As we write on Friday the good symptoms are main-
tained. Although the check to the Germans must not be exaggerated, there do seem to be grounds for thinking that the retreat has been marked by a great number of small actions unfavourable to them, and, further, that it is quite possible that we may bear of considerable bodies being isolated and mopped up by the advancing Allies. The correspondent of the Daily Chronicle at Paris tells us, for example, that he hears that many regiments of 'Germans, amounting to very nearly an army corps, are 'scattered up and down the wooded country "within the triangle Senlis-Gonesse-Dammartin," and that they are cut off from the main body. Very possibly by the time these pages are in our readers' hands we shall know whether the German falling back was merely tactical, part of a ruse de guerre, or whether, again, it was compelled by the general situation- i.e., by the sense that to bold on to the old line would be perilous.
