The Germans still strive, not so much against the Allies as against the English in Belgium.

Here the fighting is fiercest, casualties are greatest, and here the reinforcements on both sides are the greatest per mile of line.
Meanwhile the more than a million Germans in Belgium have trenched across the whole country, rebuilt the forts at Namur, Liege, Antwerp, and other places, and are digging themselves into the ground doggedly and determinedly, and with as great precision and more science than the Allies.

The German trenches are rather better made and the machinery for trenching has been, of course, better prepared by the Germans.
The great surprise of the war was the demonstration in Belgium that forts costing millions, in defense of cities, are absolutely useless against the big German shells.

The defense at Liege was prolonged because the Germans could not at first find the exact location of the central defense.

Finally a German approached bearing a large white flag of truce.