Mr. Lloyd George, after a visit to the front last
week, told a journalist that he had found the Generals and their officers and men all very confident of victory. "I met no Pacifists and no pessimists among them. They could not in the least understand the wrangles in certain quarters in England, which seemed to proceed on the assumption that they had been defeated, and that the only question of importance was as to who was to blame." The Army's message to the people at home was, he said, "Be of good cheer ; we are all right." As a pendant to Mr. Lloyd George's statement we may cite General Gough's letter to the Lord Mayor of Belfast, in which he said that the Fifth Army of fourteen divisions, including the Ulster Division, was exposed to the attack of forty German divisions on March 21st, reinforced by eight or ten more German divisions within the next two days. General Gough paid tribute to "the splendid calmness and doggedness" with which his Army stemmed the tide of this overwhelming attaek in a sector where, according to Mr. Lloyd George, the attack was expected, and had been provided against. No one doubts that the Army is all right. The question that disturbs people at home, as Mr. Lloyd George knows, is whether the Government are all right, or all wrong.
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