STRONG IN ADVERSITY

Evening Star, Issue 19779, 1 February 1928, Page 5

STRONG IN ADVERSITY

LONDON, January 30. Several revelations are made by Colonel Lionel James (who commanded Kinp Edward’s Horse in the war) m the ‘ Evening Standard.’ Ha says that when Lord ‘Haig was appointed Com-mandor-in-Chief in 1915 the mihtarv Muiatiou was; well nigh desperate, and the Biuish effort to create a modern fighting machine was still immature. Divided counsels among tho Allies were prevalent, and hysterical amateur strata gr bv politicians in France and Britain liad almost paralysed the commanders in the field. That Lord Haig rosi supeno* to these disabilities, and held lo hi? set purpose of defeating the enemy without being thrown to the dogs by the impatience of politicians, was the greatest marvel of his career. When the Allied armies were tottering on the balance in the spring of 1918 he rep rose i led to Mr Lloyd George that unless a unified command was created tho Allied cause would he lost, and Lord Haig himself picked out Marshal Fncli for "the supreme command, and wd'mgly served under him.