Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-08-02
MEN OF FRENCH
ARMY PRAISED
BY THEIR CHIEFS

tons, my friends, have made vivid i'm
preSslons in your souls. Do not let
them become obliterated, because it is
they who gave this war its clear sig
nificance and bring to light the beauty
of your task.
'Instinctively, mutilated France,
which during forty-four years had i'm
posed silence on her sorrow, under
stood in 1914 that the foe who was
attacking her, blinded by pride and
fanaticism by hatred had no griey-
ance to plead, no right to defend, no
menace to ward off. 1t is in vain that
today the aggreSsors are attempting to
falsify history.
They were at first less knavish and
more cynical when they flattered
themselves in serving 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 were not de-
ceived. The nation was conscious that
this was case of legitimate defense;
IL realized spontaneously that sacred
union which is the main condition of
victory and which found in the memoir
able sitting of the parliament of the
fourth OF August, 1914, an imposing
conservation
The war became Immediately. in
the whole force of the term, a national
war. There is not a Frenchman who
remained deaf to the call of his coun-
| try. When you were called upon to
protect your families and save our ma
ton you were not only conscious that
| your material interests We're at stake
| you knew also that you were going to
| defend your hearts, that you were GO
| ing to defend all which constitutes
trance-traditions, idols, moral fcGces,
| preserved and developed by a nation
| which Will not die.
| Among these ideals, one of the old
est and most deep rooted is the horror
| Of injustice. You perceived that the
| cause of which you had become the
| champions had outmeasured your lives,
| that il was greater than France her
self; that it embraced in reality civilza-
ton and humanity.
| 1T is new crusade that YOU have
| undertaken. a crusade for the law of
| nations and for the liberty of peoples.
| Your patience and gallantry during
| long months have restrained the pres
| sure Of the German army. The battle
fields where you have repulsed the
| enemy-the Marine, the User, Cham
| payne, Arters. the Mouse and the
| Somme-mark so many stages of vic
| tory. 1t is you who have enabled
| France to organize her equipment and
| Belgium and Serbia to reconstruct
| their armies. 1t is you who have Civ
| en- to England the idea to form the
| admirable divisions which are fighting
now at your side II is you who have
| given 10 Russia the means to supply
| rifles and guns, cartridges and shells
| to her heroic troops.
To-day, as you see the allies are
! beginning to gather the fruits of youl
perseverance. The Russian army is
pursuing the Austrian army on flight
| The Germans, attacked at the same
thine on the eastern and western fronts
are engaging everywhere British re
serves. British, Russian and French
battalions are cooperating in the lib
Grafton of our soil.
THE struggle, alas, is not yet ended
1t will still be hard, and all of us mus
continue working and working unre
mittingly and with fervor. But tbs
superiority of the allies is already APP
parent to everyone. The scales of fat,
had protracted oscillations. Now, on,
of the trays keeps on the ascent; tn,
other is lowering under the burden
which nothing will tighten.
Immortal glory is due to Verdun
| Which, Ielo liit tolllbliitb dt
ton of the allied armies. Glory b,
! with you, my friends, who have save,
! France and avenged insulted right"
The British minister of war Davi'
/ Lloyd George, briefly refers to tn
. French armies, to the heroic effort
: of Verdun of the offensive movemen
now in progress
For two years of defensive" he says
I'VE prevented the enemy from advanc
ing. At present we are forcing him T.
evacuate step by step the countrie
he has profaned and ravaged.
our triumph is desired and awaite
by the allied nations and by all people
who worship honor and Justice"
General Sir Douglas Haig, after re
, viewing the main events of the wal
writes:
/ THE German army is now reduce
| to the defensive everywhere. The sue
cess of the month of July in Picard
, | is only the beginning of a new era an
, | must assure progressively the trump
! | of the allies. The task can still b
long and painful, but the result is nc
in doubt. This third year of the wa
will bring the deserved punishmer
to Germany