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 July, 1918.

RANCE'S DAY" was held on July 14 under the auspices of the British Red Cross Committee. But this has been France's month, the month in which the miracle of the first battle of the Marne has been equalled by the second,

and the Germans have been hurled back across the fatal river by the tremendous counterstroke of General Foch.

On the 15th the Germans launched their great offensive. On the 20th they recrossed the Marne, and are now entitled to complain that General Foch not only took over the French