From the News

Dated: December 26, 1918

General Haig took brief leave to go home for the holidays. He had an enthusiastic welcome at London and is lionized wherever he goes. When Parliament meets is going to vote him fitting compensation for his services. It is childish to dispute as to who contributed most to the winning of the war, but nobody can deny that the hammer blows which he dealt during the last three months of it, which resulted in the smashing of the Hindenburg line and compelling the Germans to fight in the open, was a powerful contributing cause to their asking for peace. His crowning victory at Mons proved the hollowness of the enemy's boasting it would have continued to fight.