In the despatch the Commander-in-Chief points out that our forces
were always numerically inferior to the enemy, who employed ninety-nine divisions in the three months against our fifty-nine. It would be impossible," as he Faye, "to device a more eloquent testimony to the unequalled spirit and deter- mination of the British soldier." He gives the first place to our incomparable infantry, he praises the high technical skill of our gunners, and he reminde us that "cavalry is still a necersary arm in modern war," as was shown in the rapid pursuit. If he does not give so :much prominence to the Tank Corps as we should have expected, he declares that "the importance of the part played by them in breaking the resistance of the German infantry can scarcely be exaggerated." He tells us that the sight of tanks caused such alarm in the enemy ranks that the Corps was able to produce a moral effect by using dummy tanks made of wood and cloth when the real monsters were not available.
