Sir Douglas Haig's reports have shown a certain liveliness on
the whole British line from the sea to St. Quentin. Two slight gains of ground have been made in the tactically valuable neighbourhood of Monchy-le-Preux, south-east of Arras. Our men have worried the enemy with incessant trench raids. The Canadians on Monday surprised a German division newly arrived from the Russian front at Avion, south of Lens ; they destroyed many Germans who trusted to the strength of their dug-outs, and brought back fifty prisoners. On Tuesday four separate raids were made on the Ypres front, and one hundred and fourteen prisoners, with two officers. were brought in. These raids, of course, are daily misrepresented by the Germans as regular attacks which failed. The enemy assaulted our lines at Lombaertzyde last week but was beaten off.
