[Transcriber: The original document contained a number of errors.
Obvious spelling mistakes have been corrected and a notation
included for each. There were three places with missing text that
have also been annotated. In addition, there were also a number of
inconsistencies in spelling (ex. Perceval Gibbon vs. Percival
Gibbon; Rennekampf vs. Rennenkampf) which have not been changed or
noted given the desire not to introduce unintentional errors.]


[Illustration: FIELD MARSHAL SIR JOHN FRENCH
Commanding the British Forces in France and Belgium
(_From Painting by John St. Helier Lander._)]

[Illustration: GEN. SIR HORACE SMITH-DORRIEN
One of the British Corps Commanders
(_From Painting by John St Helier Lander._)]




THE NEW YORK TIMES

CURRENT HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN WAR

JANUARY 23, 1915.




Sir John French's Own Story