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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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. The battle slowed downpractically to a dead stop, similar to the Picardy drive afterthe first week. Another critical period had been put behindthe Allies, who were awaiting further onslaughts undis-mayed. Part of Arnims Fourth Army and practically allof Quasts Sixth Army, comprising more than twentydivisions (240,000 men), had been checked. Scattered overmany square miles German dead revealed the price. Deadmen and horses and smashed wagons littered the approachesto Bethune, St. Venant, Merville, Bailleul and Neuve-Egliseas proof of the prowess of British artillery, machine-gunsand low-flying airplanes. Bridges had been smashed almostas fast as German engineers could rebuild them, paved andmacadamized roads had been so shell-spitted as to render thedifficulties in bringing up guns and ammunition almost in-superable. German troops were subsisting on iron rations,kitchen-carts having been unable to follow them for two days. Perry Robinson in a cable dispatch to Tlie Sun (New York). 72
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THE HIGH-WATER MARK OF THE NORTHERN INVASION In this territory, where the map shows highways, hills and forests west ofYpres and Armentieres, the Germans, having taken Kemmel Hill, were ableto push westward far enough temporarily to control Locre and Westoutre.At Westoutre, the uttermost sphere of their influence, where they were onlyfifteen miles from the Channel west of Dunkirk, they destroyed a church V. V—6 73 ON THE WESTERN FRONT Germans claimed that they had captured over 100,000British prisoners with 1,500 guns. Exaggerated figuresthese were, but the British must necessarily have sufferedheavy losses. Hundreds of miles of light railway had beendestroyed and thousands of tons of supplies and munitions.When the full cost of this battle should be paid exhaustionwould surely follow. Both armies were fighting for the finish.The British always fought best in the last ditch; they neverhad faced greater odds, but they thrived on punishment.Great Britain had been slowly measuring her

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