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Show oo FRENCH POSTERS OF THE WAR. For tho fourth Liberty loan in Franco, a campaign, somewhat similar to our last, was carried on, and tho posters employed in advertising Hie same aro works of art. Captain Fred C. Smith has sent the Standard three of the posters. One represents the German eagle attacking j a soldier of France, who thrusts his sword at the angry bird in an effort j to escape 'the sharp beak and tho long j talons. Tho soldier's protecting gar- ment has been partly torn from him I but, in heroic attitude, he prepares to meet the bird of prey. A second poster presents the bent j lover frame of a haggard man who Is i (fleeing from a mighty force, the van-I van-I guard of which are the flags of the al-i al-i lies. The face of 'tho man is drawn. The curled up moustache, tho imperial impe-rial eagle on the helmet and the broken brok-en sword leave no doubt as to the Identity Iden-tity of the pursued individual who is the picture of despair, with haunted look and worn body. A third leaflet Is a vulture in the grasp of a poilu. The Frenchman is wringing the neck of the bird whose i feathers aro torn. On the ground near-iby near-iby is a German helmet Desolation is seen in the background. There is a shattered and torn tree, a Germau gun lis mired to the hubs, and beyond aro the red, swirling flames of destruction. destruc-tion. Our liberty posters held attention and drove home the meaning of the war, but they were not as artistic in treatment or conception of tho subject sub-ject as these French posters. |