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It seems to us that as a • cautious procedure

which makes -sure of -every bit of ground the British proposal is the best: It provides for the capture of several fixed positions from which it would be possible, as it were, to sap up to fresh positions. Judged from the point of view of those who want to sacrifice no ground that has once been occupied, the French proposal seems to be the least, useful. However, everything • may ' have to I yield to the admitted desirability of getting -a universal, agree- ment. • No one underrates the great ability and alertneSs of the French delegation. * * * . *

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