The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . m Paris to support the British left fromMeaux. And the rushing of this army to the reliefof the Allied left wing made the name ofGallieni a household word the world the non-military mind, it was not thestrategical worth of the move that ap-pealed, but the fact that the shrewd Frenclicommander of the garrison in the capitalpressed into service a huge fleet of taxicabsand private motor cais that liad rolled overthe sunlit boulevards of the capital, andinto these he had loaded the thousands ofhis army and
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . m Paris to support the British left fromMeaux. And the rushing of this army to the reliefof the Allied left wing made the name ofGallieni a household word the world the non-military mind, it was not thestrategical worth of the move that ap-pealed, but the fact that the shrewd Frenclicommander of the garrison in the capitalpressed into service a huge fleet of taxicabsand private motor cais that liad rolled overthe sunlit boulevards of the capital, andinto these he had loaded the thousands ofhis army and rushed them fortli in time toswing defeat into victory. Opposed to the Allies were approxi-rbately 1,500,000 Germans, in position fromright to left:—Von Khick, who had left ascreen on his flank in northern France anda corps bent back to face Paris; von Bulow,who had come down from Charleroi toGuise and then turned via Rlieims; vonHausen, who came via Rocroi and Chalons ;the Duke of Wurtemburg, whose advancelay through Sedan and the Argonne, andthe Crown Prince, who had reduced. Premier Orlando of Italy. HISTORY OF THE WAR 51
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