JOFFRE'S GAME OF CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 15909, 15 September 1915, Page 5

JOFFRE'S GAME OF CHESS

< "It is said." writes Mr Granville Fortescup. in 'At the Front With Three Armies' '•thai- General Joffre plavs the gam© of war as if it were chess. A contoured map of the whole war zone, some fire metres square has been modelled in papier mache, and on this map the corps and - divisions of friend and foe are represented by wooden blocks. JCvery featura of the terrain, hills, valW« railroads, rivers, waggon roads, forest, and plain, is marked to scale on the model Tuns th 3 master sees at a glanco the disposition of his own and his, enemies' forces In at. adjoining room sits an adjutant, who receives an average of 500 telegrams a day. Iltcse all U.ir on the. movements of the troops. Each n; : w bit of information as it is received is at once communicated to tho generalissimo. He reflects alone in the man room. He moves the blocks. The order is given, and the change is immediately effected in the theatre of operations."