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Your issue of March 30, end of second complete paragraph, has-"In March the British 5th Army under General Gough ran before the last desperate German offensive." This, sir, is a pretty swinish thins to write: the sth Army did not run before any attack, at any time. My own battalion-one of all those who stood and fought-was reduced to about 80 men out of (on the 21st) some 790. The '"bite" resulted from the lack of reserves to support the first three lines in those last days of the month...
General Foch in his memoirs describes the retreat of the 5th Army under General Gough as follows: "On the north the British Army maintained in general its positions, but it was quite otherwise with General Cough's Fifth Army. Along almost the whole of its front, it was swept away, its right in particular being thrown back west of Saint-Quentin up to the edge of the Crozat Canal. On . . . the 22nd, this army, badly shaken, retreated toward the Somme. An extraordinary incident here took place -one only to be explained by the contagion which spread from the confused...
...Foch became Chief of the French General Staff, made a flying visit to Italy to rally the Italian armies fleeing from Caporetto. In January 1918 he was urged as supreme Allied commander. British military opposition kept him from the commission. In March the British 5th Army under General Gough ran before the last desperate German offensive...
...minute description of [felons'] names, aliases and persons. . . ." The exposures started with policy gambling (now a thriving operation in most large Negro centres) and stopped at nothing. Violence and threats of libel alike failed to stop the editors. The Gazette dealt in harsh detail with one John B. Gough, temperance lecturer, whom it claimed to have found intoxicated in a Manhattan brothel. It pilloried a Mrs. Ann Lohman-"Mme. Restell, the female abortionist." It had scant sympathy for Albert Deane Richardson, shot to death in the Tribune office by the husband of the woman he loved...
...collection of pajamas is the envy of many, and his beach robes are one of the established sights of Deauville. He has been divorced, "for mental cruelty" his reputatation with women is peculiar. He was cited as co-respondent (together with Augustus John, the British painter) in the famed Gough divorce case in London. He once fought a duel over a horse, refused to fight another duel with Jeweler Cartier for a fancied insult. He was sued last year for accidentally peppering a fellow grouse-shooter with birdshot...