NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE shall have, we foresee, to keep standing in type : "The German attacks at Verdun have continued throughout the week, but without any substantial results." To that statement must be added this week the welcome news, which reached London on Wednesday evening, that the French had delivered a successful infantry attack on the Germans and driven them from the south-east portion of the wood at Avocourt "to a depth of more than three hundred yards." In addition, the French retook the Avocourt Redoubt, an important field work which had been made extremely strong by the Germans during their temporary occupation. The Germans, on whom the tables have been so completely turned at this point of the line, made several vehement counter-attacks in order to regain their position, but all of them failed.
