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Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aciously held, and the town of Givenchy retaken,while to the north, in the region of Ypres, the attacks againsthigh ground about Messines Ridge everywhere were de-cisively repulsed. Vimy Ridge, which was won a year be-fore by the Canadians, had received a prodigious visitationof shells, but the Canadians with complacency now awaitedan infantry attack, satisfied that they again would be ableto hold this important sector hereafter to be long associatedwith their name. An industrial city, with a population before the war aboutequal to that of Poughkeepsie, Armentieres, now evacuated bythe British, and hailed by the Kaiser in a telegram to theKaiserin as a great German victory, had lost its value as acenter of Industry, but, like any good-sized place, it hadoffered useful storage room and defensible cellars and build-ings. It was equal in size also to the town of Lens, whichthe British attacked in 1917 for months, but never quitesecured. The contrast between the British failure at Lens 66
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67 ON THE WESTERN FRONT and the German success at Armentieres accentuated thisBritish reverse. The German bombardment south of Armen-tieres had begun on April 9, when infantry attacked from apoint just below the city, down to Givenchy, a distance offourteen miles. Here a trench front had withstood attacksfor nearly three j^ars and a half. This loss weakened thenortherly half of the British front, in somewhat the samemanner as the loss of Bapaume had weakened the southernhalf, but to a less extent. Through Armentieres, as throughBapaume, ran a possible line of advance to the coast, fortymiles distant. The southerly attempt had been checked be-fore Amiens by the expedient of throwing in a reserveFrench army, but there were as yet no French troops athand to replace the British in this part of the field. Theloss was less serious than would have been the capture ofAmiens; it at least served as a diversion, giving the Frenchtime to build up a system of defenses for Amiens. A battle is a liv

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