Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-21

life so tragically. lived through many
 dark days with gleams of glory.
 The first Ypres was as touch and- go a business as anything experienced in the retreat from Mons. The 7th dl- vision 12.000 strong when it left Eng land, lost S36 officers out of 400 and 9,665 men. On the darkest day, when all seemed lost, down the Menin road gafloped Sir Douglas Haig and his smart escort of the 17th lancers, shet{s falling thick about them, to encour age the faltering troops-for no other reason, the generals place being be- hind the line. On another day-it was at Gheluvet-he stood on a road in consultation with Sir John French, who had given an order for the army l to fall back, when courier rode up l to say that the Germans were retir- | ing. Sir Charles Fitzc1arence. an Irish | soldier, had thrown a Norfolk battal- | ion into breach in the enemys line and turned the tide of battle So crit | ical was all the Ypres lighting, so sud 1 denly did shafts of success pierce the 1 pail of defeat.
 Haig was Sir John French's right
 arm. and when the veteran retired the government. in naming the Scotehnan l for supreme command, reflected the 1 hope of the army. Upon the battle of the Somne. which he fought himself with tired and with green troops, Sir Douglas Haig's fame will mainly rest. IL was the hardest and the longest battle ever recorded. The enemy had 10 be pried out of one Gibraltar after Ianother, driven from one Plevna after another. but eyer the British army, under the tireless and patient Haig, moved relentless forward. The British losses were 50e.00o, the German losses much greater. If the commanding 1 general ever showed a trace of the tremendous strain nobody has made mention of the fact. The whole year of 1917, up to November, when Haig
 was in front of Cambrai, he pressed
 his advantage. Then came a loss of
 ground in a surprise attack, and in
 March of this year began the German
 offensive which was to end the war.
 There were more dark days for Q Brit
 The Pack to the Wall" order, held it's
 ranks inviolable.
 This Scotch gentleman. son Of John Haig of Ramornie. in Fife, who com
 mands cod, 900 British and Colonial , troops, is in the prime of life, at 57
 "fall, 1.-the. well knit" a consumnlate . horseman fair of complexion. blue oi
 eye, in manner gracious. reserved but . kindly. T have rarely seen a mascu- | line race so nandSOme ana yet SC : strong" says one who tried to inter
 view him. He shuns publicity. Ar
 industrious student of the profession of arms, it is said that he never com } manded a larger body of men than z regiment in battle before the Trea } war. The influence of the genial Duke of Cambridge secured him a commis ? sion after he had been rejected fl l defective eyesight Sir John F'renct
 saved him from drowning ill the Mod der River in the Boer war. "LucEv Haig he has always been called. H. . predicted the war with Germany in ' letter to Field Marshal Sir Evelyl : Wood years ago Fie has refused : peerage, but is a Knight of the prizet f Order of the Thistle. He has owe 2 much of his aristocratic connections } but infinitely more 10 the virtues Q r his race and to inherent soldierlv auai e ities. He has a keen sense of humo5 i He is never visih1y anery. Born il r the purple and a favorite at court an : in Mayfair. he is 2 soldiers soldier. s There are many Haies on the Britisl c army list, but onlv one Sir Douglas : Modest and indifferent to fame. h Q will be reckoned among the gren r commanders of the greatest war i Q history.-Nw York Tims.