The story of the great war . UKKBJPtS s Austria-Hungary \ 5•—-•1, / ., -»• < r\rrm Jill. Current Hist. Mag. A. 1. Times Co. AUSTKIA-HVNCJARY AND THE BaLKANS had in mind, each time asking as much as they thought theycould without compelling the British and French to fight. The German spies reported in 1914 that there had never beena time when the French, British, and Russian armies had been aslittle ready to fight. The British army was then very small andattempts to increase it had repeatedly failed. Its equipment, WHY THE WAR BEGAN IN 1914 41 the Germans thought, was very poor and attempts
The story of the great war . UKKBJPtS s Austria-Hungary \ 5•—-•1, / ., -»• < r\rrm Jill. Current Hist. Mag. A. 1. Times Co. AUSTKIA-HVNCJARY AND THE BaLKANS had in mind, each time asking as much as they thought theycould without compelling the British and French to fight. The German spies reported in 1914 that there had never beena time when the French, British, and Russian armies had been aslittle ready to fight. The British army was then very small andattempts to increase it had repeatedly failed. Its equipment, WHY THE WAR BEGAN IN 1914 41 the Germans thought, was very poor and attempts to make itbetter had been defeated. The majority of the Russian armywas not equipped at all. It lacked shoes, clothing, and evenrifles. There were no factories in Russia in 1914 adequate tomaintain it in the field, though the state was proposing to buildsome very large factories. The French had the best of the three armies, but charges weremade in the French Chamber in July, 1914, that the French armywas not ready for war. One of the senators, Humboldt, who isnow believed to have been a
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