The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-02
EXPORTS ALLIES TO NEW COURAGE
 AGAINST KAISER
Letters of Poincare, Lloyd George and General Haig
 Are Published.

diers of the French Army, publishes copies of letters exchanged between President Po1ncare, David Lloyd George; British Secretary for War, and General Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British troops in France.
 President Poincare's letter begins by saying:
 For the second time, my friends, we have to commemorate together a soul-stirring anniversary. Two years ago we lived hours that are not to be forgotten. Since then two sections of mankind have been grappling with one another and are fighting amid streams of blood. The nations who have let loose that stupendous catastrophe have not yet completely expiated their act. But. justice is on it's way"
 The President recalls the events which preceded the declaration of war. He relates how the German troops en- tered French territory, and continues:
 1.-TWO years have passed, but amid the fatigues and perils these recollec- tions, my friends. have remained vivid in your souls. Do not let them be- come obliterated, because it is they which give to this war it's clear signi- ficance and bring to light the beauty of your task.
 Attempt to FaIsify History <
 "Instinctly, mutilated France, which during A years had imposed silence in her sorrow, understood in 1914 that the foe who was attacking her, blinded by pride and fanaticized by hatred, had no grievance to plead, no right to de- fend, no menace to ward off, It is in vain that today the aggressors are at- tempting to falsify history.
 "They were at first less knavish and more cynical, when they flattered themselves in seeing in the treaties granted by them nothing but common scraps of paper. With insolent frank ness they accepted the responsibility of their crime. The French people was not decided. The nation was con- scious that theirs was a case of legit- innate defense. It realized spontan- teously that sacred union which is the main condition of victory and which found in the memorable sitting of the Parliament on the 4th of August, 1914, an imposing consecration.
 "The war became immediately, in the whole force of the term, a national war. There is not Frenchman who remained deaf to the call of his coun- try. When you were called upon to protect our frontiers and save our na- tai soil you were not only conscious that your material interests were at stake: You knew also that you were going to defend your hearths, that you were going to defend all which con. stitutes France-traditions, ideas, mor- al forces. preserved and developed by a nation which will not die.
 Undertake New Crusade.
 Among these French ideas one of the oldest and most deep-rooted is the horror of injustice. The violence meted out to Serbia and the invasion of Belgium still further enhanced the outburst of your patriotism and forti- hed your solution to be victorious. You perceived that the cause of which you had become the champions outmeasured your lives. that it was greater than France herself that 1t in reality civilization and humanity.
 Tt is a new crusade that you have crusade for the law of nations and for the liberty of peoples. The grandeur of your mission has exalted your courage, and you have revealed to the world the true France. That France, whose disappearance or would be a universal ca- lamity, and an eternal loss to man. kind.
 Your patience and gallantry duf- ing long months have restrained the pressure of the German army. The battlefield where you have repulsed the enemy-the Marne, the Yser, Champagne, Artois. the Mouse, and the Somme-marks so many stages. of victory. It is you who have enabled. France to organize her equipment, and Belgium and Serbia to recon struct their armies. It is you who have s:--cn to England the time to form the admirable divisions which are fighting now at your side. It is you who have given to Russia the means to supply rifles and guns, cart ridges. and shells to her heroic troops.
 To-day. as you see, the Allies are beginning to gather the fruits of your The Russian army is pursuing the Austrian army in flight. The Germans, attacked at the same time on the eastern and western 'ronts, are engaging everywhere their British, Russian and French are cooperating in the lib- sration of our soil The struggle, alas, is not yet ended. It will still De hard, and all of us must continue and working unremittingly md with fervor. But the. superiority 'f the Allies is already apparent to every one. The scales of fate had oscillations. Now one of he trays keeps on the ascent; the other is lowering under burden which nothing will tighten. $
 Immortal glory is due to Verdun, which has prepared the combined ac- ion of the allied armies. Glory be with you, my friends, who have saved France and avenged insulted right"
 What Lloyd George and Haig Say.
 David Lloyd George, the British Secretary for War, briefly refers, to he French armies, to the heroic de- ense of Verdun. and to the offensive now in progress.
 For two years of defensive," he avs, i've prevented the enemy from ldvancing. At present we are forc- ng him to evacuate step by step the countries he has profaned and ravag- d.
 Our triumph is desired and await d by the allied nations and by all peoples who worship honor and jus- ice.''
 General Sir Douglas Haig. after re.