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OSNXBAli MAP SHOWINO THl WKUC's OPSBATIONS ON TBJI TOVb-VZEDITN LINB WITH TBI CSOSSINO AT ST. MIHnsl., 
But we neither know their purpose nor the numbers 
at their command for the achievement of that purpose, 
nor the forces opposed to them to baulk them of that 
purpose. AVe can only in these matters depend upon 
conjecture and deduction from facts communicated by 
the French and English commanders for official 
publication. 
We can, however, say with certitude that, while 
we do not know the purpose of the enemy in thus 
advancing to, and wedging a crossing over, the Upper 
Meuse, that purpose must be to achieve one of fwo 
objects. We can even say (as is so often the case in 
the history of war) that in their prosecution of the 
one object they may be led on to attempt the second, 
or that in their failure to attempt the one may be 
involved in a still more important failure concerning 
the other. 
These two objects are (1) a feint, which is a dis- 
traction of the Allies not seriously intended to be 
pressed home, but valuable because it rnay make them 
