Photograph by American Press Association 



the: FAIR CHAUFFEUSE OF A SHELE SEDAN 



This is the type of electric cart vised in the munitions factories for the transportation of 

 shells. It requires a steady hand and a sure eye to pilot this machine when it is laden with 

 a cargo of canned death. 



normally low annual increase in the num- 

 ber of French citizens. Taking only the 

 figures for native-born Americans during 

 the last forty years, and the increase in 

 population in the United States has been 

 over thirty millions, while during the 

 same period in France the increase has 

 been less than three millions. 



If the loss continues at the same rate, 

 in another year France will lose the total 

 surplus in citizens she has gained since 

 the war of 1870. And it must be remem- 



bered that the death lists today are not 

 compiled from the aged and sickly, but 

 from the youth and health of the land. 



Through the sacrifices in men lost dur- 

 ing the early battles of the war France 

 was able to check the German rush and 

 gain time for England to prepare. The 

 French army met the German army at its 

 full strength and defeated it. The victory 

 of the Alarne was due to the tactics em- 

 ployed and the blows struck by the 

 French army. Y\ Tien the facts are finally 



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