19 AUGUST 1916, Page 3

Figures such as these make one feel more than ever

that the resistance of our tiny Army at Ypres and elsewhere in the early days of the war, short of men, short of guns, short of ammunition, was nothing less than a miracle. If the Germans could not beat the Allies then when they had their chance—what a chance it was !— their hopes are low indeed now. The invincibility of the German machine is a legend for ever exploded. As for the British per- formance at Ypres, will historians find anything with which it can be fairly compared ? The historian will have ink instead of blood in his veins, we think, who does not declare that it was incomparable.