname the it the supreme command of the army in given him of “Joffre” country folk had time of war the result of the unanimous “Le Pere Joffre” decision of the rench Cabinet faith is general in whom so much of The which met with not one word reposed very ea’rly acquired desire now Only disapproval throughout rance to becomea soldier It was in this way — the Monarchistswould have preferred As a child he was fond of bathing in General Pau but on political grounds deep and rather impetuous Pyrenean only and himself even General Pau His patents fearing he would stream that the one man in rance for be drowned locked him up in a? second?-story the position was Ger era Joffre at night and kept him under curious fact that all the rench room It is a time The boy pined guard in the day generals who have signally distinguished and fretted He then proceeded to act themselves are Southerners General He went to the press where his mother Joffre was bom at Rivesaltes a little linen Orientates stored her house borrowed the town in the Pyrenees strongest and longest ’sheets he could its cordials and having the reputathem 'ladder with a tionof “producingnothing but artists find and?he made could escape: from his bedroom and orators” Obviously that is hot the appointed foreigner decision a — a : a declared 1 Toward the end of 1S69 when he was not yet seventeen he was fourteenth on the list of those admitted to the Ecole Poly technique where the grea government engineers and the officers of the - ‘ artillery fafndus'“for and engineering That region can also show natures cpld and silenL Joffre’s are calm General de Castelnau is great' friend also a meridional and comes from Cecase that A whereby and d-awn at and one he corps young man outworksat Paris and the Later he are of ormosa and China swim or a morningthe broke have time all “ladder” his thigh his river bath went well till ’ built the whole he was and filled other not epqulettes -was gave Way and till of - a gain military President “can of war the huge the importantpositions 1905 that brigadier he' obtained of while peace Lord”an G of ’the of Ireland Belgiumis composedof of a black yellow and red — running — up and down — that is the width and net the length of the flag The royal standard tri-color three-quarters has the arms yellow strip national flag " genius ful preparation of -He knows that long and wholeflag into quarters care-I colors of victories in 1870 were their ’peace rom placed in the centre of the This was adopted as the 1831 being originally the in into the for some Bohemia red-white ' ” Iwith and navy who exercises that command’ the army is concerned Minister of But War Wardictator The itmay about red-4white-red -’most rcd-white-green horizontalstripe ' j “A - i v x ‘ A T “x ’ M ' - v was open to foreigners red ball’ without the rays is ustd it' is placed? in- the the jack vhen centre" of the white field A :ia on a red background - ’ goldenChrysanthemum the ' standard Al - the of r Emperor Z r ' begins The ' n hundred the year 660 B G when the pressenthereditary succession of rulers commenced It was only in 1853 however as - : its as a written that the country a T -made ' the Rising adopted the rising sun emblem Japan claims to possess history of mors than twenty-five years its authentic portion ’ -highest than the adopted Sun — has ren-dered “ is 1S30 in whichis now flown was then Japan Nippon— the Land of j eyebrows ' but and Hollanders independenceThe flag a a Orange of Belgians rose against the established their Now but the Brabant Belgiumbelonged but on the latter date it fell Spain In 1795 and years following it was held by and in 1814 was handedover to hands of rance the Prince red-white-blue the'- the Duchy of 1477 until 1566 Austria to a 1S66 and blue-yellow to that has (England Wales)and The flag tri-color today-' general- remarked Britain the royal standard and innumerable other flags army navy merchant — &c The flag was first unfurled in 1801 on the union in that year of Great Britain Scotland to-day ' The erniany the rench army have Great this course -not President far as as Joffre soon became Ministeris said to Besides I a he “War supremecom-mander - and success - reigned the great ship” Awl' ‘ Staff the-General success” wrote ed The Give middle white and the lower set up as dictators will risk a dictator" much prized iron cross (dating back to the end of the twelfth century) is in the This red stripe appears in the the rench republic has shown centre in which how it believes in the axiom final war ensign of the cm pile red) appears the (black white It has been said that if rance had had with the iron cross Jcffre in 1S70 the probability is that in the upper quarter a Like while the remaining the Germans would not have won upon it Joffre is an organizer of with the royal arms in Lord Kitchener arc white victory He does not believe in flashes the centre A black cross divides the me also was rench navy Great the Britain— as consisted of two such stripes the upper The “jack” black and the lower white consists of three of the imperial navy horizontal stripes the upper black the is necessary" Never for The flag of Austria is a very complex single moment during the three years-that affair To begin with the various Austrian he has been at the head of the army provinces have their own flags the logical sequence of lias he forgotten- the purpose for which is Tyrol is white-red appointed to lie was prepare for the Galicia is bluemanoeuvres He regarded manoeuvres “struggle — ’Dalmatiais as rehearsal of the real thing and the in which rance is engaged Croatia is Istriais red members of his company who did yellow-white-blue Then again Austria-Hungary know’ their parts he cast but sixty-two There years of age"-General being a dual monarchy both height has been none of comfortable feel-' Jolfre'is stout man-of medium Austria and Hungary must be separately ing that “it will be all right in the end”' massiveheadfair hair and with a and fully on the flag represented— — since General Joffre took control of! the: thick drooping mustache and heavy this ortunately' combinationwas nearly concealing the eyes army more easy bythe fact that portions feature of bis This may seem less than fair' to ‘his His will the outstanding of the flags of both