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Show FRANCES ARMY That period has air ved n Tr n e when her ent e armv aeti e an 1 r ser e s f llj n ob 1 ed and repa ed for service Th s means thit e er able bod ed nan n France between the ages of 18 and 45 s in tl e army except ng those emploj d n armament fcto les oil m s anl on rail roads and other p b ut 1 t es The strength that s m tl e a n has been s btra ted fron c 1 1 fe tor a t me To r m 11 on men are no longer n the ni nes the facto es or the fiolds So no of them have d ed upon the bat tlefield some have been wounded so badly that they will never retu u to the firing line but once for all the French army is at its f ujl strength The nat on is in arms ready to do or d e The next few weeks or at most the next month or two will tell what the army of France can accompl sh whether it will be able to expel tho in vader whether t will ma nta n the deadlock and be compelled to wait for England s army or whether it w 11 be driven back and defeated, IS ever be fore in her h story has France had so many men n the field never before has she been so well prepared to conquer and yet never has there been a t me when her soil was occip ed by 6o powerful a foe Tl o last two weel s has revealed someth ng of what the riench are able to accomplish Whether they can do more will be d sclosed n a short t me Despite the fact that France has its full strength in the field the Ger mans have scarcely been budged from the r pos tion A si ght advance has been made by the allies in Alsace and m Flanders while along the 1 na of the A sue river and in the reg on of Arras Lens and lpres the Germans have lost more ground than they have gamed Nevertheless there are no indications that the Germans will be compelled to retreat fion their present 1 ne of bat tie It 6eems that after all the rrench will be fo ced to awa tarn llion men from England before they can hope to expel the Germans from northern Franco and f om Belgium Even then the task may prove too great |