21 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 13

Remember also that all that our men are suffering is

being suffered perhaps with greater intensity by our enemies. Though they seem to come on in a "blacker, incessanter" line, and though there appears to be no limit to their rein- forcements, we may be certain that they, too, are feeling the agony of the last pull, and that their exhaustion may be even more dreadful than ours. Indeed, we firmly believe that it is, and that in Flanders we are reaching— action goes much slower than thought—the blackness of the hour before the dawn.