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Show I f :M f n j ! '! : i W fl Til -Hs I "The Greatest War Correspondent in the World" j Is writing for exclusive first publication in The Salt Lake Tribune I and other American newspapers the hitherto unrecorded facts about the war on the Western front-the failures the almost-defeats, the secret reasons for incomprehensible strategies, the tragic I . mistakes and their stupendous toll of lives, and the secrets of heroic fighting men. ' ' ' ' ' ' Mr. Gibbs is in America for a few weeks only, and is taking this opportunity. to tell the intimate truth which ior reasons of expediency expedi-ency and patriotism could not be told while the war was being waged, but which the world is now entitled to know, and must know. , : 2 . ;4-''u- Philip Gibbs was known throughout Europe as y 1 T i .vJ,' L , t the author of twenty volumes and as a brilliant- - 1 ! ifif -nt 1 , v ' ' newspaper man long before 1914. But it- is ; r - y Y ?t c " i since he was officially accredited to the British S " I I f T ' ' . ' 1 armies on the western Front that he has become - . , ' :V-i"i: ' - " . .': ' world-famous. His dispatches to The Salt Lake v 7" T-- - i y , ' X ' " ' Tribune, London Daily Chronicle, the New York f ' t a l ,v - ' . ' , 1 i 5 s - ' '' ' . Times and numerous other American papers have - , l ' , ' , , been the most valuable, informing, dramatic, t 1 , f r"'" "". l ' ' picturesque and human records received from the ' ,r , ' " x 1'''ifjS V lfl ! fighting front. He lived among the soldiers ' ; - ' J " y-t l' hljff ' dined in their messes and dugouts, talkedwith i j J "I i s ''t "''SzSt 1 ' s, ; them on the battlefield when they were wound- ' J - ) ' I v .i - ed and dying, and was their comrade and confi- k , , f 4 ' I & f " ' ! 'l ' ' ' , ! l f$0' ' " dant. In this series of articles he, will reveal the ' - ' I , y inmost trutli of vital' facts that will arouse deep r l f. f "'. ! emotion and be quoted the world over. ' ( : J t ' 5 " ' . . I tur.M . - 'A vv - r- f ! i t' -:' "x'r 4 : TITLES OF THE FIRST TEN ARTICLES -V" . - ' PhiUp Gibbs in 1914 Before the World War E . .saV 7 .',''4 ' The Darkest Days of All The Mind of Private Thomas tc .if' r4-."t' ' 1 The Secret of the Great Atkins, and the Young Brit- 1 ' "--T X ' I Retreat. ish Officer. ' G.' K. CHESTERTON says:' I iX'- v - ' , ! The Untold Agony of War "His (Philip Gibbs 's) work iu every word ?fit I -'-rr 4 J,' . , it ' r What the Fighting Men ac Battles on t5le Western is that of a writer and not a reporter; and is peie- 'f" t, ,)' V , , Suffered Vith Heroic Si- Front. trated everywhere with that nameless .spirit I ' I r.r 51 4 lence. vliich mates and u-ill always make the pen fc, 1 .v f r k (v- j British Generalship Before something more than a machine or evefi a mere I " 1 l ?' Why the Germans Failed on the Judgment Bar of His- lo!- ne was one of the very first l C !'- - ' - the Western Front. tory. in the field, appearing behind the Freueh lines I 1 , '' .'':J - v'- " ' f - immediately on the declaration of war. vt ' 1, , t" J r i. .i. t r , -r. He therefore saw witli his own eyes that disas- i .l" ' " ' ! The Heroism of the German daughter in the Infernal Re- trous beuinnin- of 'the war whirl, looked very v, i ' ' : Army. 10I1S- like the disastrous end of it. lie stood close to I f "S N H i ' " j ' tlle catastrophe when the line of the great al- c ' J " ' ' Heroic Follies of the British War's Influence on the Men liance went down at Mons; and an armed cm- 3 Armies Who Come bacK. j pn-c seemed bearing down on Paris like a doom. Philip Gibbs After Facing the Tragedy of War for Four Years on i ,JJ . . The finest correspondent this war has the Western Front. ' ' ' ' ' produced." ? . 5 "DURING THE WAR THERE WAS NO PUBLISHED CRITICISM OF BRITISH GENERALS, BUT THERE WAS ALWAYS A I SEETHING PASSION OF FEELING EXPRESSED IN THE LOBBIES OF PARLIAMENT, LONDON CLUBHAND OFFICERS' MESSES. S PHILIP GIBBS, WHO KNEW MOST OF THE GENERALS ON THE BRITISH FRONT, GIVES VITAL STUDIES OF THEM IN THIS SERIES, INCLUDING HAIGV, GOUGH, RAWLINSON, PLUMER, BYNG, HARRINGTON, BIRDWOOD, CURRIE, ETC., ANALYZING) l THEIR LEADERSHIP" WITHOUT PARTISANSHIP. ' j The first iostaEment of this timely feature of world import I will appear SUNDAY, MARCH 30, in The Salt Lake . Tribune, and will consist of not less than ten weekly articles '1 k : I |