"Truth" of October 7 has a note from its Paris correspondent which is of singular interest. when read in conjunction with Sir John French s two despatches. Speaking of the retirement to the Marne, Mrs, Crawford say:
General Joffre's army great one, and full of spirit and devotion, At a critical moment it had been reinforced by 500,000 men, whom the Northern Railway had passed from the east to the north in forty-eight hours, the most wonderful feat railway organization ever accomplished. This) was early in the third week of the wa Yet there was a dread element of uncertainty that must have made his blood run cold. I must not yet say what it But the German Emperor, in his vindictive, venomous, and caddish speech of August 10, removed it. The isser in a fit. of neurotic rage ordered hia armies to devote their whole and power to the extermination of - the "contemptible little army" of Sir John French, This rendered" the manguvre of a retreat on the Marne, near Paris, suceessfal. Once again the Kaiser put foot in it. Joffre found then all he ted to make his army for a sustained offensive-defensive.
Possibly the element of uncertainty was whether the new Sixth Army would be ready in time to take that critical place on Sir John French's left, described yesterday. But the message gives further support to the rumour that the German generals in France were undisguisedly relieved when the Emperor took himself off to the eastern theatre,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.