GENERAL SIR H. WILSON

Taihape Daily Times, 7 June 1919, Page 5

GENERAL SIR H. WILSON

2 —--o—“'“‘ i " MARSHA]: FOC.H’S TRIBUTE. ‘ A striking tribute to General Sir ‘H_ Wilson, chief of the Imperial Gen!el~al Staff, is paid by Marshal Foch in :3. letter to Lord Duneannon. “Long ibcfore the war,” wrote the distiniFl'CllCh soldier, “General Wilson and I Worked together to prepare for the lstruggle against the Gzerman peril, ‘which we both foresaw. It is due to ithe success of his mobilisation arIl‘angcnlentS and his careful and do. jtailetl plans for transporting the tl‘oopS that the ‘Britil~‘h Army was arm; to arrive quickly on the field of battle as soon. as the Government had come to a decision. During the war, in the most anxious days, especially thosg of 1914 and 1918, how often—-it was 31.. most e\§‘cry day, sometimes every night ——we worked together to strengthen, yaks rapidly as possible, a weak spot in the line, to combine our eiforts to re. inforce our hard trial of arms, and once again to enable them to go forward_ And as I recall these memories, still so fresh in my mind, I see him always before me, as one of the most capable, most loyal, and most valiant soldiers of the Allied armies, and one of the greatest servants of his mun--try‘): "'———'-% Flags, all sizes, ‘ procui-able at Somerville7‘s——(..-’idVl:.) .z ‘