W E must mention first in our record of military events
the remarkable expression of confidence which Sir Douglas Haig has used in speaking to several French journalists. Although this " interview " was not a military event, it has the value of a military event. It is a pledge of the high and unhesitating spirit with which our Armies approach the tremendous tasks of the spring. The various reports of Sir Douglas Haig's words differ so much in detail that it is obvious that those words have gone through trans- muting processes in the minds of his French audience, and for thew we must be prepared to make considerable allowances. But when Sir Douglas Haig is confident he is so because he has every reason to be confident. He speaks by the book. He has watched that extraordinary recent series of raids in which our men have several times returned with prisoners exceeding in number the original strength of the raiding party.
