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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER XIV: England the Slacker!
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Between March 21st and April 17th, 1918, the Huns in their drive used 127 divisions, and of these 102 were concentrated against the British.

That was in Flanders.

Britain, at the same time she was fighting in Flanders, had also at various times shared in the fighting in Russia, Kiaochau, New Guinea, Samoa, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, the Sudan, Cameroons, Togoland, East Africa, South West Africa, Saloniki, Aden, Persia, and the northwest frontier of India.

Britain cleared twelve hundred thousand square miles of the enemy in German colonies.

While fighting in Mesopotamia, her soldiers were reconstructing at the same time.


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