CRITICAL DAYS OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 296, 8 September 1920, Page 7

CRITICAL DAYS OF WAR

PERILOUS POSITION AT AMIENS

ABANDONMENT OF PARIS PLANNED BY FOCH

Hy Tolegraph-Preßß Association-Co EyrlKM London, September 6.

Captain Pater Wright, late AssistantSecretary to the Supreme War Council, is publishing a series of articles in "Blackwood's Magazine," disclosing the innermost history of tlio most critical days of the war. He says the exact distance within which Germany came may bo put ill yards. Thero were 12,000 yards (nearly seven miles) separating them from Amiens in 191S, when they were racins along the St. QuentinAmicns road, with their artillery and supplies left far behind, and suffering from hunger and with little strength left. They had victory within their grasp. Tho Supremo Council held Doullens, but was not sanguine of saving tho position. Marshal Posh had outlined to Sir Douglas Haig plans {or abandoning Paris, for the British armios were being driven to the coast. The writer gives gieat credit to-Marshal Foch for hurriedly organising reserves on the wooded hill of Couipiegne. lie rjuotes a leter written by Uaiff on March 3, refusing to contribute British divisions towards tho Allied resorves, which would have saved General Cough's armv, and another letter from Haig dated Jfarch 24, appealing for his appointment as Generalissimo.—Aus.-N.55. Cable Assn.