THE LAST WEEKS OF THE WAR

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3949, 30 May 1929, Page 1

THE LAST WEEKS OF THE WAR

Credit i'or initialing the decisive offensive in the last phase of the Great War is given to Field-Mar-slial Haig in a biography by Briga-dier-General .John Chart oils, who was an intimate friend and colleague. He says: —"It was Haig u ho, when warned |>v Ills own Gowr.irmest that they would not sup-' ■port him if his judglment erred, and when even Poeh 'himself .shrank from the responsibility of ordering the attack, took on his own shoulders without any hesitation the whole load, and launched the attack which shattered the great Hindenlmrg line, hared the Herman eorunmnicat ions and laid open to his armies the country that stretched to the Iron tier and to Germany itself. It was Haig', and Haig alone, who, when Eoch was still pin lining his campaign for 1919, when the responsible military advisers in Louden were tolling the Cabinet that July, 1919, would be the critical tune tin the war, when the War Minister himself was calling the ('ommandcr-in-Chief ‘ridiculously optimistic,’ with complete confidence in his own careful judgment of the oircuitus'tnneos, definitely •foresaw the result and designed ami delivered the blow.’'