15 AUGUST 1914, Page 1

The Belgians, of course, have the incomparable advantage of fighting

in their own country and having all its resources at their disposal. The boys and women convey food to them wherever it is humanly possible to do so, whereas the 'Chiang have great difficulty in feeding themselves and their horses. The Belgians do not take wrong turnings or go up impossible lanes or mistake their direction, as the Uhlans are constantly doing—and small blame to them, for the best of maps, are

often blind guides in a country covered like Belgium with a labyrinth of paths and roads which seem to run parallel, but which in fact diverge or converge with the most maddening indecision.