---- ------ " ate -- -- mt _ PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919. NRVERENEENOPS EE EL EEE a SSS a ES EE LE --,_,, : " =» | PHILIP GIBBS Is writing for exclusive first publication in American 'newspapers the hitherto unrecorded facts about the war on the Western front---the fail- ures, the almost defeats, the secret reasons for incomprehensible strate- gies, the tragic mistakes and their stupendous toll of lives, and the secrets of heroic fighting men. Mr. Gibbs is in Canada for a short time only, and is taking this opportunity to tell the intimate truth which for reasons of expediency and patriotism could not be told while the war was being waged, but" which the world is now entitled to know and must know. "The Greatest War Correspondent in the World" n g ua = aE Philip Gibbs was known throughout Europe as the author of twenty volumes and as a brilliant news- paper man long before 1914. But it is since he was officially accredited to the British Armies on the ] ] ia [| Kx Western Front that has has become world-famous. His despatches to the London Daily Chronicle and numerous other papers have been the most valu- able, informing, dramatic, picturesque and human records received from the fighting front. He lived among the soldiers, dined in their messes and dug- outs, talked with them on the battlefield when they were wounded and dying, and was their comrade and confidant. In this series of articles he will re- veal the inmost truth of vital facts that will arouse Ee 3 : deep emotion and be quoted the world over. The Secret' of the Great{ Atkins and the Young Brit- |i Philip Gibbs in 1914 Before the World War Retreat. ish Officer. I | pe | a ew ii The Untold Agony of War-- Western | iil = What the Fighting Men Bad Battle onthe i His (Philip Gibbs') work in every word of it Suffered With Heroic 8il- i is that of a wriler and not a reporter; and is ence - penetrated everywhere with that nameless f : | spirit which makes and will always make the f British Generalship Before |i pen something more than a machine or even a if Why the Germans Failed on) the Judgment Bar of His~ Ji mere tool . . He was one of the very first mr. A ANNE, } 5 f+ me an a il The Darkest Days of All--} The Mind of Private Thomas | G. K. CHESTERTON says: ~ NEN EERE E NRE E NN EEEEN EERE ANNE ESN E ENN EN EE ER EEN EN AEE E NNER EERE N NEA the Western Front. in the field, appearing behind the Freneh lines SLE immediately on the declaration of war. -. G . | He therefore saw with his own eyes that diss The Heroism of the German | Laughter in the Infernal Re- | astrous beginning of the war whieh looked Army. gions. very like the disastrous end of it: He stood wom a | close to the ealastrophe 'when the linetof the greal Alliance went down at Mons; apd an Heroic Follies of the British{ War's Influence on the Men armed empire seemed bearing down on Paris Armies. Who Come Back. like a doom The finest gorrespon- = -- : m hse dent this war has produced." Facing the Tra of War for Four Years 'on the Western From : Philip Gibbs After BER - During the there was no published criticism of British Generals, but there always seething ion of feeling pressed in thelobbics including Haig, Gough, Rawlinson, Plumer, Byng, Harrington , Birdwood, Currie, etc., analyzing th eir leadership without partisanship. Thistimely feature of world import will consist of not less than ten weekly articles 'of about 4,000 words each and