THE MAN POWER OF FRANCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3156, 7 August 1917, Page 6

THE MAN POWER OF FRANCE

THREE MILLION IN THE FIGHTING ZONE Washington,.August 5. H. Andre Tardieu (editor of the .Tie- " ma dcs Deux Mondes"), a' member of -" the iSrench Mission, in a letter to Mr. i: Baker (Secretary for War) states that v'Trance 1$ still powerful. She now has 8,000,000 men in the fighting ZO3O, us •well as many thousands in training. Ihirlng the last half of 1916 the total French killed, missing, and prisoners was <; only 1.28 per cent, of the total mobilisa- '■ tion. The French are holding 356 miles • of the West front, the British 85, and .the Belgians 65. The French are using • 6000 heavy guns, compared with 300 at : vtlfe beginning of the war. She fired more than* .12,000,000,000 . c hots of all ■< 1 calibre in the last great offensive.—Aua.- • • Is'.Z. Cable Assn. Amsterdam, August 5. The "Neuesto Wiener Journal" states that the authorities have called up tlje • 1899, 1898, and 189G classes of the Land--'sturm- for September 22—tho first ban of the Landsturm, which consists of all - those between the ages of 17 and 39 'who, for one reason or another, have received no military training.—Aus.N .Z. : Cable Assn.