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As to the wider strategic possibilities we shall not say

anything now. We are far from asserting that there will be no surprise developments which will be favour- able to the Allies, and we admit that there are not likely to be any surprises favourable to the Germans, for their policy of hacking through is a very simple as well as a very formidable one. We do not, however, base our fundamental optimism on any ideas of things "turning up unexpectedly. We base it on the essential conditions of the military problem before us. We shall, no doubt, seem too optimistic to many of our readers, but we venture to say that by the first Saturday in October the world will wear a different aspect from what it does now, and that the outlook will not be less but more favourable to the Allies.

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