“FINEST ACT IN THE WAR”

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2646, 27 October 1919, Page 7

“FINEST ACT IN THE WAR”

M arshal Foeh never forgets. Some time j.oo he W!us presenting French .decorations to Canadian * otticei s of the famous First Canadian Division, states the ‘ Fveiling News.' He discussed with them the second h,itile of Ypres. and especially the battle of St. dulien, where the Hum first used ira.s, and where the Canadians held the Tin ■' after the troops on their Hants had been suffocated or retired. Foeli was in command of that portion of the front at l!,e time. lie fold the Canadian officers that Inul their troops given way nothing could have stopped the Germans marching t<> Calais, and added : “ i think the finest act in the war was the counter-attack of the Tenth and Sixteenth Battalions of Canadians alter their division had been frightfully punished by the German gas. Tins counter-attack so arna/.ed the enemy, who counted on their gas demoralising or killing the Canadians, that they slowed down" their advance to the coast, and Calais was saved. That was in the fateful spring of 1915, but the great .Marshal of Franco remembered every detail of the long battle and the actual Canadian battalions