66 Prof. Granville A. J. Cole on Frontiers of France 



railway into Italy have to find what space they can and often 

 tunnel through projecting spurs. 



The Alsatian frontier on the Rhine has now been recovered 

 for the French. The desecrated northern frontier has been 

 crossed by the armies of the Entente at the final collapse of 

 terrorism after four years of devastating war. The vigour of the 

 French defence is typified for us by the stand on the Meuse at 

 Verdun and in the trenches across the open plateaus consecrated 

 by the home of Jeanne the Maid. It may be illustrated in a 

 concrete form by the chase of the Zeppelins from Paris southward 

 on October 20th, 1917, when four of the invading airships were 

 brought dowm between Luneville and the cluse of Sisteron, kept 

 by the vigilance of defensive aircraft from escaping into German 

 lands. France has held her frontiers as she held them once 

 before at Valmy and Jemappes, and it was with a wise fore- 

 knowledge that M. Driver in 1917 named his fine bust of the 

 Republic, worn by conflict but confident of right, La Repuhlique 

 de la Victorie. 



