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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE news from Verdun was good last week, but this week it is distinctly better. It cannot be too often impressed upon those who still have anxious minds that for the Germans not to succeed at Verdun is failure of the most deadly kind. The longer and the harder they strive without accomplishing their design, the blacker their prospects. What was absolutely necessary for a scheme conceived on the lines on which the great German assault at Verdun was conceived was a victory rapid and overwhelming. They have failed in getting it. The comparatively small amount of ground they have gained was not worth the vast sacrifices made to obtain it, and the calendar, which will very soon show a month's fighting, offers a record fatal to their hopes.

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