“The news that the Prince of Wales has left England, and is now at the front, will be received on all sides with the greatest satisfaction.” After the distress of the death of Field Marshal Earl Roberts after a visit to the troops in France (of which there was more on pages 9 and 12 today), morale was boosted with the arrival of the future Edward VIII to join the staff of Field-Marshal Sir John French (page 9). Not that he’d actually be allowed to get too close to the action, as if anything should happen to the heir to the throne just imagine the propaganda coup that would be handed to the Germans, but the paper considered that his presence “leads the way for young England at the hour of her greatest danger; and the silent example he thus sets should go far to win the Army the additional million for whom the Prime Minister appealed last Saturday.”