The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . life. Too infirm to serve except inthe lightest advisory work, he had insistedon going to Flanders to cheer his Tommies HISTORY OF THE WAR 63 on. He contracted pneumonia and died. The Allied losses in the Flanders cam-paign probably reached 100,000 men, thegreater part of these being put out ofaction during the iirst few weeks of thestruggle. The German losses may neverbecome known accurately, but military ex-perts are agreed that they exceeded 150,-000 men, a staggering total. This heavyloss was largely due to
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . life. Too infirm to serve except inthe lightest advisory work, he had insistedon going to Flanders to cheer his Tommies HISTORY OF THE WAR 63 on. He contracted pneumonia and died. The Allied losses in the Flanders cam-paign probably reached 100,000 men, thegreater part of these being put out ofaction during the iirst few weeks of thestruggle. The German losses may neverbecome known accurately, but military ex-perts are agreed that they exceeded 150,-000 men, a staggering total. This heavyloss was largely due to tlie German massattacks, by which they sought to smother mans gave indications several times ofrenewing the campaign. Counterattacks bythe Allies, too, were repulsed and the linesremained practically the same until thesummer of 1918. Through the long winter the battle fromthe sea to the far eastern flanks was al-most continuous. Both sides were stronglyintrenched and the war took on the peculiarmethods which trench fighting in January tlie Allies launched a new. Remarkable View of Exterior Y. M. C. A. Canteen Dugout Situated ISO Yards from the Boche Lines. opposition by great masses in attack. But from Dixmude to Ypres, the Allieslield. The Belgians liad had time and op-portunity to reorganize and formed noinconsiderable part of the defense. Fivemonths of fighting followed, but the battleended in a deadlock. The Allies remainedfirmly intrenched behind the dykes andcanals and Calais, Bologne and Dunkirkwere saved. In fact, they were neverseriously menaced again, though the Ger- olfensive in Alsace which made gains ofminor importance. The spring of 1915 opened with a greathope among the entente allies of drivingthe Germans out of France before sum-mer was over. The French armies hadpassed through a winter of untold suffer-ing. Mobilized as they had been in mid-summer, and never properly equipped withclothing to combat the cold and wet, theyhad nevertheless, foug
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