From ‘The Military Situation’, The Spectator, 1 May 1915:
EXCEPT for the terrible death-roll, there is nothing to disquiet us in the second battle of Ypres, the embers of which are glowing as we write. The Germans have once more made a determined attempt to break our line and to reach Dunkirk and Calais, and they have failed as they failed at the end of last October, and as they will fail try as many times and as long as they will. They may plot with all the chemists of Germany to invent new asphyxiating gases; they may borrow the stink-pots of China; they may devise new methods of frightfulness at once devilish and childish; but they will not break the British line, or the Belgian line, or the French line, except temporarily.
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