. Vive la France! . risoners taken—twenty-one thousand was thefigure announced by the French General Staff—showed clearly that they had had enough ofit. They surrendered by sections and by com-panies, hundreds at a time. Most of themhad had no food for several days, and weresuffering acutely from thirst, and all of themseemed completely unstrung and depressed bythe terrible nature of the French the psychological moment, whenthe retirement of the Germans showed signs ofturning into panic, the African troops wereordered to go in and finish up the business withcold steel. Bef
. Vive la France! . risoners taken—twenty-one thousand was thefigure announced by the French General Staff—showed clearly that they had had enough ofit. They surrendered by sections and by com-panies, hundreds at a time. Most of themhad had no food for several days, and weresuffering acutely from thirst, and all of themseemed completely unstrung and depressed bythe terrible nature of the French the psychological moment, whenthe retirement of the Germans showed signs ofturning into panic, the African troops wereordered to go in and finish up the business withcold steel. Before these dark-skinned, fierce-faced men from the desert, who came on bran-dishing their weapons and shouting Allah!Allah! Allah! the Germans, already de-moralized, incontinently broke and ran. Hardon the heels of the Africans trotted the dra-goons and the chasseurs a cheval—the firsttime since the trench warfare began thatcavalry have had a chance to fight from thesaddle—sabring the fleeing Germans or driv-.
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