AMERICAN SENTIMENTS

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

AMERICAN SENTIMENTS

NEW YORK, January 30. General Pershing was visibly affected when informed at Pittsburg of Lord Ham's death. Ho said it was a great shock to him, and he expressed deep regret. Major-general O’Ryan, wartime commander of the famous New York Division, which was assibgned for service junder Lord Haig, said: “Haig may well he classed with Wellington, Napier, Roberts, and other great lenders who led British armies in years gone by. Wo wore 11 proud to bo part of his command.” „ , ~ Mr E. B. Kellogg (Secretary ot State) cabled to Sir Austen Chamberlain the condolences of the Umteo States Government on the death of Lord Haig, and Mr D. F. Davis (Secretary of War) sent a message on behalf of the armv to the Secretary of War The ‘Now York Times.’ editorially, says of Lord Haig: “He was the in carnation of British courage,_ endurance, and I’orthude. A strategist more brilliant, but less captain of his soul, might have faded in the emergencies that crowded upon Lord Haig. This is not to sav that he lacked the soldierly qualities of leadership. Hp was a consummate tactician, ami no mean strategist.” ~, The ‘New York World’ says: “By the vastness of his operations, and by the test qf ultimate victory, Lord Haig must take a high place in the long roll of great British soldiers.”