VICTORY DUE TO FAITH AND MEN, SAYS FOCH.
PARIS, March 21.*-Maa*slial Foch was reminded that March .21 wins 'the } anniversary of the beginning , of ' Uie great German offensive toward Amiens and was asked by Jules pauerwein of , the Matin to. explain by wh ft t methods ,' the Marshal had! turned [the' offensive . into a Gefjnan defeat. '|'TKe Allied , Generalissimo replied : : ','■ i "You ask me to teiryoti much "in a . fe^v words. . Victories' 'are T , woW y by science,' that is true, ; but' : alsp / by faith. When dne has -faith, etae does not're- ! tire ', - one stopß the . %tiemy"' Vrhelre" '"one 1 finds him: You tell- meYtltet I'^rte , victory to Franee. It; waft b"tir, •Admirable; soldiers who .gave; ''.it. : I' hk^e : hut , on^rae^.that di neVe* despaitQi^' Vn TheYßhihe is our* onlyvg^qd line of defence. I do not demand (annexation, but if we do not secure that military j frontier we will have fought in vain," - Marshal Foch is quoted as saying. *> In discussing the "last days of the war, • the Marshal says: "It was the wonderful soldiers who _ gave us viotory. My only merit w»b to e have had' faith and never to have despaired. We signed the armistice, in ini_MnMi_Bi_B_-H__i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14900, 2 May 1919, Page 3
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