We have dealt elsewhere with the general military situation at
the beginning of the New Year. Here we Will only say that Thursday's papers print a report from British Headquarters recording a successful enterprise by our men near Armentieres. They entered the enemy trenches, bombed them with great effect, inflicted numerous casualties, and withdrew -after ten minutes with very slight losses. That kind of action, though often not on a big enough scale to be included in official reports, is of course going on at times all along the front, and, what is more important, the incursions into the enemy trenches,. though imitated by the Germans, are much more frequently practised by us than by them. Indeed, we may say without boasting that practically throughout the whole Western line we -and our allies are " top dog " and dominate the situation.
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