Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1918 — LARGEST GRAVEYARD IN ALL THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

LARGEST GRAVEYARD IN ALL THE WORLD

New York, April 7.—James M. Beck, former assistant United States attorney general declared in an address here tonight that he was violating no pledge in stating that the British casualties in the battle of'‘the Somme last year numbered 500,000 and that the French lost 240,000 fiien killed at Verdun. The field east of Albert, where they are battling now is probably the greatest graveyard in all the world, he continued, and never before in the history of warfare has heroism reached such heights as in this year of 1918. “I was privileged to spend four days with-the British forces on the west front and I saw them in action. I have witnessed the French soldiers and I have been among the British and French people during their greatest hours of trial. They do not boast. They do not promise, they do not cry and whine. If it may be called boasting,' the French people have, made but one declaration, ‘They shall not pass.” «