Time serves us in the circumstances better than it serves
the Germans. In other respects they have had all the luck. Sir Douglas Haig would have dispensed with several battalions over and over again as the price of such weather and such hard ground as the Germans have enjoyed. But such luck will not last. The anxiety and emotions of the nation have been worked upon during these critical days in such a way that no one can remember the like save in the earliest days of the war. But fortunately the parallel contains many aspects of hopefulness for us now. Then we could not hope to break the German force ; we could try only to resist it. Now we may Well hope that if we can hold on through these bitter and terrible days, the Germans will definitely lose the war through breaking themselves in their effort. We have written fully on the subject elsewhere, and here we shall do no more than give a sum- mary of the military events since our last issue.
