THE MAN-POWER OF FRANCE.
THREE MILLION IX TH'G' FIGHTING ZOXB.
Washington, August 5. » M. Andre Tardieu (editor of the Bevuc des Deux Mondes), a member of the French Mission, in a letter to Mr. ISaker (Secretary for War) states that IVance is still powerful. She now h-'is 3,000,000 men in the lighting zone, as well as many thousands in training. During the last'half of ]',)]« the total' French killed, 'missing, and .prisoners was only 1.2S per cent, of the total mobilisation. The •French are. holding 3."> li miles of the West 'front, the Uritisli 85, and: the 'Belgians (>,"). The French are using 13000 heavy guns, compared with 300 at the beginning of the war. She fired' more tha"U 12,000,'J00,0U0 shots of all calibre in the last great offensive.—Aust.-.>TZ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1917, Page 8
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129THE MAN-POWER OF FRANCE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1917, Page 8
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