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(BY PHILIP GIBBS. ».
Now that victory is ours, we may look back with steady eyes at bad, times when it was hard to know the truth and still keep faith and courage." For the British armies in France and Belgium, and for those who counted upon their strength, the darkest days of all began in March of last year, when the Germans launched their offensive against the British lines and drove us back in hard retreat over a great stretch of country which our men bad gained by enormous sacrifice of life through years of fighting.
I saw the scenes of that retreat and I' confers now that when I saw our men coming back over the old Somme battle fields, when I saw remnants of our fine divisions so exhausted that they could hardly stand and so weak in numbers that they had no chance of resisting the enemy's onslaught outside town like Albert and Amicna, which had been ours since the early days of the war, woa haunted by the thought that perhaps after all our enormous efforts and losses. via tory might not be ours.
KEY TO COAST FORTS.
1919.
sime, in the beginning of last year, that the Germans transferred many of thejr divisions from Russia to France and Belgium with the inentage of an aver whelming attack upon the British. and French linca..'
FRENCH DID NOT THINK SU The pressure upon Sir Douglas Halg to take over a longer Front was insistent. The Freuch believed that England was not pulling her weight "-poor old England who was straining every muscle to keep her mines going to provide doal Factories of France and Italy, and to turn not only for her own aceds but for the out vast quantities of ammunition and Buna, and to maintain a vast and expand ing fleet and to fill up the gaps in an ariny which had suffered 800,000 casualties in a single year. She was pulling some. weight and
But theving in the process.
people, sincerely and without malice, did not think so, and they started a campaign in the Press muid in political circles, pointing out the length of the line they, held (forgetting chat length of line does not count so inuch as the number of enemy divisione engaged on any front) and the greatness of their own sherifices,
BRITISH INCREASE LINE,” Articles of a bitter tone found their way into the English Press--and hurt u pretty badly. There was pressure at Ver Bailles. 1 came Over to the Prima Minister and his advisers in Downing. with urgent
It was worse a month afterwards when Street. and it was transferre He FHAW
the group of armies under Prince Ruppre-requests to Sir Douglas cht of Bacaria, in Flanders, started their northern attack broke our lines between Festubers and Givenchy, forced the pas BINS
of the River Lys, struck northward and captured Bailleul, swarmed back over Passchendaele and all the ridges roundhousands of her sons to take, round Ypres which had cost England the lives of and
Kemmel Hill from the French took who had come up to support us.
Then,
the weakness of his strength with that German menace growing against him, but to satisfy France he yielded to the de mand and our troops side slipped and took over the line of battle north and south of St, Quentin down to La Fere on the Oise, where I met our London troops. who stared over to the German lines, an allent there and said:
When is this blinking battle going to
indeed, it looked as though the worst the Gernian menar
might happen:
With th.
20
WAS
Kemme i was the key of all our northern defences and the very key of the there were 18 German divisions of the its rightfalls and increasing in frightful possibilities. In January Const and the channel porta. Amiens menaced, the Yoad to Abbeville
Front, about equal to the Allied thinly guarded by spent and broken divi-
By th
the beginning. of March sions, and Kemmel Hill in the hands of there were German divisions. Our the enemy, we who were of the ground at this time and no German unit moved and intelligence officers did wonderful work knew that our fate hung on a thin thread of fortune, a thread. depending
without their knowledge within a week or strength on the thin lines of British tap of its departure. soldiers, tired. 6ghting in small groups against great odds, but with no Xurrender in their souls.
FAITH WAS JUSTIFIED..
By capionage in German territory. by Aerial reconnaissances, and information obtained from prisoners, they learnt every detail of the German decision to con- centrate their full military weight in a England did not know what touch-and-last effort to smash their way to so it was on the edge of irreparable dis They mapped out the enormous increase aster. I don't think England knows now,
in the number of ammunition dumps, nor how hard pressed her men were in batteries, airdromes, light railways, and those days, not bow great their losses. field hospitals behind the German lines, For though I and other war correspon and they gained knowledge of the inten dents described the retreat day by day in sive training which was being practised great detail we could not tell our people of attack.
by German storm troops for a new method nor the world the full measure of our Peril, nor the extremity of our
weakness;
As one of our intelligence officers said
February of last year:
in any case the spirit of England was to England ought to be saying her pray-
50 strong in belici of final vict
that
victory that
the gratest disasters did not shake her ers because in another mouth-her fate, and faith. Those of us in the field then the fate of the world, will be at stake.” thought
that
The evidence for this was overwhelming this sublime confidence was almost callows, and it irritated us to let in spite of thousands of small facts anger, knowing the frightful danger and collected by our Intelligence, all bearing the awful losses; but looking back to that out the same deduction, there was time I see England was right, and her strange unbelief in the reality of the peril faith justified.
that threatened us among responsibility.
