BRITISH VALOUR.

Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1243, 16 May 1922, Page 6

BRITISH VALOUR.

MARSHALL FOCH'S TRIBUTE. (Marshall Foch took the occasion of the weddingof Princess Mary to reiterate the admiration felt by him for the work done by the armies of the King. "It is always with the deepest emotion," he has stated in the Matin, "that I recall the hours when shoulder to shoulder, with hearts united, the soldiers of Great Britain fought on our soil against the common enemy." He adds: — "I cannot have a better occasion than to-day to affirm my feelings of* admiration and affection for the armies of his Brittanic Majesty. I have seen Princess Mary's heroic compatriots struggling with savage determination and with the cool enthusiasm of their race, I paid a tribute to their intrepidity at Ypres after the great German offensives, and I could not find sufficient praise and eulogy to describe their dash, their irresistable courage, and their pluck, whether at the second battle of Ypres in 1915, r at the Somme in 1916. "Edward VII, who saw the German danger, was a figure of inspiration to me, and was nit not he who wished to impose peace first by conciliation and then by the force of democracy harnessed to the service of right? It is at the moment when England is doing 'honour to their Royal Family that we should again live through these tragic moments of historj France and -Great Britain sealed there in the generous blood of their sipns a union to which differences and polemics will never impart the fragility of a scrap of paper." The Matin commenting on Marshal Foch's declaration, states: "The homage of the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies to British heroism constitutes a rare garland of French roses, worthy of Viscountess Lascelless daughter of England.