. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. iMimm^ ^L^ im. A Story of the War Ostend and Calais early in August and rushed tothe assistance of the Belgians, whose entire forcenumbered only 250,000 men. The British took aposition about Mons and a French force on theeast and south of Namur, along the Sambre andMeuse rivers. Namur, it had been expected, would offer strongenough resistance to delay the enemy until the mainFrench army could come up, but its forts, like thoseof Liege, were shattered by the 42 centimeter gunsof the Germans, and in far less time, two days, com-pared
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. iMimm^ ^L^ im. A Story of the War Ostend and Calais early in August and rushed tothe assistance of the Belgians, whose entire forcenumbered only 250,000 men. The British took aposition about Mons and a French force on theeast and south of Namur, along the Sambre andMeuse rivers. Namur, it had been expected, would offer strongenough resistance to delay the enemy until the mainFrench army could come up, but its forts, like thoseof Liege, were shattered by the 42 centimeter gunsof the Germans, and in far less time, two days, com-pared with eleven. The keystone of the arch beingbroken, the long retreat of the French and Britishforces to the gates of Paris began Aug. 22. In the battle of Mons the British not only wereoutnumbered five to one, but suffered from a greatdisparity of artillery and machine guns. The Ger-mans were abundantly supplied with rapid firerifles which inflicted fearful slaughter on the Brit-ish, who were unable to reply in any adequate meas-ure. For twelve days the British and French
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