Admiration of "Fight to Death" in Flanders New York, May 31.
Evacuation of the Allied Armies from Flanders is recounted at great length in the New York press.
Mr. Hanson Baldwin, military writer of the "New York Times," declares the heroic resistance of the Allies in the north has given General Maxime Weygand, Commander-in-Chief of all the Allied Forces, time to strengthen the line on the Somme and Aisne.
"The fight to death in Flanders is not wasted," he adds. "The Germans have suffered heavy losses. Allies in France are dying, but perhaps they are conquering, too."
A message from Berlin to the same paper states: "Even the highest German military circles are said to be impressed by the qualíy of British resistance. If they can fight like that on the Somme or elsewhere when the time comes there will be plenty of war,' one German observer commented."
The "New York Herald-Tribune comments: "There have been trapped armies, defeats, perilous embarkations and heroic rearguard actions in the past, but never a combination of them all on a scale like this.
"A disaster sustained with such fortitude is no disaster. Many will still be saved through the courage of all, and every man who may be lost on that blazing coast will only nerve those armies to greater efforts by his T) sacrifice.
"They are soldiers of civilisation losing their own dire battles, but in so doing they are enrolling themselves imperishably among those who will yet save, by their suffering, everything which makes civilised life of value."—Reuter.
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