Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-24
Tue Silent SeUen

 tions in the hall of fame be agreed upon for the men who fought in the great war. But even now many of these men stand out above the forest of bayonets and the pail ot smoke and the gleam of fire as makers ot history. Of course, we all know more or less about the parts played by the French generals, for the French armies bore the brunt the first two years of the conflict. And then, too, the French are not backward about setting forth the exploits of their heroes. But of the English leaders little has been said The English custom IS to say nothing and saw wood. The other day this column saw picture of group ot seven British generals who carried Britain s hopes and fears through the dark and on to the dawn. And somehow, the picture sug- gests little story of the part these seven silent men played in the breaking of the Hun
 OfHaig, the commander in chief of Brit ish armies in France, every one knows lie succeeded General French, right after the disastrous offensive at Loos, early in the second year of the war. And he never faltered under the tremendous strain. Of the cold, resolute, thorough Wellington type, he never lost the confidence of his countrymen or their allies in all the dark days of the war And he was better and more skillful commander in the last cam paign than at any time He wore we'll He had to make his armies out of raw material, too, as he went along. Haig will rank with Britain's greatest generals of all time. This picture shows him with his strong, set Scotch face as the familiar type of British military leader from time immemorlal.
 The next face in the group to catch and hold attention IS that of General Plumer, hero of the Flanders forces. He Is type of the Englishman of old days, heavy features, massive jaw, bulldog through and through He held the Ypres line against all corners and never blenched when his men fell by the thousand under the fumes of the first terrible gas attacks of the Hun. It was Plumer who took Messines Ridge in one of the most brilliant offensives ot the war After the Italian disaster he was sent to Italy in command of allied reserves that stemmed the Austrian tide on the Piave. He was recalled and placed Tn charge of the Passchendale offensive after General Cough had mussed it all up. Then when the tide finally turned this year. 1t was Plumer who led the British and Bel gian forces in that drive that broke the Hunnish defensive in the north and re- covered the Belgian seacoast and Lille.
 General Horne Is of exactly the same ancient, heavy British type as Plumer. He
 LII -v. ,,-,,x, fha fircf Of- fensive and later was driven back clear to Givenchy when the Prusisans started tor Paris early in this year. But he held at this vital point and it was Horne who com manded that greatest of all British drives which broke the Queant switchline and made possible the taking of Cambrai and the taking of the Hindenburg line.
 General Allenby the hero of Jerusalem, looks more like British polo player than British general. His conquest of Samaria and destruction of the Turkish forces Tn that region will rank with the most brilliant achievement of all time. His victories came at a time when they helped his coun- trvnen the most and hurt his enemies the most in the great struggle on the western front. He put Turkey out of the war and restored the Holy City to Christendom. AIlenby's fame will be deathless.
 General Maude, the man who retrieved the disaster of Kut-el-Amara, and died just before his victorious troops took Bagdad, IS Scotch of the Scotch, according to his pic ture. England will always hold him very high, because of his success in colonial war fare. He organized and led the tribesmen under the British flag and performed his