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125 31 Days. MAY, 1918. May 4 & 5. 5 Sunday [125-240] Rogation Sunday. Get helped down to the winter garden in the afternoon. Noakes and Nellie Gauley to visit me - and a delicate-featured friend of hers Guladys (?) Jones - Welsh partly. The parrot in the sister's aviary starts shrieking - white-faced RFC lad comes out of the lounge with his face twitching cumulsiosly[?] - and wants to strangle Polly - Don't blame him - Polly quelched by having his cage banked under with cushions. [Article] HAIG'S HISTORIC ORDER TO HIS ARMIES. G.H.Q., British Armies in France, To all ranks of the British Army in France and Flanders. Three weeks ago to-day the enemy began his terrific attacks against us on a 50-mile front. Words fail me to express the admiration which I feel for all the splendid resistance offered by all ranks of our Army under the most trying circumstances. Many amongst us now are tired. To those I would say that victory will belong to the side which holds out the longest. There is no other course open to us but to fight it out. Every position must be held to the last man; there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to that end. The safety of our home and the freedom of mankind depend alike upon the conduct of each one of us at this critical moment. 12th April, 1918. D. Haig, F.M.