“At last the secrecy with which the Government have prudently surrounded the movements of the Expeditionary Force is thrown aside. It is stated officially that our Army has been landed in France, and that the operation has been carried out without mishap of any kind.” So our leader on page 6 proudly proclaimed, although given that everybody knew that a force was going to be sent across the Channel the Telegraph is definitely toeing the party line in not querying the need for secrecy. Germany is dismissed for “duping its subjects with the assurance that we dared not move a man across the sea for fear of German submarines” but the only possible need for secrecy would surely be for such a reason, to prevent a German attack on the transport of the troops; after all Lord Kitchener on page 7 states that it was the “military importance to this country of suppressing this movement” which prevented the British public knowing about what was common knowledge over the Channel. Already the flow of information from the British authorities was being very tightly controlled.