Tut second set of despite from Sir John French, of BS we publish a first instalment today, will be received by British readers-in the Far Eust no less eagerly than they have been at Home. Amid the general interest of the thilling narrative they tell, three things stand oni in them most clearly. Of the valour of the British army we will not speak further. Its achievements are a legitimate cause of pride to Britons, and the more plainly these brave deeds are revealed, the greater is the reason for not talking about them. What we rather dwell upon, as Field Marshal French reveals it in ters vivid sentences, is the brilliance of General Joffre's strategy Everyone hus' seen how skilfully he drew on the German invaders.
No one, before these despatches appeared, understood how he managed to divert the German columns southeastwards towards the Marne. thus exposing their
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