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THE MUNITION WORKS, LE CREUSOT, FRANCE France has relied much upon its artillery for defense, since Germany has more soldiers, but in the great war of 1914 the Germans had prepared more heavy cannon than the French, who used mainly a lighter gun. The Creusot works are next to the German Krupp works in importance. This picture of them is from an etching by the American artist Mr. Joseph Pennell