CRITICAL DAYS OF WAR

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10689, 8 September 1920, Page 5

CRITICAL DAYS OF WAR

SOME INTERESTING DISCLOSURES. ■

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, September 6. Captain Pater Wright, late Aasisto the Supreme War Council, is publishing a series of articles in "Blackwood's Magazine," dis,, closing the innermost history of the most critical days of the war. He says the exact .distance within which Germany came may be put in yards. Tbef* were 12,000 yards (nearly seven miles) separating them from Amiens in 1918, when they were racing along the St. Qucntin-Amiens _ road, with their artillery and supplies left far behind, and suffering from hunger and with little strength left. They had a victory within their grasp. Tho Supremo Council -held Doullens, but wa» not sanguine of saying the position. Marshal Foch had outlined plans for abandoning Paris to Sir Douglas Haig for tho British armies wore being driven to the coast. The writer gives great credit to Marshal Foch for hurriedly organising reserves on the wooded hill, of Compiegne. Ho quotes a letter written by Haig on March 3rd, refusing to contribute British Divisions towards tho. Allied reserves, which would--have saved General Gough's army, and another letter from Haig dated March 24th, appealing for his appointment as Generalissimo.