SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16403, 24 December 1918, Page 7

SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.

A MEMORABLE WELCOME

STIRRING SCENES

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(Australian and X.£. Cable Association.; LONDON, December 20.

Tho scenes at Dover and Londou recalled the most stirring episodes in British _ history, the most recent being Lord Kitchener's welcome after Khartoum, end Lord Roberts's after South Africa.

Sir Douglas Haig travelled from Boulogne to Dover in tho hospital ship Jaubreydcl. Ho was standing on the bridge, with his generals, when the vessel was sighted. All the craft in tho harbour were manned as tho ship passed between them, alone two miles of rho routo into the harpour. The railway station was linod with eoldiers'sailors, and cadets.

Replying to an address at Dover Sir Douglas Hnig spoke with deep fooling, regarding tho gratitude and admiration which tho nation entertains for the wonderful men whoso unequalled courage and endurance brought us by victory to peaco. "DELIBERATELY SLIGHTED/' (Rfutcr's Telegrams.) NEW YORK, December 19. Canadian correspondents in London sfcito tlv.it there is a general feeling that Sir Douglas Haig lias beon deliberately slighted. It is recalled that the King and the Prince of Wales went to Southampton to meet Lord Roberts when returning from South Africa, and that Parliament took the earliest opportunity of offering him a warm tribute. Relatione have hcen strained between Sir Douglas Haig and Mr Lloyd George since the Paris Conference. The Prime Minister claims tho credit of securing the unity of command, but it is stated in military circles that it was Sir Douglas Haig'is original suggestion, he effacing himself, and offering to place hip services at Marshal Foch's disposal Further friction is believed to be due to tho withholding,of Sir Douglas Haig's dispatch dealing with tho Ger;nun March offensive, which was returned to him for alteration and the. omission of certain passacros. A demand will probably be made fo" the publication in due course of tho full dispatch. HAIG AND FOCH COMPARED. THE ONE COMPLEMENTARY OF THE OTHER,. (Renter's Telegram*.) (Received December 23rd. 10.30 p.m."* LONDON, December 23: Mr John Buchnn, writing in the "Daily Sketch" on Sir Douglas Haig; says that Sir Douglas Haig and Marshal Foch were complementary of each other, like General Lee and General Jackson, the Confederate commanders in the American Civil War. The British Army supplied Foclx with his weapons, such as tanks and creeping barrage, and il was the British Army that finally crushed Ludondorff, Foch made the plan and Haig provided the material, and much of the execution, but Haig was not « mere competent lieutenant, trusty iu fulfilling orders He was a groat tactician. Foch and Haig, from 1014, saw oyo to eye. It was Haig who pressed most earnestly for Foch's appointment, and his whole-hearted support largely mado possible the great gamble of' July 18th, which won the second battlo of the Marne and the war. Like . Sir John Moore, Haig is a great genius, in training raw material.