7 APRIL 1923, Page 3

On Wednesday, March 28th, General Maunoury died suddenly. His is

one of those names which fate decided so to enmesh with great events that it can never be forgotten. It was he who, on September 5th, 1914, led the attack on Kluck's exposed right flank. It will always remain uncertain whether it was to this attack or to Foch's blow that the startling reversal of fortune which led to the German retreat from the Marne may be attributed. Certain it is that General Maunoury's was the first of that series of gallant counter-offensives whose sum total was the turning back of the German wave.