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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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at 20,000,000 subscribers would have been equiva-lent to one subscription for each family in the country. Thetotal of 17,000,000 purchasers exceeded the number ofbuyers of the second loan by 7,000,000 and was 12,500,000more than those who bought the First. Americans in June were fighting on German territory inAlsace, Michigan and Wisconsin, troops having taken over asector of the line just north of the Swiss border. It hadbeen long expected that American troops would go intoAlsace—almost at the time of their first appearance at thefront in Lorraine several months before. Americans hadnow come to assist the French in maintaining their line inthat corner of opprest Alsace which the French had re-deemed early in the war and a part of which they had held 2 Principal Sources: The Military Expert of The New York Times, TheEvening Post, The Evening Sun, The Tribune, The Sun, The World, NewYork; The Fortnightly Review (London), T!ie Literary Digest (New York),Associated Press dispatches. 93
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94 IV THE DRIVE AT KEMMEL HILL; AMIENS. UNDERFIRE, AND AIRPLANE ACHIEVEMENTS April 10, 1018—May 25, 1918 THE news from the battle-front on xVpril 19 was the bestthat had come since Luciendorff launched his great blow.For four da\^ the situation had been steadily improving.Haig reported that his lines were intact, that the Germanshad stopt their hammering tactics, and that the British heldthe hills covering the northward advance to the coast.Ludendorff, taking stock of the situation, found that hisgreat thrust for the coast had caused German losses as w^ellas gains. His losses were believed to have reached 150,000casualties and vast supplies of munitions. He had driventhe British off their hard-earned Passchendaele Ridge; hadmade a deep indentation west of Armentieres; had capturedmany prisoners, a hundred or so guns and had forced thedestruction of a large quantity of stores; but his effort fora break through had succeeded no better than did those ofHaig in the long campaign in 1917

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