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This fact is due in the first place to the

courage, tenacity, and splendid determination of the British and French soldiers. But it is also due to the tremendous strain which has been placed upon the Germans, and to their inability to bring up fresh troops with which to overcome our initiative. For the first time in the war the Germans are finding themselves in the position which we once knew so well, and from which we suffered so terribly during the first and second battles of Ypres. They are trying to meet our attacks, not, as formerly, with an overwhelming abundance of men, but very often with only just enough, and sometimes just not enough, men to do the work.

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