"COOL THOUGH BEATEN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1930, Page 6

"COOL THOUGH BEATEN."

After reading Clemenceau's tnbnt r British soldiers in 1918, "Co°\ -JL Beaten," I might warn New Zealand r , especially the younger generation) ; accept tills statement as the truth. . the time Clemenceau refers to, g the Germans gave the British 6th great push on the Somme, capturing 75,000 men and almost all tlie guns..- .. was also another push up north ag& ,DS '.. ■: Portuguese and' British in the neigh ls ■• - of Estaires, Met even, etc., the object'V _ & Hazebrouck, a railhead. About this. : part of the French Army were in reS , e hind the British, and they got very A In fact, I spoke to a French interprete v village of Strazelle, near Meterem, an . - formed me that the British Army wer retreat, and the French were going : over the British front. I don't tn French infantry went into the fron , : the British front, but there may hav j* i battery or two. of light artillery. 1 y,v the British front were filled mainly y a5i J •• tralian, New Zealand and Scottish tr r ... the line reorganised. It was about . oU j that Sir Douglas Haig issued his now "backs to the wall" message. A few ) . this the Germans made another P« ; gso ns time against tlie French between t ß ck.; and Rlieims, pushing the French At joO,OOO about 14 miles and capturing over ooutn to* V; men, guns, and an enormous j,a C k' i®'., material. Anv troops can be rrfftf ' If . modern warfare. R. EDEJST Late 3rd Battery,