HAIG AT MONS.
Sergeant Secreit, who was valet to the lato Lord Haig, has now had published "Twenty-five Years with Earl Haig" (Jarrolds). Ho remarks that "Sir Douglas did not say a great deal," of tlio Mous retreat, "but I know that lie was bitterly grieved about the primo cause of our catastrophe—the withdrawal of the French army operating on tho /lank with scarcely any notice It. was not a case of being pushed back. Tlio French goncral, probably taking into consideration the fact that his right neighbour was retiring, also retired; but he had no command over British troops, and it was, according to Haig, his manifest duty to acquaint his ally on the left with his movements. Secrett says he remembers Brig.-Gcn-ura.l Gough saying to Sir Douglas: "11, looks as ibough Joffro doesn't mean to make a stand uutil he reaches the ramparts of Paris." "Why Paris?" asked Haig. "It looks more like Marseilles to mo at this rate."
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 20
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161HAIG AT MONS. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 20
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