21 OCTOBER 1916, Page 1
If, however, the defenders are too tenacious and in places
too numerous—as the French and the British were in the first stages of the war—to be overwhelmed by the tiger spring, if they fight every inch of ground doggedly, refuse to be confused or panic- stricken, and husband their force by a policy of prudent procras- tination, the hustlers may very easily get into such difficulties as found out the weakness in General von Kluck's armour, and made him turn his back upon his foes in September, 1914.
