When the Times correspondent comes to consider the plan which
underlies the German concentration in the North, he refuses, in effect, to attempt a detailed answer, on the ground that we are here in the region of guesswork. Still, the question remains over : does the enemy mean to attack us or is he waiting an attack -by us ? It seems obvious that he must have one or other of these.. alternatives in view, or else he would not maintain such great' strength opposite the British Army, but use elsewhere troops which._ are at the moment, so to speak, sterilized by us. Again, it is fairly obvious that if he had hopes of doing great things by attacking us he would have attacked us already. Victory is a flower which easily fades, and those who think they have found it grasp at it without delay. If we may hazard a guess as to what is going to happen, it appears to us more than likely that the Germans will, in the end attack us for fear of being attacked at some moment even more inconvenient. It would also be reasonable to expect that this preventive attack will take place soon, on the ground that we are undoubtedly getting stronger, and that they are an undoubtedly getting weaker.
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