The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . A. F. Kerensky, Russias Former Minister of War. 63 54 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK. Foreign Minister Leon Trotsky, of the BolshevikRussian Government. later she spent thousands of lives in theattempt to drive to the French Calais she could, to some extent,liave blocked the transportation of Britishtroops. It -woukl have doubled the strengtliof her snlnnarine warfare, which was de-veloped later. It would have served as al)ase for her Zeppelins. Von Kluck, in iiismarch south, was within fifty miles ofCalais an
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . A. F. Kerensky, Russias Former Minister of War. 63 54 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK. Foreign Minister Leon Trotsky, of the BolshevikRussian Government. later she spent thousands of lives in theattempt to drive to the French Calais she could, to some extent,liave blocked the transportation of Britishtroops. It -woukl have doubled the strengtliof her snlnnarine warfare, which was de-veloped later. It would have served as al)ase for her Zeppelins. Von Kluck, in iiismarch south, was within fifty miles ofCalais and practically unopposed, but hemade no attempt to reach the seaport whichwould have broken Englands dominationof the Channel. The fighting along the Aisne developedentirely new methods of warfare. TlicGermans adopted the system of diggingin. The slightest advance or retreat wasfollowed by the immediate, ^^jcavation oftrenches. Dugouts, tod,- were relied upon,and liQUised in these steel and--.«pncretecovered dens, the occupants were practi-cally secure from the effects of boroljard-ment. The system of communicatingtrenches was elaborate and covered mile
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