What were the causes of the greatest disaster that has ever befallen. British" arma The answer to that question is not
BONAR LAW SCEPTICAL.
men
of
enay because it involves many factors and Mr. Bonar Law said: "I am sceptical events in the past history of the war. It of the great German offensive," and the is linked up with the battles of Flanders. army itself shared his scepticism. During fought between July and December of the weeks preceding the German onslaught followed by the adventures in the or March 21st I was about the lines: fram Cambrai salient which
Arras to the south of Bt. Quentin, fast which the enemy's assault was delivered fanity of talking to many generals and
cers about the prob ability of a huge German offensive,
Out of thirteen of these generals, com wanding divisions upon which the attack would full if it came, there were only two who believed in its likelihood. The others
linat victory and ended with an unfor- tunate reverse at the close of the yent.
FRENCH HELD UP,
The battles of Flanders had been de- signed to capture the ridges around Ypres and gain the Belgian coast at Ostend and Zeebrugge at a time when a great part
the
of the German army should be engaged by said: It is all bluff." or "G.H.Q has
an importans and continuous series of the wind standing as we talked in
battles by the French in the Champagne Some of them
district under the supreme command of sight of the "German Ines, where there General Nivelle
seemed to be atter solitude, and nothing
By the greatest bad luck, partly owing
to the success of Hindenburg's new system except the usual barrassing fire:
isolated batteries, were dogmatic in
of elastic defence. the French attack explaining to me why the Germans would did not make progress and came to a dead Dot risk their remaining man power in halt after heavy losses. The British such a gamble, which was bound to fail. battles of Flanders began late and British
A few days later the tide of the troops instead of encountering an enemy
German araiy had rolled over the posi who should have been heavily engaged at tions which these generals bad held.
same time opposite. the French lines. had to attack the strongest German divi- sions which could be replaced on orders of the German General staff fresh divisions from other parts line whenever they were shattered by the of the the British 283ault
the
the
TADOPS JUST AS OPTIMISTIC. tie as their leaders. "What will happen." The British troops were just as optimis I asked one of
if Fritz tries to the head," said the man and this answer come acroes?
will catch a cold in For nearly five months this happened, was typical of all those I received. our troops attacking and
week or so before the opening of the ridges in the foulest
conditing
of rain Feneral Gough, and mud, and, although we inflicted Army, on the right of our line,, enormous losses upon the finest troops of
which the the German army I saw their dead in
chemy afterwards broke. heaps about the pill-boxes" (or concretain the impending attack and he was very was not one of those who disbelieved block houses) on the way to Passchendaele our own casualties reached terrible figures and we failed to gain the Belgian
Const.
BRITIER ARMIES WEAKENED.
German offensive I had an inter the oogh
with commanding Sta
system
trank in facing showed me maps of his 5th Army front, its possibilities. He pointed out how he had adopted n of defence by a series of machine-gun redoubts in advance of the main battle positions and bow behind that main battle line were three other lines upon which men
he said:
Lord Northcliffe's estimate was 500,000 casualties to the British armies in 1917, and 73 per cent of those were on the Western-Front Cambrai salient in November of that year, "If the enemy attacks in great strength when our surprise, attack
The adventure in the Then fall back it hard presénd. ·
the Hindenburg line and when tanks broke we shall have to give ground, and the
our gallant public must be prepared for this. But, troops after all that fighting in Flanders the giving up of ground will
not mafter Look 100,000 prisoners and much ground.very much so long as we fall back to other cost us numbers of valuable lives a week good positions and keep our line intact. Inter owing to the counter surprise by it will be in no sense of the word & dis General ven Marwitz, when our men had aster. After all our natural line of de to fight desperate rear-guard actions. fense is the River Sorame. If we had to So at the end of 1917, after all these lose that the situation would certainly be bloggy weakened
battles the British armies were serious, but not even then
numbers, the gaps we lost our hold on Amiens."
a great disaster in
It would be
ould be a chaaster only it in their ranks not being replaced in many tions by now drafts, and
In hound to say their
that these was still farther decreased by made me feel rather cold. The mor the loss of three of their finest divisions possibility of losing the Somme crossing who were rushed off to Italy under the far behind our front at that line wit coufmand of General Plumer to turn the awful thought, and the mention o tide of the Italian disaster which had Amiens; forty, miles back from the lir then happened
sent a shiver through one's
waited with a dreadful,
It was at that time, when the British urinies on the Western Front ware weaker the rolling up of the curtain whic cat, that Sir Douglas Haig as called hid the mystery behind the German line? apon to take brar lodger line of front and we did not have long to wait south of Bt Quentin, 'und it was at that
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