29 AUGUST 1914, page 1

First For The General Situation. In 1870 So Inefficient And

so wanting in numbers was the French professional Army, and so efficient and so numerous were the Germans, that at the beginning of the war the Germans outnumbered the French by......

But Will Not The Germans Be Able To Envelop The

Allied armies and destroy them ? No. The Allied line is too long, for though of course the Germans might be able on our left wing to surround and cut off the British force, or a......

News Of The Week.

T HERE is cause for manly anxiety, there is cause for stern determination; above all, there is cause for unflagging energy in military preparation; but there is no cause for......

But Even If She Did No Better, What She Did

then would be enough, for long before she is beaten back, say, to the line of the Loire, the double advance of Russia on Berlin and Vienna must relieve the pressure upon France,......

Now For The Local Situation. The Germans Have Come On

with a terrific impact and with splendid collective courage, as every one who knew anything of the German military machine knew they would. They are pressing their attack as men......

Meantime The British People Must Have A Heart For Every

fate. They must look to the end that will crown the work. The only danger is that they may look to it in a fatalistic spirit, and not with that helpful and alert energy which......

A Hundred Miles Advance With Such An Enormous Front As

theirs means, even apart from the wastage of war, a loss of two hundred thousand men in masking fortresses and guarding lines of communication. In an enemy's country lines of......

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