Germany: "We have turned the richest lands of France into a gigantic region of Death." Christ: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye have done it unto me."
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Our retreat from the old positions on the Ancre and the Somme has nullified the projected great Anglo-French spring offensive against our center on the Western front.
Long strips of territory, having a width of from ten to twelve kilometers (from six and one-fourth to seven and one-half miles), and running along the whole of our position, have been turned into "dead ground." No villages or farm remains standing on this glacis, no road is passable, and no bridge, railway-line, or embankment remains standing. Before our new positions runs, like a gigantic ribbon, the empire.
Lokalanzeiger, March 18, 1917.
