. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. rance. Soon after Foch had been made generalissimo,the German drive was stopped. The enemy hadadvanced on both sides of the Somme river, regain-ing in nine days all the territory which the Allieshad wrested from him in a year and a half of fight-ing. Every foot of the ground Hindenburg hadbeen obliged to yield a year before was recoveredby him and 200 square miles in addition. Theenemy had made a maximum gain of 39 miles on afront of 50 miles and claimed to have taken 150,000prisoners. The apex of the German drive was a little be-y
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. rance. Soon after Foch had been made generalissimo,the German drive was stopped. The enemy hadadvanced on both sides of the Somme river, regain-ing in nine days all the territory which the Allieshad wrested from him in a year and a half of fight-ing. Every foot of the ground Hindenburg hadbeen obliged to yield a year before was recoveredby him and 200 square miles in addition. Theenemy had made a maximum gain of 39 miles on afront of 50 miles and claimed to have taken 150,000prisoners. The apex of the German drive was a little be-yond Montdidier and Cantigny, the last place beingworth noting, for there a brilliant American vic-tory was won two months later. The Germans had hoped to capture the city ofAmiens, a railroad center through which the entireBritish and Belgian armies maintained communica-tion with the French armies and with Paris. If thatplace had fallen, the Allies would have had to relyon a roundabout method of communication andmutual assistance and probably would have been.
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