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Show FRIGE'S GLORY ! 5UNB BY JDFFHE 10P0IHE "You Have Caused All the Plans of the Enemy to Fail," Says French Commander Com-mander to Soldiers. PRESIDENT PICTURES FRANCE AS SAVIOR Army of Republic Made Possible for Allies to Prepare Pre-pare for Triumph, He Declares. PARIS, Aug. 1, ;i::iO p. m. The Bulletin Bul-letin des Annees, the official journnl of the soldiers of the French army, will publish tomorrow copies of letters written by President Toim-are, Pavid Lloyd-George, British secretary for war, and General Sir Douglas llaig, commander com-mander of the British troops in France, together with an order of the day issued is-sued by General J off re to the French army on the occasion of the second anniversary an-niversary of the outbreak of the war. The order of General Joffre follows: Soldiers of tile republic: Your third year of fighting has begun. For two years past you havqrbeen supporting with unfailing strength the weight of an implacable conflict. con-flict. You have caused all the plans of our enemies to fail. You have vanquished them on the Marne; you checked them on the Y'ser, and you beat them in the Artois and in the Champagne at a time when they were vainly seeking seek-ing victory on the plains of Russia. Rus-sia. Then your victorious resistance resist-ance during the battle of five months' duration broke the German effort in front of Verdun. Thanks to your stubborn courage the armies of our allies have been enabled to manufacture arms, the weight of which our enemies today are experiencing over their entire front. Sees Foes Crushed. The moment is approaching when, under the strength of our mutual advance, the military power of Germany Ger-many will crumble. Soldiers of France, you may be proud of the work you already have accomplished! You have determined de-termined to see it through to the end! Victory is certain! JOFFRE. President Poincare wrote: ''For the second time, my friends, we have to commemorate together a soul-stirring soul-stirring anniversary. Two years ago we lived hours that are not to be forgotten. for-gotten. Since then two sections of mankind man-kind have been grappling with one another an-other and are fighting amid streams of blood. The nations who have let loose that stupendous catastrophe have not yet completelv expiated their act. But justice is on its way." Teutons Blamed for War. The president recalled the events which preceded the declaration of war. He related how the German troops entered en-tered French territory, and continued: ' ' Two years have passed, but amid the fatigues and perils these recollections, recollec-tions, my friends, nave remained vivid in your souls. Do not let them become obliterated, because it is they which gave to this war its clear significance and bring to light the beauty of j'our task. ' ' Instinctively, mutilated France, which, during the forty-four years, had imposed silence on her sorrow, understood under-stood in 1914 that the foe who was attacking at-tacking her, blinded by pride and fa-uaticized fa-uaticized by hatred, had no grievance to plead, no right to defend, no menace to ward off. It is in vain that today the aggressors are attempting to falsify fal-sify history. ''They were at first less knavish and more cynical when they flattered themselves them-selves in seeing in the treaties granted by them nothing but common scraps of paper. With insolent frankness they accepted the responsibility of their crime. Unity of France. "The French people was not deceived. The nation was conscious that theirs was a case of legitimate defense; it realized spontaneously that sacred union which is the main condition of victory and which found in the memorable sitting of parliament on tho 4th of August, 1914, an imposing consecration. ''The war became immediately, in the whole force of the term, a national war. There is not a French men who remained deaf to the call of his country. coun-try. When you were called upon to prutect your frontiers and save our national na-tional soil, you were not only conscious that your "material interest's were at stake; yon knew also that yon were going go-ing to "defend your hearths, that you were going to defend all which constitutes consti-tutes France traditions, ideals, moral (Continued on Page Three.) , GLORY OF FRUE IIME OF LEADERS (Continued from rami Ono.) forces, preserved 11ml lovclouul by u nation w hu-li will not die. ' ' A mo u t heso Krone h ideals, 1 0110 of the oldest and inosl decp-rooled is Ihc horror of inpistico. TI10 violeiu'o nudod out I o Serbia and t ho invasion of Bel giuin still further eiilmurcd the nut burst of your pat riot ism and fort it led your resolution to be victorious. You pei con rd that the cause ot' which you had hoi-ioiio the chaiupiims outtneasured vour lives, that it was rent or than "l han he 1 sol f, that it. em braced 111 reality civilization and humanity. "It is a new erusado that you have nihlert a ken, a crusade for the law of 11a t ions a ud for the I i laud y id' peoples:. The grandeur of your mission has exalted ex-alted your courage, and you have ro-vca ro-vca led to t he world the 1 1 no l-'raacc, that Trance whose disappearance or humiliation hu-miliation would be a universal cahuuily and an eternal loss to mankind. W'h.'.t I'lanco lias Wrought. ' ' Your patience and gallantry during- long 1110 nt hs have, 1 est rained t he pressure of the tier 111 an army. The battleliclos where you luno repulsed the enemy the M a rue, the Ymt, Champagne, Cham-pagne, Artois, the Meuse, and the Soni-me- -mark so many stages of victory. It is you who have enabled Franco to oigani.'e her equipment and .Belgium and Sei bia to recon st ruct their armies. It is you who have j;ivon to Kughi nd t he t in 10 to form the admirable div isions which are fighting now at your side. Jt. is you w ho ha ve given to Kussin the means to supply rules and gims, iar-1 iar-1 1 iiiges a nd shells to her heroic t roups. "Today, as you see, the allies are beginning be-ginning to gather the fruits of your perseverance. per-severance. The Russia 11 army ia pursuing pur-suing the Austrian armv in flight. Die Germans, attacked at ttie same time on the eastern and western front s are en-gaging en-gaging everywhere their reserves. British, Brit-ish, Kussiau and Krone h battalions are co-operating in the liberation of our soif" "The struggle, alas, is not yet ended. It will still be hard, ami all of us must continue working and working unremittingly unremit-tingly and with fervor. Hut the superiority super-iority of the a Hit's is al ready up pa rent to everyone. The scales of fate had pro-t pro-t raetcd oseillat ions. Now, nno of the trays keeps on the ascent; the other is lowering under the burden which nothing noth-ing will lighten. "Immortal gdory is due to Verdun, which has prepared the combined action of the allied armies. Gturv be with you my friends, who have saved France and avenged insulted right ! ' ' The Tiritish minister for war, "David T.loyd Cieorge, briefly refers to the French armies, to the heroic defense of Verdun and to the offensive movement now in progress. "For two years of defensive," he savs, ' ' we prevented the enemy from advancing. At present we are forcing him to evacuate step by step the countries coun-tries he lias profaned ami ravaged. "Our triumph. is desired and awaited bv the allied m'tioas and by all peoples who worshin honor and iustice. " C en oral Sir Douglas TInip. after reviewing re-viewing the main events of the war, writes: ' The German armv is now reduced to the defensive everywhere. The success suc-cess of the month of July in Picardy ip only the beginning of a new era and must assure progressively the triumph of the alliep. The task can still be long and painful, but the result is not in doubt. This third year of the war will bring the deserved punishment to Germanv. ' ' |