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[VENTS THAT
PROVE FRENCH
MILITARY GENIUS
PARIS, Dec. 27.—During the clos
ing three months of 1916 three events
took place in France which demon
strated as rever at any previous pe
riod of the war the apparently inex
haustible resources of France’s mili
tary genius and strength, the equally
inexhaustible resources of her finan
cial and economic energy, and the ab
solutely unshaken determination both
of her army and her civil population
to continue the war to a successful
close.
The epic events were the launching
on October 24 of the French offensive
at Verdun, in which practically all
the ground and positions won by the
crown prince’s armies in six months
of sanguinary fighting were recon
quered within six hours with a mini
mum of losses for the French, and
secondly, the subscribing by the
French nation as a whole in three
weeks, from October 5 to October 29,
of an unprecedented war loan of
nearly 2,300,000,000 dollars.
The third was the reorganization
of France’s cabinet along the lines of
compactness and efficiency which Da
vid Lloyd-George introduced in Eng
land. Premier Briand remained at
the head of the ministry, and Joffre,
idol of France and former generalis
simo of her forces, while still retain
ing supreme command of French
forces became counsellor to the war
council. General Vivelle, defender of
Verdun, and one of the popular heroes
of the army, was made commander of
French forces in the north and north
east.
While the French victory at Ver
dun, taken entirely by itself, stands
out as an unparalleled achievement in
the military history of the world, yet
its real significance in the present war
is only apparent when it is viewed in
connection with all that had preceded
it.
When the Germans launched their
great offensive at Verdun on February
21, no secret was made of at least
two of the objects which the Germans
had in view. One of these was to
prevent the allies from starting their
combined unique offensive, and the
other was to deliver an absolute death
blow to France.
While the Germans failed to reach
Verdun, and while their great effort
failed to prevent the launching of the
allied offensive, yet they openly boast
ed that at least one of their objectives
had been attained—namely that they
had caused France to bleed utter ex
haustion before Verdun and that
henceforward she would be incapable
of further military effort.
Despite this boast and despite the
losses which France undeniably sus
tained before Verdun, she launched on
July 1st, in connection with the Eng
lish the offensive on the Somme, which
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has never been checked for a single in
stant, and in which, in addition to all
of the villages and ground regained,
all the losses in dead and wounded in
flicted on the enemy, the French them
selves, independent of what the Eng
lish have done have captured over 45,
000 prisoners, over 45,000 prisoners,
over 300 cannon and over 600 machine
guns.
It was while still conducting this
vigorous offensive on the Somme,
which the Germans had boasted
France would never be able to launch
as a result of her losses at Verdun,
that France on October 24, launched
even a second offensive, this time
choosing the German’s own ground at
Verdun where all of Germany’s great
infantry and artillery strength had
been concentrated for eight months.
This offensive France launched all
alone, without the slightest help from
any of her allies, and carried it to
such a successful conclusion that the
Germans withdrew from the Fort of
Vaux without even fighting.
While this great operation at Ver
dun revealed to the entire world the
present military strength of France
after over two years of unprecedent
ed warfare, it revealed also to the
more expert eyes of the military crit
ics of Europe, something equally im
portant, and that is the present mili
tary genius of France. Almost with
out exception competent military crit
ics and authorities in Europe are
unanimous in declaring the French of
fensive at Verdun one of the most re
markable military operations in the
world’s history.
The offensive as planned, included
the taking of over half a dozen posi
tions, such as Haudremont Quarries,
Thiaumont, and Douaumont, every
one of which the Germans had been
weeks and months in capturing, and
every one of which would ordinarily
be considered an objective in itself for
a great offensive movement. The in
cluding of all these objectives in a
single movement and the attainment
of them in six hours of fighting, is
conceded by European military critics
to have only been possible by the at
tainment of a degree of co-ordination
between infantry artillery and aerial
service never before attained and by
the development of a degree of genius
on the part of the French commanders
which shows France conclusively at
the highest point of the military pow
er she has developed in the present
war.
Of the morale of the men who ac
complished this great achievement, I
can speak personally. A few days
after the reoccupation of Vaux I vis
ited the troops in their front line
trenches before the fort. They had
been there for days under a terrific
bombardment, suffering hardships
that it seemed inconceivable that hu
man beings could sustain, living an
existence that seemed to make the lot
of their comrades whose dead bodies
lay wind and rain beaten in the ad
jacent shell holes, one to be desired a
thousand times over. And yet these
men were gay; gay with the con
sciousness of men who have done
their duty, and gay with the consci
ousness that they attained for France
a superiority over the enemy for
which every one of them was willing
to die that it might be eternally
maintained.
