ALLIED HIGH COMMAND.
HOLES OF FOCH AND HAIG.
PLAN AND EXECUTION.
ABSOLUTE COOPERATION. 'Received 10.30 p.m.) R«irtcr. LONDON, Doc. 22. Mr. John Buchan, tho military critic and historian, writing in the Daily Sketch on Sir Douglas llaig, says that Haig and Koch were complementary each to the other, like Lee and Jackson. The British Army supplied Foci) with his weapons, such as tanks and tho creeping barrage. It was the British Army that finally crushed Ludendorff. Foch made tho plan and Haig provided the material and much of the execution, but Haig was not a mere competent lieutenant trusty in fulfilling orders. He was a great tactician.
Foch and Haig, from 1914, saw eye to eye. It was Haig who piessoii most earnestly for Foch's appointment, and it was his -support largely that made possible the great gamble of July 18, which won the second battle of tho Marne and the war.
Liko Sir John Moore Sir Douglas Haig had great genius for training raw material.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17041, 24 December 1918, Page 7
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