THE MILITARY ART.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14892, 15 October 1918, Page 3

THE MILITARY ART.

BRITISH FURNISH CLASSIC EXAMPLES IN FRANCE.

[United Press Association."1

I Wellington, Oct. 14. j The; summary of the British Ministry of Information states :— During the last two months tiie work of the British in France lias been most remarkable, both in generalship and I fighting morale. The French General ; Staff expressed its warmest admiration 'of this series of battles as being "models in conception, and execution" and "clasi sic examples of the military art." More ■ than eighty German divisions engaged i were defeated by British armies, often ■ repeatedly. The enemy was perpetually • surprised by successive knocks at dil- ; ferent points of the line, which 'battered ; him from one position after another and ' ifin'allv dealt a. blow from which it will i be difficult for him to recover. |