BRITISH VALOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1922, Page 3

BRITISH VALOR.

MARSHAL FOCH’S TRIBUTE. Marshal Foeh took the occasion o£ the wedding of Princess Mary to reiterate the admiration felt hy him for the work done by the armies of the King: It is always with the deepest emotion, he has stated to the Matin, ‘-that I recall the hours -when, shoulder to shoulder, with hearts united, the soldiers of Great Britain fought on our soil against the common enemy.” He adds: — _“I cannot have a better occasion than to-day to atiirm my feelings of admiration and affection for the armies of His Britannic Majesty. I have seen Princess Mary’s heroic compatriots struggling with savage determination and with the cool enthusiasm of their race. I paid a tribute to their intrepidity at Ypres after the great German offensives, and I could not find sufficient praise or eulogy to describe their dash, their irresistible courage and their pluck, whether at the second battle of Ypres in 1915 or at the Somme in 1916.

“Edward VII., who saw the German danger, was a figure of inspiration to me, and was it not he who wished to impose peace first by* conciliation and then by the force of democracy harnesse<l to the service of right? It is at the moment when England is doing honor to her Royal Family that we should again live through those tragic moment's of history. France and Great Britain sealed there in the generous blood of their sons a union to which differences and polemics will never impart the fragility of

a scrap of paper.” The Mrtin, commenting on Marshal Foch’s declaration, states: “The homage of the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies to British heroism constitutes a rare garland of French roses, worthy of Viscountess Lascelles, daughter of England.” a