October 3, 1914 
LAND AND WATER 
THE WAR BY LAND. 
By HILAIRE BELLOC. 
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THE WESTERN THEATRE OF WAR. 
[HE uitcrcst of the war this week in the 
west turns, as it has done for now a fort- 
night past, npon the holding of the main 
line from the Argonne to the Oise, and 
the turning of the opposed Gei-man lines 
there round by our left and the German right. To 
that situation we are accustomed, and its slow progress 
varies only in certain details later to be discussed. 
But there has also entered into this western field 
since last week a new development which may prove 
to be of gi-eat importance and which is at any rate of 
great interest ; and that is the German advance across 
the Upper Meuse between Verdun and Toul. 
Our survey of the operations in the west for this 
week, therefore, is concerned with a general scheme 
corresponding to the diagram opposite, where the 
main dark line B, C, and the shoiier lines 
A, B, C, D, represent the German forces from in front 
of St. Mihiel at D, round to the north of Verdun at 
C, thence right across Champagne to the neighbour- 
hood of Noyon at B, and thence back to the north 
again past St. Quentin at A. 
Opposite to and in contact with this formation 
everywhere you have the Allied line E, F, G, II. 
For a fortnight past the Gcmians on the defensive 
along B, C, have resisted the pressure of the Allies 
along F, G, and have in their turn failed in the 
counter-offensive attempts to bi*eak the Allied line 
F, G, opposite them. During the last ten days of 
that fortnight a turning movement has been bringing 
an increasing pressure against their right wing, and 
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the French force E, F, has, with varying fortunes of 
advance and retreat, .been, on the whole, pressing back 
very slowly the opposing Gennan forces A , B. If or 
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