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Show GENERAL HAIG'S WORDS. HI General Haig"s official appeal to his troops, which was issued Friday, pre- 1 Hj sents a gloomy outlook. Evidently the HI British are hard pressed. No general HI would speak of his soldiers having H their backs to the wall unjess he felt j a most desperate stage had been reached. Haig's admission that "many among us are now tired," means that Haig himself is feeling the strain of the tremendous tre-mendous battle. Hut he Is cheered by the knowledge of the fact that "the Frencli army Is moving rapidly and in -real fin e to our support. " Let us hope this Is true. Every day wo have expected a blow from General Foch's army of maneuver. maneuv-er. If such an army is In existence, the time for it to strike Is fast passing. pass-ing. General Foch is a man of iron nerve and brilliant generalship. He is not to be. stampeded by what has tho elements ele-ments of a great disaster and. when things appear darkest, he may give the I Germans their greatest surprise. All tho amateur strategists and ev i ery paper claims at least one have been writing of the possibility of 'counter offensive ort the left flank of the German forces now drawn out In a long .valient west of Noyon. But Foch may be planning to hit on the tVosges mountains, 200 miles from Noyon. If by a sudden stroke, the : French could break ihrough west of Mulhausen In Alsace and thus carry the war to Germany, there would be n great rushing back of troop trains from northern France to the Rhine valley, and the menace which now alarms the British would be at an end Thai would be a bold counter move which only a darins. resourceful, masterful mas-terful commander would dare execute. |