SERVICES TO ALLIES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 22 March 1929, Page 11

SERVICES TO ALLIES

BRITAIN'S APPRECIATION

British OHicird Wireless.

(Eeceived ",2ui March, 11 a.m.)

11UGB1', 21st March,

The British Prime Minister has sent tho following message to tho French Prime Minister: "I have learnt with profound sorrow of the death of Marshal Foch. lam deeply conscious of the irreparable loss which France has suffered. This great soldier and patriot epitomises in British eyes the military genius of France, and I am certain the British people will sincerely mount one whose services to the Allied cause are fresh in every memory and whose distinguished and inspiring personality has won the affection and profound esteem both of every British soldier that served under him and of the British nation as a whole."

The British Government has also addressed a message of sympathy to the French Government: "The unforgettable services rendered by tho late Marshal to the Allied cause, and his pro-eminence as a soldier, have assured him of a noble place in history. His impressive personality and knightly character have endeared him to the peoplo of this country, and his loss will bo mourned in every British home." Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary for War, in a telegram to M. I'ainlovc, tho French Minister of War, says: "The British Army shares to'the full tho sorrow of their comrades-in-arms at the passing of Marshal Foch. They mourn one who was not only a great soldier and their former Generalissimo, but also, as they aro proud to reflect, a British lieF-marshal, whose name and achievements as the architect of victory are inextricably woven into tho fabric of our military history."