The War Cabinet, Mr. Lloyd George said, had sent reinforcements
promptly and in exceptional numbers. Boys of eighteen and a half with six months' training had been sent to France, in view of the emergency. The enemy had grossly exaggerated his captures of men and guns. Our guns had been replaced, and there were abun- dant reserves of munitions. The Prime Minister acknowledged with gratitude President Wilson's offer to brigade the trained American battalions now in France with the British and French troops. A few days after the battle began, all the Allied commanders had agreed to the appointment of General Foch " to the supreme direction of the strategy of all the Allied Armies on the Western Front." Strategic unity was a fundamental condition of victory. It depended on the co-operation of the Governments and the Generals, and on the support of public opinion.
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