I do not believe there is a single instructed American or French officer who would deny this.

But, if so, it is a fact which will and must make itself permanently felt in the consciousness of the Empire.
In one of the bare rooms of that Ecole Militaire, at Montreuil, where the British General Staff has worked since 1916, I saw on a snowy day at the end of January a chart covering an entire wall, which held me riveted.

It was the war at a glance--so far as the British Army is concerned--from January, 1916, to the end.

The rising or falling of our bayonet strength, the length of line held, casualties, prisoners--everything was there--and when finally the Hindenburg line is broken, after the great nine days of late September and early October, the prisoners' line leaps suddenly to such a height that a new piece has to be added perpendicularly to the chart, and the wall can hardly take it in.

What does that leaping line mean?
_Simply the collapse of the German morale_--the final and utter defeat of the German Army as a fighting force.