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the period when they prescribed exchange slamped 6d. the construction of the Hindenbe were glad to sell on Monday borg position, that is to say in at 516 were purchasing yesterday November and December, 1918 afternoon at 50. says the N. If the Germans did not retrest Daily News of Oct. 2.
until the spring of 1917, it is The Banks' opening T.T.
of August 1914 he commanded exact knowledge of what can be city, and the anexpected arrival by filling in the spaces with the It war by an attack that on the the 20th corps in Lorraine. He obtained from a French army of a new German army complete available Anglo- French troops. Marne his great inspiration was displayed auch qualifications that On the evening of May I warly organised was to alter the While he was improvising this shown. It was with a tactical three months later he was given ordered by him to carry to the *itustion! Foch was to be forced new front, he sent shead all the offensive that on the Yeer he. What He Has Dode for the Allles. the command of an army. It 10th army corps-right corps of to change from the strategies! available French and British resisted the formidable German was at the moment, when Joffre the neighbouring army which offensive, which he wanted, to the cavalry to reconnaitre and eteok push of October, 1914. It was, was preparing bia manoeuvre of was placed under bis authority strategical defensive which the the enemy.
the feneive that he studied. Major E Requin (Of the the Marne. Did Jeffre slready for the morrow-the command to stuching sumerical superiority of From October 23rd to Novem-[daring the winter and spring of French General Siff) writes in have a presentiment of the events relieve the 42nd Division and to the enemy imposed. It was to be ber 12th the battle raged. The 1915; but it was not until July, World's Work for Jaly ae which were to take place in the the 42nd Division the command the battle of Flandera or firet Germans concentrated as many 1916, that he pressed
What with a misunderstanding follows:-
centre of the French lines, when to come and place itself facing battle of Ypres.
as 15 army corps between Lye material and mears of execution Allied Bags on Monday, the impres- over the import of the display of Foch bes been for 40 years the be put in, not so much new east at the front of Buissean la
Foch Comes and Confidence and the ses, but all their assanite Marebal Joffre then entrusted to gion having got abroad in Chires? incarnation of the
French forces, as a new force, the grest Superbo-and to attack at 2 Through his chief that he had foreseen in p.m. the right fark of theenemy It is essential to state the part Fech at this period, all without such success that the enemy that early telegrama yesterday
failed before the energy of the him the direction of the Somme military spirit.
circles that the Allies were celebrate Allied troops. The commands of offensive. Ha conducted it with teachings and his example he Foob.?
who already thought themselves which Foch played before and
ing the nasz spproach of peace, and was the more director of the
A Will Stronger that Events.” French General Staff before he
"Anyway, raising a few divi daring. To any lees exalted
This manoeuvre wse more than during this battle. As meusl his exception, set that superior frightened by their losses, de
arrival upon this new front on
will which coming the Supreme Chief of the ions from the 4th and 5th armies
galvanised the termined in the fature to decline ning continued to show Allied such a battle. To appreciate the Chinese became exsited in the advantages on all frouts, the October-4th marked the return
troopa Allied Armies. Upon each one and reinforcing them by two spirit than Foch, it appeared
**Maintenir indiscutablement results of this cffensive one mus markets yesterday, and sterling of as he has imprinted his strong divisicas, the 42nd and the 18th, impossible, so difficult was it in of confidence. There could then occupation de tel position note the decision of the enemy st merk. We owed to him in time Marshal Jefire placed this force the midst of such a batile to oneself, or doubting ones troops. ami aut tal front.s
be no fooking back, doubting
Thore "Arreter implacablement l'en- of peace that anity of doctrine under the leadership of Foch. It withdraw from the combat We examined with him the whole which was our strength. Since a pen this mass, first called division entirely engaged, make battle front in the morning of The Katser Commanded and the war we owe to him the high ju army detachment" and then it cover a march back of the army October 4th, and I still recall that est lessons of intellectual diecip the 9th army, that the German poision could be forestalled, all the Rue d'Aubigny nest Arras,lating to his troops, the command because Fooh's ffensive war/quotation at 9.30 o'clock gæster
front and execute aasttack whoat brief command which he diotated
Failed. line sad moral ecergy.
offensive broke a few days later. Physically, Foch is a man of Gen. Foch likes to recall the in one day. Bat Foch had made
| to a Staff officer: medium height with an excep modest beginnings of this 9th this simple but disconcerting
to enter Ypres the 1st of Novem-checked by the winter and by 6/5; balf an hour later it had day morning was. 1d.. down at "It is absolutely forbidden to ber. He had numerical experior-levents independent of his will. tionally striking face. His is the forehead of a thinker which
"We were," he would reasoning at once. army:
abandon a position no matter ity, material superiority, sad By pushing back the right what the situation may be, before that superiority
It would be unnecessary to the oficial quotation was 5/3, droppped to 5/4; st 10.30 o'clock poor parezie. A Geners! HAY, marked by two characteristic Staff of 5 or 6 cfficers gathered wing of his army the enemy had being ejected by a regular attack given by
which i recall the part played by Foch in folds between the eyebrows; be in haste to start with, little or no presented one flank. It was inte of the enemy.” bea deep set eyes, a large noee, a working material, par note booke this isnk that the 42nd Divisor
tion of one homogeneous army, on the Piave last winter, if it were stood anchanged st F/3.through- organise the steadying of the Italian front the market being weak, and slthough the cfficial quotation mouth clearly outlined under and a few maps."
