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Identifier: literarydigesthi01hals (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
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El HussainKing of the new Hejaz State whichrebelled from Turkey and became independent ON THE WESTERN FRONT Part I THE INVASION OF BELGIUM,LUXEMBURG, AND ALSACE-LORRAINE 243
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244 I ROADS FROM THE RHINE VALLEY INTO FRANX^E—^THE COCKPIT OF EUROPE THERE are fonr mucli-traveled rail-routes from the Rhir.eValley into France, three of them ancient and well-wornmilitary routes. Only one of them runs directly across theFranco-German frontier, the others reaching France acrossBelgium and Luxemburg, countries declared neutral underguaranties from the Great Powers, including Germany. Aneffective and sudden German blow at France was possibleonly by taking the prohibited routes through Belgium andLuxemburg, because a frontal attack from Germanys south-ern border with the barrier from Verdun to Belfort toovercome, would at best have taken months to force a pas-sage and might have failed in the end disastrously, as didthe attack on Verdun in 1916. Such an invasion madethrough the Gap of IMetz would not only have exposed theGerman armies to a flank attack from behind Verdun, butwould have compelled them to pour hundreds of thousandsof men through a bottle-neck of territ

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