7 APRIL 1917, Page 2

Further, the Germans no doubt hope that the new line

will be better designed for standing purely on the defensive. The Germans, whether voluntarily or owing to the operation of circumstances, have thus a good deal of man-power in hand for carrying out that admirable military policy which always inspires them—the policy of activity, of striking, in the best place if possible, but if that is impossible, then in the second- or even in the third-best place. No one appreciates better than the Germans that war is mobile, dynamic, and that no nation which wants to win must ever let the grass grois under its soldiers' feet.