THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1939.
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HE attack represented
THE
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Once Russia helped Austria to crush Hungary. Schwarzen- berg was asked what return he would make to the Russians.
He replied, "We shall astonish Europe by our ingratitude.".
That is worth remembering in view of the fears that Franco may join the Rome-Berlin Axis. Franco may astonish Europe.
The German Listener
IT IS DIFFICULT for Hong- kong radio listeners to put themselves in the position of the German people, in whom years of spoon-feeding on the thin fare of official propaganda has induced a positive hunger for objective news.
The fact is that there is a wide gulf between the attitude
cepted from the tactics of this
war,
The attack failed-a failure
which was the prelude to Ger-
many's final defeat.
The Late
Lord Birkenhead
At one point Inbour battalions were brought in to help stem the advance; a corps of Ameri- can engineers, building bridges over the Somme, first blew up their bridges and then took part in the defence of the line
wrote this article and died before he could of Villers-Bretonneux. correct the proofs.
was
By April 4th the Germans had penetrated 'no fower than
British front; they had cap- tured more than a thousand
Twenty-one years ago this month the 38 miles behind the original greatest military attack in history launched by Germany upon the British Front in France. It was destined to decide the Great War.
guns and over 60,000 men.
momentum. It was now flag- But their attack had lost its
ging and sagging.
The principal force of the at- tack was delivered against the British Fifth Army, under the command of General Hubert do
GOUGH called up Sir Hubert la Paer Gough, who took com- vital portion of the British line, GOUGH realised that there Staff. He said that, in his Lawrence, Halg's Chief of mand of the Fifth Army in namely, that which covered the 1917.
could be no hope of holding opinion, the German attack had Channel ports.
or regaining his front, and that It was Gough's duty to act as a serious menace was presented spent itself and was exhausted. at the extreme south of the to delay it and exhaust it, reserves to man his weak de- sure he could throw the Ger- Gough's Fifth Army took over a buffer to any German attack, by the almost entire absence of three fresh divisions he was If G.HQ. could send him British line-thirteen and a half swinging back as slowly as pos- fences in the rear. miles of front fram General sible without losing contact with
On
December 18, 1917,
mans on his front back across Byng's Third Army, which re- the rest of the British forces on as he had no reserves, was to 15 miles.
The main object before him, the Somme, a distance of about
mained on his left flank.
his left. The line was thinly held.
maintain a line, however ragged Gough's task being to fight a and thin, always facing the Ger-
But no fresh divisions were The trenches and defences delaying action, the forces man. advance.
sent to him, and the Germans -were-in-many-places--almost-placed at his disposal should ad-
were not thrown back over the As a result of the first day's Somme until our great attack in Very little wire mittedly have been as few as fighting both British armies existed; and in some places possible.
were driven in. The Germans August.
on
derelict.
the Third Army had actually But there is a considerable drove in the Third Army at the
demolished the wire of the defences in the rear.
Conditions were little better
the 28-mile front which General Gough also took over from the French on his right at the beginning of the New Year.
Gough's whole force to hold this long front of 41 miles op-
of the ruling Nazis to world affairs and of the German people themselves, who are showing an eager desire to learn the truth. Some German listeners, a B.B.C.
In other words, Byng had pamphlet received from London almost double the strength of Gough and was, of course, yesterday claims, even go to nearer to such reserves ав
difference between
As the weather improved the a bare sufficiency and
point of attack to a depth of retreating British were able to insuf- an ficiency; and Haig would seem fenders were able to put eight ing its first hopes of triumph 5,000 yards, although the de- oppose an enemy which was los- to have approached perilously divisions into action on this and was dismayed and per- near to leaving Gough with front of ten miles, The Fifth plexed by the continued opposi Insuficient troops even for the delaying operations he manned, lost in depth about the
Army, overwhelmingly out- tion offered to it, wus to undertake. He thus threw an immense,
same amount of ground.
The attack ceased. And Ger- many's final defeat, six months
nosite St. Quentin consisted of an almost impossible burden on NEXT day the Germans con- later, became almost assured. cavalry divisions, General Byng, officers and men who had to both fronts. The Fifth Army 14 infantry divisions and three the commander and on the tinued their advance on THAT this result was due on Gough's left, had no fewer
principally to the courage than 19 divisions to hold a front every all this great, and what, was driven back and back, fight and determination of Coura
eventually turned out to be, de- ing with desperate courage, Gough and his Fifth Army cisive task.
