LAND AND JV, A T E E , 
August 14, iyi5. 
Thev were right in backing the modern siege 
train a-ainst permanent works. They were right 
Cperceiving tlie enormous opportunities ot petro 
i^iSmimication. They were mainly "ght m the^r 
'decision to use great masses of heavy artilleiy in 
the field- they were certainly right in providing 
themselves with such an enormous superiority in 
machine guns. They were wrong in their theoiy 
numerical superiority during the first months of 
the campaign. 
So much being said by way of introduction to 
our summary, let us proceed to the story of the 
campaign and show first why Prussia was tempted 
to violate the neutrality of Belgium (a crime from 
which she will not recover) and, next, what were 
the immediate consequences of that action. 
'of field artillery, and here allowed the French a 
considerable advantage. They were disastrously 
■wrong in their choice of dense tactical formations. 
,Yet they had in their judgment of what modern 
warfare would be a clear advantage with which 
their intelligence and foreiught must be credited, 
and which gravely added to their enormous 
tSuttUment to UKi) and WiTEa, AuguH 14, 1915. 6* 
IV. 
The old frontier between France and the 
various Germanic States as it ran before the war 
of 1870 was that marked by dots on the general 
map accompanying these pages. 
The new frontier established by the Treaty of 
Frankfort in 1871 ran as does the double line upon 
