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ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA

over to France to be 'butchered by Haig', while Lord French refused to agree to the removal of a single man from England. 'Life and Letters of Lord Wester-Wemyss,' by Lady Wester- Wemyss, p. 375."

Page 473, footnote 2. Add: "General Debeney in his 'La Guerre et les hommes', p. 25, says the French sector taken over by General Gough was 'jeune', and continues, 'ce secteur étant moins bien fortifié . . . toutes les " jeunes " organisations aussi bien les Allemandes que les alliées ont sauté comme bouchons de champagne sous Teftort des matériels de 1918'."

Page 493. At bottom of page add: "German Casualties. "Colonel and Divisional Commander Bircher, of the Swiss Army, who is generally well informed about German matters, states in his 'Krieg ohne Gnade', p. 207 : 'Losses of the Germans (21st March until end of April) in the Operation Michael, 308,000 killed and wounded'."

Page 498. VII. Corps table, after "11 Aus. Brigades." add: "4th Australian Division (Major-General E. G. Sinclair- MacLagan) : 12 Aus., 13 Aus. Brigades. From 8 a.m. 29th March : 15th Australian Brigade (5th Australian Division).""

Page 499, lines 12-14. Delete "4th Australian Division ... 13 Aus. Brigades." and substitute "4th Australian Brigade (4th Australian Division)."

Page 523, paragraph (c). After "ammunition supply." add in parentheses: "(The four batteries of 12-inch howitzers on railway mount- ings were, however, kept in action with the co-operation of the 109th Railway Company R.E.)".