5 SEPTEMBER 1914, Page 1
It would be useless for us to attempt to say
what has happened to the British Expeditionary Force during the past week. The only thing that we can gather from the fog of war is that it has fallen back, but never with the slightest loss of moral or military efficiency, that it has been almost daily engaged, and that its losses have been heavy. Exactly where it is while we write on Friday we cannot say, and speculation would not only be useless, but would certainly be stale before these pages are in our readers' hands. There- fore we shall only say what the whole world is saying, that the courage shown by officers and men in the various actions has been beyond praise, and, further, that, taking the opera- tions as a whole, they reflect the utmost glory upon our troops.