The Third Army, too, had to would seem indisputable. On By the middle of March it be withdraw from the whole of the them fell the brunt of the at- were about to attack in enor- came clear that the Germans Flesquieres Sallent.
tack.
of about 26 miles.
that they shall not miss any. W
by the Fifth and Third Armies.
By Sunday, March 24, the The Armies on his flanks did hind the Somme. Gough had have done.
Yet with such tenacity and
pose and mufle the enemy's
[bed with their sets left on so/G.H.Q, disposed of in the north. mous strength on the front held Fifth Army was established be- not hold as firm as they might
On Wednesday, March 20, at last received two divisions of WHEN Gough took over his
new front he quickly came Gough visited his four corps the reserves. These two divi- Gough had neither adequate thing of the B.B.C. broadcasts.
to the conclusion that there was commanders, warned them of sions were all that Haig found rear lines of defence nor re- These B.B.C. broadcasts have an imminent possibility of a the imminence of the attack.
strong German attack-called
himself able to send to the Fifth serves. Shortly before dawn next fully justified themselves, and his subordinates together and morning German artillery set Third Army had been reinforced courage did he continue to op.
Army, though by this time tho if they are continued on the urged upon them the importance up, the most terrific barrage with four divisions.
of endeavouring to dig and wire which had ever been experienced same objective lines they may as much as possible, especially on any part of the Front since the Third Army had fallen back terrible fortnight was passed, By the morning of the 26th advance that, after the first ultimately drive a wedge be-behind the front line.
the beginning of the War. In January he sent a mem- They brought over 5,000 guns tween the German people and.
behind the Ancre and was six the front still stood, and Luden orandum to G.HQ, pointing into action, not counting a large miles in the rear of the left of doriff's last throw had patently the rulers who seek to keep out the Fifth Army's deficiency number of trench-mortars. the Fifth Army, which had, falled. Amiens was saved; so
in men, labour, and materials to them in the dark.
By 9-30 their infantry began therefore, to fall back again was Paris; so were the Channel hold so great a front.
to come over to the attack.
some three miles to prevent the ports. So was France. So was
England. The morning was misty, a now salient becoming too pro-
Whereupon Gough was recall- circumstance which has usual nounced. ly been regarded as one of the
By the 28th the Third Army cd in disgrace. causes of the early success of had fallen back still farther. the German attack, for it pre hardly more fortunate.
On his other flank Gough was The vented the British defenders
It is a matter of satisfaction He had, in fact, paper that the advantages of being a strength of about one infantry- free people can be pressed home man per yard of front in the line and one infantryman to three to the Germans without re- yards of front in reserve.
G.H.Q. replied to his urgent course to propaganda or any deviation from the plain, un-memorandum that, in the ab- sence of effective reinforce- varnished facts. The German ments, the Fifth Army, if at- bulletins from Zecaen, tacked by the Germans in which we hear in Hongkong at overwhelming strength, must be of G4 divisions.
propared to fall back fighting; As many as 48 of these were ten o'clock every night, are so but he was supplied with some thrown against the Fifth Army grotesquely coloured and unfair additional labour corps, includ- (with its 15 divisions and 41 miles of front) and only 18 that it seems impossible that ing Chinese,
OUGH'S front was weakly against the centre of the Third any person can mistake them held because it lay thus Army (with its 19 divisions and for anything but propaganda of farthest from what G.HQ. 26 miles of front) north of the the most tainted kind.
rightly considered the most Fiesquieres Sallent.
nows
Although General Gough continued to press for an in- quiry, he was informed by the War Office, six months after the Armistice, that none would be held.
and many machine-gun posts French, in circumstances of ad- from putting up a more effec- mitted stress, fell back rapidly tive resistance.
over 12 miles of country in a The German attack consisted single day. Not the least of
The official letter concluded Gough's anxieties was to retain with a personal compliment to
with contact
his retreating Gough and the statement that neighbours.
"The gallant fight of the Fifth The Fifth Army, shattered Army against such heavy odds, but not defeated, continued to and in circumstances of extra- 'fight what must be regarded ordinary difficulty, will always as among the most herold rank as one of the most note- rearguard actions of military worthy episodes in the Great -history.
War"