THE DARKEST HOUR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2048, 7 September 1920, Page 8

THE DARKEST HOUR.

GERMANY NEARLY WON. ! INNER HISTORY OF THE WAR.

K ALLIES SAVED BY FOCH

By Cable. — Press Association.—Copyright. Renter's Telegrams. (Rec. Sept. 7, 1.50) LONDON", Sept. C. Claptain Pater Wright, late Assist-ant-Secretary to the Supreme War Council, is publishing a series of articles in 'Blackwood's Magazine" disclosing 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. There were 12,000 yards separating I them from Amifcrs in 1918, when, racing along the St. Quentin-Amiens road, with their artillery and supplies left far ' behind," and suffering from . hanger and with little strength j left, they had victory within their grasp. The Supreme Council was not Sanguine of saving the position. Marshal Foch outlined plans for abandoning Paris, and Lord Haig •-for the safety of the British armies should they be driven towards the coast Captain Wright gives great credit to Marshal Foch for hurriedly organising his reserves on the wooded hills in Compiegne. He quotes a letter written by Lord Haig on March 8. 1918, refusing to contribute British divisions toward the Allied reServes, which would have saved General Gough's army. Another letter from Lord Haig on March 24 appealed for the appointicent of a generalissimo.