October 3, 1914 
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THE WAR BY LAND. 
By HILAIRE BELLOC. 
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THE WESTERN THEATRE OF WAR. 
THE interest of the war tlii.s week in the 
west tmns, as it has done for now a fort- 
night past, npon the holding of the main 
line from the Argonne to the Oisc, and 
the turning of the opposed German 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 great importance and whicli is at any rate of 
great interest ; and that is the German advance across 
the Upper Mouse 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 shorter 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 Chainpagne to the neighbour- 
hood of No3'on at B, and thence back to the north 
again past St. Quentin at A. 
Opposite to and in contact with this fonnution 
everywhere you have the Allied line E, F, G, H. 
For a fortnight past the Geratians on the defensive 
along B, C, have resisted the pressure of the Allies 
along P, G, and have in their turn failed in the 
counter-offensive attempts to break 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 
the French force E, F, has, with varying fortunes of 
advance and retreat, been, on the whole, pressing back 
very slowly the opposing German forces A, B. If or 
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