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The Germans have so often told the world that our

brave Allies were exhausted that many people have doubtless come to believe it. France has indeed suffered more than any other of the Allies, and her ill-luck in her great spring offensive might well have caused her to play a waiting game until the Americans can take the field. But the spirit of the French is indomitable. Nothing depresses them. They have resolved to finish with German militarism once for all, and they will spare nothing to achieve their end. Under General retain, the French Army is capable of miracles, and it is doing them. Monday's triumph at Verdun undid the work of months of desperate fighting, which cost the Germans many an army corps of their best men. The Verdun lines are now almost as they were at first

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