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Show FRENCH EXPECT MORE HELP. Declare Alliance Requires More Than Exchange of Compliments. London. The Express features an article in Monday's i3sue by a French military writer, Capt Philippe Millet, Mil-let, calling on Great Britain to take over more of the western front and relieve the French. Captain Millet says it is necessary to speak plainly, that the alliance of Great Britain and Frnce cannot be based on a mere exchange of compll-men's compll-men's and that all Frenchmen are wondering whether the English fully realize what is happening to France, fie sayi '.he French recognize gratefully grate-fully what Gro-jl. I'.ritain has already done, hi, feels that the time lias come for the British army to relieve the French more efficiently. The writer cites utterances of French deputies to support his claim and remarks that the British are holding only K,0 kilometres of the front compared to the French 58U kilometres. kil-ometres. He adds: "There. Is not one village In France where the people do not expect our friends to enable us, after twenty-seven twenty-seven months' hard struggle, to have some rest during the third winter and prepare for an advance next ye;ir without having to exhaust ourselves. "This is what our people feel. They bave put their trust In Great. Hi Main and they all expect the relief or a good hit of the French line to lie made Boon." |