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Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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le forthe direction of operations between theAisne river and the North Sea. The com-mander-in-chief of the French armies wasGeneral Joffre. The length of line held bythe British was about 26 miles, extendingfrom a point east of Ypres southwardacross the Franco-Belgian frontier to theLa Bassee canal, west of La Bassee. Before the Canadian division took overthree miles of trenches at the battle-front,they listened to a characteristic speech bytheir British commander, General Alder-son, in which he said, Before long thearmy will say, The Canadians neverbudge. That was a prophecy that wasto be realized at a much earlier date thananybody imagined. For a week or two theCanadians carried on the defense of theirbit of line, and on March 10th they kept theGermans engaged while the British troopsimmediately to the south of them staged agreat attack at Neuve Chapelle that camewithin an inch of a spectacular success, andthen broke down. The Canadian artilleiyhad a part in the preliminary bombard-
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The result of Canadian artillery—a direct hit on a captured gun. CANADAS PART IN THE WAR 337 ment and the subsequent barrage. Thisexperience over, the Canadians were takenout and moved northward to the Ypressalient, where they went into the firing lineon April 17th, taking over three miles oftreiK;hes from the French army, a sectionof which continued to hold the line on theirk^ft, while British troops were on theirriglit. This move made the Canadians theextreme left wing of the British army. Two months after they had first smelledpowder in the western arena, the raw Cana-dian troops were called upon to save Ca-hiis and avert a colossal disaster to theallied armies. The manner of their re-sponse amazed the world. Their oppor-tunity came about in tliis way: Germanyhad pledged herself not to use asphyxiat-ing gases in warfare. Other nations hadgiven the same pledge and adhered to it.None of them took the trouble to manufac-ture gas-spreading devices or even to pro-vide its troops with

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