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Friday's news suggests that the combatants have now almost fought

themselves to a standstill. We have, in fact, reached temporarily a situation for a time not unlike that which occurred several times in the American Civil War, and especially like that before the great line of Southern field fortifications at Petersburg. North and South, both en- trenched, confronted each other without making appreciable progress as the Germans and the Allies now do in this rural Siege.

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