THE ALLIES' SUCCESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2260, 21 September 1914, Page 7

THE ALLIES' SUCCESS

Tho Allies' success wag, largely due to General Joffre's clever use of tho Frenoh railways, enabling tho Allies to concentrate 'huge forces of reserves, and to thi'ow them swiftly where they were required; The above cablegram, says a correspondent, confirms some remarks of Colonel P. N. Maude, C.8., in an article in _the "Encyclopaedia Britannioa," in which he says, speaking of the period after 1870: "No one can accuse the Germans of a tendency to sleep on their laurels, but it is not in tho ranks of tho successful that the defects o'f the military machine are most surely revealed. ... Accordingly a number of the most zealous of the younger Frenoh officers banded themselves together to ensure that tho reason for their shame should no longer bo forgotten. . . . With this work the names of Maillard, Langlois, Bonnal, Loch, Colin, Camon, Desbriere, and others deserve to be for over associated for they averted intellectual despair in the nation, and ronderod it possible for the best minds in tho country to continue their labours for its regeneration. Without some such basis, v hope would have been impossible in face of the evergrowing forces of their watchful antagonist. As matters stand, as long as Prance can keep her ports open to cominorco she cannot be overwhelmed by invasion, for it is a question of time and space; with her existing method of railway communications which favour her the more the further the invaders penetrate, the application of the system promises quite astounding possibilities."