HOW FOCH SAVED BERLIN
4 INVASION THREAT IN 1918. New York, January 16. Marshal Foch personally saved Berlin from invasion by the Allied troops just before the armistice in 1918. General Allen, former commander of the American Army of Occupation, has revealed the reason for Marshal Foch’s not taking Berlin. Ho held that it would have been a gigantic task to hold the vast territory across the Rhine. Before Marshal Focn reached his decision, he conferred with Field-Marshal Haig, General Pershiijg. and Marshal Petain. Field-Marshal Haig took the attitude that there had been sufficient s icrificcs of men, and that the Germans were already routed. Marsha) Petain favoured a more decisive defeat of the German^.- —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 97, 19 January 1924, Page 7
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