NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IR DOUGLAS HAIG'S despatch on the closing battles of 0. the war, which was published on Wednesday, is an historic document that we may transmit with pride to our descendants. It describes in 15 plain soldierly rtyle the greatest triumph ever won by British arms. In three months of epic fighting the British Armies in France have brought to a sudden and dramatic end the great wearing-out battle of the pant four years." The co.operation of all the Allied Armies under Manilla] Foch had realized his strategic plan " with a completenees rarely seen in war." But the three British Armies in the centre, which smashed their way through all the canny's lines, bore the chief burden of the fighting and broke Germany's spirit. When the armistice mas signed, Sir Douglas Haig says, 'the enemy was capable neither of accepting nor of refusing battle." His armies were in utter disorder. "His defensive powers had already been definitely destroyed." The Allied Ai mien could have pursued him into Germany and compelled him to capitulate. The only difficulty to be overcome was that of transport.
