These aeroplanes have been the only of the enemy that has come within the ken of Parisians Neithen German wounded nor prisoners have been brought here. All have been sent away considerable distances to the south and west, and the chief trouble in Paris is the feeling of suspense. Although history is in the making Jess than fifty miles away, we know next to nothing of what is going on. Not @ single newspaper correspondent is allowed to get near the scene of the Sighting and, if he succeeded in breaking through the cordon, his observations could not be punished. Every paper has to send " proof of its contents, before they are issued to the public, to the censor, who cute out anything that appears to him to be likely to give information to the! enemy. Blank spaces in the columns occasionally show where the censor has been at we The operations in France are summed up in an official communigqué—one issued early in the afternoon for the benefit of the evening papers, and the other at eleven o'clock at night for publication in the following morning's papers. These com: muniqués are & mixture of diplo-ie language and military techicalities; they are usually very brief, and they give the slightest possible outline of what has been done. On this slender basis the military experts build up all kinds of elaborate theories, any one of which would collapse under the test of actual fact. They also afford a great deal of harmless pleasure to the amateur strategist. The sale of maps, and of little flags to stick thereon, so as to denote the supposed position of the opposing forces, must be something phenomenal.
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