From Jan. 1915 onwards, only patrol actions, exchanges of rifle fire and intermittent bombardments either of the trench lines or of the billets and communications in rear, disturbed the calm of the upper Alsatian front. Belfort was shelled from long range but remained inviolate. The front itself underwent no change, and in the hour of victory in Nov. 1918 it was still as the garrison of Belfort had made it at the end of 1914, close on four years before. For all that time the pivot on which rested the right flank of the Allied armies had remained firm, and these armies had been able to carry on their operations with no fear for their communications, while the centre of France, secured against attack, had been able to turn all its resources towards winning the war. (F. T.)
VOYSEY, CHARLES (1828-1912), English theistic preacher, was born in London March 18 1828. Educated at Stockwell grammar school and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was ordained in the Church of England and held various curacies up to 1860, when he became curate of St. Mark's, Whitechapel. Thence he was ejected for heterodox doctrine, and went to St. Mark's, Victoria Docks, and later to Healaugh, near Tadcaster, where he was first curate and then vicar. But in 1869 he was summoned before
the chancery court of the diocese of York for heterodox teaching, and deprived of his living. He appealed to the privy council, but the decision was upheld. He then established a theistic church in London, where he continued to preach and teach up to the time of his death. He died at Hampstead July 20 1912.
