VISCOUNT FRENCH
AN INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE OK TPRES.
Br Telegraph-Press Aseoclation-CopyrigM London, January U. Viscount French, in receiving the s Freedom of the Fishmongers Guild, . said ho dcprccated tli© pubUc rushing ; to conclusions and forming hasty j'idgments. None who had not seen it could ; understand how war had been revolu- . tionised. , • I Sir Evelyn Wood said that Lord! French had always the knack of being ; on the spot- at the right moment. As commander bo bad stimulated tno or- ; forts,of tlio men in the firing line by ; his own heroic example. At one critical moment, when a- trusted General was stunned by a shell, and his staff . was incapacitated for over an hour, i Lord Frencli took charge of the subor- j din ate army hirmnff, and made dispositions which threw back the Germaus. ; It is understood that Sir Evelyn ; Wood's story refers to General ' Sir i Douglas Haig during the Battle of ; Ypres. .
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 5
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155VISCOUNT FRENCH Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 5
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