READY TO CROSS THE RHINE
A SENSATIONAL STORY FROM FRANCE London, January 1.• The "Times" correspondent with the French army says that the troops holding the lines in tho Vosges and Alsace are within about twenty miles of the Rhino, waiting for tho moment when they, will descend in flank and rear of the Germans falling back upon tho Ehino at Strassburg. If the Germans commit the mad folly of trying desperately to find another way into France, say, behind Eelfort through "Switzerland, so much the worse for them. The Germans opposing the French aro dispirited, and tho French could advance if they wanted to, and bombard many Alsatian towns. But they are waiting for something bigger. "They are treating the occupied Alsatian territory with kindness and sympathy, and, consequently, are mucli beloved.— "The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 5
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135READY TO CROSS THE RHINE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 5
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