On Thursday the Press Bureau issued a very striking descriptive
account of the situation at the front, written by " an eyewitness present with General Headquarters." It supplements the spirited narrative issued in the earlier part of the week, and shows that under pressure the War Office has discovered a very efficient military journalist among its combatant officers. " Todgers's can do it when it likes." It states that we are face to face with siege warfare, and that the Germans are in effect employing material which they had collected for the siege of Paris. The official war correspondent summarizes operations from September 18th to 20th by borrowing from the statement of a neighbouring French commander to his corps. "Having repulsed repeated and violent counter-attacks made by the enemy . . . we have the feeling that we have been victorious."
