Three months ago we wrote that an armed nation, not
an army, was pouring into France. The French Army has been destroyed or captured, and a third of France subjugated, and even now the German papers assert there are 750,000 German troops in France. This is the paper strength, of course, and taking eight regular and two Landwehr corps for the army before Paris, seven regular and one Landwehr corps for that before Metz, one with General Werder, one with Von der Tann, one at Rheims and on the line of communications, one besieging the Northern forts, one in Alsace, and two just crossing from Germany, we have twenty-five corps, or just the number stated. Great numbers of the wounded are returning, but even if we deduct 20 per cent. for sick and dead, there remain 600,000 men flushed with victory, fully sup- plied, and directed by a genius who never blunders or forgets. We cannot believe France dead, but it will almost take a miracle to save her.
