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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1030.

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"Underneath the Spreading Chestnut Tree"

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General Gough-the Truth

HE attack represented

THE

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That is worth remembering

in view of the fears that Franco

Franco may astonish Europe.

The German Listener

cepted from the tactics of this

war.

The attack failed failure

which was the prelude to Ger-

many's final defeat.

The principal force of the at- tack was delivered against the British Fifth Army, under the command of General Hubert de la Poer Gough, who took com- mand of the Fifth Army in 1917.

On December 18, 1917,

The Late

Lord Birkenhead

At one point labour 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.

By Apri 4th the Germans had penetrated no fewer 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 was launched by Germany upon the British Front in France. It was destined to decide the Great War.

vital portion of the British line, namely, that which covered the Channel ports.

guns and over 60,000 men.

But their attack had lost its

momentum. It was now flag- ging and sagging.

GOUGH called up Sir Hubert Lawrence, Haig's Chief of OUGH realised that there staff. He said that, in his could be no hope of holding opinion, the German attack had or regaining his front, and that

It was Gough's duty to act as a serious menace was presented spent itself and was exhausted. If G.H.Q. could send him may join the Rome-Berlin Axis 1 Gough's Fifth Army took over a buffer to any German attack, by the almost entire absence of three fresh divisions he was at the extreme south of the to delay it and exhaust it, reserves to man his weak de aure he could throw the Ger- British line thirteen and a half swinging back as slowly as pos- fences in the rear. miles of front from General sible without losing contact with

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.

maintain a line, however ragged The line was thinly held. Gough's task being to fight a and thin, always facing the Gor-

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- derelict. Very little-wire-mittedly have been as few as fighting both British_armies

As a result of the first day's were not thrown back over the Somme-until-our-great-attack-in- existed; and in some places possible.

were driven in. The Germans August.

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 Jinduced a positive, hunger for

objective news.

The fact is that there is a wide gulf between the attitude

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. pamphlet received from London go to yesterday claims, even

on

his left.

the Third Army had actually But there is a considerable drove in the Third Army at the As the weather improved 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-

an

difference between 4 bare

and

point of attack to a depth of retreating British were able to sufficiency

insuf- 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 perllously 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 insufficient troops even

for

the delaying operations he Army, was to undertake. He thus threw an immense,

posite St. Quentin consisted of an almost impossible burden on 14 infantry divisions and three the 'commander and on the cavalry divisions, General Byng, officers and men who had to on Gough's left, had no fewer

eventually turned out to be, de- than 19 divisions to hold a front carry out this great, and what

cisive task,

of about 26 miles.

In other words, Byng had almost double the strength of Gough and was, of course, nearer to such reserves as

By the middle of March it be came clear that the Germans were about to attack in enor

overwhelmingly out- tlon offered to it. manned, lost in depth about the The attack ceased. And Ger- same amount of ground.

many's final defeat, six months NEXT day the Germans con- later, became almost assured. both fronts. The Fifth Army

tinued their advance on THAT this result was due

principally to the

L

ing with desperate courage. Gough and his Fifth Army was driven back and back, fight- and determination of Courage The Third Army, too, had to would seem indisputable. On withdraw from the whole of the them fell the brunt of the at- Flesquieres Salient.

tnck.

By Sunday, March 24, the

The Armies on his flanks did 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 firin as they might

by the Fifth and Third Armies.hind the Somme. Gough had have done.

On Wednesday, March 20, at last received two divisions of

that they shall not miss any-WHEN Gough took over his

new front he quickly came Gough visited his four corps the reserves. These two divi- thing of the B.B.C. broadcasts.

These B.B.C. broadcasts have

Gough had neither adequate to the conclusion that there was commanders, warned them of sions were all that Haig found rear lines of defence nor re

himself able to send to the Fifth serves. an imminent possibility of a the imminence of the attack.

Shortly before dawn next Army, though by this time the Yet with such tenacity and strong German attack-called fully justified themselves, and his subordinates together and morning German artillery set Third Army had been reinforced courage did he continue to op pose and muffle the enemy's 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

By the morning of the 26th advance that, after the first- 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, ultimately drive a wedge be-behind the front line.

the beginning of the War.

behind the Ancre and was six the front still stood, and Luden- In January he sent a mem- They brought over 6,000 guns miles in the rear of the left of doriff's last throw had patently tween the German people and

orandum to G.H.Q., pointing into action, not counting a large the Fifth Army, which had, failed.. Amiens was saved; so the rulers who seek to keep out the Fifth Army's deficiency number of trench-mortars.

in men, labour, and materials to them in the dark.

hold so great a front. 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-memoranduin that, in the ab- effective reinforce- sence of

So was

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,

By 9-30 their infantry began therefore, to fall back again was Paris; so were the Channel

some three miles to provent the ports. So was France. to come over to the attack.

England. The morning was misty, a now salient becoming too pro-

Whereupon Gough was recall- circumstance which has usunl-nounced.

By the 28th the Third Army ed in disgrace, ly been regarded as one of the causes of the early success of had fallen back still farther..

On his other flank Gough was the German attack, for it pre-

The vented the British defenders hardly more fortunate. and many machine-gun posts French, in circumstances of ad- from putting up a more effec- mitted stress, fell back rapidly over 12 miles of country in a

The official letter concluded The German attack consisted single day. Not the least of

Gough's anxieties was to retain with a personal compliment to his retreating Gough and the statement that contact with

"The gallant night of the Fifth neighbours.

The Fifth Army, shattered Army against such heavy odds, but not defcated, continued to and in circumstances of extra. fight what must be regarded ordinary difculty, will always as among the most heroic rank as one of the most note- rearguard actions of military worthy episodes in the Great history.

War."

tive resistance.

| varnished· facts. The German ments, the Fifth Army, if ut- nows bulletins from Zeesen, tacked by the Germans in which we hear in Hongkong at overwhelming strength, must be of 64 divisions.

prepared to fall back fighting; As many as 46 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. any person can mistake them GOUGH'S front was weakly against the centre of the Third held because it lay thus Army (with its 19 divisions and for anything but propaganda‘of farthest from what G.H.Q. 26 miles of front) north of the the most tainted kind.

rightly considered the most Firequieres Salient.

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