A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 83

for the success of the greatest scheme of strategical of Joffre to bend again
the German side in Flanders behind the Scheldt;  and evidently, if the
the Germans' failure to the Marne and a defense succeeded of
Antwerp of the agreement should incite the Dutch to intervene, the
German position in the west would be completely turned. In both the cases
"others and more powerful considerations", as expressed the admiralty
it 17 October, it prevented her/it "great operation" of what the
the consignment of the Naval Division had been only a part from the being,
performed;  and her "powerful consideration" you/he/she is been able to be the strengths
what Germany was hoard to Aix and in Belgium to defeat the agreement
the strategy in Flanders.

                     The Countries In Artois 

The fall of Antwerp was as fatal to our scheme of controlling the
Scheldt as the defense succeeded of Castlenau and Maud'huy among the
Oise and Arras had been to the German project to reach the mouth of
the Seine;  and still he/she remained to be seen to that point the
pressure that expands on the sides adversary would bump against on the
coast. Neither you side you/he/she was still reconciled to or you/he/she had perhaps conceived
of such stalemate to their strategy. The 7 Division of Rawlinson of
infantry and 3 of cavalry had not been disembarked to Zeebrugge and
Ostend 6 October to defend those harbors or also the Yser and the
manages German and fresh that advance through Belgium they were not understood
you waste their strength on the crests in front of Ypres or floods around
Dixmude. The Germans hoped, whether not to turn the side of Agreement, at least
to grab Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne;  and Joffre and French were
planning to do of her Bassée, Lille and Menin the pivot of a dizziness
I enliven that should free Brussels, you isolate Von Beseler in
Antwerp, and it threatens the back of the German position along the Aisne.
To make these plans feasible was necessary that You Bassée and
Lille should be kept and that the German and indefinite side in Flanders