15 AUGUST 1914, Page 1

Among the curious features of the invasion of Belgium are

the facts that the Belgian field artillery is doing better than the German artillery, and that the Belgian cavalry is not only more alert, but far more enterprising than the Uhlans. Even if we make every possible allow- ance for Belgian elation, with its consequent exaggerations, there can be no sort of doubt that again and again the Belgians have got round the Uhlans, cut them up and captured them, and, turning the tables, played exactly the sort of game that the Uhlans played in France forty-four years ago.