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|GENERAL NIVELLE'S FAILURE.

WHY THE 1917 OFFENSIVE WAS STOPPED.

By MAJOR-GEN.^SIR `F-MAURICE.

The political campaign which precedes a General Election has begun in France. It has opened" with an embittered controversy concerning the failure of General Nivelle's campaign in the spring of 1917. M. Briand was Prime Minister of France when Joffre was removed from the command of the French armies and Nivelle was installed in his place, but before Nivelle's campaign began the Briand Government had fallen and was succeeded by that of M. Ribot, with M. Painlere as War Minister. Now the suggest- ion is that the Ribot Government. and particularly M. Painleve, interfered with General Nivelle's plans, stopped his offensive, and thereby prevented winning the war in 1917. -

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Commandant Cremieux, a well- known French military writer, has, in a book which be calls "L'Offensive de 1919," presented the case for General Nivelle. He has been furnished with a large number of secret documents, the reports of conferences of Allied Ministers. correspondence be- tween the French and British Governments, and even between the War Office and Sir Douglas Haig.

M. Painlere anticipated the pu- blication of this book by a speech in the French Chamber, which from our point of view is quite unexceptionable, and he has now followed this up by a much fuller statement in La Renaissance Litteraire. Ecou- Politique, amique, which

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We are naturally not concerned with French politics, and with the quarrels of French politicians, but there is much both in Com mandant Cremieux's book and in M. Painleve's article which affects both our own Government

revolution and America to place- important forces in the field

The Prime Minister expects to meet the French War Cabinet on Friday next, April 20, and would like to know beforehand

what in your opinion would be the effect produced if the French

Nivelle to bring his operations to War Cabinet ordered General a close at an early date.

(Signed) F. MAURICE.

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This letter is obviously not Ary good class Druggist can obtain this remedy to your order, or it can be evidence that the French Govern- obtained direct from us pou receiptment did interfere. M. Thomas

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and our own genérals. Com myself on behalf of the Chief of mandant Cromieux bitterly the Imperial General Staff: attacks both M. Painleve and

London, April 18, 1917. General Fetain, the "former "on The Prime Minister has in- the ground of political inter-formed me to-day, April 18, that ference, the latter because of his he has had a conversation with unwillingness to attack. He M. Thomas, the Freach Minister

was merely expressing what was known to be the opinion of the French War Cabinet before the battle began, and when the first results of Nivelle's attack did not come up to expectation it was an obrious and necessary measure of precaution to obtain Sir of the effect upon his operations of the Douglas Haig's views

of General

quotes a long dispatch from M. of Munitions, and that the latter possible cessation

Nivelle's attack. Briand to Mr. Lloyd George, told him that the French War M. Painleve says with justice, bluntly accusing Sir Douglas Cabinet was determined not to "The correspondence between Haig of endeavouring to evade the become engaged in a prolonged General Maurice and Marshal terms of the agreement reached struggle with the enemy, such as at Calais on February 26-27, 1917, had taken place during the battle Haig remains one solely concern. which placed the general direct- of the Somme, unless the Frenching the British Government, and resulted in no external manifest- ion of the forthcoming campaign operations now in progress give, ation of any sort." He maintains in the hands of General Nivelle. during the first few days of the that Nivelle's attack was stopped This accusation is very easily battle, a promise of important by the Germans and not by the refuted. Before doing that, how material gains at an early date.

Government, and his arguments ever, I wish to dispose of one

have not yet been refuted. Imay matter in which I personally figure

mention that Sir Douglas Haig somewhat prominently.

with his unvarying loyalty to his French colleagues · showed. General Nivelle both my letter of

The Prime Minister has given me to understand that the views of the French Government were Nivelle's campaign opened on that the state of French effectives April 9, with the attack of does not allow of their incurring Allenby's 3rd Army and of Byng'sib avy losses, that time was now April 18 and his own reply. Canadians, of Horne's 1st Army, on the side of the Entente, since Hence probably its appearance east of Arras, and against the it would permit the Russians to in Commandant Cremieux's book. Vimy Ridge. The battle of Arras recover from the effects of the

was by far the most conspicuous success we had up till then won in the war. Allenby rolled up a good part of the northern arm of the famous Hindenburg line, Byng carried the whole of the Vimy Ridge, against which the repeated and valiant assaults of Foch's veterans had beaten in vain in 1915.

By April 15th we had captured 15,000 prisoners and 228 guns and were advancing along both banks of the Scarpe and into the plain east of the Vimy Ridge Ludendorff, in his "War Memories," sums up the situation from his point of view: "The battle of Arras on April 9th was a had beginning for the decisive struggle of this year." "A day like April 9th ..threw calculations to the winds."

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Then on April 18th the great French attack between Reims and Soissons began. At the end of the second day of the battle the results obtained had fallen very far short of expectations, and the losses had been heavy.

It is cotorious that both Mr. Lloyd George and M. Painleve wished at all costs to avoid s long, slow strugglé such as had taken place in the battle of the Bomine, Mr. Lloyd George in the famous Paris speech talked of our "bloody assaults of the Som- me and of our hammeringi against sibe Impenetrable barzien in the West M Painterame I clear that be was in general nt will Mr.Loyd George, Commandant Cremieux es, as the clou - co

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SCAPA FLOW SINKINGS.

Paris, Dec. 20

The Allies have replied to the German note-insisting upon signature of the protocol in its present form and reaffirming the Allied-readiness to reduce the amount of floating material to form the Scapa Flow indemnity if it is shown that vital. economic interests justify such reduction. Nevertheless the reply poluss out that the Allies have learned that floating !docks, drapes and triga have been recently sold and gives notice that if the view of the economic position of Germany is as stated by the German delegates the Allies do not re- coguise such salesThe note rejects the German proposal to substitute for the five small cruisers mentioned in the protocol Gre others under construction and states that directly the protocol is signed all German officers and men interned is a result of the Scapa Flow affair will be liberated except those who are charged with war crimes,

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SCAPA FLOW INCIDENT.

London, Dec. 26.

The "National News" itates that it has been decided that the German warships which were scuttled at Scapa Flow are to be blown up carly next year in the presence of the Allied Naval “Commúasion.

EFFECT OF PROHIBITION.

New York, Dec 12.

The Intest figures show at least 137 dead and 140 blind and in droger of dying as a result of drinking wood alcohol auce the introduction of prohibition.

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