3,000,000 --- 3,000,000
Overseas printing and stationery --- 300,000 300,000
General expenses overseas --- 1,800,000 1,800,000
Maintenance of troops in France
at 9s. 4d. each per day --- 115,000,000 115,000,000
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Total $217,887,500 $225,162,500 $443,050,000
CHAPTER VIII
IMMORTAL VERDUN
France was revealed to herself, to Germany and to the world as the
heroic defender of civilization, as a defender defying death in the
victory of Verdun. There, with the gateway to Paris lying open at its
back, the French army, in the longest pitched battle in all history,
held like a cold blue rock against the uttermost man power and resources
of the German army.
General von Falkenhayn, Chief of the German General Staff and military
dictator of the Teutonic allies, there met disaster and disgrace. There
the mettle of the Crown Prince was tested and he was found to be merely
a thing of straw, a weak creature whose mind was under the domination of
von Falkenhayn.
For the tremendous offensive which was planned to end the war by one
terrific thrust, von Falkenhayn had robbed all the other fronts of
effective men and munitions.
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