In the western theatre of war the advance of the
French continues. They now hold all the villages of Neuville St. Yeast, and they have made great progress in the "Labyrinth " and in the region of Ilebuterne. Thursday's papers contain a French official communication pointing out the calculated inaccuracies of the German communiqué of June 7th. The Germans, as we have had occasion to remark before, are past-masters in the art of conveying a false impression without actually having recourse to invention. The communiqué ends by pointing out that in the repulse of the German counter-attack near Moulin-sous-Touvent the German losses amounted to two thousand dead on the ground. If, as is usual, the non-fatal casualties are eight times as many as the fatal, this would mean a very serious list of German wounded, missing, and prisoners.
