ENEMY IS TOTTERING.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 October 1918, Page 3

ENEMY IS TOTTERING.

INTERVIEW WITH FOCH. LONDON, Sept 25. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph interviewed Marshal Poch at his headquarters The Com-mander-in-Chief said: The British Army is fighting better than ever. All its losses have been made good. The Americans are splendid, and wonderfully gallant in the .field, while the Frecnh Army is the same good old army as it was in 1914. No more need be said. Speaking of the general position, Marshal Foch said: The enemy is shaken and tottering, but is still holding out. You must not think that we will get to the Rhine immediately. We have passed the crest of the hill, and are now going down hill, If we gather impetus as we go like a rolling ball, so much the better. The correspondent said that Foch's brain is always working. He keeps a pocketbook in which he jots down in- j stantly any thought occurring to him. i When his mind is made up his de-' cision is carried out unswervingly. He .sleeps well and is always in bed before 11 o'clock at night. He has to be I awakened in the morning. He keeps ' I his nerves under iron control, and no . event, good or bad, has ever shaken him. He was strong in the bad days, f and it is unthinkable that he will lose I his head in the hour of victory. His generals are supremely devoted to him. They admire his intelligence, and still more his character, which is modesty itself. He was a passionate smoker of strong cigars till three weeks ago, when a British general presented him with a pipe, after which he only smoked the pipe. Since then , he has been inundated with presents , of pipes. i