And signing this order him Fooh's army comprised, French, not to emphasise the knowledge For my part, would be thrown to determine self on the officer's note book, in British, Belgians, cavalrymen he possesses of all the Allied out the day, businers was done gray mustache, a wilful chip. slept the first night with the the victory. All the features are strongly aard soldiers at their post in the
the presence of the commander on foot without bayonets, old armies and the well-cared confid.se low as 51) for December." The following day, the 10th, of the army, Foch made a gesture territorials, and marked. His whole face expresses village, to be sure not to lose the the enemy was in fall retreat all which, for those that knew him constomed to fight on land.
sailors little ence with which he inspirasj
Working on the idea that peace meditation and sotico, great
them. Dew General Staff. Thus was the along the front. The vanguard well meant that such an order
was in sight; the Chinese early in thought and a tenacions will.
But with all these odds and 9th army crested. One must of the 9th army penetrated into would not be repeated.
the day were in mad haste to cover The battle of 1918 recalls in His words are brief and always imagine the difficulties of or Fere Champenoise toward 9.30.
ends, Foch, by a prodigy of many ways that of October, 1914, bought. Toward the close those imporis, and epeculators also The morning of October 4th energy, had made one single nd Foch'e part in 1914 leads to who were panicky in the morning exsotly suited to the ides, eseb ganisation and command of an An hour later to mark the saccese bad sufficed bim to instil into army, giving them one single a better understanding of the one calmed down and were trying to one having its own value, and army, formed in the courts of the and his will of pureais, Gea. everyone, great and small, hie spirit. The Kaiser's well sup he is playing now. usually soocmpanied by a gesture falling back movements which Foch installed bis headquarters confidence and energy.
We know which completes the phrase
ported by fifteen German army under what conditions be waresell some of their purchases. either to develop or to i ammarise prepared the victory of the Karne. there among rains filthy from
The 10th French army was, by carpe carefully trained, failed called upon to take the strategical made earlier in the day, Among the crowds of population the German occupation and eaccessive reinforcements, going before the superior will of Foch, direction of operationa on the
It may be believed that the Constantly at work, either sing before the horrors of in orgies.
to form north of Arras.
chief of a coalised army, organis- 26th of last March, and the re-
worst of the storm bas been vasion and encumbering the roads: Bach was the part" of Gen.) meditating or diecezing with & without the possibility of stop-Foch in the victory of the as it direction the north of Lille second time after the Morne, the few days. One can guess the part remains to be seen what will The British army would take ed during the battle. For the nits which he achieved within a weathered and that there is no limited number of cfficers in
reason for farther panic, but it It is at this moment that the Allies were saved. whom he has entire faith; he ping for a single day! However, Marne.
ander Fooh's suthority, the 9:bj
taken by his personal action by notes in a small book, which be
fall of Antwerp occurred followed Having placed his confidence referring to the periods sketched appen to fer off as December has constantly at hand, each ope and acquired the realisation of Gen. Foch his second and sent amy soon learned that it existed.]
A month later Gen. Joffre made by the appearance of the 4th in Foch daring the entire battle above, the battles of the Marne sewa is received in the night settlement. Unless some unusual of the ideas to be remembered, its own
German army in Belgium. value. It felt itself
of Flanders, Marshal Joffre and the Tier. with writing as clear as bis every moved by a will stronger then him-into the north of Franos 30 guessed the meaning of the Ger- could raise on the rest of the the maltitude of events, the same ing may be expected to be 5/3, From the first instant Foch gave him all the means which be It is this same elear vision in the opening rate this morn thought.,,
Foch was especially known in 5th it stopped upon the heights of the Allied armies. To this mouvre and took steps to front. When the battle was realisation of the goal to be having closed steady at that
events, and when on September co-odinste there the operations peice
time through his in northeast of Sezanne, it was ready dealings with the Belgian armies Saves Calais and Dunkirk,
lend he was to have constant
ended our ressives of ammunition reached, the same definite resso if it is not up a notch or two,
figure at three o'clock yesterday, straction at the Excle Superieure for every
were almost exhausted. effort and every
ing, the same energy ofexecution. de Guerre. As a professor, and eacrifice. Jere's command "to
in order to carry out the plan of The German Staff wasted the "A negative success, would say Foch is above all the chief who then as director, he applied the win or die," found it as ready to Marshal Jeffee. Through bis decision of the war. It took as with his rough frackness, but s conceiver, commande, and method which consista in taking die as its chief was determined moral anthority, his knowledge its objectives the naval bases of success without which the victory alwayk obeyed.
