Show I I KAISER BILL VISITS TROOPS AT VERDUN t By Associated Press AMSTERDAM Dec Dee 24 Emperor Emperor William illiam visited the front north of Verdun on Friday according to a Berlin Berlin Berun Ber Ber- lin un dispatch and in an address to the troops thanked them warmly for their efforts But for the calm and heroic warriors warriors war war- ar arMors Mors on the tho western front he ho said the enormous deployment of German forces in the east and in Italy never would have been possible The fighter fight fight- er et in the west has exposed heroically his body so that his brothers on the and the Isonzo might storm from victory to victory The fearful battles on the bloody hills around Verdun Ver Ver- dun were not in vain They created new foundations for tor the conduct of the war wat I |