The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . Remarkable Photograph of a Flame-Throwing or Rain of Fire Attack in the First Line FrenchTrenches. 62 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK The Belgians and the British seemed tohave borne the greater brunt of the wintersfighting. The JYencli, too, were embroiled,but they were chiefly occupied in the hold-ing of the lines from the Oise to Hwitzer-land. About 50,000 of tlie 250,000 alliedtroops in Flanders were Belgians and theyoccupied the extreme right of the line. Thefighting raged for months, but not untilthe Belgians came i
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . Remarkable Photograph of a Flame-Throwing or Rain of Fire Attack in the First Line FrenchTrenches. 62 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK The Belgians and the British seemed tohave borne the greater brunt of the wintersfighting. The JYencli, too, were embroiled,but they were chiefly occupied in the hold-ing of the lines from the Oise to Hwitzer-land. About 50,000 of tlie 250,000 alliedtroops in Flanders were Belgians and theyoccupied the extreme right of the line. Thefighting raged for months, but not untilthe Belgians came into their own again intlic summer of 1918, and assmned their here they encountered the River Yser andthe most sanguinary fighting of the warIaged through the bleak months that fol-lowed. The loss in lives was terrific. Along theYser and at Ypres—Wipers, by graceof the cheerful British Tommy—the greaterpart of the first British expeditionary forcewas wiped out. Called the contemptiblelittle army b,Y the German staff at theoutbreak of the war, they had proudly. Inlerior View of Replica of a Jewish Welfare Board Hut in I-raiice on the Fighting Lines. share in tlie final beating of the foe, did thelines in Flanders vary more than a fewmiles either way. Dunkirk was the first ob-jective of the German drive, Calais was tobe the second. But the activity of Britishdestroyers along the coast and the employ-ment of the big guns of the battleships,demonstrated the sacrifice that must bemade to fight for Dunkirk in that directionand the Germans turned inland to take acircuitous route away from the coast. But dubbed tbemselves the Old Contempti-bles, and almost to a man they paid thesacrifice, fighting gloriously under the mostterrific fire to which troops had ever beensubjected. Fifty thousand of them wontdown at Ypres and back of the lines, theaged Lord Roberts, Bobs of Kandahar,the idol of the British regular forces, gaveup his life. Too infirm to serve except inthe lightest advisory
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