General Haig's Forces.
EULOGISED BY GENERAL FRENCH.
"NO FINER RECORD IN ARMY ANNALS."
SUCCESSIVE DEFEATS OF GERMAN FORCES
(Press Assn.—Kecd. 11-30 p.m.)
LONDON, November 24,
After the defeat of the Prussian Guard. General French directed General Haig to issue an army order thanking the First Army Corps,, under General Haig .-for their stand. Fifteen fresh battalions of German Guards took part in the attack.
Since General Haig's troops arrived at Ypres they successively defeated the twenty-third, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh Gernvau reserve corps and the thirteenth active army'corps in addition to the Guards.
General Haig.adds:— '■ It is doubtful whether the annals of the British army contain a finer record in the defence of the realm."
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Northern Advocate, 25 November 1914, Page 5
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