28 OCTOBER 1916, Page 1
If this goes on, and we see no reason why
it should not, the French will soon have recovered all the ground lost at Verdun, and nothing will remain of the great German offensive but the vast losses in dead, wounded, and prisoners. Verdun was to be the hammer- stroke of the German god of thunder. In his sign they were to conquer, and they were to pile an altar high as heaven with the bones of the beaten Frenchmen. But it is with the bones of the beaten Germans that the monument will be made.
