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This is only another way of putting the question we

have put in our leading columns—What are the Germans to do next when they have got to Paris and invested it ? Of course, what they would like and what ought to happen, according to their military and political text-books, is that, the enemy's capital having been invested, the French should come to terms and make peace, But that is just what the French are not going to do. The line they are going to adopt when Paris is invested, and even if Paris is taken, is that there is only one French town the less, and that the rest of the towns and the whole country are going to fight on regardless of this fact, or rather with the grim determination to retake Paris and to claim ample revenge for its capture.

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