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Show I American Drive at Iron Ore Fields of Lorraine Expected ! j9B Worth S Jf ' T X ' 1 ' f .vuxcajrr CAMRA yJ O V fsailt,V JS3ra r v i L i CROSS SHOWS LOCATION OF IRON" ORE BEDS. ARROW SHOWS DIRECTION OF EXPECTED AMERICAN DRIVE. There are men In the American There are men in the Americau War Department who hope to see American troops some day drive eastward from Verdun into that portion of Lorraine now held by the enemy. They believe that at one stroke this would of itself almost al-most end the war. The reason is: IRON ORE SUP-! SUP-! PLY. When the Germans took part of old Lorraine from the French in 1S70 they took some of the finest Iron ore beds in the world. They left to the French the ore in Long-way Long-way and Briey, and neutral Luxemburg Lux-emburg had the rest. A few days after the present war was declared. de-clared. Hun troops marched into French Lorraine and Luxemburg, getting possession of ail this Iron. A drive 35 miles eastward from Verdun would rob the Germans-of three-fourths of their "islble- Iron supply, That would ruin them. |