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BATTLE OF THE MARNE.

LOST BY "VICTORIOUS":

ARMY

The first two volumes of the "Reichearchfy" deal with the mili tary operations ou the Western Front and in East Prussia until the middle of the last week of. August 1914. The third and fourth volumes deal with the gn gagements on the Meuse and the Alane and with the culminating battle on the, Marne. The work of the "Reichsarchiv" is altogether admirable in its objectivity. Those men to whom the leadership of the, German armies was entrusted and who were responsible for tho tragedy on the Marne are subject- ed to calm, severe examination..

The verdict passed on the Chlof. of the German General Staff, Von Moltke, is altogether annihilating thut is to say, in his quality of military commander. For his purely human qualities, nothing but esteem is possible. He had the highest nobility of characton

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London, Nov. 21 The Belgian stabilisation loan, which was oversubscribed, opened at 4s to b por cont. prémfum.

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LABOUR VICTORY.

HAD JOLT FOR ME.

BALDWIN.

London, Nov., 2. Something approaching a La- bour landslide is indicated in the carliest results of the municipal elections throughout the country!

horns and losses are:

Gin Losses

Labour

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He was infinitely refined, and son- Conservatives. sitive. He was oppressed by: Liberals physical suffering, and his spirit | Independente.

was weighed down by the tremend-Reuter.

ous burden of responsibility.

While the great. historical issue

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SPINNING WEBS ON HATS

OF STATESMEN.

was being decided on the battle- SPIDERS AT GENEVA - field, he tarried in a small and quiet residential town nearly 200 kilometres from the front. The daya slipped by, and he could not bring himself to decide. upon any definite, guiding action. He al lowed the thread of events to go spinning on, and then, at a most fatal moment and under an entire ly erroneous idea of the true situa- tion, he came to a decision, that converted the victory which the German armies were winning- such is the thesis-into an ir-tween the folds of linen placed in

the wardrobes. remediable defent.

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Paris Intransigeant records that the hotels of Geneva ure infested with spiders.

They hang down from the ceiling;

They drop on people's heads; They start the housemaids,equeeling.

Who find them in the beds. They insinuate themselves be-

They spin webs on or in the hats of the delegates of 48 nations.

Spiders even found their way (adds Router) into a solemn sit- ting of the League.

H

Signor Seialoja (Italy) broached the subject of the unwelcome in-

1.

To convey this decision to the armies in the field Von Moltke em- ployed a young officer-Lieutenant Colonel

Hentsch, whose powers were never clearly defined. He, too, was a man of unimpeach- able character but known for his pessimistic views. He was obses-vasion to M. Motta (Switzerland), sed by the idea of retreat, and with the President. calm, skilful determination he saw. that the idea was carried out a decision which his chief consider- ed inevitable and "necessary. In the name of the High Command he ordered the triumphant German right, under General von Kluck to begin the great withdrawal, The Battle of the Marne, it is argued was lost by a. victorious army.

The Opportunity.

"

The previous operations were determined by the astounding and utterly unexpected resolve of the Allies to make a stand, a resolve which became known to the Ger- mans by an enemy order found on the 6th September. The sudden change was all the German High Command could have desired. It offered the German armies that op. portunity which had escaped them a short while before the opportu- nity of fighting a strategically de- cisive action on the Western Front.

M. Vandervelde (Belgium) did hia

best;

He pointed to a mark upon his

check-

A spider's bite which he'd received

that week,

A

M., Briand (France) promptly French proverb, replied with

Araignee du soir, espoir," optim- istically ignoring the other half of

which the proverb, "Araignee du matin, chagrin." Of which a free translation is:-

A spidor at night

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Means Hope beaming bright. A spider at dawn-

All hope is withdrawn!

runs,

M. Motta called together the principal hotelkeepers, and war was declared by the League on the invaders.

Then 50 maids, with 50 mopa.

Attacked the walls and foors: Brushed spiders off the bureau tops,"

And swept them out of doors. By evening not a spider was to be seen?

But when came the time to re- tire to rest it was found that all the arachnids seemed to have taken refuge in the beds.

The German right was in peril ous straits, but by means of an audacious operation the command of the First Army, which formed the German right wing, was able Shortly before the great general to withdraw all available forces engagement of the 6th September from the Marne and throw them the High Command had withdrawn against the French on the Oureg. two army corps from this front to In a battle which lasted nearly reinforce the troops in Belgium. five days the First Army succeed- The "Reichsarchiv" shows con- ed in beating back the enemy's vincingly how these two corps superier forces. By the early after could have been used tactically. noon of September 9, the French and strategically south of Verdun. extreme left was in full retreat.Exactly as in the previous month The way was cleared for attack two army corps"destined for East by the Germán right wing against Prussia were taken away from the rear of General Manoury's western front and arrived too late army and against the British Ex- for the Battle of Tannenberg, so peditionary Force.

the two corps destined for Belgium Although owing to defective were in railway trucks and wag- communications, the German Sec-gons during the descisive days of ond Army had no clear conception the great western battle.

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of what had happened to its neigh And yet, in spite of these blun bour, the First Army, and was un-ers, victory was being won der the impression that it was not the victory which was to have yet out of danger, the Second Army consummited the German strate- did not abandon the offensive. The gic plan in the west, the victory weak forces at the junction of which had proved elusive at the these two armies were also able, end of August, which seemed to spite of several setbacks, to have vanished for ever, but which maintain their positions. The now "again, thanks to the stand Second Army and the wing of the briefly made and awiftly Broken,- Third not only succeeded in beat by the enemy," was within the grasp. ing back the attack of the Ninth of the Germuns." French Army, under General Foch. Then the incredible thing hap -more than this, at the very moponed. The High Command, that ment when the Battle of the Ourca is to say the Chief of Staff, Gone- was being won, their centre cap ral von Moltke, entirely mis- tured the commanding heights of conceiving the true situation, or- Mount Aout The Germans haddered the armies, which were win- broken through the enemy front ning one of the greatest triumphs By following up their successes in history, to begin the retreat. they would have forced a rapid The retreat decided the issue. French withdrawal beyond the The entire German strategic plan Aube and the Seine...

collapsed a second time, and this timo finally. It was no longer pos Victory Thrown Away,

Bible to foresee the duration of The German loft, which was in the war. The long exhausting action before the barrier of French french war, of attrition began. forts from Toul to Belfort, fulfill- Such is the German official judg- ed its task and held up the con-ment on the decisive Battle of the stant assaults of the enemy.

Marae Manchester Guardian.

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