<prompt> Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Basa raFrench rinokosha zvikurusa rakanga riri soMukuru Mukuru C-in-C weBritish Expeditionary Force BEF kwegore rokutanga nehafu reHondo Yenyika Yokutanga. Iye akanga ane kurwisana kwohunhu kwokukurumidza nomukuru mukuru weFrance Charles Lanrezac. Pashure pokunge vaBritain vatambura kurasikirwa kukuru muhondo dzeMons ne  <response>: Le Cateau uko Smith-Dorrien akaita chinzvimbo chinopesana nezvido zveFrance, French aida kubvisa BEF kubva kuAllied line kuti agadzirise uye akabvuma kutora chikamu muHondo yekutanga yeMarne mushure memusangano wega wega na Secretary of State for War, Ishe Kitchener, waakaitira chigumbu kubva ipapo. Muna May 1915 akaburitsa mashoko pamusoro pokushomeka kwezvombo kumapepanhau achitarisira kuti aizoita kuti Kitchener abviswe. Pakazosvika zhizha ra1915, kutungamira kwaFrench kwaive kuchishoropodzwa zvakanyanya muLondon naKitchener nedzimwe nhengo dzehurumende, uye naHaig, Robertson nevamwe vakuru vakuru muFrance. Mushure meHondo yeLoos, apo kusunungurwa kweFrance kunononoka kweXI Corps kubva mukuchengetedza kwakapomerwa kukundikana kuwana budiriro yakasimba pazuva rekutanga, H. H. Asquith, Mutungamiriri weBritain, akakumbira kusiya basa. Haig, uyo aimbova mutsigiri waFrench aivimbwa naye uye akanga amuponesa kubva mukubhuroka nokumukweretesa mari yakawanda muna 1899, akamutsiva. 