LATE MARSHAL FOCH.
SUPREME WAR COMMANDER. APPOINTMENT DUE TO HAIG. United Service. LONDON, April 18. "Tho lato Earl Haig alone was responsible for tho famous Doullens Conference which resulted lit tho late Marshal Foch being appointed Generalissimo of the Allied forces in France," say 3 Brigadier-General John Charteris, retired, in .his book entitled "Field-Marshal Earl Haig." Earl Haig insisted that the only way (o avert disaster, was to place tho whole of tho operations on tho Western Front under French leadership. Brigadier General John Charteris is Conservative member of the House of Commons for Dumphries. He. entered tho army in 1896 from Woolwich Academy, and served through tho war. He was a colonel in 1921, and was attached to the...Eastern Command, India. He retired in 1922.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 13
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