Twenty-Five Years Ago

Northern Advocate, 18 November 1940, Page 4

Twenty-Five Years Ago

On the Western -front the French repulsed German attacks in Champagne and the enemy organisation. was overthrown by a spirited attack at Clency. General Joffre was placed in supreme command of the Allied armies in all theatres of war.

In visiting England, General Joffre made it clear that individual management was required to avoid consequences similar to those which happened to the Anglo-French forces when the British were unsupported at Loos. After three days the French captured ground in the Artcris region. Winter had settled down in Flanders and a week of rain had converted the roads into quagmires. There had been cannonading at Hooge and Hill 60. Lord Kitchener was attacked in the House cf Commons during the report stage of a £400,000,000 vote. Lord Kitchener, Mr Markham .declared, had taken the censorship into his own hands and thought he could, treat the people of the country like Dervishes. Turkish priests proclaimed the Kaiser as the messenger of Mahomet, and preached a holy war for the conquest of Egypt at Tunis, Libya, Morocco, the Caucasus and India.