Almost at the same moment of
this great victory of France’s military
strength and France’s military morale
at Verdun came the announcement on
October 29, that the French nation as
a whole was standing behind its fight
ing ranks in a manner equally as firm,
and evidenced by its subscription of
nearly 2,300,000,000 dollars to a new
war loan, destined to enable the ar
my to continue to a victorious end.
When, following the war of 1870,
Germany imposed on France an un
precedented war indemnity of one bil
lion dollars, the sole object of which
was admittedly that of crushing
France economically and financially,
the entire world stood amazed at the
manner in which France, in less than
a year, borrowed this amount from
her people and paid off the debt.
Yet in the present instance, after
two years of warfare, after subscrib
ing in an amazing manner to preced
ing loans ,the French people not in a
year, but in three weeks only, sub
scribed a new war loan of over two
billion dollars, or over twice the in
demnity imposed on France in 1870.
Like the military victory at Verdun,
the real significance of this financial
and economic victory can only be ap
preciated by viewing it in connection
with other things.
With the beginning of the present
war, for example, the French people
were invited to turn into the Bank of
France their hoards of gold accepting
in its place ordinary bank notes. This
gold, they were told, was needed in
order to permit.France to maintain
her credit aboard.
With this military strength display
ed at Verdun, with this financial
strength displayed in her October loan,
and her new cabinet, together with the
morale of the army and the spirit of
the civil population, France feels that
she can look forward to 1917 with
great cheer and great hopes.
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Where did you get those lovely
doughnuts? At the North Pole bak
ery, of course. 242
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Presi
dent Wilson today signed the Ferris
bill, which opens 640 acres homestead
entries for stock raising and stock
grazing purposes.
The bill opens for public entry at
least 375,000,000 acres of public land
in Alaska, which can be utilized for
stock raising purposes.
Ferris, of Oklahoma, author of the
bill, said considerable part of 300,000,
000 acres of public lands in the west
cannot be utilized as it will not pay to
take it up in large parcels. The bill
raises the homestead unit to 640
acres on arid, semi-arid, non-irriga
tion and non-timbered public lands.
Improvements amounting to $1.25 an
acre must be done by the homesteader
to patent the land.
(Nome Industrial Worker)
Capt. Ernest Miller, of the Hudson
Bay Co’s trading launch Fort Mac
Pherson, arrived yesterday on the
Belinda from Teller, which place he
reached on the Herman. He had been
to Victoria land in the far north and
brings what is probably the last word
on Explorer Stefansson, who is win
tering in Winter Bay. He saw and
spoke to Pete Bernard, and he adds
that Stefansson has made all prepa
rations for a further exploration of
the new land which he has discovered
in the far north. Captain Miller says
that the Hudson Bay company is^
branching out and has established
three more stations, it being the com
pany’s intention to open up the trad
ing districts throughout all of the
Arctic Canada, from west to east.
They are going to take in another
boat and he will supervise the instal
lation of the engines, etc., on the new
trading craft. He thinks that Vic
toria land with its vast deposits of
native copper is one of the greatest
things in the world, and he outvies
Geologist O’Neill of the Dr. Anderson
branch of the Stefansson expedition
in praise of the country. He brings
down wonderful specimens of imple
,ments, arrow heads, etc., made by the
natives from the raw native copper.
He says that he has pictures of the
so-called blonde Eskimo, but he judges
from their anatomical characteristics
that they are not Eskimos at all.
NOTICE TO EAGLES.
All Eagles are invited to attend a
meeting Thursday Jan. 18, at 7:30
sharp at the Anchor club rooms, next
to Alaska S. S. Co. office. Election of
officers. C. M. ECKMANN,
297 Acting Secretary.
Read The Dally Times and be an
tuchoragc booster.
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Monday in
month. G. C. HAMMOND, Sec.
L. 0. 0. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
Moose hall. Initiations twice
each month.
BILL’S CLUB.
J. T. WESTERMANN, Secy.
Meets at Club Rooms every
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
EAGLES CLUB
Meets every Thursday night
at the Anchor club, Lathrop
Block.
Alaska Banking Laws
Are largely designed to protect the depositors.
This Bank has always complied strictly with
hoth the letter and the spirit of those laws. We
feel that the closer we adhere to the Law the
better it will he for onr depositors. We make
an appeal to careful and conserative people.
^ ou always have the assurance of supreme
safety when you carry an account with us.
NOW is the time to start an account. We
welcome both large and small.
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