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In any case, even if we cannot turn the Germans

out of their entrenched positions on the heights to the north of the Aisne, and even if they can issue forth from those positions and inflict losses upon our troops, the situation of

the Allies, as General Joffre would say in his laconic way, is "good." How good can be estimated by the fact that even if the Germans were so strongly reinforced, and the Allied Armies so much bruised and tired by hurling themselves against the Germans, that the Germans could force us back once again to the Paris-Verdun line, we need still have no doubts whatever as to the ultimate result. As we have said elsewhere, even if that were to happen, the Germans would have lost a fortnight, and they have no fortnights to spare.

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