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The Fre?ich Coiniter-Ofensive Fails 123 most amazing circumstance of the war save only for the resistance of Liege, and a circumstance which promptly aroused doubt as to the strength of all other fortified towns, Including Paris Itself, a doubt to grow with each successive siege until the fall of Antwerp finally established the superiority of Ger- man heavy artillery over the strongest of modern fortifications.