GENERAL BYNG TOO EAGER.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14588, 17 December 1917, Page 5

GENERAL BYNG TOO EAGER.

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT'S •■'

CRITICISM

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New York, Dec. 14

Mr Frank H. Simonds, the "New York Tribune's" military correspondent, says that General Byng's neglect of his flanks on the Scheldt in an attempt to unreasonably enlarge his success was a blunder, and even Sir Douglas Haig may find his personal position insecure.