which promise.- to last for at least an
other year, faci certainly internal
sucrillce and the ? oiisumptlon of her
reSOtireeS. ItUt stp-h i-> the confidence
of Kouinsmia in tie- Justice of In-r
cause and the f.iiili of her allies, that
she has cast In r lot w ith thi-in in the
con v let ion that h?-r nii-iit associates
will ?ee that .-l;e does not prove to lie
the third small pow-r destroyed in tills
gr? a t conlllet."
FRENCH THROW 100 SHELLS
TO EACH ONE BY GERMANS
Defender of Vrrilmi Tell* Anierlcnn
Vlnltor.t Army Soon Will lie Doing
Metier Than 'Mint.
I Ity AMHoeltiti*it I'reMH I
I'AltlS. October 13.?Oeneral Nlvllle, j
commander of the French forces at
Verdun, in talking with Walter Hale,
an artist, and II. O. lleatty. director-!
general of the American ltellef Clear- j
illg-llotl.se of New Vork, at his head
quarters during tlii.- shelling of tier-'
man trenches by th; French on Tiles-,
day, remarked that the French were
throwing more than lo" shells to one
thrown by tin; Hermans, and that soon
they will he doing better than that.
The defender at Verdun said Ills army
had its bitter struggles, but that now
if there should be an attack, it would
lie broken by the French. lleatty and
Male watched tin- cannonade for two
hours at night from the ramp:urts of
Verdun.
They also spent :? nii-ht in the citadel
at Verdun with Co-neral I'etain, cotn
mander of the French forces in the
Soissons-Vet dun region, with whom
they also hail lunch. tJeneral I'ctaln
thanked Director lleatty for the gift
of 50.000 francs by the American llelief
<'leat lug-11ouse. Th' general said It-.
