"The slaughter is but a fraction, int the consequence to the belligerents has been even more deadly. We have seen great countries with powerful armies dashed out of coherent existence in a few weeks. We have seen the French Republic and the renowned French army beaten into complete and total submission with less than the casualties which they suffered in any one of half a dozen of battles in 1914-1918.
"The entire bod; it might almost seem at the time the soul—of France succumbed to physical effects incom-parahly less terrible than those which it sustained with fortitude and undaunted will power 25 years ago.
The front line runs through factories, workmen are soldiers with different weapons but the same courage. These are great and distinctive changes from what many of us saw in the struggle of a quarter century ago."—Reuter.
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