London, Oct. 26, An intensely bitter attack against Earl (then Gen, Sir Douglas) Hai Commander-in-Chief of the British Army during the World War, and Sir William Robert Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1915-18, {for the slaughter at the ' Flanders {town of Passchendaele, near Ypres, is the outstanding feature of the war: vividly and ruthlessly describes. the battle of Pagschendacle in 1917, as tone of the blackest horrors of history fand one of the greatest disasters of the Great War.
He declares that 400,000 British hives were squandered in the quag-Imire in order "to satisfy the vanity fand insane egotism of General Haig, who wilfully and skilfully misled the Cabinet, and" withheld facts which would have ended the futile destruction, Mr. Lloyd George further says that, after' promising there would be no saw losses, Gen. Haig gambled with chance for 'a German break, rather than "confess failure to the politi-clans who had deposed Sir "John French (Gen, Sir Douglas Halg's predecessor) for his less. stupendous error of judgment in the Battle of
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