CHAPTER XVI.
DARK DAYS FOR THE ALLIES _To Edward M.House_ June 30, 1915.
MY DEAR HOUSE: There's a distinct wave of depression here--perhaps I'd better say a period of setbacks has come.

So far as we can find out only the Germans are doing anything in the war on land.

The position in France is essentially the same as it was in November, only the Germans are much more strongly entrenched.

Their great plenty of machine guns enables them to use fewer men and to kill more than the Allies.

The Russians also lack ammunition and are yielding more and more territory.