Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-27
Hdiig

failures of the great war, none stand out more clearly or more fixedly than Sir Doug las Haig, simple Scottish gentleman, son
 of John Haig of Fife, and commander of two million British and colonial troops in France. Many commanders and generals have come and gone since the dark days of
 1915, when Sir John French was supplant- ed by Sir Douglas Haig, most of them cracking under the tremendous strain, but this modest, unassuming, calm, forceful Scotchman, the same in victory and defeat, stays on and fights on and meets all respon- abilities with the same steadfast success that has marked his army life from the be- ginning
 No man in the military or civil circles of the war talks less than Haig, unless it be the great Foch In fact, these two are much alike in their taciturn and self effacable habits. It is next to impossible to find out anything about Haig. He Is as impene- trable as his own defense lines It is known that he was first refused admission to the British army because of defective eyesight and that later he secured a commission through the efforts of friends. He fought in the Boer war and was saved from drown ing in the Modder river by none other than Sir John French. It was good days work for Sir John, for Haig proved his right hand man in all the dark days of the British-French retreat from Mons to Paris
 An, those terrible daysl Only the men of iron withstood them. One of Haig's divisions which had left England l2,000 strong had been reduced to scant 2500 and 336 of its four hundred officers had been killed or wounded. Drawn up near Ypres in the first of the many battles to be fought for this immortal town, this di- vision was trying to slave off disaster. This was the darkest day of the great war for England. The fate of the channel ports was suspended by hair And down the Menin road galloped Haig with company of the l7th lancers, the shells breaking about them and throwing dirt and rock and iron splin- ters over them. Calm as though on parade, Haig waved to his gallant infantry and then stopped his cavalcade for a moment and turned towards the German hordes. The faltering line braced and the channel ports were saved.
 We shall have to hold on here for while, if we all die for 1t. D declared Haig, on another occasion, of that first awful re treat How perfectly British and Spartan and indomitable are these words. Typical of the British army from time immem- oral.
 But it Is upon the first Battle of the Somme that the fame of Haig will rest. He was in supreme command of that of- fensive that lasted through an entire sum- mer and cost him a half-million men and the Germans many more than that stag gering total. The enemy had to be liter ally blasted and bayoneted out of one Gib- raltar after another But Haig kept on after them, eternally and forever, and, in the end, Hindenburg had to fall back to his famous line and give up all of that section upon which Haig had set the British seal.
 When the great German offensive of this year again threatened the allies with dis aster Haig rose again to the heights of that supreme in resistance that cannot be broken. His backs to the wall order will be page of history, and the world knows how well it was obeyed by his men.
 And Haig has pressed again past the Somme, on beyond Cambrai and to Valen- ciennes, and after four years of defeat and triumph deferred, he is fighting better than ever and he has an army that simply will not be denied by all that Germany can muster against their onslaught. The same Haig, calm, resolute, cold, silent, patient, iron-willed. unbreakable and indomitable, a part and parcel of the British army and