The Germans have advertised so well their intention to undertake
an offensive in the West that their immediate thoughts may run in a different direction. During this week their artillery has been very active between Arras and Cambrai. On Wednesday they made a vigorous attack on a front of a mile to the east of Bullecourt. At one point they entered a ruined trench. At all other points they were repulsed with heavy lore, leaving prisoners in our hands. Our airmen have made two more raids into Ger- many ; on Tuesday they attacked the railway junction near Pir- lessens, sixty miles east of Metz. The naval airmen have continued 10 nay their attentions to the enemy's aerodromes in Flanders.
The French front has been relatively quiet, except on the righ bank of the Meuse, north of Verdun, where the enemy on several successive days made small local attacks which came to nothing. In the Woevre, to the south-east of Verdun, the Germans made a spasmodic and fruitless effort near Les Eparges, where nothing has happened for a long time past. The enemy bombardment has increased in vigour, probably because the artillery on the Russian front has been transferred to France.
