The second day of the Battle of the Marne in the Telegraph saw the paper quick to trumpet it as a “Great success” (page 7), no doubt to counterbalance the less positive news of the past two weeks. The reports don’t stint on the size of what is termed a second “Battle of the Nations” (the first being Leipzig in 1813) as it is reckoned over a million men are engaged along a “vast line” which had already seen the Germans thrown back 10 miles. If readers wanted further proof that all was looking better, page 8 pointed out that Chalons-sur-Marne is where Attila the Hun “received the check from which he never wholly recovered”; a “good augury” seeing that “once more the Hun is on the broad plain of Chalons.” However the map on page 10 suggests the Allies have some way to go before that city is back in their hands