WHEN CALAIS WAS IN DANGER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 163, 7 April 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHEN CALAIS WAS IN DANGER.

SIR DOUGLAS HAIG KNOCKED OUT BY A SHELL. Mr Will Irwin the famous war correspondent, in describing in the New York Tribune the lighting at Ypres on October 31, 1911, says: — On that day the Germans made their most desperate attempt to break through. They did. in fact, break the line, and seemed Jo be pouring towards Calais with a clear field. In the hour of the greatest danger a shell struck General Sir Douglas liaig's headquarters, burst inside the house, and killed or wounded every one on the staff. Sir Douglu.s Haig stood just outside the explosive area of the shell, but the shock knocked him over, and rendered him unconscious for an hour. That was tho point when General French came personally to the 1 ne and made the dispositions ending in the thrust at Gheluvelt, which rolled the Germans back |<> the posit : ons which they had occupied that morning. As Sir John French came up Sir Douglas Ha : g was just returning to consciousness. Refusing to go to the hospital, he accompanied his chief to the line. Dazed, staggering on his feet like a groggy prizefighter, he helped to make the new d sv>< : ' 'ons nnd to rally the men