15 AUGUST 1914, Page 1
We do not believe either that they will dare to
attack Namur summarily or that they have the nerve to neglect it. Namur is a very much stronger Liege, and during the last ten days the spades have been busily at work. The country round is now literally seamed with trenches and bristling with guns. But if Namur is not taken summarily it may play a very tiresome part in the German preliminary measures, for of course, from the German point of view, that i3 all we are witnessing just now. As a preliminary to invading France, Germany has had to invade Belgium. But even if all sorts of miracles were to happen to help Germany, and things went like lightning and clockwork combined, the fact would still remain that the preliminaries are a week late.
