. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No. 14 (April 7, 1922)]. at LesEparges and other places around ; Apremont, the Bois de MortMare and the Bois le Pretre. But in1915 the trench was ahead of the guns;men could die faster than guns couldbe built, and with the artillery at handJoffre could not deliver. Foch, Frenchand Castelnau all tried heroically butin vain. Nineteen - sixteen brought to bothsides the new armies, the supply ofnew artillery that could flatten trenches,and pounding offensives were made pos-sible. The British, however, could notbe ready until July—whereas in Febru-ar
. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No. 14 (April 7, 1922)]. at LesEparges and other places around ; Apremont, the Bois de MortMare and the Bois le Pretre. But in1915 the trench was ahead of the guns;men could die faster than guns couldbe built, and with the artillery at handJoffre could not deliver. Foch, Frenchand Castelnau all tried heroically butin vain. Nineteen - sixteen brought to bothsides the new armies, the supply ofnew artillery that could flatten trenches,and pounding offensives were made pos-sible. The British, however, could notbe ready until July—whereas in Febru-ary the Germans began at Verdun. AtVerdun, therefore, Joffre stood the gaffalone for more than four months, andwhen the British were ready to beginthe Somme a large part of the poiluswho were to join in the offensive hadwon an honorable discharge in the shellcraters reaching from Avocourt toDouaumont and Vaux. The Sommecould not work out as planned, buteven so it broke down the old Germanfront in the West and forced the Bocheback to the newly built Hindenburg. Photo Paul Thompson. © Mayors ReceptionCommittee, N. Y. Line. (This retreat, this added dis-tance from Amiens and the coast, savedthe day, it is well to remember, inMarch, 1918.) At the end of the campaign Joffreand Haig agreed on a common effortfor the spring of 1917; and by goodmanagement, by the prestige of hisname, and by the confidence and respectthe English had for him, Joffre hadalmost brought about the inter-alliedcommand that was conferred on Fochthe following year. But Joffre had had to fight not onlyagainst the Boche; behind him at homethere had grown up an entrenched frontof political opposition. His staff, inorder to get results, had had to takethings into their own hands. Mil-lerand, for a year, had stood betweenJoffre and his detractors in Parlia-ment. Dispossessed politicians, how-ever, proved to be unrelenting enemies;they could pardon Joffres popularityand prestige least of all things and(Continued on p
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