THE ANGELS OF MONS
Yet the very next paragraph in the article begins:—
"'Where was this?' I asked. But neither of them could tell."
This struck me as odd. But Miss Campbell has explained that the soldiers said nothing about Vitry-le-François, that she inserted the name of the town from her own knowledge of the military position at the time. So a minor difficulty is cleared up; but then there occurs to me a major doubt. Surely the "turn" of the Allies preceded by some days the action at Vitry, which took place, I think, on or about September 11th?
Another point. The soldiers knew that the figure on the horse was St. George by his exact likeness to the figure of the saint on the English sovereign.
This, again, is odd. The apparition was of a bareheaded figure in golden
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