WESTERN FRONT.
; ?/■ FOCH AND HAIG. LIKENED TO LEE AND JACKSON. AN INTERESTING REVIEW. HAIG A GREAT TACTICIAN. Received Deo. 23, 8.50 p.m. London, Dec. 22. , Mr. John Buchan, writing to The Daily Sketch on Sir Douglas Haig, says that Haig and Foch were complementary to each other, like Lee and Jackßon. The British Army supplied Foch with his weapons, such as tanks and the creeping barrage, and it was the British Army that finally crushed Ludendorff. Foch made the plans and Haig provided the material and much of the execution; but Haig was not a mere competent lieutenant and trusty in fulfilling orders; he was a great tactician. FoCh and Haig, from 1914, saw eye-to-eye. It was Haig who pressed most earnestly for Foch's appointment, and it was he whose support largely made possible the great gamble of July 18 which won the second battle of the Marne—-and the war. Like Sir John Moore, Haig was a great geniUß in training raw material.—Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1918, Page 5
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163WESTERN FRONT. Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1918, Page 5
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