ST. QUENTIN SECRETS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1936, Page 4

ST. QUENTIN SECRETS

ARMY “SACRIFICED TO CAUSE.”

LONDON, March 24.. “A soldiers’ fight'’ was the description given on Saturday night by Gen. Sir Hubert Gough of the Battle of St.. Quentin, fought in March, 1918. He was addressing the Fifth Army Old Comrades’ Association dinner in London. f More than 500 oL the men he had commanded listened to his review of the events of 18 years ago. Sir Hubert said: “St. Quentin was our last great effort. We were sacrificed for the cause and for the French. The French were to support us, but they had moved the whole of their reserves away. “We knew the night before that it was going to be a desperate fight and that many of us would never see the end of it. We told G.H.Q., but they did not seem to realise Che position,

for they never moved a man to support us. “A front of 40 miles was held by the Fifth Army of 14 divisions against 56 enemy divisions. It was a soldiers’ fight, for it was largely in the hands of the subordinate commanders, and some of them were private soldiers. “You made ridiculous counterattacks on the enemy’s flank. When I say ‘ridiculous,’ I mean that sometimes 50 or 60 men would attack a whole German division—and sometime you put them back.” (Cheers). Col. G. F. B. 'Turner, proposing the toast of the Fifth Army, referred to Herr Hitler’s reoccupation oi the . demilitarised Rhineland zone. “I, who served for six years on the Commission of Control in Germany, realise better than anybody the serious nature of the German menace to our security,” he remarked. “I hope the trouble will blow over, but if it does not, this time it is the turn of the politicians to bear the penalty of their neglect.”

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