Translations:CP 03065/43/en
- ↑ The comparison of Germany and Austro-Hungary to "a besieged fortress" was circulating frequently in the press of 1915: see for example Le Temps of 2 April 1915, p. 4: "The economic difficulties in Germany and Austria"; or Le Temps of 12 December 1915, p. 2: "The imperial chancellor's speech". [FP]