HEALTHY AND CONFIDENT TROOPS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 6, 8 January 1917, Page 5

HEALTHY AND CONFIDENT TROOPS.

liOEJ> N-ORTttCLIFFE'S WISIT m

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Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

:{&eeei<yed. Jan. >8. 1Q.115 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 7. Lord 2fort!ht3iaie, Snltowiewefl-Hoy-fihe SiihcViy Times after 'has visiti to the Westiem front; said that haver were British -faroops so :issm*e.d of dietary and neTer wei-e German prisoners so gloomy. He fiaw, the Uritisfo., Asustmlian,.Canadian, New Zealand, and part or the -French front. The whole «yf the British and Dominion %I'oaps were in Ijettfer fettle than in the preceding winters' The 'healtih of the army was never feetter. -The iKrera;ge of illne«s,: .including <eo3ds and infliionssiv, was muoij. less than at "home. They had been exactly "tto'ee pei- one thonsatid durinci the Whole wintei-. ; Lord: Northcli'ffe" is convinced that tho war will be decided on the Wes^ front. He is more c©hfident fhfln <er«eaHint the Allies vrsll acniesr® waefcoay.