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Show PERSEVERE UNTIL VICTORY. Field Marshal Haig Tells of Aims in Message to Queen Mary. London. Field Marshal Haig, replying reply-ing to Queen Mary's message to the British army Tuesday, telegraphed as follows : "The message which your majesty sent to the army and air force in the name of women of the British empire, will inspire with new strngth and fresh determination the brave men from every part of the empire, who on the battlefields of France and Flanders Flan-ders are fighting so gallantly for all tney hold most dear. "They who with their own eyes daily see the women and children made homeless in the peaceful and prosperous prosper-ous villages and towns now ruined by flames, are resolved, come what may, that their own loved, ones snail not share this sintering. "No peril is too great, no sacrifice sacri-fice too extreme to save the country from such a fate. "Side by side .with our gallant allies, al-lies, whose wrong we felt as ours and are determined to set rignt, we will persevere in this fight against all odds until victory is achieved. "We are heartened by the love and confidence of the British empire, to which your majesty's message has given giv-en such a moving expression;" |