ARMISTICE DEFENDED.
SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S VIEW
LONDON, June 11. Sir Douglas Haig, receiving the freedom of the Mercers' Hall, said that those complaining that the Ar- . mistice came too soon forgot that Germany's, surrender was abject and"irrevocable. If we now had to go to Berlin, it would be far easier than iv November. Pressing forward m November would -have meant further loss of life, destruction of property, and expenditure of money without rendering Germany any more helpless militarily than she was to-day. BREACH OF TERMS. PARIS, June 10. It is pointed out that the Gorman . attack .on the Esbhonians is a breach of the Armistice terms, inasmuch as the Germans were, allowed to retain an armed force in those regions solely to copei with the Bolsheviki.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9632, 12 June 1919, Page 6
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