SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7671, 15 January 1918, Page 1

SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.

11EV.IUWS Till' 1 , AVAR . hi concluding his despatch, reviewiiuig 'the year's operations, Sir l>ou^as v II a iff says :~ TJkv general contiuuous struggle throughout V.lll was very different ironi those contemplated hy the Allied Military Conference in November, i9IO, and the groat, general, simultaneous offensive, (hen 'agreed upon did not materialise. Events 1 in Russia enabled the Clermaus to bring forty fresh divisions to the western) front, this and the. events in Italy imposed a far heavier lav on the Anglos French than was anticipated. However, (he British armies maintained vigorous and continuous offensives from April to November, except for short intervals due to weather or to incomplete preparations. It was the longest and most successfully sustained offensive of. the war, yielding of.tlOO .prisoners, nearly -KtOi 'guns, and .'iftflO ma(l'i!n.e-giins', 'therefore, ■without reckoning on the possibilities v.'hieh have been opened up by the gains in Flanders, and, without uonsideri'ng its effects in other theatres, there is every reason to be satisfied with the results achieved. The additional strength which the enemy has obtained or may obtain by reason of eveutts in Russia has. already been largely discounted, and the. ultimate destruction of the enemy's forces is brought appreciably nearer.