"I HAVE NOT FOUGHT MY BATTLE YET"
I, MARSHAL FOCH ON THE GERMAN i ARMISTICE PROPOSAL. ! (Sydney "Sun.") ! ': London, October 10. ! "I have not fought iny battle yet." So [..■ea-id Marshal Foch when informed of I Germany's petition for an armistice. The question whether thp. Germans will avoid ; an immediate military debacle dominates '-- Jthe situation. Foch's strategy over- ; 'shadows the diplomatic events, because i it ie certain that the Allies will not ! pause until the present military phase js completed.- Foch's great strokes are ; far "from-finished. His plans include ! other "heavy blows which will, work in ! with a progressive enveloping scheme. : ,The: sublime grandeur of the whole of ! Foch's gigantic, strategy, with minor, eiij veloping' movements within major, and ; small pincers within great, like a millj tiplo printing press, is impressing even j the German military experts, who bei latedly admit Foch's genius. i , ~~
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 8
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144"I HAVE NOT FOUGHT MY BATTLE YET" Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 8
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