22 SEPTEMBER 1944, Page 4

Opinions differ as to when the war will end, but

a very authorita- tive opinion on when the war was won has just been published— so far I have seen, in one paper only, the Daily Mail, which reports an address given in Belgium, on a date unstated, by Field-Marshal Montgomery to the 15th Scottish Division. Predicting victory " this year " with much conviction, the British commander referred to the disastrous German armoured attack on Avranches. " At that moment," he said, " our right flank had reached Le Mans, making for Paris. We immediately stopped our right wheel and turned the flank northwards to go in behind the Germans. And from that moment, I maintain, we had won the war." A word might perhaps have been added on what the Typhoons did to the German armour.

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