"BRITAIN WON THE WAR."
LONDON, July 8
Sir Douglas Haig, speaking at .Newcastle, said: "We are; apt to minimise what our own fellows have done in the field. It was necessary and right to back up the Allies while the fighting was proceeding, but don't let us forget it was the British Empire that won the war. Russia let us down, and-the. Italians didn't do a very great deal. The French had a really hard job at the: beginning, but for the last two .-years'''Old England bore the 'brunt of tho fight"
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9654, 10 July 1919, Page 5
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