Liberty Bonds, the gold dollar as the bees of all strategical and
of the Allies and his loyalty Dunkirk, Calais, and Coalogue of the Allies would have been Why France had a Competent and 116 for 10 months. exchange falling to 120 cash tactical instruction the study of
toward them. Gen. Fech succeed. just as it has done to-day, and impossible, and the very next day. ed entirely in this delicate task. sought to overcome the left wing he saw that the German cffensive
A general belonging to one of bonds were subscribed for and Bull nearly $70,000 in We left Chalans st 10 o'clook of the Allies.
upon the western front was the Allied armies said before me nearly as much more was pledged
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history completed by the study Knows What a Freach Army of military history that is to say, "field operations, orders The battle had s" on lin the evening of October 3rd, The German offensive our broken for more than a year one day in Washington: This for to day. As one Britisher re given, sotions, resalte, the violently for three days.
and we reached Breteuil where prised two attacks to be conduct. This was the necessary time for war is between the corps of French marked at Liberty Loan Head- 'oriticisms to be made and the Upon the left, the 42nd Gen. Castelinac, Commander of ed parallel to one another. The England to form her new armies. Staff officers and the German quarters in eigning his contract, instruction to be drawn from Division, engaged in a violent the 42nd French army, had histone, with a base of heavy artillery The French army from the Marne Bieff." them. He also used concrete wood combat across the road from headquartere next day at 4 pm afforded by the German troops to Verdon has never cessed It is not one of the least of more table for our gold dollars "We don't mind paying a few cases-that is to say problems Stsanne to Champanbert, was It is known that at this time the coming from Antwerp, would overing the preparations of the Foch's glories to have inspired while we have tach sws from laid by the director on the map dispating with the enemy the plan of the French General in crush what remained of the coalition. This is why ite pres and instructed this General Sten the fronts; it's worth paying laz or on the actual ground according village of 8t. Priz.
Chief was to over how the German Belgian army and would occupynt chief has a right to require in time of peace. Is it not trae to a given general situation, In the centre, the Moroccan right wing by reinforcing his our ports. The other constantly of others that they make haste that among the nations allied to- By this intellectual training, Division, was holding firmly on left wing with the 10th army in reinforced by the 4th army. This is why this sense of the day, France alone in 1914 possess he aconstomed the officers to the heights of Mondement. The the region of Arrar, then with the would endeavour by way of Ypres value of time is so deeply rooted ad a General Staff trained by the I recall thatata dinner serena solving all problems; not by 9th corps reinforced by a reesrve British forced transported to the to reach the heights of Kammal, in us all.
labour of many years in the study bling the principal leaders of giving them ready made mola division stretched out on the centre of the line toward the Cassel, and overflow the Anglo-To Make War is to Attack, and solation of problems crested the Government and of the tions but by accustoming them in right. But this army Corps was Franco Belgian frontier. A mase French left wing. White If one looks at one of Foch'e by war? If the Trosob Army in 1918, Marshal Jofre finding the local solution suitable already bending to keep in touch of cavalry was looover and prolong. It was therefore a matter for orders it is rare not to find this military organisation was able to affirmed in energetis term, that to each individual case, with the 11th oorpe thrown back north of the Lys the manoeuvre Foch to raise a wall before both imperative ending, withoutwork smoothly during the without the Ecole Superieuze de. His mind was trained through by scrushing attack of the enemy which the writers of this war these attacks and to smash them, delay!" "Without delsy" must difficult periods at the beginning Guerre the victory of 106 Marze so many years of study, that no as far as the Gougancon heights have justly named "the race, to The decisive victory which would remain now more than ever the of the war, it is because the would have been imposible. No, war situation could disturb him. All the reserves were engaged the sea." It was indeed a reol be obtained later depended on motto for all of us.
General Buff was trained to this judgment on the subject defines
In the most difficult onse, he The right of the army had only since the enemy on his side was this. His first setion was that off ironmatances in which Foob daily work, becaues all of quickly pointed out the goal to been halted by the strongest endeavouring to come up parallel reestablishing a liaison with the has been called upon several thought size, and each expre he ranched and the means to injunctions of Fash, and all was to us in the north. The initiatźno, Belgium anny and to reinforce it tinsan sa dakce command of the himself in employ, and each one of us fell in a state of insecure equilibrium however, belonged so the French si m to prolong the front to the that it must be rijkt. pete which the redoubled forms of fas cockcomed, mod for a monomers youn
For il win during the grosionomy threatened to distach. I might have thought the Claramo) Upon the still reply THOR events of August and September, Almost any other commander right wing would be outnumber-stretching between: Lyss and the
1914, that Mazabal Joffrarealised would have admitted himsell ed. Unfortmastely the fall of he formed few atto
second Foch besten. Bat Foch did not with Antwerp, released kin. In the month to be. Gen. Fooh had a most troope which ware bes
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