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Show ij EARLY STRUGGLES OF WAR j T0LD BY GIBBS SUNDAY j LAST Sunday Philip Gibbs, noted English war correspondent, told in ! Tho Tribune of the dire circumstances of the British army about one ; year ago. He told in plain language why Kaig, commander-in-chief y of the British armies, in March, 1918, sent forth his piteous appeal to the ;! j; United States to hasten troops. ; In tomorrow's instalment Gibbs goes further back into history in his narrative. He tells an even more piteous tale of suffering aud misery borne ;! i; by Haig's gallant men during the early stages of the strife. He tells of the ' ;! ill-equipped "old contemptibles-' fighting in the stinking mire of Flanders I uuder conditions almost too horrible to relate. He shows the Britons with '' y less than half the necessary munitions to carry on war, standing in the ;! y way of the oncoming Hun and facing a hell hail of high explosives and ;:, ;: machine gun bullets, inventions of destruction unknown to the Briton before he met the efficient armies of the German. j Sunday's story outlines scenes of horror which have only been vaguely '. : guessed by the American people. It harks tack to 1914, after Mons, when ; the British array made its first grand stand and went into stationary war-;: war-;: fare. It tells of a withering hail of shot and a smothering gas that no ;l !; army could survive; it tells of the "contemptibles" standing where they tad ben ordered, and of annihilation. Tho story is complete in its detail, r ; horrifying iu its exactness and agonizing in its description of the unut- y I terable misery which the English first armies encountered. ; : ORDER YOUR TRIBUNE TODAY j r |