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Show NAVAL BRIGADE DID GOOD WORK London. Dec. 4. 9:35 p m Field Marshal Sir John French in a dispatch dis-patch covering the report of General Archibald Paris, who commanded the British naval brigade at Antwerp, gives further testimony to the good effect the sending of that force to the assistance of the Belgians had on the allies' campaign generally, and thus further supports the action of Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, who has been criticised criti-cised for sending it. General French says: "Although the results did not in -elude the actual saving of the fortress, the action of the force under General Paris unquestionably delayed the enemy en-emy for a considerable time and assisted as-sisted the Belgian army to be withdrawn with-drawn in o condition to enable it to reorganize and regain its value as a fighting force. "The destruction of war material and ammunition, which, but for the intervention of this force, would have proved of great value to the enemy, Kitchener used such expressions." The official press bureau tonight issued the following statement on the subject : "With reference to a so-called Interview In-terview with Mr. Cobb: Although Lord Kitchener saw Mr. Cobb a few minutes on October 21. nothing in tho nature of a special interview was granted and the remarks attributed to the secretary of Btate for war are 1 imaginary." The statement attributed to Lord Kitchener by Irvin S. Cobb which has called forth an official denial by the press bureau of the British war office ic probably the following, taken tak-en from this week's issue of the Sat-was Sat-was thus able to be carried out. The assistance which the Belgian army has rendered throughout the subsequent course of operations on the canal and Yser river has been a valuable asset to the allied cause and such help must be regarded as tho outcome of the intervention of General Parls's force. "I am further of the opinion that the moral effect produced on the minds of the Belgian army by this necessarily desperato attempt to give them succor before It was too late has been of great value to their use and efficiency as a fighting force." General Paris says in his report that the capture of some of his brigade brig-ade and the interment In Holland of others was due to the fart that the roads were crowded with refugees, to fatigue and partly to "at present un- 1 explained causes." When Antwerp was bombarded, General Paris says, the water supply was cut off and the whole city would have been destroyed by fire had there seen any wind. rwT |