Nevertheless, long before Europeans could celebrate their 1914 Christmas, a bloody stalemate had developed along a line of trenches stretching over 450 miles [700 km] from Switzerland in the south to the Belgian coast in the north.
परन्तु इसके विपरीत, अनेकों ने ऐसी भविष्यवाणी की कि यह युद्ध कुछ ही महीनों में समाप्त हो जाएगा ।