NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SIR DOUGLAS HAIG has reported this week a slight but annoying reversenorth of Nieuport—the first we have suffered for a very long time. On Tuesday evening the Germans attacked and broke into our lines in the sand dunes on the right bank of the Yser, near the sea, after subjecting them for twenty-four hours to a very intense bombardment which levelled all our defences. Opposite Lombaertzyde we thrust them out by a counter-attack. But our garrison holding the dunes at the river-mouth was isolated by the heavy curtain-fire which destroyed the bridges over the Yser, and, having no shelter, it was captured. The strip of ground thus lost was 1,400. yards wide and 600 yards deep. The Germans claim 1,250 prisoners, including twenty-seven officers—the best part of two battalions.
