Inside, the reportage was still skewed firmly in favour of the Allies, with Serbia and Belgium being held up as exemplars with their resistance to Austria-Hungary and Germany (pages 4 and 5). Indeed one would think Germany was already forced on to the back foot in the war, with French incursions into Alsace and the British taking Togoland reported on page 5 – the concept of the foe of the British being successful was clearly not one the paper could countenance.