AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS

Taihape Daily Times, 15 April 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS

MARSHAL, FOCH’S TRIBUTE

PARIS,- April 1

In a letter to the representative of an Australian paper, Marshal Foch writes: “The Australian troops have upheld the cause of the Allies with magnificent dash. From start to finish they distinguished themselves by thenqualities of endurance and boldness. “By their initiative, their fighting spirit and their magnificent ardour, they proved themselves to be shock troops of the first order. “In the grave hours of 19TS, with their British, American, and American comrades, they barred the enemy rush. They stopped it, they broke it, and, at the appointed hour, they drove it far backwards. I am happy to express towards Australia an usdying memory which we shall cherish of her'incomparable soldiers. —-Foch.” The autographed original is being sent to the directors of the United Cable Service for preservation in the National War Museum.