THE GERMANS WERE OUTGENERALISED

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 5

THE GERMANS WERE OUTGENERALISED

"A fact that comes out very clearly from Sir Douglas Haig's dispatch is that the British victories were not victories won by numbers," says the London "Times." "If we compare the figures engaged 1 on either side in the German offensives of the spring and in the ])ri-' tish offonsives of tho summer and late autumn, wo find that such successes as the Germans gained—and even at their highest valuation it is clear that they paved tho way to the subsequent German defeat—were won by overwhelming superiority in numbers, and that the British successes were gained in spite of an inferiority in numbers. What the German? failed to do with a numerical superiority wo accomplished with a numerical inferiority. It is not, of course, denied that, at certain critical points the British attack had a superiority in numbers; but it is the supreme test of generalship to'bo in numerical superiority at tho point that matters with force inferior in its total numbers. The business of war,_ in other-words, is to convert a gross inferiority into a net superiority. That it was done so successfully must be put down in part to the individual superiority of the British)) soldier, but in part, too, to tho better Staff work and generalship on the British side. The Germans, in fact, were out-generalled."