5 SEPTEMBER 1914, page 1

Suppose Things Go In This Clockwork Way, And That The

Allies are unable to worry the Germans while they are making their last two forced marches on Paris, and also while they are making their final preparations for investment.......

News Of The Week.

T HE German advance, magnificent from a military point of view for its rapidity as well as for its solid weight, has not yet spent its force, and probably will not do so for the......

During The Week Two Casualty Lists Have Been Published, The

first on Thursday and a supplementary list on Friday. Altogether the numbers are 10,345. The killed amount to 54 officers and 179 men ; wounded, 135 officers, 941 men; missing,......

The Germans Must Either Mask Paris Or Break Their Heads

against it in the hope of taking it. Even if successful, all they can then do is to toil on for the conquest of the rest of France. In existing circumstances, and with the......

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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......

The Most Difficult Thing In The World For An Army

is to keep on falling back when opposed to superior numbers. This is what our Army has been doing, as cheerfully as if it were on Salisbury Plain, for the past fortnight. Truly......

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......

As To The Wider Strategic Possibilities We Shall Not Say

anything now. We are far from asserting that there will be no surprise developments which will be favour- able to the Allies, and we admit that there are not likely to be any......