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Show DECISIVE WEEK IN WAR PREDICTED BY FRENCHMEN Result of Encounters the Next Seven Days May Decide Contest, Is Belief Be-lief of French Writer. Paris. The most decisive week in the European war has just begun. If the French and Belgian armies continue con-tinue victorious during the next seven days and England's fleet is successful, success-ful, Germany's doom is sealed. On the other hand, German successes would have the effect of prolonging the war without having any decisive effect upon the ultimate outcome. Germany's stragetic plan as far as Liege is concerned is not altered. Regiment after regiment is pouring into the lines from Cologne and Cob-lenz Cob-lenz to storm the gallant Belgian forts. But what was difficult five days ago has been rendered practically impossible im-possible now by the tremendous activity ac-tivity of 50,000 skilled civilians during the last thirty hours in strengthening Liege's defense works and by the apparent ap-parent massing of the French . and British troops to the westward of Liege. Reports from the scene of conflict differ here Monday night, but assuming assum-ing that the Germans should over-I over-I power Liege by their overwhelming numbers and at the expense of an in-calcuable in-calcuable waste of lives or have already al-ready done so, the kaiser's legions must encounter in a great battle the coalition of forces somewhere between be-tween Namur and Brussels, probably on the field of Waterloo. Meanwhile with the tremendous spur given the French army by the occupation of southern Alsace, the whole force now is advancing toward German territory, where the first great impact of the main armies is expected. |