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Show j I INCREASING LISTS OF I CASUALTIES. j America is just beginning to get well ;jnto the war. Our troops are holding ' Itbe trenches from near the Swiss- bor- i ;der north to Verdun, and west of the 'Mouse to the Argonne forest. They are i ' 'on both sides of the Meuse about Ver-I Ver-I dun. They arc with the French on the VOise and are operating with the Brit-' Brit-' "ish near Le Ceteau where they are helping to break a strong German line. 1 t With all these activities it is to'bc IJcxpected the casualty lists will grow. ? . Great Britain, in one day, during the fcbattle of the Somme, lost nearly 50,000 inien. Up to the present our entire bosses, including those slightly wounded, wound-ed, are not much greater than this one sorrowful day for the British. We are in this war to Win, and arc willing to pay the price in precious lives, in order that American boys in .'the future may be saved from a similar ? This war should be the last of great farmed conflicts, and will be if America Amer-ica does not for a moment relax In frier resolve to avoid an inconclusive peace. So, even while the casualties are growing, the cheering thought is pros-font pros-font that every life given now saves hundreds of lives in the future. |