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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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treacherous surprise at- tack on France in 1914 might doom her todefeat, prepared during the winter for tiieuse of gas on an elaborate scale, and shechose the Ypres salient as the best place inwhich to secure an overwhelming successin that way. The salient was vulnerable,for it formed a semi-circle, eight milesacross, based on a line running north andsouth and facing eastward. Ypres was thegateway to the Channel ports and by break-ing through the allied defenses at thatpoint an easy march to Calais was expect-ed. A number of facts tended to improve theprospect of success. The point of attackwas the junction of the British and Frencliarmies. The French troops wore coloredsoldiers who had a horror of anythingmysterious. The French held only fourmiles of line and had Belgians on theirleft. Thus a hybrid army composed theallied forces, and as the troops spoke threedifferent languages and had a diversity oforganization, the ditficulties of co-operationwere much increased. For some inexpli-
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^^^ Evidence of the good shooting of the Canadian Artillery. .\ direct shot from a Canadian artillery piece put this German gun out of commission. 338 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK cable reason, the allied defenses were notorganized to great depth. And the Ger-man troops, in driving southwostward onYpres, only five miles distant, were movingtowards tlie rear of the British troops onthe ridge east of Ypres that extends in anortlieasterly-sonthwestei-ly direction. The Germans attacked at 5 oclock onthe afternoon of Thursday, April 22nd,1915. Of the three Canadian brigades, theThird and Second were on the firing line,with the Second on the right. The Firstwas in reserve at Vlamertinghe. jnst out-side the salient on the west bank of theYpres canal. The dastardly gas attackwon a complete initial success, and tlieTnrcos and Zouaves on the left of theCanadians who were not smothered orkilled were forced into precipitate flight,leaving a hole four miles wide in the alliedfront. The Third Brigade, comm

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