BRITISH TENACITY

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 36, 10 August 1918, Page 4

BRITISH TENACITY

Numerous tributes—French, American, and neutral—testify to the fact that the best virtue of the bull-dog still adheres to the Britisher. General Mangin speaks of the "tenacity" of the race, and Mr. Lloyd George, with pardonable acceptance, rejoices in the "tenacious valour" of his people. Even Baron Yon Frey-tag-Loringhofen, in summing up the war in his official qapacity as writer of the German General Staff, strikes somewhat the same note when he speaks of the "tough courage" of the Englishman. It is therefore just to say that, whatever the machinery deficiencies of the new British and American armies, their personal valour is beyond challenge. In the recent great battle of the Second Marne a British division earned General Marigin's special praise, which has also been extended to the Americans, the youthful but "stern stuff" which has brought to the fighting a character of its own. So far, the dreaded experiment of a French Generalissimo has resulted in nothing but good. It has welded the armies; has cemented the English-speak-ing reunion; and has adorried it with Gallic chivalry and genius. Moreover, it has won. military success.