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Exs, April FE Field-barchal - Sir Douglas Hai

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LONDON, "April 11, President Poincare has sent a message to the King in which he states "I have great pleasure in congratulating Your Majesty a the. Ene success of your valant troops. I doubt not it is the prelude to new victories. The King re- plier, expressing his heartfelt gratitude. SIR ROBERT BORDEN ON THE VICTORY.

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The gnat ristory just won in France, is the glorious, beginning of

THE SUPREMACY OF THE BRITISH the renewed British offensive and; wa especially interesting to me, 29* tenth ago I saw Vinny Ridge and

LONDON, April 11

Reuter's correspondent at British replied from what I saw, and from Headquarters in France, talegraphing what I was told, the strength of the this afternoon, emphasises the depositions and the tremendous task claireness of our supremacy in heart which hy before the Canadians is artillery which was strikingly illustrated) undertaking to marry it. AL Canada at Vimy Ridge." Aerial photographs will be thrilled with pride, by the taken prior to the hammering revealede glorious achievement, of our expedi

system of defences which might well tionary force. With equal pride wa nich be deemed impregnable. There have heard the tidings, of the splen was row after row of wire on each line, did success which luas attended the many yarda deep, a perfect boneycomb efforts of all the British forces. When of trench work and countless dominating I was in France, Sir Douglas Hig machine gun postions; yet, when the

assaulters went forward, they found, in asked to visit the battlefields o many places, the trenches and wire alike the Some front, in order to realise had been absolutely obliterated. A few what hal; been accomplished. My cbarrel stamps and an occasional rusty visit convinced me that the men whe tangle of harbed staff alone. marked captured those positions which I thes What had been formidable barriers. suw in our occupancy, could not be

The splendid success of the offensive | stayed in their next advance:** has created a most interesting tactica

LONDON, April 11.

situation fraught with tremendous ACTIVITY ON THE FRENCH FRONT. possibilities. The enemy has heen forced back on a pivot of his previous retreat in a manner creating 'n langer ously sharp salient at this spot.

The bitter cold continues, with high winds and frequent snow squall The work our airmen continue to carry but is nothing short of marvellous.

THE SIGNIFICANT FACTS OF THE

BATTLE

A French comunique reports:- There was artillery activity in the

region of the Somme and the 'Oise Lively grenade fighting occurred during the night, towards. Maisons-de-Cham- pagne, and there was also a somewhat violent artillery duel at Bois-le-Pretre

SYSTEMATIC BRUTALITY.

BY GERMAN RED CROSS WORKERS.

APPALLING REVELATIONS.

Losos, April 11. As the details of the Arrus battle are unfolded, two significant facts emerge: Firstly, the supreme spirit" und behaviour of our

men: and

Lospos, April 11, secondly, the superb generalship of Appalling revelations of the sys their leuders.

ternatie brutality of the Germann With regard to the first,, the in-women Red Cross workers towards fantry talk with the utmost admin- British wounded huve been made to tion of the artillery, and the gin- the Berne forrespondent of The ners speak almost adoringly of our Timurs by scores of British soldiers airmen; and these in turn, tell in of all tanks who have been released. glowing sering of the splendour of the from the German prison camps. infantry advance and the magnificent On the long journey of the British audacity of the Tanks." There is wounded through Germany it was no complaint and no criticism utong common amusement of these women the fighting troops, but only universal to temps our men who were in the admiration, and content.

last extremity of hunger and thirat There has been no battle on this by holding out food and drink to try scale and nothing in the British army und nuke the prisoners snatch at the hitherto in this war, in which every foxl, and then withdrawing it. unit has,wo triumphantly obtained Many of the wounded, begging for its immediate objective. All this drink, had coffee, water or soup bespeaks of hard work and tireleas tendered to them, and then at the gentle nurse self-improvement of all, ranks of the list moment i

An equally common entertainment with these women was to offer

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army. Mondays. victory indeed is would spit in the cupor glass. Free the result of a perfected technical quently the wounded, had to drink method, ts practised by the French defiled stuff while the women looked aVerdun and the British on the on and laughed. Anes and at Arms, nukely the method of enabling the strong inded man a glass of water and feld fortresses to be quptured with less loss to the attackers than to the then pour it slowly on the ground?

Cases of physical malivestiment of defenders. It discredits the theory British wounded, by Germe murder once favoured that generalship is were just as common and pa system- J'now-a-days less important in, war and tie as the refusal to give them that there are no great British nourishment. The nurses not only Generals. The tactical achievement refused to attend to the Britick wounded, but regularly insulted and of Sir Douglas Haig and his able

spat at them. They frequently even Staff, seconded by a remarkable truck of kicked a bundiged limb in group of Army Commanders, is flow order to give pain thoroughly appreciated and con- The truth is the German Red Cross fidence is unsferal that their deeper is merely a branch of German zailta Strategical conceptions will be no turism If has prostituted its sacred lem decisively vicdicated before long sign, and shamed ita mma and has It is now apparent that it is the toricited all right to be regarded as German who are being strategically in organisation of humanity outplayed on the Western Front/4

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