countries were predecessors who hard character is that under the kindest were stromr Thus already the same the Austrian working- men of the ability and quietest most unaffected easy going the Hungarian in fact created the army which General manner'is the steel determinationflag was was Compromise was Joffre’ has simply tuned up’ And that can’shut tight like a vise upon its effected by dividing the lowest think that the opportunity’ purpose hurt-them to in and leaving half red while two of handling that army has come good fiead for watchdog calm the remainderwas green' The arms of ready to bite” is one of the after their time but always both countries also appear the army that Wellington first descriptions on the flag Moore ever heard of the There Ts This was decided upon March 6 1S69Carnot the troops of rench Commander in Chief was to lead Imperial standard of the Tsar McClellan the with truth in this than in most epigrams The army more Napoleon brilliant yellow only that calm of all the Itussias is of which to see how Grant crushed the Confederacy You have He German in he-was chief Chief through 1 tri-color : Though he became later Chief of the GeneralStaff nomore commander is 'the the world tator” rench army as near perfection as could be brought and in this as in other things ho consideration would make him swerve from the line of duty doubtless remembered that' the On his return finally to rance professor at the Ecole de Guerre in better commanders who had been telling that‘the country needs a dic“Only those commanders who army the Pontarlier the ’ on Africa during Diego of Sumarcz in Madagascar Later still the Dahomey expedition stronghold Island of went authority personally it constructed the fortresses at organized the defence of the Tonking Island for the criticising -hard i ' I usual say “I may be wrong but think it would have been officers were one or two men of great energy and devotion to duty or them it was a blow But General Joffre had been put in office to make trained the' to re-tiring t it been and so” and to make mental notes so not to employthe said general after his time was up General Joffre however called far resignations on the spot Among the career village square - had Lyce passed from his van in the mayoralty His whole military career was in fortifications or on colonial expeditions market place of burg or he labored at at high figure he As a would cry had forgot “J’offre” such and such such and such price he the limb was in splints young it went to a taste for study for his and chose (the prmy While Joffre acquired the travelling a is They is hundredyears the bonds of General Joffre there were who asked be?” Mon-telimar also rance of Joffre’s family in auctioneer about one This ancestor went ago from from village to town town to in a showman’svan loaded with all sorts of goods were trumpetedby supreme in was was born Gallieni the farthest south General announced command of rench army the General Pau and General vennes the f iA-S ' 1794 made the jack of the white—and the Prussian itEagle enter be must The Union Jack of very largely into it but at flag known to all is rememberedthat this country ofbecame — composed of the all the three crosses of St that time the head and ruler George St Patrick the largest country and St Andrew That of the first others It was by far was a and population It broad red dividing both in area cross the white flag therefore naturally became predominant into four white squares the white cross Besides the smaller States there of St Andrew on a blue background of East and West ran from corner to corner diagonally were also the flags That of West while the red Prussia to be included cross of St Patrick ran in &ack white three the same directions If the Prussia was black Union Jack diameter running be it be found to be stripes of equal examined will composed of these three crosses of the flag that of East Prussia stated XX Mt ’ ax-s552" j-4 w Vsi’ft '-i r -blue only natural that we should look for traces of all their flags in the resultant standard And we find such traces black be sure the colors of Prussia— ' red-blue-white tri-color and jc----Sr 1 Si The well known of rance n up of three stripes— white and red— running not the lengHi but the width of the flag It dates from the era of the rench Revolution and came into existence in 1780 It has been the flag since with but slight variations To - similar is made is XcSJlJ-- the Tsaripa of across is similar save that the royal arms are placed in the centre of the blue stripe first be a 1 flag three horizontal stripes running the flag The royal standard nations the flag of Germany It remembered that prior to the ranco-Prussian War of 1870 the German little than was more group Empire scattered States of When they combined into a single empire however it 'SsiS- St The flag of Servia is the flag of the Russian merchantservice reversed for whereas that is white-blue-red the flag Servia is arrangedin ( Take The of of must of smaller The Russian Union Jack very similar to that of England save that the principal cross-bars are blue instead of red Tliis is the well known Russian war flag The cross is that of St the Andrew patron saint of Russia manv warring the Order but a ’ the collar of is almost sacred and standard” has been is the B VoldermirzKasan &c of find traces we standards which were guarded the utmost veneration and usually kept in the temples save in time of war the tradition now rom this we have ingrained in us that the flag of a country that is thing to die for to preserve with it date? surrounded by flags these 4 doublc-headed flag Andrew On the displayed wings of the eagle are other shields bearing the erm? of Kiow Novgorod and banners rom the very earliest times v x nation or this large embrace the religion of the Greek Church) On the breast of the eagle is an escutcheon bearing on its red field in silver the figure of St Georgeslaying the being Dragon— the whole badge to his particular or a This the year 1472 when Ivan the Great married Sophia niece of a Constantine Palaeologus and thence assumed the arms of the Greek Empire (the Russians adopt necessary to some distinguishing sign eagle from it felt whichis of black h'ad emerged - 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