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France digs in for total Algerian war
France throws the bulk of its military manpower
into the Algerian rebellion
which daily assumes the proportions of total war.
Flying columns fan out through the country,
which at all sites has become a target
for local hit and run attacks by native guerrillas,
and rounding up guerrillas has kept almost four hundred thousand
of France's best troops pinned down.
Chief sufferers in the raids have been the outlying farm communities,
many of which have been razed by fire and their operators slaughtered.
Whole factories have been put to the torch,
even as France builds up its military establishment to peak strength.
Armed depots now dot the whole Algerian landscape
as French forces are deployed to provide swift striking power
in a war of attrition whose end is not in sight.
The end.