bombardment, lost 50 per cent. of their
effectives, if not more. We think we shall be understating the case if
we set down 140,000 men as the sum of the German losses in Champagne.
Account must be taken of the fact that of this number the proportion of
slightly wounded men able to recuperate rapidly and return to the front
is, in the case of the Germans, very much below the average proportion
in connection with other engagements by reason of the fact that they
were unable to gather up their wounded, and thus left in our hands
nearly the whole of the troops entrusted with the defence of the first
position.

[Sidenote: Enthusiasm of the French.]

All those who lived through the engagements of the battle of Champagne
experienced the sensation of victory. The aspect of the battlefield, the
long columns of prisoners, the look in the eyes of our soldiers, their
animation and their enthusiasm, all this gave expression to the
importance of a success which the Generalissimo recognized in these
terms.

[Sidenote: Thanks of the commander-in-chief.]

"Grand Headquarters,
"OCTOBER 5, 1915.

"The Commander-in-Chief addresses to the troops
under his orders the expression of his profound
satisfaction at the results obtained up to the
present day by the attacks.

"Twenty-five thousand prisoners, three hundred
and fifty officers, a hundred and fifty guns, a
quantity of material which it has not yet been
possible to gauge, are the trophies of a
victory the echo of which throughout Europe
indicates its importance.

"The sacrifices willingly made have not been in
vain. All have been able to take part in the
common task. The present is a sure guarantee to
us of the future.

"The Commander-in-Chief is proud to command the
finest troops France has ever known.

"J. JOFFRE."

* * * * *

Of all the brutal atrocities perpetrated by the Germans in Belgium, none
aroused such world-wide horror and execration as the murder of Edith
Cavell, an English nurse, on the charge of aiding English and Belgian
soldiers who escaped from Belgium in order to rejoin their respective
armies.

THE TRAGEDY OF EDITH CAVELL

BRAND WHITLOCK

Copyright, Delineator, November, 1918.