OPINION OF GENERAL HAIG.
LONDON", Tuesaay
General Sir Douglas Haig, in receiving tho Freedom of tho Mercerers' Hall ea?d that those complaining that tho -armistice. <-ame too soon forgot that German-.'V surrender was abject and irrevoea'ble. ''If," he said, "we now ha>l to go to Berlin it was far easier than in" .November. Pressing forward in November would have meant a- further loss of life, the destruction of property, ami expenditure of money without rendering Germany any more, helpless militarily than she was to-day."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13856, 12 June 1919, Page 6
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84OPINION OF GENERAL HAIG. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13856, 12 June 1919, Page 6
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