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THE SPIRIT OF FRANCE. Jaubert is, an old officer who resigned

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THEY SHALL NOT PASS."

longs to the old French aristocravy, and

By M, Joxeru Hoexis, tue WELL- KNOW NOVELIST.]

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(Germans in 1870. He tiid me many a

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here the graves aid he empha- Paint every word, “Pivkhundred thou sand German were killed her. This apart from all`ike' wounded, "Mon Dieu! is it not ghastly? Anil why Beenuse they bad got their by army and were' determined to deminate the world"

TUNK BY VERDEN?"

I think that the horror, the time of) --Tell the pople of England," said this war laid hold at me while I was at; Bu olu Army officer to me, ** that tisu | Vardan, even more than when I visited|

the region of the Somu, and Vimy Ridge and this country aroună. Great where giant in their

The

i heart of France is work, and that we will ave yield an inh: no, not an inch?

tracts of forestland Fret north to surth fress wast to wish tres grew are now hideous it is the same. There is at one opinion barrenness, and grent shell craters. in Fruer, and there is but one spirit. very genins of desolation mad death seem This war minst he won We want praete

to beant every hill and valley. While we love power; lost there can be to prueshell was printed out to me which the Team of the grens fortresses, a huge while German milberism is on the throne. Hun had used it barbardment. I was That zaust be destroyed. Germany must several feet high and weighed merly a see that war die tot pay. Is the only ton. The thing was partly broken, and way to convince her of her crime, it is I saw that the steel sides of the sylinder which had wontained the explosives, were The only way to make the people of

[meirly two, inches thick. When it ex- themans cast of Kaiseriera and all its ploded it tore up a crater several feet devitry.

Everywhere there is one deep, and throw up many tons of stufi. united yoite. We want peace, but it What is the life of a man to a thing must be a permanent petice, a just pesce, like that ?" said the emptäîu of the for- And there were hundreds, and that can

while German tress to nie. Дитер буде

thousands every day! Yet our men stood militarista is clumibano,”

it." dried Captain Jaubsect. "Month after month bestod is, and by the werey of God they saved the situation.

AT THE GATEWAY *D PAR

*You thought," said Captain, Jaubers

when you say that

to me," that while the French were bril-Ah, Masinar, talk of the French vi bant ar attack, they did not prosess stay. no staying power! Think of Verdun ing power. There is you muswer!"

We were standing mi

Many Frenchmen muintain that the for- 涅 bill east Vertan. On the one hand was a vast war; that Verdum is the plant on which situde of their armies at Verlie won the

į panorama of hill and dale, while on the the future rests. Certain it is that in other was the old "wined city. Ou, the, many respects and the story of Verdun is hilis were the great fortresses, some of amung the most dramatie in the world.

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Da ne pusse pas?"

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On ne passe pas! They shall not who have gone to this region since the Inst crufess that a sliver wat very few are English. Perbups parsed through me as I looked at it, and among all the stories of great balles pone realised the inwardness of the situation. are more tremendous than that of Ver-Remember, I was in the citadel at the It was here that the Germans time, the citade, which was the objective, determined to break through. Here, they of the German desire to gain which the said, was the gateway to Paris, the high Crown Prince threw away half a million read to France. When the war como menced this road presented, too many

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