Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-21
SIR DOUGLAS HAIG

One of the ablest soldiers the war has produced does not speak for him. self, or about himself. lie praises others, and is slow to censure. Some times his government has failed to send him endorsements when his need of them was sore; but he has not complained. In more than four years or war he has always been at the front, engaged with rare respite in what may be called intensive fighting, often of the most desperate charaetef. The wonder is that he has gone through the ordeal with a sound brain and strength sIparently unimpaired There have been three commanders Of the French armies since raid -Decem Der 1915. but only one commander of the British. Has any other soldier in history been exposed to greater strain upon his faculties than Sir Douglas Haig has endured and tri- uHlphed over in the last three years less three months? Yet all that is known of him by Americans, and by most of his countrymen. for that mat ter, is that his name figures a good deal in headlines Il, is impossible to associate him from the British army. On September 10 Field Marshal Haig
 
 its valor and devction: "The capture of 75.o00 prisoners and 750 guns in the course of four weeks fighting speaks for the magnitude of your efforts and the magnif1cence of your achievement"
 For once D. Haig, so he signs his name showed more emotion than was ever wrung from him before by sue cess or failure. we have passed | through many dark days" he said ir the address to his troops. "Please i God, these never will return" This great soldier for such he is, goes to a little Presbyterian church behind the 1 lines every Sunday morning, ard wheI 1 he speaks the name of God. which is seldom, lest his piety seem ostenta tious, it is with reverence. One oi those dark days was April 12 of the present year, when the British army was fighting for it's life in the Ypres sector, where it had bled so much. but always indomitably. Sir Douglas Hais then issued his "Back to the Wa1T' or der of the day, in which he said witl a simplicity with something of the 1 sublime in it;
 1 Many among US now are tired. TC l those I would say that victory will be l long to the side which holds out th' l longest. The Frencn army IS n1ON ing rapidly and in great force to oul support There is no other course open to us but to fight it cut Ever! 1 position must be held to the last man 1 There must be no retirement"
 l What has Sir Douglas Haig not don
 in his four years and more in Franc that an accomplished and intrepid sol dier should do? With Sir Horac Smith Dorrien, his fellow corps com Imander, he more than once saved tn British army on it's retreat fror Mons. Its historian, Major Ernest W
 Hamilton, says that one hundred Vic tcria crosses were earned or that slo rious retirement for every one giver One third of the expeditionary arm
 sleep the long sleep i7 France. Smith
 norrien, whose health broke down un
 der the strain. and Haig. the man c
 iron. vied with each other in ishtin
 rearguard actions until flesh and bloo
 could endure no more The escape C
 remnants of brigades hordered on th
 miraculous. eve shall have to hol
 m here for while if we all die fc
 it" said Haig On one desperate occa sion The British army was alway holding on: every extrication from th German envelonment was like for lorn hope. Smith Dorrien he of tn
 eagle eve and ma ssive jaw. was neve himself again. Haig, who did not tax